Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 37
37 Then, he said at another place that when the time of Qiyamat comes it would be Qiyamat on the progeny of Adam and the progeny of our Adam will perish. I relate it in a gist and you try to hear and remember it. He said, in this inhabited world – on this our earth, there had not been created one Adam, rather there had been scores, hundreds and thousands of Adams prior to our Adam. It is the law of God in force that the period of each Adam is of seven thousand years. It means, 7,000 years after the advent of each Adam his progeny meets the Doomsday. And if God wills, He creates another Adam. Now we have entered in the seventh millennium of the age of the progeny of our Adam. And this final millennium is of God and His Messiah. This millennium is of potentiality, goodness and of righteousness. Islam would dominate over all other religions. The period of Islam would start and after it there is no scope for any Messiah till the Qiyamat came. Some people argue whether the power of God for creating prophets would cease. The answer is, it is said there had been in the progeny of our Adam 124,000 or, as some say, 120,000 prophets. If Qiyamat came over the progeny of this Adam, and another Adam came into being, then there would be created another 124,000 prophets. Hence, it is the power of God that He creates prophets. This power of His has not ceased. No doubt the addressees of that Nubuwwat would not be the sons of Adam who is our Adam, but the sons of Adam coming after. We do not know nor do we have any interest in it. We should take care of ourselves lest we invite the wrath of God. After this, we do not know whether hundreds or thousands or one hundred thousand Adams would come in the world. Nevertheless, if 100,000 Adams come and we multiply 100,000 by 120,000, then