Tadhkirah — Page 907
1906 907 descent. 1098 All praise belongs to Allah, who has removed my grief and has bestowed upon me that which He has not bestowed upon any other of my contemporaries. O Perfect Leader! You are indeed the Messenger of God, pursuing the right path, sent down by the Mighty, the Ever Merciful. I decided to appoint a vicegerent in this age and therefore I created this A dam [Adam]. He shall revive the faith and establish the law. [Persian] When the age of the imperial Messiah 1099 began, Muslims who were Muslim only in name, were newly reconverted to Islam. [Arabic] The heavens and the earth were closed like a bundle and then We opened them up— that is, the earth as well as the heavens brought out their full power. The time appointed for your death has approached. The Lord of the Throne calls you. We shall not let survive you any trace of things that might be a source of humiliation for you. Only a short time is left out of the term appointed by your Lord, and We shall not let survive you anything that might be a source of humiliation for you. [Urdu] Very few days of life are left. On that day the whole Jam a ‘at will be disheartened and 1098 That is, God has favoured you by causing your birth to take place in an honourable, noble, and renowned family and secondly, He favoured you with a wife from a respected Sayyed family of Delhi. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 107, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, p. 110 footnote] 1099 In Divine books the Messiah of the latter days has been called the king. This means that his kingdom will be of heaven, that is, he would be a sovereign of the future line of succession and powerful people will be among his followers. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , p. 107 footnote. R uha n i Khaz a ’in vol. 22, p. 110 footnote]