Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 51
51 year. They shall, by the grace of Allah, honour their commitments. Spain I have made no plans about Spain so far— so seems to be the Divine will as far as I understand. I was greatly perturbed. Muslims ruled there for seven hundred years. As a result of the conspiracies and perverse activities of some of the priests of the time, Muslims lost their sway over that land. Not one Muslim was left there. We started mission enterprise there afresh. Some citizens of the country have joined the Movement. I suffered great mental torture when I visited there. Muslims were utterly wiped out from Granada, being the capital of the country; it had many libraries; it had a University where leading padres and bishops were enrolled as pupils of Muslim professors. All the glory and pomp of Islam, secular, spiritual and moral, was obliter- ated. You have no idea of my agony. When I went to Granada what was uppermost in my mind was the thought that once prayers for the Holy Prophet sa echoed from its walls and portals and now there were curses instead. I