Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 16
T E S T I MON Y OF T HE HOLY Q U R AN 16 fulfilled clearly, and even the British admit it. This prophecy was fulfilled hundreds of years after the compilation and publication of the books in which it was recorded. Can we now declare such a ha d i th to be absolutely unacceptable on account of their being a ha d? It is extremely vile and abhorrent ignorance to entertain such a thought after the authenticity of such a ha d i th has been established so clearly. Think about the prophecy regarding the Promised Messiah in the same way. Its wording states—at places explicitly, and at other places implicitly—that the Promised Messiah will appear at a time when the rule and power of the Christians will have spread over the entire world and railway trains will be running. Moreover, most of the land will have come under cultivation, people will take keen interest in agriculture so much so that the oxen would become expensive, and there will be an abundance of canals in the world, and in terms of worldly life, it will be the time of peace. We now find that this prophecy has been fulfilled in our time, for the Christian empire has reached such a height as if all other regimes and states are non-existent before it, and we have witnessed with our own eyes the emergence of trains, canals and widespread agriculture. Think about it! Does not this prophecy contain such news regarding the unseen as transcends human power? Could any - one imagine the present decadent state of Islam at a time when the Islamic sword was striking the disbelievers like lightening? Can any human being possess such knowledge of the unseen as would predict a new form of transport which was previously