Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 39
26 December 1906 39 corruption had appeared across sea and land, such an atmos- phere had been circulating during that era that had corrupted everyone. 1 Pundit Dayanand has borne witness that the A rya faith was also corrupted. The idol-filled temples of Jagannath and Somnath etc. are from that time. In a manner of speak- ing, it was such an egregious autumn that the like of it cannot be found, and that era inherently demanded the rising of an extraordinary Mu s le h [Reformer] to rectify all those disorders. Accordingly, the Holy Prophet s as appeared in accordance with the prevalent circumstances of the time. This is a great Sign. Thereafter, it should be evaluated what he s as accomplished upon his advent. There is no need to provide the details of what the condition of the country or nation or rather the world was at that time. Everyone attests to it, and the Glorious Quran itself has attested to it. It was disseminated among them, and had any topic been described therein regarding their circum- stances in a manner contrary to the facts, they would have raised an uproar that a lie had been spoken, but no one had any room for denial. From this it is understood that the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was a period of an enormous autumn in terms of [both] quality and quantity, and in contrast to it, an incomparable spring was ushered in, the parallel of which had never occurred before nor would ever occur thereafter; for, the season of this very spring is all times to come. The time of Hadrat ‘ I s a [Prophet Jesus], peace be on him, was close to it and was also a time of spring, but the progress or [spiritual] transformation that occurred at that time is apparent from the fact that he prepared twelve men who are well known 1. From Badr : ‘It was such a time that the ignorant had exceeded all bounds in the level of their ignorance and the People of the Book, too, were in ruin. ’ ( Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 14, dated 10 January 1907)