Carlyle in his magnum opus ‘On Heroes and Hero- worship and the Heroic in History’ quoted Goethe, the natural philosopher and great statesman of Germany as saying:
“Allaho Akbar, God is great and then also ‘Islam’, that we must submit to God. That our whole strength lies in resigned submission to Him.
Whatsoever He does to us for this world, and for the other! The thing He sends to us, were it death and worse than death, shall be good, shall be best; we resign ourselves to God.”
If this is Islam says Goethe, “do we not all live in Islam?”
Carlyle commenting on this statement says:
“Yes, all of us that have any moral life; we all live so (as Muslim).1
1. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, p.68