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The bat op Judgment. 

 Go tell the chosen people ; Arise, ye faithful, the day of judgment is 

 at hand. I speak according to the Kuran and make my declaration before 

 you. All ye heads of the chosen people, stand up and attend. The Testa- 

 ment ( Wasiyat-nama) * gives evidence : Eleven centuries shall he com- 

 pleted after the blessing of the world by the Kuran and by him who was 

 merciful to the poor. A voice shall come from the tabernacle and Gabrielf 

 shall take them to the appointed place. For three days there shall be 

 gloom and confusion and the door of repentance shall be closed. And what ? 

 shall there be any other wayj ? Nay, no one shall be able to befriend his 

 neighbour. § 



Say now what shall be the duration of this life, and what the clear 

 signs of the coming of the last day. Christ shall reign for forty years, as 

 is written in the 28th sipara. Hindus and Musalmans shall both alike 

 bring their creed to the same point. And what shall come about, when 

 the Kuran has thus been taken away ? this is a matter, which I would have 

 you now attentively consider. 



When 990 years are past, then the Lord Christ will come. This is 

 written in the 11th sipara: I will not quote a word wrongly. || The Spirit 

 of God (i. e., Christ) shall be clothed in vesture of two different kinds ; so 

 it is stated in the Kuran. This is in the 6th sipara ; whoever doubts me 

 may see it there for himself. These now are the years of Christ, as I am 

 going to state in detail. Take ten, eleven and twelve thirty times (that is 



* Wa&iyat-ndma is, I believe, a general name including both the Kuran and the 

 Hadis, which together make up the Muhammadan rule of faith ; but I have not been 

 able to trace the particular tradition, to which reference is here made as specifying the 

 exact number of years that are to elapse before Christ's second coming. 



f Gabriel is accounted God's ordinary messenger, but here I should rather have 

 looked for Israfil, whose duty it will be to sound the trumpet at the last day. 



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§ Khes is for khwesh, a kinsman. 



|| In spite of this emphatic assertion, the quotation would appear to be incorrect, 

 for the 11th sipara contains no such prophecy. 



