Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 625
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 625 mean three different peoples who would appear at the time of the Promised Messiah, the contradiction becomes even more pronounced. However, a reference to the Bible shows for a certainty that the mis- chief of Gog and Magog is actually the mischief of Christianity, for the Bible names it Gog. Thus, as a matter of fact, the same people have been addressed by three different names on account of their different circumstances. To say that there is no mention of the Promised Messiah in the Holy Quran is totally wrong. Actually, Allah the Exalted has declared in the Holy Quran that the great mischief is the mischief involving the worship of ‘Īsā and has warned that the earth and the heavens may well-nigh burst asunder due to it. Concerning the same time period, the Holy Quran has prophesied the occurrence of the plague, earthquakes, and other calamities, and explicitly announced that the various terrible catastrophes that will appear in the heavens and the earth during the Latter Days will be the chastisement for the worship of 'Isā. And then on the other hand, it is laid down in the Holy Quran that: وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولًا This verse, therefore, manifestly proves that the Holy Quran prophe- sies about the Promised Messiah. Anyone who reads the Holy Quran with diligence and integrity will realize that in the Latter Days when most parts of the earth will be demolished and turned upside down on account of terrible calamities, the pandemic plague will break out, and death will reign supreme on every front, it is essential that a Messenger [of God] should come as Allah the Exalted says: وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولًا 1. We never punish until We have sent a Messenger (Surah Bani Isrā'il, 17:16). [Publisher]