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16 cay, and has given some new religion for the guidance of mankind. In short, whatever way we look at the matter we are bound to arrive at the conclusion that the present condition of the world calls loudly for a Divinely-guided Teacher, and that the souls of men are like distracted lovers looking towards Heaven with yearning and longing, and supplicating their Creator in anguish and in sorrow, with full hearts and streaming eyes; to take pity on them and to open for them the Gates of His Mercy and His Grace, and to vouchsafe to them that which had been granted to those that “have gone before, and, by causing the spiritual darkness to lift, healing their eyes and their hearts of blindness and of impurity to lead them into the Life Everlasting which is the object of man’s existence. Islam is the only Religion that claims to be under divine protection O, ye that thirst for; Spiritual Life and hunger for the sake of God, I give you the Glad Tidings that Islam provides that for which you stood in dire need. He Who causes the dead to life, gives sight to the sightless, ears to the deaf, and limbs to the maimed, and cleanses the leprous, has, in accordance with the needs of the times and in fulfillment of the prophecies of the previous prophets, descended from the Heavens with the name and in the spirit of the Messiah, and in the power and spirit of all the prophets, in the same manner in which the chosen men of God have ever descended from the Heavens. He has appeared from the East in accordance with the prophecy of Isaiah— “Who raised up the. righteous man from the east ? (Isaiah xli, 2)—so as to bring the world out of the darkness of sin and to lead it to salvation. Hearken, O men, that Islam is the only religion which God has promised to preserve, and which He does preserve, and it is, therefore, the only religion which God has selected for the guidance of the present, for had it not been so, why should He have provided means for its protection and preservation and left