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Thus
ended an eventful life, which in the short space of
eighteen years -1890 to 1908 - not only had
revolutionized many of the existing religious ideas but
had even taken definite steps in an entirely new
direction - the presenting of Islam to, and the spiritual
conquest of, the West. Deep religious mysteries, which had baffled
human minds for centuries, had been unraveled. The second
advent of Christ, the tribulation of the Anti-Christ, the
prevalence of Gog and Magog, the coming of the Mahdi and
similar other topics were mysteries which affected the
two great religions of the world, Christianity and Islam,
both contending for the mastery of the world, and an
inspired man was indeed needed to lift the veil from the
face of these mysteries.
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Such a man was Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He was gifted not only with
inspiration to elucidate the deepest mysteries, but also
with the faith and energy, which enabled him to give a
new direction to the dissemination of Islam, which had
hitherto found the West deaf to its message. Christianity
was out to conquer the Muslim world; in temporal matters
it had ousted Islam, but in the spiritual domain, Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad made a bold start and gave a challenge
to Christianity in its very home. It is as a result of
that challenge that mosques are being built in the great
centres of Christianity, that a vital change is being
brought about in the attitude of Europe towards Islam,
and that thousands of cultured and advanced Europeans are
finding a haven of peace under its banner.
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