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Muslims in Japan, Reality and Ambition

Why Islam arrived late to Japan?

Muslims in Japan, Reality and Ambition

Najim A. Albazi•

Published at Hajj and Umrra Magazine

Saudi Arabia September 2007

Many people inquiry about the reason of late arrival of religion of Islam to Japan, after the light of Islam flash on several countries in the region. Whoever the fact, which a lot of people don’t know that Islam arrived late compare with other countries such as Indonesia an Malaysia, which is most of population of these countries are Muslims. Dr. Salih Samarrai – chairman of Islamic Center Japan – see that Islam did not arrive to Japan early because of many reasons, first that Read Further

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"It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran. . . The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith an devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. 'I believe in One God and Mahomet the Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion."

Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870, p. 54.

"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher."

Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD, Madras,1932, p. 4.