Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 119
119 Transport and Communication The Holy Prophet s as also told about the state of communication between nations at the time of the Promised Messiah as. He pre - dicted that innovations would lead people to abandon old modes of transport and adopt new ones that would traverse land and sea. The Holy Prophet s as said: 53 ْھَا ي الْقِالَص ُ فَال َ یُسْعٰی عَلَ َّ ُتْرَکَن ي َ ل ‘The camel will be abandoned and will not be so sought after. ’ This is happening right now and people in many countries are abandoning old means of transport. Even with the advent of the railway, people still used camels and horses to travel, but they are now being abandoned with the coming of the motor car. As these new modes of transport grow, animals will quickly be replaced as modes of transport. The Holy Prophet s as prophesied the invention of the steam - ship and the railway. He s as said: The Dajj a l’s donkey will travel on water as on land. Travelling on land it will have clouds both in front and behind. 54 This Tradition alludes to the steamship and the railway because this is the ‘donkey’ that travels both on land and on water and has been used predominantly by Christian missionaries to travel to different parts of the world to ensnare people through their false teachings. Similarly, trains and ships give off smoke that never leaves them. They are fed by coal, a kind of stone, which was said