The first positive impact of
Islam in the world can be seen in the encouragement of Muslims to the pursuit
of knowledge, as prophet Mohammed said, the best form of worship is the pursuit
of knowledge.
Islam is the only religion that
has raised the prestige of women from one of the poorly humiliated creature, to
that of a respectful being possessing equal rights to man. Under the wrong
ideological concept of child marriage by the non-Muslims, the Muslims have been
criticized by the western media but in fact there is no concept of child
marriage in Islam and such incidents are purely restricted to few old customed
tribes.
<span>slam abolished the barriers which
had isolated these countries from each other, so that the whole area now had
one religious tradition and one literary and scientific language. The cultural
unity also ensured free passage and free trade from China in the east to Spain
in the west. Scientists and men of letters were free to travel, and crossed
vast distances to meet other scholars.</span>
It was the state of "Virginia" in which <span>the first successful colony, Jamestown, was settled. It was successful largely to its ability to plant and harvest tobacco, which was in high demand in Europe. </span>
