Real Revolution — Page 125
125 أكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَعْلَمُوْنَ. وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَذَا الوعد إن كُنتُمْ صَادِفِينَ ، كُل لَكُمْ مِبْعَادُ يَوْمٍ لا تَسْتَاخِرُونَ عَنْهُ سَاعَةٌ وَلَا تَسْتَقْدِمُونَ . i. e. We have not sent thee except as a universal. Messenger for all the people, to give them glad tidings and to warn them, but of course most men do not understand. . Here we have a most staggering revolution indeed. Formerly every Prophet was raised for his own specific national or geographical group: Krishan in India, Zoroaster in Iran, Confucious in China. . Some owed allegiance to Moses, other to Jesus. . But then at one stage God said that henceforth there would be only one religion for all mankind, being all the children of the same father, now risen to a point of mental culture where they could take in this stupendous concept which smished geographical and racial barriers to unite the whole human race. The Holy Prophet has himself referred to this characteristic which distinguishes him from all other Prophet of God: كَانَ النبى يُبْعَثُ إِلى قَوْمِهِ خَاصَةٌ وَيُبْعَثُ الى ن الناس عامة