The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 3
3 1 َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا ْتَلِّطُع And then a hadith—which states, 2 ولیترکن القالص فال یسعی علیھا [i. e. then the she-camels shall be abandoned, and no one will ride them]—showed the truth of its purport with full lustre, so much so that in Arabic and other languages of the world, editors of var - ious newspapers and periodicals emphatically raised the point that the railway track being laid between Makkah and Madinah is undeniably the fulfilment of the prophecy made by the Holy Quran and Hadith in the above-recorded words, which is a Sign for the age of the Promised Messiah. Similarly, all divine scriptures had also prophesied that in the time of the Promised Messiah the plague will break out; restric - tions will be imposed on Hajj; a comet will appear; and at the turn of the seventh millennium there will appear the promised one whose appearance is destined to take place towards the east of Damascus and who is to appear at the turn of the century when the Cross will have achieved great dominance. As such, today, all these prophecies have been fulfilled and, in order to support me, God has demonstrated extraordinary Signs at my hand. The death of A tham was a grand Sign, which appeared as fore - told in the prophecy. An indication towards it was also given in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya twelve years earlier. What is more, a tradi - tion of the Holy Prophet s as also spoke of this event. But the wicked 1. And when the she-camels, ten-month pregnant, are abandoned. ( S u rah at-Takw i r, 81:5). [Publisher] 2. See Musnad Ahmad bin H anbal, Kit a b B a qi Masnadul-Mukthr i n. [Publisher]