The Turkish Peace — Page 28
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 28 their beloved. If they have not yet propagated their faith, nor obeyed the commandment of God to spread these teachings throughout world, they ought to act now for the sake of their own survival which is conditional on the propagation of Islam. I need not speak on this matter any further. I quote here a passage from the work of a famous Indian Arya Samajist that has recently been published in the Leader of Allahabad and leave it to you to decide the truth or falsity of what he has to say. This Arya Samajist is Lala Lajpat Rai. In a lengthy letter published in the Leader , Allahabad, writes: During my travels, nothing else has troubled me more than the prejudice and lack of knowledge that is spreading in America about Islam and Muslim countries. Out of the Allies, you will come across proponents of China, Japan and India but in all my five years of travel, I have not come across a single person uttering anything good about Islam and Muslim states. I had the chance to accompany a Muslim friend to a meeting where the future of Turkey was under discussion. There was only one Turk advocating Turkey but all those who stood up to reply to