Tadhkirah — Page 552
552 There is a grand prophecy in it. : ‘Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant?’ That is to say, their own device became the source of their ruin…. This prophecy will continue till the Day of Judgment. Whenever a People of the Elephant arise, God Almighty makes arrangements to ruin them by frustrating their efforts…. In this age attacks are being made on Islam in the way of the People of the Elephant. Muslims suffer from many weaknesses … and the People of the Elephant are in full force but God Almighty intends to repeat the same instance…. I too have received the same revelation 579 which shows that the help and support of God Almighty is bound to do its work. [al- H akam, vol. 5, no. 26, July 17, 1901, p. 2] 1901 God Almighty has named this humble one [Sul ta n 580 of Pen] and has called my pen the Dhulfaq a r 581 of ‘Al i. [al- H akam, vol. 5, no. 22, June 17, 1901, p. 2] July 1901 Three days ago, I received the revelation 579 Ha d rat Muft i Muhammad Sa diq ra has given August 22, 1897 as the date of this revelation. (See Dhikr-e- H ab i b , p. 221) [Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri] 580 ‘Sul ta n’ in Arabic, has two connotations: ‘Sovereignty’ and ‘Ability to overpower’. [Munawar Ahmed Saeed] 581 Please see footnote 109 on page 91. [Publishers]