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tention was that there was no real unity in the Muslim world, and that Islam was thoroughly disarrayed which necessitated the sending down of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi in the fourteenth century of Islam, just as the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was sent down in the fourteenth century after Moses. The Jews were promised top places in the world if they carried out God's commands. They failed, and we know what happened to them. . Similarly, the Muslims were promised top places if they kept to. Islam. Since their position is not the top place but very low, they must have failed Islam. In the case of the Muslims it is not impossible to right the wrong position because they, unlike the. Jews, have kept their scripture-the Quran-intact without interpolating. But they will still need a reformer 'sent' by God. How the Muslims came to their present low condition we will now tell in detail. . When the Muslim world was still under Western imperial control, Sir Muhammad Iqbal wrote his Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, which implies the construction of Islam left by the Holy Prophet and followed properly by his Righteous. Caliphs had been deconstructed in the course of centuries which needed reconstruction, but he gives no programme how to do that. Apparently, he and others thought that jihading and gaining political independence from the West alone would do the needful. . It did not. We know now in 1980 that independent Muslim states do not unite. Instead they buy deadly war weapons from antiIslamic Western and Communist countries in order to jihad fiercely against each other-Pakistan v. Bangladesh; Egypt v. . Libya; Iraq v. Iran-and others are on the brink of it. With revealed knowledge of the unseen from God, if the Promised. Messiah called this Muslim world 'sour milk', which Sir Muhammad Iqbal did not like, it is now palpable and stinking enough for all to see it needs refreshing. To make things more clear, we will go through one particular aspect of the history of Islam which is not popularly known or talked about. . After the demise of the Holy Prophet, the first Caliph, Abu. Bakr, with that faith which moves mountains, set himself simply 9