Al Naba: The Great News
"These are the facts from which Muslims and their imams, mullahs, shaikhs, ulema, and ayatollahs will flee. For 1400 years no one challenged their collective ignorance...... until the advent of His Ruh Shri Mataji who repeatedly announced the Great News of the Resurrection for the last 40 years, ripping apart centuries of Islamic falsehood. The Ummah is reacting to the Great News exactly as the Quran predicted! But then who can tell these ignorant Muslims rejecting Al Naba that they too are kafirs?"
Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News. [5889]
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!
surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)
"5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of
the Resurrection."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.
"Surah al-Naba' (78) `The Announcement'
This surah has been named al-Naba', and also Amma, on account of the prominence within it of the words al-naba', meaning `the announcement', and amma, meaning `about what'. While the previous surah (al-Mursalat) concluded by mentioning the resurrection and by warning those who deny it, this surah opens on the same theme."
www.imamshirazi.com/
"The Surah derived its name from the word an-Naba in the second verse. This is not only a name but also a title of its subject matter, for Naba implies the news of Resurrection and Hereafter and the whole Surah is devoted to the same theme."
www.islamcity.com
Chapter 78 : Surah Al-Naba
Date of Revelation and Context
"The Surah is entitled Al-Naba' because it deals with subjects of exceptional importance i.e., certainty of Resurrection, predominance of the Qur'an over all other revealed Scriptures, and of Islam over all other Faiths. The Day of Decision, i.e., the day when this Quranic claim will become an established fact, is mentioned twice in the preceding Surah and is repeated here. According to Muslim Commentators the Surah was revealed very early in the Holy Prophet's ministry at Mecca. Noldeke agrees with this Muslim scholarly opinion. It opens with enumerating the great Divine gifts bestowed upon man, and directs his attention to the implied suggestions that he has been placed upon this earth to serve a certain object and his life here is the seed-bed of an eternal future and it will be followed by a Day of Reckoning.
The Surah then gives a brief but an awe-inspiring picture of that Day, and a graphic description of the heavenly blessings that await the righteous and of the terrible punishment which will be meted out to the rejectors of Truth in this life and in the next."
www.alquran-karim.com/alNaba.html
"CHAPTER 78 SURA AL-NABA'
(Revealed before Hijra)
General Remarks
This Sura is entitled Al-Naba' (news of tremendous importance or great Event), because it deals with a subject of exceptional importance ie, certainty of the Resurrection."
The Holy Quran with English translation and commentary (3039 pages)
Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, 1988
Dear people of the Spirit,
Namaste - i bow to His Ruh who resides in you!
i have updated http://adishakti.org/al-qiyamah/surah_1-2.htm regarding Al Naba. That Muslim theologians claim the Great News to have been discussed and disputed 1400 years ago—when of necessity it had to be globally discussed and disputed in the future—is absurd to the point of being ridiculous for the following reasons:
i) At the time that Surah 75:1-2 was being revealed not only was Prophet Muhammad being rejected in an aggressive manner by certain members of both his own and a few neighboring tribes, but he was also virtually unknown elsewhere. It is generally agreed that "after thirteen years of preaching his new religion, Muhammad did not have very much success and was forced to flee Mecca with his 150 followers. There, he formed an army and returned eight years later to conquer the city that rejected him."
ii) 'Few people' in the global sense would have heard the revelation of Al Naba since the verses of the Holy Qur'an, yet in the infancy of revelation and recording, still lay scattered among palm leaves, tree barks, dry bones and human memory. Besides, how could a tiny group of people hearing a few lines of the Qur'an a few centuries ago, constitute fulfillment of the great expectations? How could any tribe member, illiterate as they were, pass final judgment and reject the complexity of the Great News of the Resurrection?
In the first place what were they (and any human today for that matter) supposed to make out of this:
Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News.
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!
surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)
when no one knows what the Great News is all about? You have to know the nature of the Good News before you can respond. To claim that the Great News was somehow understood by the illiterate tribesmen as referring to the Resurrection is preposterous. How can Muslim theologians endorse such absurdity?
