Arba'in — Page 84
84 robbery, he has no idea whether he will succeed in the robbery or be captured and sent to prison—so what prophecy of his success can he boast aloud before the masses and before his enemies? For example, note the forceful prophecy that was proclaimed about Lekh Ram being murdered, with specific day, date, and time— could that be the work of an evil, mischievous murderer? In short, the intellect of these maulaw i s has become so thoroughly dys- functional that they will not benefit from any Sign! Almost sixteen years ago, it was published in Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya that Allah the Exalted would show the Sign of the solar and lunar eclipses in my support. However, when that Sign appeared, and the books of Hadith also verified that there was a prophecy that solar and lunar eclipses would take place in Ramadan as evidence for the Mahdi during the time of his advent, these maulaw i s refused to accept that Sign and treated the hadith as if it never existed. It was also written in the a ha d i th that at the time of the Messiah, the use of camels [as a means of transporta- tion] would be abandoned 1 , and also in the Holy Quran it was revealed that: 2 َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا ْتَلِّطُع Now these people are seeing the railway being readied with great eagerness in Makkah and Madinah and the time has come to bid 1. S a h i h Muslim, Kit a bul-‘ I m a n, B a bu Nuz u li ‘ I s a ibn Maryam Ha kiman bi-Shar i‘ ati Nabi y yin a Muhammad S allall a hu ‘alaihi wa Sall a m, D a rus- Sal a m, Published in Riyadh, 2000, Edition 2 [Publisher] 2. And when the she-camels, ten month pregnant, are abandoned ( S u rah at-Takw i r, 81:5). [Publisher]