Some Hidden Pearls — Page 77
religion are our earliest teachers. Not only we, but the whole world, learnt the first lesson of religious and spiritual knowledge from them; and it was among the Arab speaking people that the greatest of all men appeared to light up this world, the Holy Prophet Muhammad, before whom all heads bow in the utmost reverence. . It cannot be gainsaid, however, that God is the God of all peoples alike, without any distinctions in the favour of one or the other; and it is also a way with. Him that He distributes His bounties in a kind of rotation amongst the peoples of this world. Therefore, in this age, when we find that He has chosen, for the mission of world reformation, an Indian disciple and devotee of the Holy Prophet, there is nothing in this which the Arab world need take ill. For, in fact, under the universal feeling of brotherhood characteristic of Islam, even this great favour has but fallen to the share of one who is their own brother. Thus I say to my. Arab brethren: you were the people that 77