The Great News clearly referred to a future eschatological finality, a time when a global, educated audience would be reached who would then be able to cross-examine the different interpretations of the Qur'an and make an informed judgment as to the validity of the Great News. That is precisely why it is being revealed in this modern age. In fact, it is now that many Muslims will disagree and reject the Great News, just as the Qur'an predicted!
iii) the illiterate desert folks worshipping rocks and trees would have been in no state of mind to carry a civilized theological conversation while a goat, stolen along with a few women in a raid on an enemy tribe, was being tenderly roasted over an open fire pit. After all, it was the Age of Jahiliyyah (Ignorance):
— "Jahiliyyah - traditionally translated "Time of Ignorance", and used to apply to the pre-Islamic period in Arabia, but in the Muslim sources its primary meaning is violent and explosive irascibility, arrogance, tribal chauvinism."
Muhammad Prophet For Our Time Glossary pg. 217
— "In general, the pagan Arabs – the majority in Arabia – had a very primitive and simple astral and animistic religion of at least 360 gods and goddesses. Among the gods of the pagan Arabs, Allah was one of the most important. In Mecca, Allah was the principal though not the only deity. He had three daughters: Al Lat (Crescent); Al Uzzah (Venus) and Al Manah (Fate) (53:19/20). Besides the Ka’ba of Mecca, caves, trees, waterholes, wells, etc., were also venerated especially in a bleak, arid and desolate land as theirs. There were other ‘holy’ sites also called Ka’ba besides the one in Mecca, such as the ones in Petra, Sana’ and Najran. The sun too was worshiped but not to the same level of importance as the moon. After all, Moon worship in general implies a nomadic and pastoral society, whereas Sun worship is invariably associated with an agricultural one. Most important of all is that in the scorching furnace heat of the Arabian Desert, the Sun is actually an enemy of the nomads depriving them of pasture, shade and water. On the other hand, the moon is their friend and ally providing them with light, coolness of the night, dew and shade; and this is reflected in its greater importance as a deity for them."
I. Q. Rassooli, History of the Arabs: Pre-Islamic Age of Jahiliyah;
iv) The Great News of surah 78:1-5 implies of impending dire consequences for those disputing/rejecting it: "Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!" Muslims should be reminded that 1400 years have passed without any fulfillment of that warning;
v) 90% of Muslims in the year 2010 still read the Quran in Arabic, a language they do not understand, and thus have no idea of the Great News. (Most were illiterate a mere half-century ago.)
— "Muslim illiteracy worldwide stands at about 51 percent for all age groups over fifteen. Despite a rapid increase in primary school enrollment, only 45 percent of Muslim children aged six to eleven attend primary school. An even larger gap exists at higher levels of research."
Martin S. Kramer, Arab awakening and Islamic revival, 1996, page 280;
— "The vast majority of Muslims do not speak Arabic as their native tongue"
Christine Huda Dodge, The everything understanding Islam, 2003, page 21;
The Great News can only be disputed in this modern age of mass media and literacy after i.e., only after the Collection, Promulgation, Recital and Explanation by His Ruh of the surahs upholding Allah's (SWT) command to bear witness Al-Qiyamah!
These are the facts from which Muslims and their imams, mullahs, shaikhs, ulema and ayatollahs will flee. For 1400 years no one has challenged their collective ignorance...... until the advent of His Ruh Shri Mataji, who repeatedly announced the Great News of the Resurrection for the last 40 years, thereby ripping apart centuries of Islamic falsehood. In fact the Ummah is reacting to the Great News exactly as the Qur'an predicted! But then who can tell these ignorant Muslims rejecting Al Naba that they, too, have become kafirun (unbelievers)?
