The New World Order of Islam — Page 85
New World Order 85 themselves at the expense of the victor or the vanquished. This system of international security was laid down at a time when nobody had even started thinking about these matters. The significance of this verse was revealed to me, and nobody will deny that the true exposition of a text prescribing the limits of a system so vital to the security and prosperity of mankind is the function only of prophets and their spiritual successors. These principles affect the security of the whole of mankind and will continue to be utilized through centuries till the different nations of the earth are able to participate in the setting up of an International World Federation. I explained these principles in my book, Ahmadiyyat or the True Islam, published in 1924, and sounded a note of warning that unless the League of Nations was organised along the lines here indicated, it would fail in its main purpose, and unfortunately that has proved to be the case. When I went to England in 1924 to participate in a Conference of Religions, the League of Nations had only recently been organised. Russia and Germany were then anxious to become members of the League. I pointed out the defects from which the League suffered in the light of the very principles to which I have just made reference. I made it quite clear that unless these five principles were kept in view the