See, the unnoticed becomes the world notable. The small has grown world great. Within one century afterwards, Arabia is at Granada on this hand, at Delhi on that. He's speaking of within 100 years of Muhammad's death, the Muslim empire has spread from what would eventually be southern Spain all the way to northern India. These Arabs, the man Muhammad, and that one century, is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what seemed black, unnoticeable sand, but lo, the sand proves explosive powder, blazes heaven high from Delhi to Granada. I said the great man was always as lightning out of heaven. The rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.