Fazl-e-Umar — Page 286
Fazle Umar 286 n E w wOR L d O R d E R S New World Orders were also making their debut. Capitalism was around for some time and another, dialectical materialism, was taking shape. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] showed the weakness in both systems. He elaborated on the perils of interest-based economies and predicted the sudden end of Communism by presenting a better system outlined in the Holy Qur’an. In the economic and political spheres, he displayed a penetrating intelligence and a faculty of appraisal that was astonishing. A poem of the Promised Messiah [as] comes to mind when reflecting upon Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood’s service for the Holy Qur’an: There was a time when we thought the Holy Qur’an was alive, like the staff of Moses: but when we gave a second thought to the matter, we found that not only was it alive in itself, every single word in it had also the life-giving quality of a Messiah! A L I v I n G b O OK – S P E A K S A b OU T T H E P AST , P R E SE n T A n d F U T U R E Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] has used many different approaches to prove that the Holy Qur’an is a living book. One approach he took for this purpose was to illustrate how the Qur’an speaks in detail of events relevant to the contemporary age. It is not an old book locked in antiquity but a living book painting a vivid picture of important world events, past, present and future. Below we present a few samples from the extensive five volume English commentary by Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] to prove this claim. 1) Invention of the Press “And when the books are spread abroad. ” (Ch. 81:V. 11) The reference clearly seems to be to the vast circulation of newspapers, journals and books and to the system of libraries and reading rooms and such other places