What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 43
(. 43' ) depict this state of affairs. Said he*; ·rhe first one hundred years of Islam. are the best, then the second one hundred, and then the third. Thereafter, truth w. ill disappear. Cruelty, excesses, differ- ences wil. l make tpeir a p p e a ·r. a n c e. :. And so -it ·h a·s come to p a·s s. Differences have mounted so ·high that during the last 300 years Muslims. have· lost all their old cohesion and power. There was. a time when the whole of Europe lived in fear of Muslim monarchs. But now the entire Muslim world is unable to stand. against a single European or American power. The Jews q. ave set up an insig1:1. fi. cant State in Palestine. The armies of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Palestine are fighting this State and yet the position is that the Jews have taken into possession an area far larger than the· area. which the United Nations had *Mishkat, 'Kitab-al-Fitan.