God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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his lot in life: but how did his career end? On June
12, 1815, Napoleon set off from Paris with a huge
army, which was intended to annihilate the enemy.
Just six days later, Napoleon and his army were
given a thorough trouncing at the Battle of
Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington who was
leading the forces of Britain, Holland and Germany.
His hopes and aspirations shattered, he abandoned
his throne and attempted to flee to America to seek
asylum. But no sooner had he reached the harbour
than he was arrested by enemy guards and forced
to board a British ship. He was subsequently taken
to the Island of St. Helena in the Southern Atlantic,
where he was compelled to live in isolation, bitter
and frustrated, till he breathed his last on 5th of
May 1821.
Another example of the hazards of human
prophecy is the Communist Manifesto of 1848 in
which it was presaged that Germany would be the
first country to witness a communist revolution. But
even after one hundred and thirty eight years, this
prophecy has still to be fulfilled. Karl Marx wrote,
in May 1849, that in Paris, red democracy was just
around the corner. More than a century has passed,
