Arba'in — Page 45
Number Two 45 of God, then know that the Omnipotent Lord has full power to show such a Sign according to His will, without submitting to any of your inappropriate demands. 1 ٭ I am certain that if you demand from me to show you a Sign after intending sincere taubah [repentance], and if you make a promise with God that if an extraordinary event occurs which is beyond the capabilities of man, then you will leave aside all malice and enmity, and enter the fold of the Bai‘at only to please God, then Allah the Exalted shall definitely show you some Sign because He is Ra hi m [Merciful] and Kar i m [Compassionate]. However, it is not within my power to put a limit of two or three days time for God to show you a Sign, or to follow your wishes. It is in Allah’s authority to set what- ever date He likes. If the intent is to find the truth, then there 1. ٭ Presently a great Sign has appeared for the people of Makkah Mo’azzamah [the Great] and Madinah Munawwarah [the Illuminated]: For thirteen hundred years the means of transportation between Makkah and Madinah were camels. Every year hundreds of thousands of camels travelled to Makkah from Madinah, and from Madinah to Makkah. For these camels, a prophecy that everyone agrees is in the Holy Quran and Hadith is that a time is approaching when these cam- els would be rendered obsolete and no one would ride them. Thus the verse: َو اَذِا ُراَشِعْلا ْتَلِّطُع۰۰ —[And when the she-camels, ten-month preg- nant, are abandoned— ( S u rah at-Takw i r, 81:5)]; and the Hadith: ُ یُتْرَك ْھَا ي ٰ عَلَ ى َ یُسْع ال ََص ُ ف ال ِ الْق [In the time of the Messiah camels will be discarded and no one will travel by them—( 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)] testify to this. So, what a great prophecy this is which was to serve as a sign for the time of the Messiah, and for the appearance of the Promised Messiah that has been fulfilled through the coming of the railway! فَالْحَمْد ُ هلل ِ عَلَى ذَالِك —[All praise is due to Allah for this]. Author