A Message of Peace & a Word of Warning — Page 5
A Message of Peace and a Word of Warning 5 The fixing of the month of Ramadan out of all the months of the year and again the fixing of definite dates of the eclipses was a mighty prophecy indeed. To foretell such a conjunction of events was to transcend beyond the limits of human knowledge. In fact when the time came the claimant actually appeared and declared himself to be the Mahdi and this was followed by the two heavenly signs—the two eclipses—as foretold with precision and exactitude. Most certainly this prophetic utterance of the Holy Prophet sa , as events some thirteen hundred years later proved, was truly Divinely inspired and of superhuman origin. The prophecy was fulfilled in this man- ner. The child who was born in 1835, declared in 1891 that he was the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as. In support of his claim he advanced numerous arguments and cited a large number of heavenly signs; and also presented to the world a number of his own prophecies some of which were fulfilled in his own time while the fulfilment of others took place later and continues to this day. The contemporary theologians rejected his claim. One of the reasons for