Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 322
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 322 phenomena you are witnessing today. Ask those Hindus who are our ancestral enemies where the Sign of this glorious power was during that time. So, when all those prophecies have been fulfilled, how can it be that the prophecies He informs of today will not come to be fulfilled? That same God has informed me that a most perilous time is about to come. Earthquakes will occur, and the gates of death will be opened wide. So, before that dangerous hour descends and death opens its mouth and starts attacking, you should do good and please God Almighty. Authenticity of the Hadith about the Eclipse of the Sun and the Moon I also assure you that all the Prophets have given the news of this age. The time of the last millennium has come and behold that this is the time for which it was written in the books of 1,100 years ago that there would be an eclipse of the sun and the moon in Ramadan at the time of the Mahdi. 1 This Sign has never appeared since Adam to this day. You have witnessed that Sign, and what an event worthy of reflection it is! Some igno- rant people object and make excuses that this hadith is weak. These fools do not realize something so basic as how a hadith can be false when it has proven itself true. According to the principles of the mu h addith i n , the true and correct hadith is the one that reveals its own truth. If this hadith had been weak, then why was it fulfilled? The eclipse of the sun and moon happened twice in this country and in America as well. If this hadith is weak, give a precedent of it also 1. D ā r Qu t n ī , Kit ā b al-‘ Ī dayn, B ā bu S if ā ti S al ā ti al-Khus ū fi wal-Kus ū fi wa Hay’ ā tihim ā , Hadith 1771, vol. 2, p. 209, Dārul-Ma‘rifa, Beirut, Lebanon [Publisher]