ABSTRACT
The principal basis on which the Islamic system is founded are a belief in the unity, immateriality, power, mercy, and supreme love of the Creator; charity and brotherhood among mankind; subjugation of the passions; the outpouring of a grateful heart to the Giver of all good; and accountability for human actions in another existence. The grand and noble conceptions expressed in the Koran of the power and love of the Deity surpass everything of their kind in any other language. The wild denizens of the desert, could not be impervious to the idea of some unseen hand driving the blasts which swept over whole tracts, or forming the beautiful visions which rose before the traveller to lure him to destruction. The Jews, those great conservators of the monotheistic idea, as they have been generally regarded in history, probably might have assisted in the formation of this conception.
