Real Revolution — Page 48
481 you wish to marry the king of the Arabs'. That blow was given with such fury that it left permanent scars on my face. ". The bursting asunder of the moon, in whatever from it was shown to the Holy Prophet, was thus in reality a prophecy about the destruction of the social order then obtaining in Arabia. کولاكَ لَمَا خَلَقْتُ الافلاك (Laulaaka Lamaa Khalaqtul Aflaaq). This revelation, known to have come down to a number of Prophets, means that, for the era in which the Prophet addressed was raised, each stood in the position of a fundamental pillar: that if it had not been for him, God would not have cared to create the universe for which that prophet was indispensible. It does not mean that God would not have created this universe at all. The degree and depth of the spiritual revolution brought about by a. Prophet depends on the position and rank of that. Prophet, his spiritual powers being reflected in it. . The Prophet, in fact, fathers that revolution. Just as there can be no children unless there is a man to father them, there can be no revolution in the spiritual sense without a Prophet to father it; and in this sense it is perfectly correct to say that if it had not been for that Prophet the new order which