The Genuine Man Who Saw Tomorrow by

Sohail Parwaz
Allah (God) Almighty has very clearly said in the Holy Quran that
the destiny of every human being and the fate of this world is
recorded and is kept most safely. The Holy Prophet Hazrat
Muhammad (PBUH) says: "Allah gave command to the pen to
write whatever is known to Allah and what all is to happen until
the doomsday, and the pen obeyed." A negligible amount of this
whole account from Adam and Eve's descending till the Day of
Judgment has been bestowed upon the prophets by Allah
Almighty so that they could forewarn their tribes, caution their
nations, advise their followers and keep them on the path of
truth. Allah has also imparted a faint portion of this invisible
knowledge about the future to his saints as well. This knowledge
of the absent has multi-dimensions where Allah would always
keep the core dimension hidden and unexposed from everyone,
even from His prophets and messengers.

The respected saints of every time always forewarn their
followers and sanctimonious people to refrain from indulging in
malpractices and sinful doings. One of them was Hazrat Naimat
Ullah Shah Kashmiri, aka Hazrat Shah Naimat Wali Ullah who,
after travelling through the Subcontinent finally settled in the
Kashmir Valley and ultimately breathed his last there. Hazrat
Shah Naimat made some predictions almost eight hundred years
ago in the form of Persian verses and, surprisingly, those
predictions are coming true with the passage of time. This is the
only reason why one gets a chill in the spine when one reads
about the prophecies for the time to come.

About twenty years back, the name of a French saint
Nostradamus was in the news internationally. People would
gossip about his prophecies. Even a movie titled, "The Man Who
Saw Tomorrow" was made, which created a great hype. It
mentioned about many things but no one got a clue for 9/11 until
it actually happened and then folks started relating some of the
prophecies with the disaster. Seeing all this, I once talked to a
respected religious scholar and requested him for amplification of
this all. In reply to my query he said, and I quote: "Prediction is
the one which forewarns you and after carefully analyzing it, one
understands the future scenario and thus takes pre-emptive
measures. But if anyone tries to relate some event after it
happens with something said by someone, then it is in no way a
prediction. Nostradamus' case is the classic example of this
theory. If he really made a prophecy about the event then why
was it not talked about when he got sudden fame in the early
1980s? Why was it propagated after the debacle of 9/11?

Contrary to this, the divinations made by Hazrat Shah Naimat or
foretelling by other saints portray the future clearly. If we
seriously consider and follow the Prophet's (Peace be upon Him)
teachings keeping in mind what he has predicted about the times
to come and the Day of Judgment, it would be enough to keep us
on the right path, save us from humiliation and disgrace. The
most interesting thing is that what Hazrat Shah Naimat said
corresponds with what the Holy Prophet said centuries before
him. It is said that Hazrat Shah Naimat's prophecies consist of
more or less two thousand verses but unfortunately only a few
hundred of them are available. I am not sure but there must be
some old libraries where his whole collection is stored. And if that
precious book is available somewhere, it is more needed now
than ever.

The topic is quite interesting and lengthy; hence I intend to write
it in two parts. Today, I shall speak to you about those few
prophecies which, according to my modest estimation have
happened. However, Allah has supreme control over times and
ages. In the very beginning, I would like to quote two verses of
him. The first one is about King Taimur's birth, which he made
two hundred years before his birth and the second is about the
Mughal Emperor Babar who was the fifth one in Taimur's
generation to sit on the throne.

Hazrat Naimat says"1 am 1c111n 1hc 1u1h 1ha1 a
K1n by 1hc namc o! 1a1mu Wou1d comc 1o 1hc
Wo1d and Wou1d u1c an cmp1c. mpco aba
Wou1d !o11oW h1m and Wou1d !1s1 u1c Kabu1 and
subscqucn11y Lc1h1"

Hazrat Shah Naimat made that prediction somewhere in 548 Hijri.
I am neither an astrologist nor a mathematician but what simple
calculations explain is it was something like 1025 or 1026 AD,
whereas Taimur invaded India in 1398 AD. That means that the
event was prophesised almost 362 years ahead of the
occurrence. My aim is just to enlighten you about those
predictions. Only saints of Allah Almighty could tell who had the
power conferred upon them by Allah to look into the future.

