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Jung seems to have foreseen the horrors of the
war of 1939.
He has written many thrilling verses, in English
and Persian on Medina and its spell over the Muslim
mind; and his Way to Medina is a touching poem —
a message from his heart. He explains the feeling
thus :
" Sacred as Mecca is, the Muslim heart finds
Medina more attractive. A great mysterious
power is at work there, the spell of a marvellous
personality which created a new order in the old
world and is as potent to-day as it was 1360
years ago. I go to Medina to get inspiration
and gather strength from it. The mere thought
of what was done there and from there makes
me feel that nothing is impossible to faith."
I have often heard Sir Nizamat say that he was
ashamed of the Muslims of the world for not at-
tempting to restore to Medina some of its vanished
glory. To him Medina still is the centre of Islamic
power—the centre of the great world-force
called Islam. And the righteous power of Islam
growing from there and seen by him in his visions
in the Arabian desert, taught him to say when
glancing towards Europe, " I am afraid the world
is passing through a critical period because its
civilisation, so-called, contains within itself all
the conditions of self-destruction/1 He wrote
this in 1939-40.
" I don't know how it is, but I have forecasts
of coming events in the form of visions which find
expression in plain but strong verse." We have
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