Islamic World, and now it is about ten years you have asked neither us, nor Emin, who everyday sees to your needs, anything at all about it, you have given it no importance at all. Is there some other fact more momentous than this event, that dominates and overrules it? Or is it harmful in some way to be preoccupied with it?"

He answered as follows:

Yes, there is a fact more momentous, an event of greater consequence than the World War, and sin-ce it dominates the War, the War becomes extremely unimportant in comparison with it.

The reason is this: This World War is to do with two governments disputing a claim for world supremacy; and at a time when the two great religions have opened suits for peace and reconci-liation, and an alarming current of irreligion has embarked on a mighty struggle with the revealed religions, a case has been opened far exceeding in importance the cases opened in the supreme court of the ’proletariat’ and ’bourgeoisie’ of mankind. Such an immense matter has arisen that the amount of this case that concerns even a single person is greater than the World War. The case is as follows:

For every believer, indeed for everyone at this ti-me, such a case has been opened that if each had as much wealth and power as the English and Germans put together, and sense as well, he would spend all of it just to win the case.