Real Revolution — Page 11
11 expression used for it is Khalq-us Samawat-i-wal. Ardhi. e. the creation of a new earth and a new heaven. Still another name for it in the language of the Holy Quran is Al-Sa'ah (l). ·. All changes that have taken place in the world, and all successful movements have followed this course there can be no universal and abiding movement without a fresh message for mankind, and a call for a Revolution. . Evolutionary movements do not partake of the nature of major movements. Whenever a major movement has taken place, it has always involved a Revolution. From this point of view, we, the. Abmadees, are entitled to cry "Long live Revolution", with greater fervour and justification than the Congress, though of course the substance of the Revolution as visualised by us is radically different from what is visualised by that body. . FIVE MAJOR SECULAR MOVEMENTS. If we study the history of political movements we find that the conquests of only such movements spread their influence wide, and lasted for any length of time, as sprang from the kernel of a new message, and were of a revolutionary nature, namely those which differed basically from an existing order of things and organised life on altogether a new basis. Their number is