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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 18
Daniel's Prophecy- Dream of Nubuchandnezzar
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
The book of Daniel, Chapter2, describes the dream of Nubuchandnezzar, the king of Babylon, that terrified him greatly, but it happened so that he the king forgot it altogether that he had a dream, which perturbed him still more. He then spoke of the dream to the prophet Daniel and asked for its interpretation. Daniel, the prophet, learned about the king's dream, by revelation and gave its interpretation.
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee: and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to to pieces. Then was the fron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors: the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a mountain and filled to whole earth. (Daniel II :31-35)
This was the dream that Nubuchandnezzar saw and forgot, but it was Daniel the prophet who saw it in vision and told the king and interpreted it thus: The dream indicates five kingdoms. The head of gold, meant the kingdom of Babel : after which will come the one of silver, that would be inferior to the Babylonian : then will come another that will be like brass: the fourth strong as iron and the fifth and the last of an alloy of iron and clay- a mixture of strength and weakness, will alternate in power and weakness, in the time of this fifth empire. Suddenly a stone will appear from nowhere, that would be "Cut out without hands", but from God, will descend from heaven for no obvious reason, fall at the feet of the last named empire and blow it pieces, and turn it into "chaff of the summer threshingfloor", so that no trace of it would remain. Gradually , that stone will become a mountain and fill the earth. It must be known that the interpretation foretells the prophethood of Muhammad (pbuh), whose heavenly kingdom is like the stone, and it is told that that stone will soon become a mountain. i.e., in the beginning it would be a small state, and later will dominate the world. Thus, in the days of Hazrat Umar Farook (Allah be please with him), the empire of Caesar and Chosroes were overrun and destroyed and thus the divine promise:
It is He Who has sent His Messengers with Guidance and the Religion of truth, to proclaim it over all religion (Sx. xiv. III : 28)
What the Prophet said was also further testified :
"Chosroes when perished there will no more be Chosroes, and Caesar when perished there will be no more Caesar", was fulfilled , and the stone of heavenly kingdom fell so heavily, that it crushed even the mightiest empires of the world: and the law that was revealed from the heavens , will endure everlastingly. (For details see Izar-ul-Haq, Arabic, Vol. ii , p. 148, Izalat-ul-Auham, persian, p. 507, both by Moulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi, and Hidayatul-Hayari, p.79, by Hafiz Ibn Qayyam).
Dreams of ATIKA , Daughter of Abdul Muttalib
In this context, it would not be out of place to mention another, dream of Atika, the daughter of Abdul Muttalib, aunt of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), so that the prophecy by the prophet Daniel may become more comprehensive and lucid, the dream is as follows:
A caravan composed of a thousand Qureishites, seven hundred camels and one hundred riders of horses, were preparing in Mecca to proceed for the battle of Badr. when Atika , the daughter of Abdul Muttalib, saw in a vision that a camal rider arrived at Mecca, made his camel sit at the place of Abtah, and gave a shout.
"O traitors to God, recede to your place of death and repulsion with three days". Afterwards the camel rider ascended the roof of the Masjid -al-Haram and cried similarly, and later he ascended the Mount Abu Kabees and cried in the same manner; picked up a stone there from and hurled it on the ground, where it broke into pieces and a piece at least reached every home in Mecca. Atika spoke of this dream to Abbas, he brother the prophet's uncle, who was still an idolater. He mentioned the same to some of his trusted friends and visualized that a great calamity was at hand to befall the Meccans. The dream reached the ears of Abu-Jahl, one day seeing Abbas coming into the mosque, pinchingly said : "Hey? Abul Fazal-surname of Abbas : well , formerly you men used to prophecy, and now your women, too do the same". and spoke of Atika's dream. They were still taking the matter over, when one ZamZam Ghaffari, messenger from Abu Sufyan came, tore his shirt and cut the nose of his camel, made it sit in the market place and wailed aloud :"O ye Qureshites : Rescue your trade caravan and proceed to relieve Abu Sufyan". Hearing this Qureshites at once proceeded to help Abu Sufyan and met the Prophet on the battlefield of Badr, and in three days beheld the meanings of Atika's dream in the bright day light through the reduction of Kedar's archers, embodied in their stricking misfortune.
Bearing on this dream of the king a similar event is mentioned in the traditions, which occurred at the Battle of the Ditch, when a huge and extremely hard stone appeared in the trench-digging which the Prophet broke with three hammer strokes. At each stroke a spark arose from the stone, intense bright, providing glimpses of Syria, Persia and then of Yemen to the prophet,-a prophetic view denoting the subsequent fall of the countries, to the arms of those, present under his command at the digging of the Ditch. The fulfillment of the King's dream.
(ICRA)