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SERMON 88

About the Holy Prophet

Allah sent the Prophet
when the mission of other Prophets had stopped and the peoples
were in slumber for a long time. Evils were raising heads, all
matters were under disruption and in flames of wars, while the
world was devoid of brightness, and full of open deceitfulness.
Its leaves had turned yellow and there was absence of hope about
its fruits. While water had gone underground. The minarets of
guidance had disappeared and signs of destruction had appeared. It
was stern to its people and frowned in the face of its seeker. Its
fruit was vice and its food was carcass. Its inner dress was fear
and outer cover was sword.

So take lesson, O'
creatures of Allah, and recall that (evil doing) with which your
fathers and brothers are entangled, and for which they have to
account. By my life, your time is not much behind theirs, nor have
long periods or centuries lapsed between you and them, nor are you
much distant from when you were in their loins.

By Allah, whatever the
Prophet told them, I am here telling you the same and whatever you
hear today is not different from what they heard yesterday. The
eyes that were opened for them and the hearts that were made for
them at that time, just the same have been given to you at this
time. By Allah, you have not been told anything that they did not
know and you have not been given anything which they were
deprived. Certainly you have been afflicted by a calamity (which
is like a she-camel) whose nose-string is moving about and whose
strap is loose So in whatever condition these deceitful people are
should not deceive you, because it is just a long shadow whose
term is fixed.