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38 18. But even right in the middle of this two sided drama, of the severest opposition from all quarters on one side, and scenes which foreshadowed his ultimate success on the other the Promised Messiah extended his hand towards all peoples, and all nations, and all individuals, for peace and goodwil!, publicly giving to the founder of every earlier religion a place of high esteem and great reverence. Taking his stand on the golden principle he deduced from the Holy. Quran, he invited the attention of the whole world to the fact that Allah being equally the Creator of all nations, it was inconceivable that He should have left any people, in any locality, or period of time without providing for them means of spiritual guidance. The Holy Quran says: "There is no people in the world to whom a warner has not been sent. ” (Surah Faatir, 24). But the Unity of God demanded that as soon as the human mind should be capable of grasping the broader truths of one Universal Law and one fundamental way for all, and when the various nations scattered far and wide over the surface of the earth, should begin to move closer to each other, with increasing facilities of repidly developing means of communication, all mankind should be rallied round one Universal Law and one way of life. to unite them into one single, harmonious family, the. Children all of One Father. This development started in the time, and at the blessed hands, of the Holy Prophet. Muhammad (peace and blessing be on him), to reach its culmination in the time of his deputy, the Promised. Messiah and Mahdee- -so that there should be one Shariyah and one way of life, one basic truth and one goal, for all mankind, just as all human beings are the children of one. Father, inspite of minor variations for groups and individuals in their individual and corporate lives; and all should be