The Paraclete Shri Mataji "Of course there are some absurd things which grew with misinterpretation and interference from unholy people, which are common in these religions. For example, Jews, Christian and Muslims believe that when they die their bodies will come out of their graves and they will all be resurrected at the Time of Resurrection, at the Time of Last Judgment, at the Time of Qiyamah. It is illogical to think what will remain inside those graves after five hundred years. Nobody wants to think and understand that it is not the body but the soul that will come out of these bodies, be born again as human beings and be saved through Qiyamah and Resurrection.
Who will tell them? No one can talk to them. As soon as one wants to talk one can be killed. This is the only way they know - how to kill."
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
“But these are special time, the Blossom Time. They call it the Last Judgment, you can call it the Resurrection Time, you can call it the Qiyamah, they call it in Koran. It is said that people will come out of their graves and will get their Resurrection. I mean what is left to the graves is nothing but a few stones and a few bones. No. All these souls which are dead will take their birth, take human body and take their Realization in these special times. This is a sensible thing to say and is also happening."
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
"There is so much blind faith, there is so much of wrong ideas, so much of organizational fortresses they have built. All kinds of nonsensical things are going on in this world, but they'll all be finished."
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Vienna, Austria, 8 June 1988
The above are just a few quotes of the thousands of talks, lectures and private conversations that make up the Collection, Promulgation, Recital and Explanation of the Quran regarding the Resurrection. That is the only way the Great News (Al Naba) makes sense as it has been openly declared and explained in detail for four decades. Then there are the Sure Signs specific to the Resurrection, all verifiable facts required to convict Muslims of the dire consequences of rejection i.e., being a kafir just like others.
Types of Kufr (Disbelief) — Adapted from 'Tafseer ibn Katheer'
1. Kufrul-'Inaad: Disbelief out of stubbornness;
2. Kufrul-Inkaar: Disbelief out of denial;
3. Kufrul-Kibr: Disbelief out of arrogance and pride;
4. Kufrul-Juhood: Disbelief out of rejection;
5. Kufrul-Nifaaq: Disbelief out of hypocrisy;
6. Kufrul-Kurh: Disbelief out of detesting any of Allah's commands;
7. Kufrul-Istihzaha: Disbelief due to mockery and derision;
8. Kufrul-I'raadh: Disbelief due to avoidance;
In Abdullah Yusuf Ali's commentary Kufr, Kafara, Kafir, and derivative forms of the word imply a deliberate rejection of faith, revelation and truth of the Holy Qur'an: "The culmination of Allah's Revelation is in the Qur'an, which confirms previous scriptures, corrects the errors which men introduced into them, and explains many points in detail for all who seek right worship and service to Allah—whether they inherit the previous Books or not. It is a universal Message ... The worst and most hardened sinner is the man to whom Allah's Signs are actually brought home and who yet prefers Evil and turns away from the Light of Allah. The Signs may be in the words and guidance of a great Teacher or in some sorrow or warning, but from which he deliberately refuses to profit. The penalty—the Nemesis—must necessary come eventually."
According to Ibn Taymiyah (1263 – 1328) "kufr is the attribute of everyone who rejects something that God has commanded us to believe in, after news of that has reached him, whether he rejects it in his heart without uttering it, or he speaks those words of rejection without believing it in his heart, or he does both; or he does an action which is described in the texts as putting one beyond the pale of faith."
However, this explanation of kufr is most lucid and applicable to the sheer gravity, importance, and dire consequences of this universal Message of Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection): "Just as faith for Muslims has to do not with believing but with knowing, so kufr, rejection, is not a lack of belief, not an intellectual position that holds that something is otherwise than is the case, and certainly it is not mere ignorance. Rather it, too, like its correlative iman, presupposes knowledge; for it is an active repudiation of what one knows to be true. This is why it is a sin, and indeed a (the) monstrous sin. It is the one final, cosmic (or some would say, the one final human) wrong; the deliberate saying of 'no' to what one knows to be right." (Wilfred Cantwell Smith, On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies, 1981, page 154)
Therefore most of the Al-Kufr ul Akbar (major disbeliefs) are applicable to those rejecting or disbelieving Allah's (SWT) Signs and surahs upholding the collection, promulgation, recital, explanation and warning of the following:
i) His Call to witness Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection);
ii) His Call to witness His Ruh (self-reproaching Spirit);
iii) His Call to heed Al Naba (The Great News);
iv) His Call to participate in Al Qadr (The Night of Power and Destiny);
v) His Call to confirm His Revelations, Signs, and Warnings (of i-iv).
