Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 189
189 * the mixing together of different people would become easy, and that the sun and the moon would eclipse on specified dates in the month of Raraazan. All these signs of the mercy of God would be followed by another which is indicative of the wrath of heaven i. e> the raging of a destructive plague which would aflecfc every town and village, utterly laying waste some and leaving others in a partially desolate condition. God would then be in great wrath because the signs which He manifested at the hands of His Messenger were belied, and the Apostle whom He had sent was rejected and called an impostor. All the signs enumerated above, which the Holy Quran has described as the signs of the appearance of the Promised one, have been fulfilled in this age. Thus there is a clear path for any one who exercises his judgment and understanding for my acceptance, because all the signs appointed for the appearance of the Promised Messiah have been manifested by God for me. Besides the signs mentioned above, the Holy Quran fixes the time of the appearance of the Promised Messiah in another manner too. In it we are told that one day with God is equivalent to a thousand years as is indicated in the verse : * & ; &&. . t*y t ^) ^ 2 o*j U/* &i e_aJ fc Therefore the seven days mentioned in the Holy Quran indicated seven thousand years which represent the present age from Adam to the end spoken of in the holy books of God. I do not mean to say that seven thousand years is the whole time from the beginning to the end of the world, for from the Holy Quran it appears that the world existed before the Adam spoken of in the Holy Book. Of course we cannot say who the people were that lived upon earth then because" we have no details in our hand. But it appears that one cycle of this world lasts for seven thousand years and hence also the