Book of Healing - Healing Through Knowledge - Qur'anic Prophecy
Qur'anic Prophecy
Tags: Qur'anic Prophecy, Miracles, Resurrection
1. The glorious Qur'an is the wisdom-filled speech of God, may He be blessed and exalted. Its merits, wonders and virtues are limitless and innumerable and its external and internal beauties countless. It is that perfect, complete and most comprehensive Book of God, the All-seeing, the All-knowing, in which like the spiritual and luminous writings of the Guarded Tablet, there is the wisdom-filled explanation of everything (tibyanan li-kulli shay'in, 16:89). Thus, the light of explanation of the mighty Qur'an, not only illumines the states of the past and the future and of those who have passed away and of those who are going to come, but the precious gems of the secrets of azal and abad are also found in its Divine allusions. Thus, although foresight and prophecy are strange things for us, yet for the wise Qur'an they are not strange, for all such things take place according to the Divine programme. The glorious Qur'an is full of prophecies.
2. It is my personal belief that the most comprehensive and the most easily understandable prophecy of the Qur'an, is in this verse: "We shall show them Our signs on the horizons (of the world) and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that He is the Truth" (41:53). In this verse, the long chain of external miracles is mentioned first, then the beginning of spiritual miracles and the result of this chain. The result is that all those who have been denying Islam will accept its truth and reality.
3. It should be noted that in the above-mentioned verse "until (hatta)" is the "particle of utmost limit" which indicates the long chain of material and spiritual miracles and their result. That is, by the command of God, first the external miracles will appear, which will be called human science and art, rather than Divine miracles, as is happening today. Then such miracles will appear within human beings which will work in the personal world like the scientific miracles, such as the telescope, the telephone, the telegraph, the wireless, the radio, the recorder, the television, the computer and many other things. Whatever the real names of the spiritual miracles may be, their examples are like these.
4. This is the description of the age of Resurrection or the cycle of spirituality in which such great miracles will be observed. But without willing or unwilling spiritual excercise and hardship, how is it possible to attain such a great place? Thus in many verses, the law of the Qur'an says that on that day every individual according to his deeds, will bear a part of those hardships and tribulations, which are mentioned in connection with the subject of Ressurection, and these are numerous.
5. It would not be out of place to mention here that, many a time the Divine law causes man to weep for a short time to prepare him for lasting happiness. For instance, a woman definitely cries because of the hardship of the pangs of birth and the difficulty of delivery, but when she sees her beautiful baby, she forgets all her pain and becomes happy. In short, the greatest miracles of spirituality can be observed only after the most arduous tribulations.
6. The echo of the Sur (trumpet) of Israfil, which takes and gives life with its sublime secrets, is a reality. The emergence of Gog and Magog, which are extremely small particles, is certain. Undoubtedly, they will create destruction in the personal world (18:94), but Qur'anic spirituality says that this destruction (i.e. the destruction of the animal soul) will be for the sake of reconstruction and spiritual progress, without which the earth of the external world and the earth of the internal world cannot be illumined with the light of the Sustainer (39:69).
7. One specific characteristic of the day of Resurrection is that "There is no doubt in it." (6:12). This means that, during the Resurrection, all doubts and uncertainties will be removed. This shows that the Resurrection, in reality, eradicates all spiritual diseases completely and makes people return to God willingly or unwillingly (3:83). Certainly, in such a state, evil and injustice will be extinct from the world and in this sense, the earth will be illumined by the holy light of the Sustainer. For, in most cases, by the mention of the earth is meant the people and it is the people who need light.
8. At present, peace cannot be established in the world universally and truly until the armies of God, the Great, the High, demonstrate the spiritual jihad in the heaven and the earth (48:7; 5:54; 3:151). For God is going to seize the wrong-doers with the most violent seizing (44:16).
9. God has promised and He is sufficient as a witness of it that, He has sent His beloved Messenger with guidance and the true religion, so that He may make it prevail over all other religions (9:33; 48:28). This greatest victory will be the source of boundless mercy for all human beings and particularly for Muslims, for this is the meaning of the holy Prophet's epithet "a mercy for all the worlds" (21:107).
10. Among the miracles of the Resurrection, one highly wondrous miracle will be that: "On that day they shall follow the inviter who will simultaneously speak in the language of all the people (la `iwaja lahu i.e. he has no crookedness), and the voices will be hushed before the Beneficent and you will hear but a hidden voice (20:108)", namely, there will be spiritual conversation.
11. God says: "To whom belongs the kingdom this day? To God, the One, the Subduer" (40:16). That is, on that day all kingdoms in the world will come to an end and only the true kingdom of God will be established, Who unites the people in every respect, both in the personal world as well as in the external world and He is the great Subduer (40:16).
12. You know definitely that the Resurrection is going to take place in this world and that by the hereafter is meant the next world. After this very brief explanation, let us carefully study verse (3:77): "(As for) those who take a small price for the covenant of God and their own oaths - surely they shall have no portion in the hereafter and God will not speak to them, nor will He look upon them on the day of Resurrection (i.e. they will not be granted His didar), nor will He purify them" (3:77). The wisdom hidden in the meaning of this verse is that on the day of Resurrection, God will speak to those who are pious and righteous from behind the veil and will grant them His sacred didar (vision), which will be without speech. Then through these two extremely great means He will purify them spiritually and intellectually. It should also be known that the Friends of God can attain the ma`rifat of the individual Resurrection before the collective Resurrection. It should also be remembered that the example of the collective Resurrection lies in the individual Resurrection.
13. The wise Qur'an is the unfathomable ocean of knowledge with respect to every sublime subject. What I have said here about the subject of prophecy is less than a drop. If you want to know more, you should have recourse to the unfathomable ocean itself, i.e. the glorious Qur'an. Undoubtedly, God willing, you will be enriched with the precious treasures of knowledge and wisdom and be extremely happy and delighted with spiritual and intellectual health. May the Lord of the world, in His infinite mercy, reveal the great secrets of the Qur'anic spirit and spirituality to all! Amin!
N. N. Hunzai,
Friday 5 Muharramu'l-haram 1408
19th August, 1988.
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