Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 2
pleased to promise for him. But since every light is accompanied by darkness, so much s9, that Allah the Knowing, the Wise, has appointed the black shadow of lb/is with the light- giving persons of angels, and as night shadows day, so has the Lord God appointed, in accordance with His eternal law of guidance, that while the illumining sun our Master, the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) has dawned to bestow light on all ages and nations, even so, owing to the misdeeds of people, periods of darkness and ignorance, should intercept this eternal term. The Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) had accordingly apprised his followers that during· these cycles of darkness, Allah will not forsake them and that, through the reflected light of his guiding sun, He shall produce, spiritual moons adequate for the exigencies of the period, of these, one will be like the first moon, another bigger, one still bigger and so on and one even as big as the full moon and equally bright; and that all these moons, small and big shall radiate his (the Prophet's) light and shall revolve round his sun. So says the • Holy Quran : 2.