Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 439
439 warning. At this crisis, think over the fact that. 615. years before this the Islamic: power received a blow which was far severer than the present one. Now. there does exist at least, a semb- lance of a Muslim empire, but at that time not a trace of it re- mained. What weapon was it which proved serviceable at that time and how was the problem, solved ? A remedy that has already been tried with success, has a prior right to be resorted to when ; * '" ". the same kind of disease breaks out again. Remember when, the Turks completely demolished the edifice of the Abbaside Caliph- ate and when there was none among the. Mussalrnans. to oppose the numberless hordes of the enemy, and when the. holy places, of Islam were without protection and lit the tender mercy of the barbarians what was the remedy which our forefathers employed on that occasion and whether it was employed with success or failure? If you do not remember what was the course which our forefathers followed at that time and if. you have forgotton that lesson, I may. tell you that. it -was with the weapon of mutual friendship and love and not with that. of non-co-operation that they attacked the enemy. At last they succeeded in destroying infidelity and out of its flesh and blood they prepared a new body for Islam and rthe spirit of Islam when breathed into that body again began to enchant the whole. world by its charm. . The course adopted by the Ulatna of that age. (who were far more learned than the Maulavis of the present day. and the correctness of whose view was testified to ; by the success which crowned their efforts) was that they made their way into the courts and assemblies of. the Turks^ with- the determination to conquer the hearts of their conquerors. The result was. that the grandson of that very king who had destroyed the Muslim power at Baghdad and who had dyed the ear. th with the blood of 18,00,000 Mussal- mans, himself became a slave of Islam and having entered the