The Need for the Imam — Page 67
Darürat-ul-Imam 67 have any social relations with them. Do not listen to them, for what they say moves the hearts. ' It should serve as a warning for them that the heaven has turned against them and so has the earth at the present time. How shameful it is that while the heaven is tes- tifying against them on the one hand, the earth too has turned against them on account of the dominance of the Cross. The testimony of the heavens-the proph- ecy regarding the solar and lunar eclipses during Ramadan is recorded in books such as Dār Quţnī. And the testimony of the earth is the supremacy of the Cross, during which the Promised Messiah was des- tined to come, and this Hadith figures in Şahih Bukhārī. Both these testimonies favour us and reject them. The death of Lekhram 62 them no less mortification. was also a sign that caused 63 My paper that was read out at the Mahutsu con- vention-the conference of religions was acclaimed as a great sign, and caused my opponents no little embarrassment. It was not just that my paper pre- 62 Pundit Lekhram: An Arya Samaj leader from Peshawar. [Publishers] 63 Mahutsu: Conference held in Lahore Dec. 1896, in which the Promised Messiah'sas paper was universally acclaimed. [Publishers]