Real Revolution — Page 129
129. This shows what was called as tadbeer-i-amr in the Quranic verse quoted above would embrace three centuries, for this was the period Islam took to be firmly established as a world force: then came the period of decay which has stretched itself over a thousand years since the third century after inception. In other words the time for the revival of Islam was to come after thirteen hundred years from the time of Holy Prophet. refers to (قل لكم ميعاد يوم) The yaum in the same period to which a reference is made also in Surah Sijdah; it is represented by a thousand years of the decline of Islam, after which we are told that it would be the time when the propagation of Islam would reach the point of completion. The following verse also bears on the same point: هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُله "He is the One Who has sent His Apostle with guidance and the true religion so that He should make it prevail upon all other religions" (LXI: 9). . The meaning of this expression is thus deducably reduced to the time before the advent of