PERSONAL NOTES

PREJUDICE TOWARDS ISLAMAn unbiased study of Islam requires us to take notice of our individual responses to words such as 'Muhammad', 'Qur'án' and 'Islam.' If we find ourselves reacting negatively to these terms it should come as no surprise. Shoghi Effendi said that'Western historians have for many centuries distorted the facts [of Islam] to suit their religious and ancestral prejudices. The Bahá'ís should try to study history anew and to base all their investigations first and foremost on the written Scriptures of Islam and Christianity.'[6]For hundreds of years our knowledge of Muhammad, the Holy Qur'án, and Islam in general, has come to us through biased intermediaries. ...........................

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Islam and the Baha'i Faith