Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 247
POSTSCRIPT SIGN NUMBER 2 247 scholars, but instead has demonstrated on its own that it is at the highest level of authenticity?1* To reject the Signs of God is a separate issue; otherwise, it is a mag- nificent Sign which was long-awaited by thousands of learned people and scholars of hadith before me. They would climb upon the pulpits and remind others about it with tears in their eyes. And at the very last Maulawi Muhammad of Lakhukay, wrote a couplet about this very eclipse during this very era in his book Ahwālul-Akhirat in which the time of the appearance of the Promised Mahdi is mentioned, and it is as follows: اندر ماه رمضانے لکھیا بک روایت والے تیرھویں چند ستیہویں سورج گرہن ہوسی اس سالے [A narrator says that in that year the moon will be eclipsed on the 13th, and the sun on the 27th 2* in the month of Ramadan. ] Another saint whose following couplet has been well known for hun- dreds of years says: ۱۳۱۱ از پتے مہدی و دجال نشان خواهد بود در سن ناشی 3 ہجری دو قران خواهد بود That is, in the year 1311 in the 14th century of Hijrah, when the moon and the sun will be eclipsed in the same month, it will constitute a Sign for the appearance of the Promised Mahdi as well as the Antichrist. This couplet contains the exact year of the lunar and solar eclipses. But the fact is that it is not the] فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصَارُ وَلكِنْ تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ . . . eyes that are blind, but it is the hearts which are in the breasts that are blind, (Sūrah al-Hajj, 22:47)]. (Author) 2. The date 27th given in this verse is either a misprint or a human error on the part of Maulawi [Muhammad of Lakhukay], because the hadith, of which this couplet is a translation, contains the date of the 28th not the 27th. (Author) 3. In the Arabic abjad system each letter in the alphabet corresponds to a nu- merical value. Using this system, the word ناشی equals 1311. [Publisher[