A Message of Peace & a Word of Warning — Page 4
A Message of Peace and a Word of Warning 4 of the pen, and with beauty and sweetness of expression and helped him write scores of books of unsurpassed brilliance and to deliver discourses which are rich reposito- ries of learning and spiritual knowledge. The time of his birth had been foretold by the earlier Prophets as and found prominent mention in their sayings and scriptures. I would here mention only one such prophecy by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , Chief of the Prophets. He had prophesied about the Mahdi more than thirteen hundred years before that a number of false claimants to the office of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi would arise among the Muslims. None of them would be the true Mahdi, except one, who will be a true follower of the Holy Prophet sa and to establish the truth of his claim two great heavenly signs will appear. These signs will be the solar and lunar eclipses which shall take place in the same month of Ramadan. The lunar eclipse would occur on the first of the possible nights of such eclipses i. e. the 13 th. The solar eclipse would occur on the second of the possible days of such eclipses i. e. the 28 th.