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ing to the Kingdom of Heaven, in favor of their future allies
belonging to the Kingdom of God on earth, of which the
newly born Babe of Bethlehem was the greatest Evangelist
and Herald.
On various occasions, in the course of these articles, we
have explained that Shalom, in its concrete and practical
sense, has the signification of the religion that is good, sound,
safe, salutary, and the way of peace, in opposition to the re-
ligion that is evil, bad, harmful, destructive, and the way that
conducts towards misery and perdition. It was in this sense
that Allah, in His Message through the prophecy of Isaiah
(xiv.) to Cyrus, used the word Shalom, as synonymous with
good in opposition to evil. This is precisely the literal, ety-
mological, moral, and practical interpretation of Islam as the
belonging to the Kingdom of God on earth, of which the
newly born Babe of Bethlehem was the greatest Evangelist
and Herald.
On various occasions, in the course of these articles, we
have explained that Shalom, in its concrete and practical
sense, has the signification of the religion that is good, sound,
safe, salutary, and the way of peace, in opposition to the re-
ligion that is evil, bad, harmful, destructive, and the way that
conducts towards misery and perdition. It was in this sense
that Allah, in His Message through the prophecy of Isaiah
(xiv.) to Cyrus, used the word Shalom, as synonymous with
good in opposition to evil. This is precisely the literal, ety-
mological, moral, and practical interpretation of Islam as the