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chapter ten Fulfilment of Dream (B) T he end of my term on the International Court of Justice appeared to be the end of my public career. After twenty-one years of practice at the Bar, I had held public office continuously for twenty-six years from 1935-1961, a total of 47 years. I was 68 years of age. I was entitled to a pension from the Court, which would suffice for my modest needs. I bought a suit- able apartment at Cambridge, fur nished it and settled down in it. My plan was to spend eight months of the year in Cambridge, and the four winter months at Rabwah, Pakistan, where I had built a house. I had submitted the manuscript of my book, Islam: Its Meaning for Modern Man , to the Editor- in-Chief of Religious Perspectives, who had approved it for publi cation. This had encouraged me to hope that I might be able to make some contri- bution in the field of comparative Religion. Since the spring of 1934, I had been conscious of ’s dream. I was convinced that—like all her dreams—it was true and