The Fielding Star. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1893. A New Fad

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 88, 14 January 1893, Page 2

The Fielding Star. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1893. A New Fad

. , Tins is verily an age of fads. Whether Sir Robert Stout, who has great powers of absorption in this regard, will attempt in the near future to promulgate the idea which we now quote from the Review of Reviews, on " The Future of Islam," published by lbn Lshak, in the Arena for September, of course remains to be seen. After showing why the world is siiHerring, the western nations are without God, and how Islam will save the world by moralising mankind, the writer's last, and evidently strongest point in his opinion, is that the universal spread of Islam would mean the establishment of a common brotherhood based on the equality of man. It was the intention of .Mahoiret when he died that the elective system of government should spread throughout the world. Not only should Mahomet become the patron saint of the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance, but he should also be elected perpetual honorary president of the Social Democratic Federation. He says : — " A spread of Islam would also insuro an equalisation of proporty ; for so stiingaro the laws of Islam regarding a monopoly of the necessaries of life, that the uceuinulation of enormous wealth by solfish ineu becomes impossible undir u .strict administration of Moslem law. Then, again, in its care for the aged, and in its provision for the poor, the law ot Isluui is unequalled. Mahoinot, who uionded his own shoes and cooked his own food, oven when he was chief of tho Moslem nation, cared for thapoor man. H"S pitahty is enforced as a religious duty. Tho hungry can demand u moal. In short, a revival of Isluui aud tho universal spread of the Moslem system of ethics in a civilised age like the prosont, with such adaptations us arc. nerrs.iart/ J'or tin' (k/c, would probably do more to bring tho conditions of modern life into harmony with democratic idoas than anything elso which could possibly happen in the world. The Moslem of to-day believes that as the sound of the Azau, " Come to Salvation," has been hoard fos con tunes from tho gilded imnerets of Summarkund, Cairo, and Stambool, po, at no distant date, the sweet crv of the Muezzin will call tho faithful to tho worship ot Allah in tho great cities of tho West. For tuoro is no other God but Allah, aud Mahomet is his Prophet." So far as we understand the great social leaders of this colony, and their peculiar ethics, they would iind very little difficulty in becoming converts to this new system.