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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), The Promised Messiah & Imam Mahdi (as)
The Promised Messiah (as) wrote over 80 books in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian. Excerpts of his collected works have been translated into English and organised by matter.
The Evaluation of Religions is happy to current these excerpts as a part of a month-to-month characteristic. Right here the Promised Messiah (as) describes the numerous blessings and enduring indicators of Islam.
Extracts from The Essence of Islam – Vol. I. pp. 14-33
That is the second a part of a multi-part sequence.
A examine of the religions of the world reveals that each faith, besides Islam, accommodates some mistake or the opposite. This isn’t as a result of they have been all false of their origin, however as a result of after the appearance of Islam, God gave up the assist of different religions. They turned like uncared for gardens, which had no gardener to take care of them, and for the irrigation and maintenance of which no association had been made, in order that progressively they started to decay. Their fruit-bearing timber turned dry and barren, and thorns and weeds unfold throughout. These religions misplaced all spirituality, which is on the root of all religions, and nothing was left however naked phrases.
God didn’t permit this to occur within the case of Islam, as He desired that this backyard ought to flourish all through. He made provision in every century for its irrigation and thus rescued it from decay. Though at the start of every century, when a person of God was appointed for its reform, the ignorant individuals opposed him and have been averse to the reform of something which had turn into a part of their habits and customs, but God Almighty adhered all through to His approach. In these latter days additionally, which is the time of the final battle between steerage and error, discovering the Muslims heedless and neglectful to start with of the fourteenth century, God recalled His promise and made provision for the revival of Islam. However different faiths have been by no means revived after the appearance of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] and so they all died. There was no religious life in them and errors took root in them, as grime accumulates in a garment which is way in use however which is rarely washed. Individuals who had no concern with spirituality and who weren’t free from the stains of earthly existence corrupted these faiths to a level that they now not resemble the originals.
Think about the case of Christianity, how pure was its origin. The educating set forth by Jesus was not excellent as in contrast with the teachings of the Qur’an, as a result of the time had not but come for the revelation of the right educating and folks weren’t but robust sufficient to bear it, but that educating was a wonderful one and was applicable for its personal time. It guided to the identical God to Whom the Torah guided; however after Jesus, the god of the Christians turned one other god who discovered no point out within the Torah and was in no way identified to the youngsters of Israel. Perception on this new god upset the entire system of the Torah and all of the steerage contained within the Torah for deliverance from sin and attaining true salvation and a pure life was pissed off. Salvation and deliverance from sin now depended upon the confession that Jesus had accepted crucifixion for the sake of the salvation of mankind, and that he was the very God Himself. Many everlasting legal guidelines of the Torah have been abrogated and the Christian religion was so modified that if Jesus have been to come back again to the earth he wouldn’t be capable of recognise it.
It’s a matter of shock that the individuals who have been admonished to stick to the Torah put aside its commandments at one stroke. For example, it’s nowhere acknowledged within the Gospel that although the Torah forbids the consuming of the flesh of swine but it’s now permitted, nor does the Gospel say that although circumcision is prescribed within the Torah but that commandment is now abrogated. However all this was achieved and that which had by no means been mentioned by Jesus turned a part of faith. Nonetheless, because it was God’s design to determine a common faith, specifically Islam, the decay of Christianity was a sign of the looks of Islam.
It’s also effectively established that Hinduism had been corrupted earlier than the appearance of Islam and that all through India idol worship had turn into widespread. A part of this corruption resulted within the doctrine that God Who shouldn’t be dependent upon matter for the train of His attributes is, in response to the Aryas, basically depending on the supply of matter for the creation of the universe. This led to a different false doctrine that each one particles of matter and all souls are everlasting and uncreated. Had they thought-about deeply the attributes of God, they’d by no means have mentioned so; for if within the train of His everlasting attribute of creation, God depends on matter like a human being, then how is it that within the train of the attribute of listening to and seeing He’s not so dependent as man is. Man can not hear with out the company of air and he can not see with out the help of gentle. Then is God additionally dependent upon gentle and air for seeing and listening to? If He’s not so dependent, ensure that He’s not dependent upon matter for the train of His attribute of creation. It’s completely false that He’s dependent upon matter for the train of any of His attributes. It’s a nice mistake to attribute human weaknesses to God; as an illustration, that He can not create one thing from nothing. Man’s being is proscribed and God’s Being is limitless. By the ability of His Being, He can create one other being. That is the essence of Godhead. He’s not dependent upon matter for the train of any of His attributes, for had that been so, He wouldn’t be God. Nothing can impede Him. If He have been to need to create a heaven and earth immediately, He would have the opportunity to take action. Of the Hindus those that, along with information, partook of spirituality additionally and weren’t dedicated to reveal logic, by no means believed that regarding God which the Aryas set forth at this time. That is the results of the dearth of spirituality altogether.
All this corruption, a few of which is unmentionable and is against human purity, was a sign of the necessity of Islam. Each affordable individual is certain to admit that a short time earlier than Islam, all different faiths had turn into corrupt and had misplaced all spirituality. The Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] was an important reformer in the reason for fact who restored the misplaced verities to the world. No prophet shares with him the satisfaction that he discovered the entire world in darkness and by his creation that darkness gave place to gentle.
