The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 248
1hinee11th Friday Sen11011 Feb 15, 1991 companions, my devotees, and Your beloved - and ir you would allow them to perish then 0' my Lordthere would be none left to worship You"! So in like manner today, the question is that of the honour and glory of the Oneness of God and, Ahmadi Muslims are prepared to defend these values. I tell you with certainty that the Ahmadi Muslims of the entire world are standing shoulder to shoulder with one another. They are similar to the organs of the same body, ever ready to sacrifice every thing they have for the reverence of the Unity and Oneness or God. You would recall that the Third Successor to the Promised Messiah u used to say, that the next century would be the century of establishing the Oneness of God and implementing His glory. This is absolutely true. The dangers that seem to threaten the very concept of the Oneness of God are there to p rop-up and prepare the Ahmadi Muslims for future greater sacrifices. They are there to remind us about the great responsibilities that would devolve upon our shoulders and for which we have been chosen. THE lllSTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The military objectives of this war and the psychological factors motivating these have a very deep rooted connection with history. One perspective of this contemporary war or even that of the establishment of the slate of Israel is a historical perspective that is connected to the history of wars that were fought between Muslims and Christians. You would recall that the crusades started around the year 1095. In the year 1190 or 1191 Sultan Salahuddin (Saladin) captured Palestine and after that nobody could snatch Palestine away from him. These wars between Muslims and Christians continued for approximately two centuries. Muslims never took the initiative in these wars by being the first to attack. However, it is an established fact that European nations joined hands as many as eight times and attacked Muslim Arabs. Many times they had an upper hand in the battles, but eventually the Muslim countries succeeded in safeguarding Palestine from the grab of the European invaders. The laceration of those historical defeats is still fresh in their memory. They harbour a deep resentment to this historical fact that such great European powers acting in unison were still unable to defeat the Muslims. Richard - the 248