Life of Ahmad — Page 513
as A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 513 the word. Russia and Germany have thrown Christianity overboard. The mullahs of old are dethroned and disowned throughout the Muslim world. Similar is the case with other faiths. It would therefore be wrong to judge the full meaning and importance of the two contending forces by a short measure of a few years. World changes do not take place in a day. The religious drama that was being played at Qadian was only a prologue of the vast changes that were to take place throughout the world. Each act represented a step in the coming gigantic world revolution which Ahmad as was destined to bring about. The stories and parables that a fisherman of Galilee told a handful of his companions two thousand years ago gradually found their way to the tongues and the hearts of millions of men including kings and emperors. The whispers of an orphan of Mount Paran became thunders before which the mightiest empires of the world crumbled into dust in no time. The savage warriors of the desert did not know that the single victim of their ruthless persecution for whom they had left no place of shelter on earth would not only return to Mecca as a conqueror, to forgive them all but would also rule over the hearts of millions of men including the mightiest monarchs and emperors that have ever reigned. It is too early yet to say anything about the true significance, importance and magnitude of Ahmad’s as work, but so much is certain and even his bitterest enemies admit that the voice that was raised