What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 69
( 69 ) what was due to h~ppen· iater on. It ~ays that Islam, the last law taught by God to man, would become establi- shed in the world under a divine design. The hostility of its enemies would be of no av. ail. But after a time it would begin, as it were, to ascend ba'Ck to heaven and in I ,000 years would have disappeared. from the world again. Three hundred years. . is the Prophet's ·own round estimate of the time during which Islam was to become ec;tablished in the world. · I have cited above the Hadith. on. ~his P?int. The Holy Quran, through the symbols Alif, Lam, )fini. !. {a· (Surah 13). puts it down as 271 years. If we add 271 to 1,000 ·we have the exact ·da. te. by which the spirit of Islam was to disappear from· the. world. It was to be the year 1271 according tp the Hijri calendar. roughly the end of the 13th century. The eternal law of God, however, is that