| Kitáb-i-Íqán | 116 |
him an impeller and a witness." (1) In explaining this
and similar verses, they have in some cases argued
that the term "&idha" is implied. In other instances,
they have idly contended that whereas the Day of
Judgment is inevitable, it hath therefore been referred
to as an event not of the future but of the
past. How vain their sophistry! How grievous their
blindness! They refuse to recognize the trumpet-blast
which so explicitly in this text was sounded
through the revelation of Muhammad. They deprive
themselves of the regenerating Spirit of God
that breathed into it, and foolishly expect to hear
the trumpet-sound of the Seraph of God who is but
one of His servants! Hath not the Seraph himself,
the angel of the Judgment Day, and his like been
ordained by Muhammad's own utterance? Say:
What! Will ye give that which is for your good in
exchange for that which is evil? Wretched is that
which ye have falsely exchanged! Surely ye are a
people, evil, in grievous loss.
Nay, by "trumpet" is meant the trumpet-call of
&Muhammad's Revelation, which was sounded in
the heart of the universe, and by "resurrection" is
meant His own rise to proclaim the Cause of God.
