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This
has come to pass as we all know . the great
Persian and Roman
Empires were defeated
by
a handful of Arabs who lives were transformed after they believed
in Mohammed the
Prophet
of God , and accepted His divine Message. The Message of God transformed
the
lives of millions of other people too, for the teaching of Islam spread
from India to
Spain
. During the age of Islam's golden civilization many different nations
were
united
in one great brotherhood . they offered their daily prayers to the One
God,
the
Compassionate , the Merciful. They recited Holy
Quran which prescribes
a life of
virtue
and submission to the Will of the Almighty . Even today millions of people
all over
the
world pray the same prayer and read the same Holy Book . Mohammed , like
all the Manifestations
of the past, assured His followers that
a great Messenger would come
after
Him. He said that the Religion of God which had
come down from heaven
through
Him, would go back to God after passing of a thousands
years . By
this
he meant that people would forget His teachings in the course of one
thousands
years . But after that , He said , when no trace of God's
Religion
was left on earth , a mighty Trumpet sound would be
heard
- not once but twice - and the people of the world
would
behold the Face of God Himself.
.
The
Trumpet sound means the Call of God . The Call of God has already been
raised
twice in this age foretold by Mohammed . the Bab appeared exactly one thousand
years
after the revelation of Islam . Almost immediately after him , Baha'u'llah
declared His Mission . Was it not the
Bab Who called men to
God and reminded them of God's great Promise? And was it not Baha'u'llah
Who raised up the cry a second time immediately
after
the Bab, calling upon the children of God to behold His Face?
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