and a witness" (K. S. 50). The outward meaning of this is: It is sounded in the trumpet and this is the promised day which seemed very remote; every one hath come for account and with him is a driver[1] and a witness.[2] In similar instances they have either taken the word "iza" as implied or sought to prove that as the resurrection day is of sure occurrence, it hath therefore been rendered (in this verse) in the past tense, as if it had already taken place. Consider how ignorant andundiscerning they are! They do not comprehend the Mohammedic trumpet-sound of which He so clearly spoke and have deprived themselves of the benefit of this Divine Voice; awaiting the trumpetsound of Israfil who is but one of His servants; although the existence of Israfil and others like unto him became known through the utterance of His Holiness. Say, do ye exchange Him who is good unto you? Then ye did evil in that ye changed this falsely. Therefore evil is your exchanging without truth and ye are an evil people who are in loss.
Nay rather; by "trumpet" is meant the Mohammedic trumpet which was blown to all the contingent beings; and "resurrection" was the rise of His Holiness in the Command of God. All the heedless who were dead in the graves of bodies, He clothed with the new mantle of faith and quickened through a new and wonderful life. Therefore when that Beauty of
