Real Revolution — Page 126
126 "Formerly a Prophet was raised for his own specific people, but I have been raised for all mankind in general". . When this revolutionary idea was first put before the people, they were simply astounded that the world, with all its national and racial and geographical barriers, was now to become onejust as the Meccan pagans were astounded by the pronouncement of the Islamic teaching on the Unity of God. They said: اجعَلَ الألمةَ الهَا وَاحِدًا "There have always been so many deities in the world. Does he want to make them all into one?" So far there has been a God of the Iranians whom they have called Ahraman or Yazdan; there has been a God of the Christians which they call. Lord God, or Lord Jesus Christ; there has been a separate God of the Hindus whom they call. Permaishawar or Om; there is still another God of the Jews. But here is this strange man who says that there is only one God. How can he press them all into one? What he says, of course, is highly absurd. . All the same, though the Pagans of Mecca were staggered by the idea of the unity of God, the tact remains that all former conceptions of the deity, with human progress, are gradually being swallowed