"_Our wills are ours to make them Thine._" [28] By Christians in European countries. [29] "The proper name of the religion preached by Muhammad is Islam"--_Sale_. See p. 37. [30] I use the word in the restricted sense of "Islam as taught by Muhammad." If you take Islam to mean belief in one God and virtuous conduct in life, you may say that there has not been and will never be any true religion besides Islam. In this sense Islam is the only true religion. See p. 27, last para. of Note 2 p. 19, and of this Note pp. 33, 34. [31] "A man must not do reverence to his own sect or disparage that of another man without reason. Deprecation should be for specific reasons only, because the sects of other people all deserve reverence for one reason or other. By thus acting, a man exalts his own sect, and at the same time does service to the sects of other people. By acting contrariwise, a man hurts his own sect and does disservice to the sects of other people."--King Asoka's _Edict XII_. "Every sect favourably regards him who is faithful to its precepts, and, in truth, he is to be commended."--Akbar, (Ain Akbari III). [32] See p. 55. [33] Muslim = resigned and submissive, therefore, _peaceful_. [34] See Foot note [30]. [35] Compare _the Bhagvat Gita_, iv. 7-8:-- "Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, and there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then _I myself come forth_; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, _I am born_ from age to age." The words _italicised_ suggest the Hindu doctrine of Incarnation and Metempsychosis. Orthodox Muslims do not believe in any such doctrine ([Arabic: hulool wa it-ti-had]) but would substitute for the italics the words: _I send a messenger or reformer._ See, _e.g._, Quran, xvi. 36. [36] To students of Islam and its history I cannot recommend better and more useful books than the Rt. Hon. Dr. Syed Ameer Ali's _Spirit of Islam_ and _History of the Saracens_. New and revised editions have been recently published. They present the various aspects of Islam in their proper perspective. They are classics for English readers. [37] "Grant the existence of God and it is impossible to deny that Muhammad was His Messenger. A man does not change the belief of half the world by chance." So wrote a Christian friend of mine. [38] Muslim = resigned or submissive, therefore, peaceful.