Mahmud Ahmed

“ You may well remember what I told you on the occasion of the conference of September, that at present there is only one way open for the regeneration of Islam, namely, that we should all stand up in order to preach its truth. The antipathy with which the Turks are regarder in Europe is not due to any defect of their administration but to the notion ingrained in the European mind that Islam is the foe of civilization. It is therefore that the European cherishes a desire to see the overthrow of Islam, which he regards as opposed to everything which he holds most dear. ”

“ For the fact is, that if there were not left in the world a single man following the truth of Islam, still it would make no difference in the dominion of God. The difference would be in the character of the Mussalmans themselves and in their security. Therefore, even now the remedy which may grant the Mussalmans immunity from these calamities lies in this, that they should stand up for the vindication of Islam. Political power did not come to the Moslems previous to the advent of Islam. ”

“ Accordingly, so long as this notion has not been eradicated from the mind of Europe and for that matter from the mind of the whole Christian world, there will be no end to the calamities of the Moslems. In truth, the humiliations, which the Moslem world has for the time being been undergoing are not so much an affliction of the earth as a visitation from Heaven. ”