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new philosophies; it will also prove that the modern branches of knowledge and science opposed to it were no more than a gross kind of ignorance. The domain of Islam has nothing to fear from these forces and their attacks. . The days of its glory stand very near, and I perceive that signs of this development, of this victory, are beginning to be visible already. " (A'cena Kamalat-i-Islam, pages 254-55) 23. In the early part of this Paper I stated that the mission of the Promised Messiah had a twofold purpose. One purpose was to bring about a revivification of Islam, its revival, and to make it dominant ; and the other purpose was to break the Cross, i. e. , break the power of Christianity, the worship of Christ, and to re-establish the worship of the One and Only. True God. Jesus of Nazareth was undoubtedly a Prophet of God, whom we respect from the bottom of our hearts. But after him, his followers made the preposterous blunder that fell away from the path of truth, and took him as being the Son of God, thus laying the foundation of a glaring kind of shirk, although the whole life of Jesus Christ stands to prove 87