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~ 108 ~ everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume [of a book on the Prophet's biography], I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life. '' 47 John Bagot Glubb Sir John Bagot Glubb, a Lieutenant General who passed away in 1986, wrote at the conclusion of his book: ''Whatever opinion the reader may form when he reaches the end of this book [which he was writing], it is difficult to deny that the call of Muhammad seems to bear a striking resemblance to innumerable other accounts of similar visions, both in the Old and New Testaments, and in the experience of Christian saints, possibly also of Hindus and devotees of other religions. Such visions, moreover, have often marked the beginnings of lives of great sanctity and of heroic virtue. To attribute such phenomena to self-delusion scarcely seems an adequate explanation, for they have been experienced by many persons divided from one another by thousands of years of time and by thousands of miles of distance, who cannot conceivably have even heard of each other. Yet the 47 Mahatma Gandhi. Young India. September 23rd 1924