Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 141
15 FEBRUARY 1907 been mentioned as a week. The age of the world has also been mentioned as a week. Here the meaning of a week is seven thousand years. One day equals a thousand years as has been mentioned in the Holy Quran: إِنَّ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ كَالْفِ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ 10 A day with your Lord is equivalent to your thousand years. The Age of the World & Its End The Promised Messiahas said: Eventually, one day, this world shall come to an end, and every- one will perish, and the time of its annihilation seems to be after seven thousand years according to the age of the world. I make this calculation from the time of Hadrat Adam, but this does not mean that no human existed or that the world did not exist before it, rather the calculation is made from a specific ini- tial progenitor whose name was Ādam. Just as in the beginning there was that Adam, similarly there is an Adam at the end. It is proven from the noble hadith that the era of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was as if the time of Aşr in the day of the age of this world. If that was the time of Aşr then it can be itself estimated how much time is remaining now. The very same is proven from the Gospel. This shows that a short time is left in the age of the world. 141 1. Sūrah al-Hajj, 22:48 [Publisher] 2. Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Fadā'ilil-Qur'an, Bāb Fadlil-Qur'ani 'Alā Sā'iril- Kalam, Hadith 5021 [Publisher]