Real Revolution — Page 46
$ 46 اقتربت الساعة وانشق القمر (54:2) "The Saa'ah has come, (of which the sign is that) the moon has burst asunder". Now how did the moon burst asunder? I may not here go into this question. What is relevent to the point in hand is the first part of this verse. Thirteen hundred years have passed since the event here spoken of as the "bursting of the moon", with a half of the fourteenth century as well, but the Qiyaamah as the end of the world, in the generally understood sence of the world, has not yet come, although. Allah said; in the words of this verse more than thirteen hundred years ago, that the bursting asunder of the moon was a sign of the immediate imminence of the Saa'ah. Another point worth pondering here is that there does not appear to be any connection between the bursting asunder of the moon and the coming of the Qiyaamah in the sense of the "end of the world. ". The fact is that the Saa'ah referred to here does not mean the death of all and the end of the world: it means decisive victory of the Holy Prophet, and the spiritual regeneration that was to take place at his hands. And whatever the fact of the matter regarding the bursting asunder of the moon here spoken of, it was in reality a prophecy in regard to the breaking of the political power of the, Pagan