Arba'in — Page 103
Number Three 103 from among the first ones and a group from among the last ones. They will try to frighten you of their mischief, but Allah will safeguard you Himself from the mischief of the enemies even if the people do not safeguard you and your Lord is Powerful. He [Allah] praises you from His Throne—that is, in contrast to the abuses of the people, Allah praises you from His Throne. We praise you and call down blessings on you. We alone shall suffice against those who mock you. And those people say: ‘This is a falsehood that he has invented. We have not heard of any such thing among our elders, these ignorant ones do not realize that it is not hard for Allah to grant this station to someone. We have exalted some of them above others. Likewise, this status has been granted to this person by the mercy of your Lord so that it should be a Sign for people. But these people have rejected the Signs of God unjustly and arrogantly while their hearts accept them. Tell them, ‘I have with me a special testimony from Allah. Will you not then believe?’ Tell them again, ‘I have with me a special testimony from Allah; do you submit or not?’ When they see a Sign, they say: ‘This is just an ordinary thing; it has happened so since eternity. ’ (Let it be known that the last phrase of this revelation is that Quranic verse whose meaning is that when the disbelievers saw the miracle of the splitting of the moon, they made the same excuse that it was a kind of eclipse that happened all the time, and it was not any Sign. Now, in this prophecy God has alluded to the solar and lunar eclipses which took place many years later which is written as a Sign for the appointed Mahdi in the Holy