Thus kaffir (non-believer) here is applied to all humankind, both Muslim and non-Muslim, who reject the Call that God has commanded us to believe in after His Revelations, Signs and Warnings have reached us. The Qur'an clearly warns that many will disbelief, even mock, the Great News and Sure Signs of Al-Qiyamah.
So be forewarned, and in the Hereafter never deny deliverance of this clear Warning: "O ye assembly of Jinns and men! came there not unto you messengers from amongst you, setting forth unto you My signs, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" Qur'an 6.130
And to those still rejecting, hesitant or unable to make up their minds even after hearing the Great News and shown the Signs, Allah (SWT) questions: "Are they waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? All the Signs thereof have already come. Once the Hour comes to them, how will they benefit from their message?" "Why do they not study the Quran carefully? Do they have locks on their minds?" Qur'an 47:18-24
The last paragraph is yet another warning from Allah (SWT) that prior to the Wrath of the End (Al Qariah) humans are offered the Mercy of the Resurrection (Al Qadr). And once the Hour of Al Qariah comes to them, how will they benefit from their contemporary message of Al Qadr i.e., from the Great News of the messengers from amongst you? How will those reading these lines benefit if they continue to doubt and wait, and the Striking Day comes suddenly? What use then will be the Mercy and Compassion of Al Qadr (Night of Destiny) if the morn of the Al Qariah (Striking Day) ends His Peace? Why doesn't the Ummah then not study the Quran with painstaking effort to avoid the errors, mistranslation and ignorance of the ulema that have presently paralyzed their minds from believing the Great News? Why don't they use their own mental faculties and intelligence to understand Al- Qiyamah, the heart and soul of the living, breathing Quran? Living and breathing because God Almighty is now talking directly to you through His Holy Book! After all, it is Allah (SWT) who has now called out to all Believers with this Decree: "I do call to witness the Resurrection Day; And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit." He is specifically addressing you in particular (and Believers is general) to do so!
Only now in this modern age of universal education, mass media and publishing technology—after 14 centuries and unlike the illiterate past—is it possible to own and be sufficiently literate to "study the Quran carefully" in languages they understand best.* And just in case the Believers start studying the entire Qur'an, it must be stressed that Allah (SWT) is referring specifically to those eschatological Signs and surahs upholding His Call to bear witness of the Resurrection! They must thoroughly examine and understand the Signs that have already manifested, and set forth by messengers from amongst themselves.
Without question, to "study the Quran carefully" means using one's own mental faculties, not those of the ulema (Muslim clergy) who have for centuries put "locks on their minds" and are the very reason for the Ummah's present predicament i.e., their unprecedented kaffir-like mindset, reaction, rejection and mocking of His Call, Signs and Great News of the Resurrection. They must know that during Al Qadr no 'graves are going to open up' as this is His Night of Compassion and Mercy. So "Peace!... This until the rise of the morn!" (Quran 97:5)
The Paraclete Shri Mataji "We are now in the Blossom Time, as I call it, because many flowers are born and they are to become the fruits. This is the Resurrection Time, which is described in all the scriptures. But it’s not like this, the way they had described us. Something wrong with them that all the dead bodies who are in the graves will come out of the graves. I mean, how much is left out of them, God knows. Must be some bones or maybe some skulls there. So they’ll come out of the graves and they will get their Resurrection!!!? This is a very wrong idea.
Once I happened to meet a fellow, a Muslim from Bosnia and he told Me, "I want to die for my religion, for God’s sake." I said, "But why? Who told you to die?" He said, "Now, if I die in the name of God, I’ll be resurrected." I said, "It’s all wrong. That’s not the way it is going to work out. Resurrection is going to work out this way that at this time, all these souls will take their birth. All these souls will take their birth and they will be resurrected. As human beings they’ll have to come."
