Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 335
1 May 1908 335 knowledge of the Holy Quran would disappear and guidance would vanish from the world. People would become deprived of the light and cognizance of the Holy Quran, and no one would act upon it. The people would abandon the path the Quran had come to teach and they would come to abide by their own ambitions and passions. When this state of affairs would prevail, a person from among the descendants of Persia would come and he would bring back the Faith anew, and he would revive faith and the Quran. He would again restore to the world the lost grandeur of the Quran, the forgotten guidance, and the faith that had ascended to the Pleiades. ء ِ فَارِس َّا لَنَالَہ ٗ رَجُل ٌ مِّن ْ أَبْنَآٓء ِ فَارِس ی َ ْمَان ُ عِنْد َ الثُّر ی ِ ْإ لَو ْ كَان َ ال َّا لَنَالَہ ٗ رَجُل ٌ مِّن ْ أَبْنَا ی َ ْمَان ُ عِنْد َ الثُّر ی ِ ْإ لَو ْ كَان َ ال [‘If faith had ascended to the Pleiades a man from among the children of Persia will find it’]. 1 Thus, it is very clearly proven from the Holy Quran and the Hadith of the Holy Prophet s as that this ummah has been given the promise of a Khalifah in the Latter Days and his Signs and characteristics have also been told. I hold the claim to be the Promised Messiah as. Now it is incumbent upon every person who loves God and the Messenger, and who desires to preserve his faith, to ponder whether the claim I have made is true or false. Those who come from God are accompanied by Divine Signs. A mere verbal claim does not merit being accepted. Among other Signs mentioned in the books of Allah and the Messenger, one is the abandoning of camels as a means of transport. This subject has been discussed in the Holy Quran in the following words: 1. The narrations of this hadith are found in different books with slight var- iations. The version most closely resembling the above is documented as: فَارِس)) ِء ِ فَارِس)) ٓٓء ((مِن ْ أَبْنَا َأَو ْ قَال َ ((مِن ْ أَبْنَا ِ ء ِ أَو ْ قَال َٓٓء َ هٰۤؤُل َان َ الْإ ِیْمَان ُ عِنْد َ الْثُّرَیَّا لَنَالَہ ٗ رِجَال ٌ مِّن ْ هٰۤؤُل ك ْلَوْ َان َ الْإ ِیْمَان ُ عِنْد َ الْثُّرَیَّا لَنَالَہ ٗ رِجَال ٌ مِّن ك لَوْ ( Kashful-Mushkil, min H adithi s - S a hih ain, Part 3, p. 411, Kashful-Mushkil min Masnad Abi Hurairah ad-D u si, source al-Maktabah ash-Sh a milah). [Publisher]