The Need for the Imam — Page 67
D ar u rat-ul-Imam 67 have any social relations with them. Do not listen to them, for what they say moves the hearts. ' It should serve as a warning for them that the heaven has turned against them and so has the earth at the present time. How shameful it is that while the heaven is tes- tifying against them on the one hand, the earth too has turned against them on account of the dominance of the Cross. The testimony of the heavens—the proph- ecy regarding the solar and lunar eclipses during Ramadan—is recorded in books such as D a r Qu t n i. And the testimony of the earth is the supremacy of the Cross, during which the Promised Messiah was des- tined to come, and this Hadith figures in S a hih Bukh a r i. Both these testimonies favour us and reject them. The death of Lekhram 62 was also a sign that caused them no less mortification. My paper that was read out at the Mahutsu 63 con- vention—the conference of religions—was acclaimed as a great sign, and caused my opponents no little embarrassment. It was not just that my paper pre- 62 Pundit Lekhram: An A rya Sam a j leader from Peshawar. [Publishers] 63 Mahutsu : Conference held in Lahore Dec. 1896, in which the Promised Messiah’s as paper was universally acclaimed. [Publishers]