(Introduction to Islam (İslam'a Giriş), Prof. Dr. Muhammed Hamidullah'ın "İslam'a Giriş" eserinin ingilizce versiyonudur.)
It is well known that the motto of Islam is summed up in the expression of the Qur'an (2/101), "well-being in this world and well-being in the Hereafter." Islam will certainly not satisfy the extremists of either school, the ultra-spiritualists (who want to renounce all worldly things and mortify themselves as a duty) and the ultra-materialists (who do not believe in th ...