Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 127
127 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. In other words, the sun and the moon will undergo an eclipse. Though I am recounting the signs found in Hadith, it is not out of place here to mention that the Holy Quran has also described the eclipse of the sun and the moon as a sign of doomsday. In the S u rah al-Qiy a mah we have: 67 َو َعِمُج ُسْمَّشلا َو ُرَمَقْلا ُلَٔـْسَي َناَّيَا ُمْوَي ِةَمٰيِقْلا۰۰ؕاَذِاَف َقِرَب ُرَصَبْلا۰۰َۙو َفَسَخ ُرَمَقْلا۰۰ۙ He (disbeliever) asks, ‘When will be the Day of Resurrection?’ (We tell you its signs. ) It will be when the eye is dazzled, and the moon is eclipsed, and the sun and the moon are brought together. This means that after the eclipse of the moon, the sun will also be eclipsed in the same month. Since the time of the coming of the Messiah is said to be close to the Day of Resurrection, this verse lends weight to the aforementioned Hadith. The prophecy was of great importance and it was fulfilled in 1311 a. h. (1894 ad ) exactly as described in the Hadith. In the month of Ramadan of that year, the moon suffered an eclipse on the first of the three dates on which lunar eclipses can occur, i. e. the 13th; and the sun suffered an eclipse on the middle date, i. e. the 28th. What is more, this conjunction of the two eclipses in the same month took place in the lifetime of one who claimed to be the Promised Mahdi. Two courses are now open to anyone who claims to be a Muslim. He can either accept as true the above-mentioned