History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s5.6

c7.s5.6

The Muhammadans with their vigorous living faith, had by this time come to Bengal. Their Korān which they believed to be inspired, lays it down that the God of Islām helps believers and destroys unbelievers. The strong belief of Islām in a personal God had to be counteracted in this country by forms of religion in which the personal element of divinity predominated. So the Çākta and the Vaiṣṇava religions flourished and the Çaiva religion with its impersonal ideal and mysticism in which man rose to the level of his God in the Advaitabāda, was gradually thrown into the back-