That’s why we find all kinds of funny people these days, all kinds of cruel, criminal, all kinds of idiotic, stupid, I mean very queer, weird, funny ideas which find such, such a variety of people and such a tremendous population that we should understand they have to have their chance of Resurrection. But how many will come? That’s the point. How many are going to come?"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Philadelphia, USA — October 15, 1993
So Peace to all Believers bearing witness to the Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah)! So Peace to all Believers bearing witness to His self-reproaching Spirit (Ruh)! So Peace to all Believers resurrecting themselves during this blessed Night of Power and Destiny (Al Qadr)! So Peace to all Believers of the Great News (Al Naba)! So Peace until the dreadful morn of the Great Calamity, the Striking Day (Al Qariah) against the Unbelievers (Al-Kafirun)!
Last, but not the least, the Qur'an insists that ample warning of impending calamity must be always delivered by His messengers:
"That is because thy Lord would never destroy the cities unjustly, while their inhabitants were heedless." (Quran 6.131);
"Never did We destroy a population, but had its warners - By way of reminder; and We never are unjust." (Quran 26:208-209);
"And never did Thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother-town a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations." (Quran 27:59);
This cardinal rule has been expressly complied with and Warning of the impending Great Calamity repeatedly announced and fearlessly upheld by the incarnation of His Ruh for more than three decades until Her retirement in 2008 at the age of 85. (Since Jesus is the mandatory Sign of the Hour [Quran 43:61], and as the Comforter promised and sent by God Almighty in Jesus' name, She has also ceaselessly glorified Christ and His Message of the Last Judgment.)
"I should do something to bring sense to these people (humanity). Something should happen to them otherwise what I see is a complete disaster. It is going to happen. I do not want to frighten you like Mrs Thatcher does about the Russians. That might be imaginary. But this is real. I am warning you that the Disaster is going to come as destruction itself."
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
London, UK, 6 June 1983
"The Last Judgment has started. We are facing the Last Judgment today. We are not aware of it. And all the satanic forces have come out like the wolves in sheep's clothes. And they are trying to attract you and you do not judge them. You only sit down and judge the Reality. It has started! It is a fact! It has started!"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Kingston, UK, 6 November 1980
"I have such respect for so many of them (Muslims). I wish they could accept that this is not Jihad time anymore but Qiyamah Time, the Resurrection Time, the Blossom Time. Are they going to miss it?"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
"Move not thy tongue concerning the (Resurrection), to make haste therewith.
It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it:
But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital:
Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear)." surah 75:16-19 Al Qiyamah
On 28th February 1990, while on Her way to Australia, Shri Mataji stopped at Changi Airport, Singapore. The Paraclete/Messiah/Ruh informed those who had gathered to meet Her that in Islam there is a complete surah written about Her.
The chapter in the Qur'an She is referring to is Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection), explained in depth at www.al-qiyamah.org. A number of Muslim nations, unable to challenge it despite being based entirely on the Qur'an, have instead resorted to blocking the site as it not only reveals that Al Qadr (The Night of Power) precedes Al Qariah (The Day of Noise and Clamor), but also confirms the preordained Sure Signs to back this Great News. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has openly challenged and clearly exposed centuries of absolutely misguided Islamic dogma and conditioning regarding Al-Qiyamah, the heart and soul of Islam. Both the Divine Feminine (Ruh/Spirit) and Her incarnation, Shri Mataji, give irrefutable evidence and Sure Signs that the Resurrection is the promised Al Qadr (The Night of Power) that precedes Al Qariah (Day of Noise and Clamour). Shri Mataji has spent four decades spreading the Great News (Al-Naba) by collecting, promulgating, reciting and explaining the message and means to take part in the Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah).
