Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 123
3 JANUARY 1908 (During a walk) Signs of the Latter Days Mentioned in the Holy Quran The Promised Messiahas said: It is mentioned in the Holy Quran that the disbelievers would say: لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحُبِ السَّعِيرِ ! This shows that faith is not sound without thoughtful consid- eration. All the Signs mentioned in Sūrah Takwir pertain to the Latter Days. One of these Signs is: 2 وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِلَتُ meaning, 'When she-camels would be left abandoned. It was in exposi- tion of it, that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said وَلَيْتْرَكُنَّ الْقِلَاصُ فَلَا يُسْعَى عَلَيْهَا ]i. e. then the she-camels will be abandoned, and no one will travel upon them] which 1. If we had but listened or possessed sense, we should not have been among the inmates of the blazing Fire (Sūrah al-Mulk, 67:11). [Publisher] 2. Sūrah at-Takwir, 81:5 [Publisher] 3. The present day edition of Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, (Kitāb Baqi Musnadul- Mukthirin) has the same wording, whereas in Şahih Muslim (Kitābul-Imān, Bāb Nuzül Īsā ibn Maryam, Hadith 155) instead of وَلَيْتُرَكُن the word وَلَتُتْرَكَنَّ is recorded. [Publisher]