The New World Order of Islam

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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The New World Order of Islam — Page 128

New World Order 128 The funds collected by this means will not be spent in any one country, but will be devoted to the relief of poverty and distress all over the world. In short, all these secular movements support and strengthen nationalism, but the Promised Messiah as has devised a system which tends to promote universal brotherhood. At present in Russia, a Russian is forced to give up his surplus for the benefit of other Russians, but under this system an Indian voluntarily contributes for the benefit of the whole of mankind, and the same applies to an Egyptian or a Syrian. This is a marked distinction between the New Orders which these secular movements are seeking to promote and the New Order based on Islamic principles. Under the Russian system people were deprived of their properties by force. Many of them left Russia and began to agitate against the new order of things in that country. They felt no glow of pleasure or satisfaction after they had given up their properties to help the poor. When a Russian was deprived of his property, he did not rejoice, but went home in great distress and told his people that a tyrannical government had dispossessed him of his property. But under this New Order a peasant who owns, say, 10 acres of land and provides in his Will that one or two or three acres out of it shall go to the national fund,