Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 594
594 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI—THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION persons have died on account of such intense cold. Railway traffic has been disrupted in parts of Europe because the water pipes of railway engines have burst due to the freezing of the water. The seaports of Danube and Odessa are becoming fro- zen. In Russia and Great Britain, the temperatures have fallen so low that it has not been the case for many years in the past. The trains between Rome and Naples have had so much snowfall upon them that [we are forced to pray:] God save us! Constantinople has received snowfall many feet thick. Traffic of ships and steamers has been stalled in the Strait of Bosporus. [All] the ships arriving in the channel from various places are totally covered in snow. In the streets of Paris the poor and impoverished are freezing to death. The lakes and canals of Italy are frozen. Can science and the experts of terrestrial and heavenly phenomena explain this situation in a satisfactory manner that if this grandiose enterprise of nature has eternally been, and is eternally subject to, an established law and that there is no Transcendent, Omnipotent Being with a will of His own exer- cising control over it, then why is it that every now and then there is a deviation from the day-to-day order of things? Do such occurrences not lead to the conclusion that Islam is the only religion in the world, belief in whose tenets will always save a person from any misstep. ¹ Not to talk of atheists, even the followers of most existing religions cannot provide any sat- isfactory rationale for their beliefs on such occasions. 1. Such unusual phenomena not only lead to the conclusion that Islam is a true religion, but this conclusion also establishes quite clearly that the per- son who-along with his claim to being the Promised Messiah—also report- ed the news of such an extraordinary occurrence of global import well in advance, is truthful and from God. (Author)