Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

indicate that they are true. But those wretched people call it
retrogression to follow Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu wa-tteslîmât’,
and try to adapt their statements to mind. No doubt, they
go wrong in facts that are beyond mind’s grasp. When Plato, who
is considered to be the greatest of them, heard about the teachings
of hadrat ’Îsâ (Jesus), who was the Prophet of Allâhu ta’âlâ, he
said, “We are pure, mature and modern people. We do not need
anyone to guide us to the right way.” However, he should have
gone to see and observe a person whom he had heard to have
enlivened the dead, opened the eyes of the blind and cured
leprosy, which their own science and experiments had fallen short
of doing. But he answered so without seeing or finding out. His
statements disclose that he was a blithering idiot.
[As is seen, Plato lived in the time of ’Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ (Jesus).
It is stated in books written in Europe and in their translations that
Plato had died 384 years before Hadrat ’Îsâ honoured the world
with his presence. Since the teachings of this Greek philosopher
were famous, the time of his death is tenable. Yet because Hadrat
’Îsâ was born secretly, stayed only for a short time in the world and
was taken to heaven, and because only twelve apostles believed in
him and the ’Îsâwîs, who were few in number, lived secretly for
centuries, his birth, that is, Christmas Eve, could not be
determined precisely. His birth day is thought to be the twentyfifth
of December or the sixth or so of January. It is written as well
in books of various languages that today’s Chirstian years have
one to four years missing. Then, unlike the hijrî year, which is the
Muslim year, the Christian year is not correct and precise; it is
incorrect in daily terms as well as in its year. According to Imâm-i
Rabbânî, it has more than three hundred years missing, and the
duration of time between Hadrat ’Îsâ and Hadrat Muhammad is
no less than a thousand years. It is written in the third chapter of
the second volume of Mawâhib-i ladunniyya: “As Ibni Asâkir
reports on the authority of Sha’bî, there are 963 years between ’Îsâ
‘alaihissalâm’ and Muhammad ‘’alaihissalâm’.”] According to
historians, Muhammad ‘’alaihi-s-salâm’ entered a cave on mount
Sawr, towards sunset, on the last Thursday of the month of Safer
[Gregorian Calendar year 622], as he was immigrating to the city
of Medîna. On the night previous to the following Monday, he left
the cave and entered Kubâ, a suburb of Medîna, on Monday the
twentieth day of September according to the European calendar,
which concurred with the seventh day of September as per the
Greek Calendar. The day of his arrival became the new year’s day
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