A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 23
23 glory of God, the law will be in his right hand, and with ten thousand saints he would descend upon the enemies of God from Mount Paran, that is, the hills round Mecca; as is written, “The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. ” ∗ It is obvious that the Church is not a prophet, nor did it shine forth from Mount Paran, nor did it come into the world with ‘ten thousands of saints. ’ This manifestation of the glory of God that was to shine forth from Mount Paran, was none other than the noblest of men, the first among Prophets, the Perfect, the Praised, Ahmad and Muhammad, upon whose people their brethren had shut the gates of the kingdom of heaven and whom the chiefs of his own tribe had cast out as useless, but the same did become the head of the corner. He had to leave Mecca with a solitary companion, but God succoured him so that when his own nation raised a mighty army to destroy him and his little band of followers, and, marching over two hundred miles of desert, attacked him in his adopted home, then in the words of Jesus, “Whosoever fell on him was broken. ” God made a handful of men, poorly armed and without provisions, the means of inflicting an humiliating defeat on an army captained by experienced generals. This, however, did not stop them, and after each act of transgression they abused the pardon extended to them and were repeatedly guilty of breach of faith. Then God ∗ D e u t. xxxiii: 2.