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thirteen' hundred years, in a decadent age like
this, one who was thrilled by the thought of it —
Mohammad Bahadur Khan !

This Bahadur Khan, a soldier of God, though
apparently at times he might have been mis-
taken by the thoughtless for a political demagogue
and a platform orator in these days of perverted
notions, was, in fact and at heart, an ardent and
sincere lover of the peace and harmony pre-
figured in the Quranic ideal of good life. My
personal knowledge of his cherished beliefs is
sufficient to assure me that there never ewas a
moment's hesitation in his mind in accepting
whole-heartedly, the benign commandment
(t>jV! j'j-^'V).* He was a peace-maker—as was
proved by the part he once played in allaying a
serious communal riot.

With all his bursting enthusiasm and torren-
tial eloquence, he could manage to keep his heart
attuned to faith and love and concord; and in
this he showed his real greatness. • As a true
Muslim he was, of course, a good fighter in a good
cause, but it was not fighting that he was after.
He had to fight for peace and righteousness as
essential to the moral, social and political
well-being of the community. Primarily, he was
not a man of politics, but when he mounted the
rostrum to face a multifarious public obsessed
with politics, he could not always avoid using
their favourite mode of speech.

* Do not cause disorder in the land.