An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 130
130 Background The Promised Messiah as gradually acquired a strong resemblance to Jesus under whose name he was destined to guide the whole world. At the time of the advent of Jesus, the attention of the world was arrested by the appearance of a Star: “Wise men came from the East to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For, we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him. ” In the Promised Messiah as ’s days, the attention of men was drawn towards him by means of visions and revelations and diverse natural phenomena. The Book In the book, the Promised Messiah as made a particular mention of a prayer that he made in the first part of the book, in which he asked for a Divine sign in his support. He argued that the Holy Prophet sa had spoken of a sign which would appear to support and confirm his advent as the Promised Messiah. A. R. Dard ra , in his book, Life of Ahmad quotes on, p. 418: D a rqu t n i , a most eminent and recognized scholar, records a saying of the Holy Prophet sa : For our Mahdi, there shall be two signs which have never happened for anyone else since the creation of heavens and the earth. At his advent, there shall occur an eclipse of the moon in the first of its appointed nights and an eclipse of the sun on the middle one of its appointed dates, and both will occur in the month of Ramadan. The prophecy does not mean that the occurrence of the eclipse would in itself be unique and unprecedented, scientists have formulated certain laws and cycles of the recurrence of eclipses. These cycles are known to be determined principally by the motion