Move not thy tongue concerning the (Resurrection):
Absolutely no human was to start 'moving their tongue' ('wagging their tongue') or rumoring about this particular surah concerning Qiyamah. After all, the entire surah is about Qiyamah and nothing else! Prophet Muhammad was informed that only this Revelation of Qiyamah was never to be speculated upon because humans would have kept demanding answers to numerous questions: "Who is going to explain the Resurrection?" "When will Allah send His Emissary to explain the Resurrection?" "What proof will His Emissary bring?" (That would have set the stage for hundreds of false prophets claiming to be His emissary sent to explain the Resurrection, bringing chaos and pandemonium. The rest of the Qur'an has no such restrictions.)
To make haste therewith.
Absolutely no human was to be hasty in declaring that the day Qiyamah has commenced, or will commence, after a particular solar eclipse. Imagine the terror, mayhem and utter social chaos if every solar eclipse had the potential of commencing Qiyamah and, if the interpretation of the Muslim scholars believed, the horrifying End of the world!
It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it:
Allah made it crystal clear that this extremely important revelation was exclusively for them. Allah and His Ruh (Spirit) will first manifest various Qiyamah-specific Signs and surahs before collecting, promulgating, reciting and explaining them to humankind. Put simply, Allah and His Ruh would be solely responsible for the manifestation, revelation, knowledge and declaration of the Resurrection! Humans were absolutely excluded from any interference whatsoever.
"collect:
1 a : to bring together into one body or place b : to gather or exact from a number of persons or sources
intransitive verb
1 : to come together in a band, group, or mass : gather
2 : to collect objects"
"promulgate: 1 to publish or make known officially (a decree)
2 a) to make known the terms of (a new or proposed law or statute) b) to put (a law) into effect by publishing its terms
3 to make widespread"
Webster New World Dictionary, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1988.
But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital:
And after Allah and His Ruh have promulgated this Revelation of Qiyamah, humankind must follow Their recital.
"recital: 1 a) a reciting, specifically, a telling of facts, events, etc. in detail b) what is so told; account, story, or description
2 a detailed statement, as of facts or events "
Webster New World Dictionary, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1988.
Allah and His Ruh would make the Resurrection comprehensible to all humankind by giving a detailed account of facts, descriptions and events relating to Qiyamah!
Nay more, it is for Us to explain it (and make it clear)
And that this Revelation of Qiyamah was, nay more, for Them to explain: i.e. this Revelation of Qiyamah was, nay more, for Them to explain - Allah and His Ruh would clarify it in detail!
"explain: 1 to make clear, plain, or understandable
2 to give the meaning or interpretation of; expound
3 to account for; state reasons for - vi. to give an explanation - explain away to state reasons for so as to justify, often by minimizing, or make understandable - explain implies a making clear or intelligible of something that is not known or understood"
Webster New World Dictionary, Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1988.
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
"But the Muslims do not want to talk about Resurrection at all because they want to frighten people with the Doomsday. They don't want to talk about the Resurrection Time which is going to come, which is the intermediary time (Al Qadr: The Night of Power), because they want to use the time which will frighten people (Al Qariah: Day of Noise and Clamor) by saying that “Now your Doomsday is coming! Now your Doomsday is coming!”"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
"And even in Koran, Muhammed Sahib says that all the Heavens lie at the Lotus Feet of the Mother. Among them, among Muslims there are Sufis who are realized souls and also accepted in the society. The other day I met something in Paris, a very high person in the Islamic world and he accepted Sahaja Yoga. He said it is described in Koran that there has to be Qiyamah, the Resurrection - we believe in Resurrection.
Also it is for Christians or Hindus, everybody, they have to be resurrected to a higher state. It is just for money and power are some people, who are trying to mislead others, keeping them away from Resurrection. I must say they are committing the greatest sin against the Holy Ghost... There is a very big chapter on Resurrection, but the fundamentalists don't want to look at it. They believe their religion is the best. But what would it has done to anyone? It is so much misinterpreted... so much misinterpreted."
