Tadhkirah — Page 486
486 not the deluge of evil reached its height? Has ignorance not cast its net in all corners? All the land has been corrupted and Satan has thanked the ignorant. So, be thankful to Allah who has remembered you and remembered your Faith and safeguarded it from ruin. He safeguarded the seeds that you had sown and the crops that you cultivated from catastrophe and sent down rain and thus brought His investment to fruition. He sent His Messiah to ward off harm and His Mahdi to foster goodness and bestow reward, and caused you to join the age of your Imam after the age of the others had gone by. Brethren! This age of ours bears a perfect resemblance with this month of ours, because this is the last age and this is also the last month in the Islamic calendar, and both are about to end. There are sacrifices to be made in this month and also there are sacrifices to be made in this last age. The difference is only of the actual and its mirror image. An example of this has appeared earlier in the age of the Best of Creation, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. O men of understanding! The real sacrifice is that of the spirit. The sacrifices of goats are metaphoric and symbolic. So understand the secret of this truth. After the Companions of the Holy Prophet, may Allah be pleased with them, you are the most deserving and most worthy of understanding this truth. You are the last people that has been joined with them by the grace and mercy of Allah. The succession of the dispensations has come to its culmination in our age by the One True God just as the months of the Islamic calendar come to an end with the month of sacrifice. In this, there is a hidden indication for those who possess good judgment. I have been appointed