Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 148
view of the extreme darkness and deterioration of the present age, while foretelling the appearance of reformers in everv century, predicted the appoint- ment of a person ~f a calibre adequate for meeting the anti-Christ plague and spoke of him in these words: ,. r,i~. J. ~,. ,,,ri "There is no prophet between me and him. " It is precisely this age in reference to which the national poet of Pakistan Alle:ma Iqbal savs: ;. Y. . L w. . , ~ d'f/. ":•:U 1 _,,j~;,- ~I ~ if,)?JJ. :::::. J~\/i'. 1J. . i~d'~. . . . . . ,. . . . . ~ •• I. . f'. , •• ,f-1,. 1 ~. II <. l!'. 1j j-;'. J. , !. J~ (. !I. ~ ; (/. "u1 ~ (/. i?. J ~ ~411(:I'~ t. r~~/<!!4--( ❖ Ji. ~·u~ki;d'_,. . . . 4:-1} ~ ✓ -,Y£f. u~~u1, ❖ )~u. 1;iJ"JL. a1. r/"-i'. , { &. f{. ,,r. ) •. , "Hands are feeble and hearts are seized of heresy. Idol-breakers are gone-the rest ue idol-makers. The Father was Abraham but sons are Azars". "There is an outcry: Muslims ba~e become • extinct in the world. We ask •were there Muslims anywhere at all' ? "In stile you ai:c Christian, in culture Hindus Such are these Muslims, • even Jews will be scanda. Iized at their sight. "l In these lines Allama Iqbal bas certainly used rather harsh language in the excess of excitement. But one should pass it over as bitter words have J. Jawab Shik'Wa. 14,8