To the Second Sort of nationalists, we say this:  O you drunken pseudo-patriots! Perhaps the previous century could have been the age of nationalism. This century is not the age of racialism! Communism and socialism pervade everything, destroying the idea of racialism. The age of racialism is passing. Eternal, permanent Islamic nationalism cannot be bound onto temporary unstable racialism and grafted onto it. And even if it were to be, it would corrupt the Islamic nation, but it would not reform racialist nationalism. Yes, there appears to be a pleasure and temporary strength in a temporary graft, but it is very temporary and the consequences are dangerous.

Furthermore,  it would open up a split in the Turkish people that could not be healed in all eternity. Then the nation’s strength would be reduced to nothing, since one section would have broken the power of the other. If two mountains are placed in the two pans of some scales, a few pounds weight can move the two, raising one, and lowering the other.

T h e  S e c o n d  Q u e s t i o n consists of two signs:

The  First  is  the  FIFTH  SIGN,  and  is  a  very  brief  answer  to  an  important question:

Q u e s t i o n : There are numerous authentic narrations about the appearance of the Mahdi at the end of time and his putting the world to rights, which will have been corrupted. However, the present time is the time of the group or social collectivity, not  of  the  individual.  However  great  a  genius  an  individual  person  is,  even  a hundredfold  genius,  if he is  not  the  representative  of a group  and  if he  does  not represent  a  group’s  collective  personality,  he  will  be  defeated  in the  face  of  the collective personality of an opposing group. At this time, however exalted the power of his sainthood, how can he reform the world amid the widespread corruption of a human  group  such  as  that?  If all the  Mahdi’s  works  are  wondrous,  it  would  be contrary to the divine wisdom and laws  in the world. We want to understand  the reality of this matter of the Mahdi. How can we?

T h e  A n s w e r : Out of His perfect mercy, every time the Muslim community has  been  corrupted,  Almighty  God  has  sent  a  reformer,  or  a  regenerator,  or  a vicegerent of high standing, or a supreme spiritual pole, or a perfect guide, or blessed persons resembling a Mahdi, as a mark of His protecting the Shari‘a of Islam until eternity; they have removed the corruption, reformed the nation, and preserved Muhammad’s (UWBP) religion.