The appealing thing is that at most of the places the names of the
persons and places are clearly mentioned while at other occasions
he has indicated towards personalities or places through initials or
the starting alphabets (in Persian) of nouns.

The first prediction is about Nadir Shah's attack of Delhi. He said:
"had1 Shah Wou1d cmcc !om 1an and Wou1d
sna1ch 1hc 1nd1an cmp1c. c Wou1d ca11ous1y usc
h1s sWod 1o assass1na1c 1hc pcop1c o! Lc1h1."
Abou1 1hc huha1s hc sa1d. "You {Who ac cad1n
my pophcc1cs) W111 no1 !1nd huha1s anyWhcc
a!1c 300 ycas. 1hcy Wou1d van1sh 1n1o 1hc
cavcs 11kc Ashaab-c-Kaha! {1hc cavc pcop1c abou1
Whom 1hcc 1s a c!ccncc 1n 1hc o1y puan)."

About the arrival of East India Company in the Subcontinent, he
said: "Raas and hahaaas Wou1d 1un cac1css.
Fo mos1 o! 1hc 11mc 1hcy Wou1d cma1n dunk and
add1c1cd 1o op1um. A1 1ha1 11mc 1hc
111sh1Ch1s11ans Wou1d 1and 1n 1nd1a d1su1scd
as 1adcs and bus1ncssmcn."

About the British rule in India he predicted: "hy dcas!
Lndcs1and 11 vcy c1ca1y 1ha1 1hcy Wou1d u1c
1nd1a !o 100 ycas a1 1cas1."

(Please note that the Britishers' stay in India was for 200 years,
however, they ruled only for 100 years. When Lord Curzon, the
then Viceroy of India came to know about Hazrat Shah Naimat's
prophecies, he put a ban on their publishing and making them
public).

While talking about the First World War, Shah Naimat predicts:
"Fo !ou ycas a ca1 Wa Wou1d bc !ouh1 1n
1hc Wcs1 1n Wh1ch `` {n1and) Wou1d scoc an
un!a1 v1c1oy ovc `C` {Ccmany)."

I would like to clarify that Shah Naimat used the Persian
alphabets Alif for Inglistan (England) and Jeem for Germany. The
interesting point to note is that this war was fought in the West
(Europe) for four years (1914-1918).

While predicting more about First World War, he even gave the
death figures. Shah Naimat said: "11 Wou1d bc a ca1
Wo1d Wa. 1hcc Wou1d bc a ca1 b1oodshcd and
abou1 13.1 m1111on pcop1c Wou1d bc k111cd."

He prophesised about the Second World War also and said: "1hc
Sccond Wo1d Wa Wou1d s1a1 !1 ycas a!1c 1hc
F1s1 Wo1d Wa and 11 Wou1d bc moc v1o1cn1.
1c1ha1. dcs1uc11vc and u1nous 1hcn 1hc !1s1
onc."

People who are interested in military history knows it very well
that the Second World War (1939-1945) started exactly 21 years
after the First World War.

While mentioning the weapons he said: "1hc sc1cn11s1s o!
1ha1 ca Wou1d makc vcy dcad1y and !a1a1
Wcapons Wh1ch cou1d mcasuc cncy and poWc and
Wou1d b1n mass dcs1uc11on 1o 1hc !1h11n
!occs {a1om1c bomb)."

So far, we have reached up to the early 20th century and I have
talked about the two great wars only. In the next part, I shall talk
about the prophecies regarding the Indian Subcontinent.

Here I consider it necessary to tell you an interesting thing about
this book titled, Eight Hundred Years Old Prophecies of Shah
Naimat. It was the early 1971 when I went to Rawalpindi railway
station to receive a relative of mine. The train was late so I
started glancing at the books displayed on the railway bookstall's
counter. I found this book there and bought it casually. Later,
when I read it, the prophecies impressed me, especially those
which were still to happen. Believe me that in last 38 years many
events have taken place and the chilling fact is that a number of
them are mentioned in this book.