Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 569
EPILOGUE-SIGNS 569 age Resurrection. It is also learnt from some other aḥādīth that the limit of the present world is 7,000 years. This sense is also supported by the following Quranic verse in which God says: إِن يَوْمًا عِندَ رَبِّكَ كَالْفِ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعُدُّونَ Meaning that, verily, a day with your Lord is as 1,000 years of your reckoning. Thus, since we learn from the Word of Allah the Exalted that there are but seven days, there emerges an indication that the lifespan of the human species is 7,000 years. God has also revealed to me that the numerical value of the letters in Surah al-Asr according to the Jumal system,² is the number of lunar years lived by the human species until the blessed time of the Holy Prophetsa. Because God has used the lunar calendar, in accordance with this reckoning, our human species thus far has lived out 6,000 years of its life and now we are into the seventh millennium. It was, therefore, necessary that the like of Adam who, in other words is referred to as the Promised Messiah, should be born at the end of the sixth millennium which is symbolized by Friday, the day on which Adam was born. So was I brought into being by God. Thus, according to all this, I was born in the sixth millennium. And this is a strange coincidence that I was born on a Friday according to the calendar in use. Also, just as Ādams [the progenitors] were born male and female, so was I born as a twin. A girl was with me who was born first and then I was born after her. These are the facts of my life which provide the seeker after truth with clear evidence. In addition, there are thousands of other Signs some of which have already been recorded by way of illustration. It must be borne in mind that upon hearing my Signs, it is the 1. Surah al-Hajj, 22:48 [Publisher] 2. In the Arabic Jumal system (also known as Abjad), each letter in the alphabet corresponds to a specific numerical value. [Publisher]