The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 203
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 203 These are the sixteen resemblances between me and the Messiah. It is obvious that had my claim been the product of my own imagination, there would not have been so many resemblances between the Mes- siah son of Maryas and myself. Denial of truth has, from ancient times, been the characteristic of those who have not been blessed with good fortune, but my denial by the Maulavīs of this age is simply beyond comprehension. I am the one who has appeared right on time and for whom the sun and the moon were eclipsed in the month of Ramadan in accordance with the prophecies of the Qur'an, the Hadith, the Bible and other Prophetsas. I am the one in whose time, ac- cording to the prophecies of all the Prophetsas and of the Holy Qur'an, the plague broke out in this country in an extraordinary manner. I am the one in whose time the pilgrimage was stopped in accordance with true Aḥādīth. I am the one in whose time the comet appeared which has appeared in the time of the Mes- siah son of Maryas. I am the one in whose time the advent of the railway caused camels to be discarded as a means of transportation. The time is approaching, indeed it is very near, when the railway will run be- tween Mecca and Medina and all those camels will be discarded which have performed this blessed journey for thirteen hundred years. Then will be fulfilled this Hadith of Sahih Muslim: ليتركن القلاص فلا يسعى عليها which means that in the time of the Messiah camels will be discarded and no one will travel by them. I am