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Divine Light streaming out of the blessed Vale, the
place that was holy ground, and heard the quickening
voice of God as it spoke from the flame of that Tree
"neither of the East nor of the West," (46) and He stood
up in the full panoply of His universal prophethood.
In the midst of the Israelites, He blazed out like a lamp
of Divine guidance, and by the light of salvation He
led that lost people out of the shadows of ignorance into
knowledge and perfection. He gathered Israel's scattered
tribes into the shelter of the unifying and universal
Word of God, and over the heights of union He
raised up the banner of harmony, so that within a brief
interval those benighted souls became spiritually educated,
and they who had been strangers to the truth,
rallied to the cause of the oneness of God, and were
delivered out of their wretchedness, their indigence,
their incomprehension and captivity and achieved a
supreme degree of happiness and honor. They emigrated
from Egypt, set out for Israel's original homeland,
and came to Canaan and Philistia. They first
conquered the shores of the River Jordan, and Jericho,
and settled in that area, and ultimately all the neighboring
regions, such as Phoenicia, Edom and Ammon,
came under their sway. In Joshua's time there were
thirty-one governments in the hands of the Israelites,
and in every noble human attribute--learning, stability,
determination, courage, honor, generosity--this people
came to surpass all the nations of the earth. When in
46. Qur'án 24:35.
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