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and majesty at the head of the vast and innumerable hosts
of the faithful composed of all races and languages! The
vision expressly avows the entrance and admission of the
apostates and unbelievers into the flock. Jews thousands
of Jews- Christians, and Sabians, as well as millions of
Arabs and other heathen nationalities, believed in the
oneness of Allah and embraced Islam. In this connection it
is worthy of note that all the bloodshed in the wars of Badr,
Uhud, and other campaigns led personally by the Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) , could not exceed one-hundredth of the
blood shed by Joshua. Yet not a single instance of cruelty
or injustice can be proved against the Apostle of Allah. He
was clement, noble, magnanimous, and forgiving. This is
why he is alone among the entirehuman race represented
in all prophetical visions “the Son of Man,” like the first
man before his fall!

(d) The Son of Man founds the Kingdom of Peace,
the capital of which is no longer the old Jerusalem, but
the New Jerusalem - the “Daru‘s-Salam,” the “city or
court of Peace.” The Sophee or Seer in this wonderful
vision narrates how the terrestrial Jerusalem is lifted up
and transplanted in a southern country; but a new Temple,
larger and higher than the first one, is built upon the
ruins of the old edifice! Gracious God! How wonderfully
all this was accomplished by Thy most Illustrious and
Holy Servant Muhammad (pbuh) ! The New Jerusalem is
none other than Makkah; for it is in a southern country,
its two hills, the “Marwa” and “Sapha,” bear the same
names as those of Moriah and Zion, of the same root
and signification but originally earlier. “Irushalem” or
“Uishalem” of old becomes a city of “Light and Peace.”
It is for this reason, too, that Makkah as the seat of the
sacred Ka’ba became the “Qibla” - the direction towards
which the Muslims turn their faces at prayer. Here
every year tens of thousands of pilgrim from all Muslim