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140 ce of their religion. In other words they stand so far removed from any sense of religion that they mistake the most gross and selfish kind of nationalism for religion. Whatever strengthens the nation is for them the clear will of God. The result is that the bottom has been knocked out of the moral values, and religion has become a mockery. This neoreligion based on an extreme sense of nationalism has killed the spirit of sacrifice. A German now will not make any sacrifice for anybody except the Germans, while a Britisher will sacrifice anything but only for the good of the British people. . Revolution of the Seventh Era: Revival of the. Islamic Teaching. The spirit of materialism and nationalism, combined with the urge to subordinate all other considerations to the requirements of national interest have totally destroyed peace. Therefore God has raised the Promised Messiah in this age, his mission, which represents the seventh phase in human civilization based on divine religion, being to bring about a revolution of the kind mentioned in the latter part of the verse of which some aspects have already been discussed, namely, مَا نَنْسَحْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَو نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أو مثلها .