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...The outburst of the idea of freedom in Arabia, India, Java, Egypt, the Caucasus, Africa and similar places has led to such a great transformation and astonishing revolution in the thoughts of the Islamic world, alongside intellectual progress and a complete awakening, that even if we had paid a hundred years for it, it would still have been cheap. Because freedom demonstrated nationality. The luminous jewel of Islam, which is in the shell of nationalism, began to manifest itself. It announced the zeal of Islam, stating that every Muslim is not a vagrant like a single individual, but each of them is a part of a superior, interconnected compound body. They have ties of kinship (sila ar-rahm) with other parts from the point of an Islamic general power of attraction. This report provides a strong sense of hope that the point of support and the point of help are extremely strong and firm. This hope revived our ma’nawî strength, which had been killed by despair. The life of our ma’nawî strength, with the help from the surging idea of freedom in the Islamic world, will tear down the veils of all ma’nawî despotism that have befallen the entire Islamic world. {Alhamdulillah, forty-five years later, it began to tear apart piece by piece.}