Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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state of Israel, making enormous human and
monetary sacrifices in the process, but all that has
actually happened has been the expansion and
consolidation of the Jewish state. And now, after the
indescribable tribulations of the people of Iran, it
will not
be long before we hear that the Islamic
republic was only a stepping-stone for rule by
unIslamic forces.
These are the hard realities of our times. We can
pull the wool over our eyes if we so please, but we
cannot expect future historians to do likewise. True,
they will be forced to say, the Russian revolution
took a vast toll of human lives, but it also brought
about great changes in world thought. It caused the
collapse of Tsarist, or monarchical rule, and
replaced it by a republican form of government; it
established the ascendancy of the socialist economic
system over capitalism. As for Islamic revolutionary
efforts, they have been even more costly in human
terms, but they have left no stamp on the pattern of
world thought.
The revolution of the Prophet’s time shows us that
if just a thousand people are ready to give