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Public Program, Brussels, Belgium — 1 July 1993
"Thus we can say, based particularly on Islamic sources but also on the Old Testament and the New Testament, that we are living in the End Times." - Harun Yahya
"What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their Reminder be to them when it does arrive? (Qur'an, 47:18)
"As the above verse indicates, God has revealed some of Doomsday's signs in the Qur'an. In Surat az-Zukhruf 43:61, God informs us that "He [Jesus] is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it..." Thus we can say, based particularly on Islamic sources but also on the Old Testament and the New Testament, that we are living in the End Times." - Harun Yahya
"But, it must be pointed out that there are many verses that tell of the Hour, and when we examine them we encounter a great truth. The Qur'an does not indicate the time of the Hour, but it describes those events that will happen prior to it. One verse related that there are several signs of the Hour: What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their Reminder be to them when it does arrive? (Surah Muhammad: 47:18)
From this verse we learn that the Qur'an describes signs that announce the coming of the Last Day. In order to understand the signs of this "great announcement" we must reflect upon these verses. Otherwise, as the verse indicates, our thinking will be of no use when the Last Day is suddenly upon us.
Some of that which was said by the Prophet (saas) which has reached to us deals with the signs of the Hour. In these hadiths of the Prophet (saas), there are both signs of the Hour and detailed information about the period just preceding it. This period, in which the signs of the Hour will occur, is called the "End Times." The matter of the End Times and of the signs of the Hour have attracted much interest throughout the history of Islam; it has been the subject of many works of Islamic scholars and researchers." - Harun Yahya
Only now can this surah (verse) 47:18 be precisely understood as a clear Warning, prior to the appointed Hour:
"What are they awaiting but for the Hour (Al Qariah: The Day of Noise and Clamor) to come upon them suddenly? Its Signs (Al Qadr: The Night of Power) have already come. What good will their Reminder (of Al Qadr: The Night of Power) be to them when it (Al Qariah: The Day of Noise and Clamor) does arrive? (Qur'an, 47:18)
Those Muslims who defy this Divine Decree are assured of the dire consequences of rejecting the message of the Resurrection: "We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power: And what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by Allah's permission, on every errand: Peace!...This until the rise of morn! (Quran 97: 1-5). The Qur'an warns, and Muslims better note, that this Peace of the Night of Power will last only till the rise of the morn that commences the Day of Noise and Clamor!
So in the Hereafter never ever deny that you were not amply warned: "O ye assembly of Jinns and men! came there not unto you messengers from amongst you, setting forth unto you My signs, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" Qur'an 6.130
Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News. [5889]
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!
surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)
"5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of the Resurrection."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
"We have had enough of fights, we have had enough of nonsense... We don't have to challenge any scriptures, we have to see the inner light in all what is described... I hope you have understood what I am saying.
But arguments are not going to give you realisation. It has to happen. It doesn't matter; you may be the crown prince or you may be the king or you may be anything. Makes no difference. It's your individual happening that has to take place. This is your individual mother within you, this is the Ruh I am talking about. Just by ritualism you cannot achieve God. You have to be connected with God.
For all the people of the world who understand and who came, it is important to know that there must be a truth which we can actualize. It has been promised in all the religions and scriptures, and it has to happen!"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji, Confusion: the Subtle Slavery,
Dr. Johnson's house, Birmingham, England — July 9, 1982
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www.adi-shakti.org/ — Divine Feminine (Hinduism)
www.holyspirit-shekinah.org/ — Divine Feminine (Christianity)
www.ruach-elohim.org/ — Divine Feminine (Judaism)
www.ruh-allah.org/ — Divine Feminine (Islam)
www.tao-mother.org/ — Divine Feminine (Taoism)
www.prajnaaparamita.org/ — Divine Feminine (Buddhism)
www.aykaa-mayee.org/ — Divine Feminine (Sikhism)
www.great-spirit-mother.org/ — Divine Feminine (Native Traditions)
"Now, the principle of Mother is in every, every scripture - has to be there." Shri Mataji, Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz, USA
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