Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 678
THE PLAGUE was in fact a Quranic prophecy reasserted during his time, because his was the age when it was destined to be realized. وَإِذَا وَقَعَ الْقَوْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ اَخْرَجْنَا لَهُمْ دَابَّةٌ مِّنَ الْاَرْضِ تُكَلِّمُهُمْ اَنْ النَّاسَ كَانُوا بِايْتِنَا لَا يُوْقِنُونَ* 27:83. And when the sentence is passed against them, We shall bring forth for them an insect (Da'bbah) out of the earth, which shall wound them (Tukallemo) because people did not believe in Our Signs. . The word da'bbah as used by the Quran has already been defined with reference to another verse discussed earlier. It applies to all animals, from the tiniest to the most massive ones, which move along earth surfaces with a locomotive mechanism. ³. It is highly important to understand the significance of this prophecy, which has a very potent message for the people of this age. Many a past Muslim scholar and commentator of the Quran has related this prophecy to the age when the Mahdi and the Messiah would appear. . Although they could not fathom the entire import of the message, they still came surprisingly close. 'Allamah. Ismail Haqqi Al-Buruswi (d. AH 1137) commentating on the above verse in Rūhul Bayān wrote that the Mahdi would come and then the Dajjal (anti-Christ) would appear followed by the Messiah. During this time da'bbah will emerge and after that the sun will rise from the West. . The Shi'a scholar, Mullāh Fath-Ullāh Kāshānī (d. AH 988), in his commentary Minhaj-us Sādiqīn, has made the following comments: 'According to some of our friends this verse (i. e. relating to the emergence of da'bbah) points to the advent 636