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CERTAIN VITAL FACTS EXAMINED 31
pure Islam, assigns to man's relationship with God, the
natural relationship of the creation with the Creator.
It is a Parent-child relationship. That, again, is a,
Quranie statement of the Vedic position. And, further,
the Islamic prayer that the followers of the Quran
may be led in the virtuous path . of Abraham and the
emphatic teaching that Abraham was a Muslim—these point
to the pristine catholicity- of Islamic spirit and outlook,
yielding thereby a vast field and scope for building up inter-
religious harmony and unity of mankind, through successive
readjustments in.
needs
spheres of life, which are to be deter-
mined by the eeds of progressive moral exaltation and
spiritual enrichment of mankind. By virtue of these teach-
ings it is the Islamic duty of every true Muslim to look upon
every virtuous devotee of God as a “Muslim," as a true
follower of God's Religion, although the person concerned
may not tare to call himself by that Arabic name.
The Quranie teachings in their essential fundamental are
Vedic teachings. The supreme emphasis which the Quran
places on man's absolute duty of devotion and surrender to
God and upon the unity of all "prophets" and the inviolable
oneness of God's Religion show the identity of the Quranic' '
fundamentals with Vedic teachings. It is true that to the
author of the
Satyartha Prakash
the supreme object of venera-
tion among the scriptures of the world is the Veda. Since
the Veda is the most ancient scripture of all, the first and
foremost of all scriptures to preach the supreme Almighty
Truth and Majesty of God and of His Religion that coexisted
with His creation, and also since Dayananda has honestly
and consistently throughout his life, and to the complete
satisfaction of some of his hostile critics in the West, main-
tained that polytheism is a violation or a distortion of Vedic
teachings, his special veneration for the Most Ancient
Scripture is not hostile or alien to the spirit 'of the Quran,
which preaches against polytheism and speaks in high
veneration of the Most Ancient Religion.
Thus it will be seen that the central theme in the
Satyartha Prakash
is not a Rent contrast between two or
more distinct and irreconcilable religions or ideologies with