the sign of His manifestation, O my master?” He made reply: “In the
year sixty, His Cause shall be made manifest, and His Name shall be proclaimed.”
282How strange! Notwithstanding these explicit and manifest references these people have shunned the Truth. For instance, mention of the sorrows, the imprisonment and afflictions inflicted upon that Essence of divine virtue hath been made in the former traditions. In the “
Bihár” it is recorded: “In our
Qá’im there shall be four signs from four Prophets,
Moses, Jesus,
Joseph, and
Muḥammad. The sign from Moses, is fear and expectation; from Jesus, that which was spoken of Him; from Joseph, imprisonment and dissimulation; from Muḥammad, the revelation of a Book similar to the
Qur’án.” Notwithstanding such a conclusive
tradition, which in such unmistakable language hath foreshadowed the happenings of the present day, none hath been found to heed its prophecy, and methinks none will do so in the future, except him whom thy Lord willeth. “God indeed shall make whom He will to hearken, but We shall not make those who are in their graves to hearken.”