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D. ·that the Prophet Mahomet showed himself for the last time amongst the Faithful assembled in the mosque of 'Medina, for the noonday prayer.
" Then he prayed for all those who had fought with him at the battle of Ohod, and implored the pardon of God. It was a scene of simplicity and grandeur, remarks Count Henri de Castries, this last prayer of the Prophet in the midst of his people: the Faithful gazing with deepest emotion at his face ravaged by the poison of the Jewess of Khaibar.
" No occasion is more opportune than this for showing· to the public in its true light, the life and work of one of the most powerful religious geniuses who ever lived ; one of those "columns" of whom Renan speaks, raising itself from the midst of the dead level of common humanity towards Heaven and testifying to a nobler destiny ; show• ing mortals whence they come and whither they ought to, tend.
and national prejudices-c=-Yes, he believedhimself to be a prophet, he believed in his mission with all the imper• iousness of his soul, and he was right, among those bar• barous people, in looking upon himself as an instrument of God. Islam brought them out of the shadows where, without him, they would probably still be.
We have no right to speak for other countries, but with what ardour we should like to see in France, on the 8th of June 1932, a grand celebration in honour of the Prophet of Islam !