Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 333
1 May 1908 333 Yet this is not all; it is not just that he was mentioned in an ordinary manner. On the contrary, He has mentioned the Signs of his coming in detail in all the heavenly scriptures. The Signs of his coming have been given in the Bible, in the New Testament, in the Hadith, and in the Holy Quran itself; and all nations—the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims—unan- imously believe and await his coming. So how can the rejection of such a person be Islam when he has been given such grandeur by Allah the Exalted and whose advent is awaited unanimously by all peoples? Furthermore, he is an individual of such calibre that Almighty Allah manifested Signs in his support across the heav- ens and displayed miracles upon the earth. The plague came to support him and the solar and lunar eclipses occurred at their precise appointed time in accordance with the prophecy. So when the heaven shows the Sign in his support and the earth proclaims ‘This is his time’—can such a person be an ordinary individual and would his acceptance or rejection be irrelevant, and would people still remain Muslims and the dear ones of God even after rejecting him? Certainly not! Know it well that all the Signs of the Promised One as have been fulfilled. All manner of evils have polluted the world. The Muslim scholars and many saints have themselves identified this very age to be the period of the advent of the Promised Messiah as —that he would come in the fourteenth century [of the Islamic calendar]. In Hijajul-Kiramah as well, it is this very fourteenth century that has been mentioned. No one has gone beyond the fourteenth century. Even the animals dreaded the thirteenth century. And it has been written that now, the four- teenth would be blessed. If someone still entertains any doubt after such an immense degree of collective testimony of saints and the majority of scholars, he should deliberate over the Holy Quran and carefully study the chapter an-N u r.