A Global Islamic Awakening Is Taking Place

In his opening address to a meeting organised by the European Council for Fatwa and Research, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said that there is an Islamic awakening in all parts of the world.

Islam has been constantly on the agenda in recent years. There have been attempts, the results sometimes of ignorance and sometimes of deliberate propaganda, to portray excesses that do not actually represent the true faith as standing for Islam. Yet this misinformation has been a failure. Because Allah has said in the Qur’an that He will bring the true faith cleansed of all such superstition to prevail on Earth. The increased interest in the true faith, particularly of late, shows that this promise of Allah’s reported in verses is rapidly taking place. People with no knowledge of the true faith are beginning their investigations into the true faith by reading the Qur’an. And when they read the Qur’an they are profoundly affected by Allah’s revelation they find there. In the Qur’an, these people find the knowledge of the true faith that they have been unable to find in the corrupted scriptures of the other divine religions. The words of Allah’s contain infinite wisdom. No book compares to the Qur’an. Not even if everyone in the world were to work together could they produce a text comparable to the Qur’an. Thanks to this power of the Qur’an, an Islamic awakening is taking place right across the world.