A Message of Peace & a Word of Warning — Page 6
A Message of Peace and a Word of Warning 6 this rejection put forward by them was that the prophecy of the Holy Prophet sa , namely, the one about the solar and the lunar eclipses which were to take place in a certain month and on certain dates and which was to be a sign of the truth of such a claimant, had not yet been fulfilled. Therefore, according to them, he could not be the true Mahdi. But the Omnipotent and Almighty God always keeps His promises and treats His sincere servants with love and constancy. In keeping with His promise and the prophecy of the Holy Prophet sa , the solar and lunar eclipses took place in the exact month and on the exact dates in 1894 and thus manifested to the whole world that the God of Muhammad sa is All-powerful and Supreme. He showed this sign not once but twice, for it was repeated the following year in the western hemisphere. The two eclipses occurred in the precise month and on precise dates so that the people of the orient and the occident, of the new world and the old, should bear witness to the supreme glory and power of God and the truth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and his spiritual son Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as. Great is