Tabligh Guide — Page 28
(American Edition) 28 Ḥ a ḍ rat Mu ḥ ammad bin ‘ Al ī (Imām Muḥ ammad B ā qir) relates that the Holy Prophet said: “Surely two signs will appear for our Mahdī which have never appeared before (as signs of truth for anyone else) since the creation of the heaven and the earth. In the month of Rama ḍān, the moon will be eclipsed on the first of its night (of eclipses), and the sun will be eclipsed on the middle day (of its eclipses). Both these eclipses will take place in the same month of Rama ḍān. And these two signs have never occurred before since Allāh created the heaven and the earth. ” (Sunan Dār Qu ṭnī, Vol. 1) In this Ḥadīth , the two greatest signs of the true Imām Mahdī are mentioned with the following details: 1. After the claim of Imām Mahd ī two signs will appear. 2. The moon will be eclipsed on 13th of Rama ḍān, which is the first of the three nights of lunar eclipses. 3. The sun will be eclipsed on the 28th of Rama ḍān, which is the middle of the three days of solar eclipses. 4. Both signs will appear in the same month of Rama ḍān. 5. These signs have never appeared for anyone except the true Mahdī. These signs were fulfilled in the Eastern Hemisphere in 1894, and in the Western Hemisphere in 1895 so that the whole world became its witness. Ḥ a ḍrat Mirzā Ghulām Aḥ mad was no more than 60 years of age at the time.