The Victory of Islam — Page 12
12 Allah, obliterating the traits of the [wayward] Jews. And lo! Every truth-concealing, one-eyed deceiver worshipping the world who lacks the eye of faith shall be slain by the sword of irrefutable argu - ments. Truth will triumph. Then, a day of revival and light shall return for Islam which had come before, and that sun will rise again in its full perfection as it had risen before. But for now, it is not so. It is necessary that Heaven should restrain it from rising until our hearts bleed from toil and devotion marked by self-sacri - fice, and we abandon every comfort for its dawn, and we embrace every humiliation for the glory of Islam. The revival of Islam demands a ransom from us. What is that [ransom]? To die in this very path! This is the very death upon which the life of Islam, the life of the Muslims, and the glo - rious manifestation of the Living God depend; and this is the very phenomenon whose name is otherwise expressed as ‘Islam’. God Almighty now desires the revival of this very Islam, and in prepa ration for the undertaking of that momentous mission, it was nec essary that He establish on His own behalf a grand operation that would prove effective in every way. So, that Wise and Omnipotent One did precisely that by sending this humble one for the reformation of mankind. In order to draw the world towards truth and righteousness, He divided the work of promot - ing truth and propagating Islam into several branches. Accordingly, one branch from among these branches is the arrangement for the compilation and composition of publi - cations, the management of which has been placed in the trust of this humble one. And lo! Such insights and subtleties were intimated [to me] which are not within the capacity of man, but can be known