—Lecture Sialkot, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 20, pp. 203-206
Excellent Actuality of Islam
To begin with, it’s essential to set out what’s the actuality of Islam, what are the technique of arriving at that actuality and what are the fruits of following that actuality; for this information is important for the aim of understanding many mysteries. It might be of nice profit for our opponents from among the many Muslims that they need to examine these issues with consideration, for most of the doubts which assail their minds are the results of their failure to mirror upon the entire and ideal actuality of Islam, its sources and its fruits…The opponents of faith additionally would profit vastly by this examine. They might perceive what faith is and what are the indicators of its fact.
Within the idiom of Arabic, Islam means cash paid as earnest to conclude a discount, or to commit some affair to somebody, or to hunt peace, or to give up a declare or level.
The technical that means of Islam is about out within the verse:
بَلَىٰ ۚ مَنۡ أَسۡلَمَ وَجۡهَهُۥ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحۡسِنٞ فَلَهُۥٓ أَجۡرُهُۥ عِندَ رَبِّهِۦ وَلَا خَوۡفٌ عَلَيۡهِمۡ وَلَا هُمۡ يَحۡزَنُونَ [1]
Which means that a Muslim is one who commits himself wholly to the reason for God Almighty; that’s to say, one who devotes himself to God Almighty, to following His designs and to profitable His pleasure, after which turns into steadfast in doing good for the sake of God Almighty and devotes all his colleges to that trigger. In different phrases, he belongs completely to God Almighty each doctrinally and in follow.
Doctrinal belonging implies that one ought to esteem one’s being as one thing which has been created for the popularity of God Almighty and His obedience and the looking for of His love and pleasure.
Sensible belonging means to do all the nice that’s associated to each one in every of one’s colleges with such eagerness and a spotlight as if one beholds the countenance of the True Beloved within the mirror of 1’s obedience.
—A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 5, pp. 57-58
The truth of Islam is to current one’s neck to God just like the sacrificial lamb; to surrender one’s personal designs and to be dedicated to the designs of God and His pleasure; to lose oneself in God and to impose a sort of dying upon oneself; to be dyed within the private love of God and to obey Him completely for the sake of that love; to acquire eyes that see solely by means of Him, and to acquire ears that hear solely by means of Him, and to develop a coronary heart that ought to be wholly dedicated to Him, and to acquire a tongue which might converse solely at His command. It is a stage the place all search ends; human colleges full their capabilities and man’s ego dies utterly. Thereupon divine mercy confers a brand new life upon the seeker by means of His dwelling phrases and His shining gentle. He’s honoured with the pleasant converse of God. A superb gentle, which isn’t discoverable by purpose and isn’t recognisable by the eyes, approaches near his coronary heart, as is claimed by God:
وَنَحۡنُ أَقۡرَبُ إِلَيۡهِ مِنۡ حَبۡلِ ٱلۡوَرِيدِ [2]
We’re nearer to him than even his jugular vein.
On this method, God honours mortal man with His nearness. Then the time comes when blindness is eliminated and eyes are given perception and man beholds God along with his new eyes, hears His voice and finds himself wrapped within the mantle of His gentle. Thus, the aim of faith is fulfilled and having beheld God, man casts apart the soiled garment of his decrease life and places on a garment of sunshine. He waits for a sight of God and of heaven not merely as a promise to be fulfilled within the hereafter, however on this very life. He achieves the bounties of sight and converse and heaven. As Allah the Exalted has acknowledged:
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ رَبُّنَا ٱللَّهُ ثُمَّ ٱسۡتَقَٰمُواْ تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ أَلَّا تَخَافُواْ وَلَا تَحۡزَنُواْ وَأَبۡشِرُواْ بِٱلۡجَنَّةِ ٱلَّتِي كُنتُمۡ تُوعَدُونَ [3]
Which means that: Angels descend upon those that affirm that their God is the One Who possesses all excellent attributes and Who has no affiliate in His Being or His attributes, and after their affirmation, they’re steadfast and no earthquake and calamity and no confrontation of dying can shake their religion. God speaks to them and reassures them to not be afraid of calamities or of enemies and to not be sorrowful over previous misfortunes. He reassures them that He’s with them and that He has bestowed upon them on this very world the paradise that was promised to them during which they need to rejoice.
These aren’t statements with out testimony, nor are they guarantees that haven’t been fulfilled. 1000’s of the trustworthy in Islam have tasted of the religious paradise that’s promised on this verse. The true followers of Islam have been made heirs by Almighty God to all of the earlier righteous ones, and bounties that have been bestowed upon them have been bestowed upon the Muslims.
—Lecture Lahore, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 20, pp. 160-161
An individual will be held to be a Muslim when the entire of his being along with all his colleges, bodily and religious, is dedicated to God Almighty, and the trusts which are dedicated to him by God Almighty are rendered again to the True Giver. He ought to show his being a Muslim not solely doctrinally but in addition in follow. In different phrases, an individual claiming to be a Muslim ought to show that his arms and toes, coronary heart and thoughts, purpose and understanding, anger and compassion, meekness and information, all his bodily and religious colleges, honour and property, consolation and delight, and no matter pertains to him from the highest of his head to the soles of his toes collectively along with his motives, fears and passions, have all been subordinated to Almighty God as an individual’s limbs are subordinated to him. It ought to be proved that his sincerity has reached a stage during which no matter is his doesn’t belong to him however to God Almighty, and that each one his limbs and colleges have turn into so dedicated to the service of God as if that they had turn into the limbs of the Divine.
Reflection on these verses [4] exhibits clearly that devoting one’s life to the reason for God Almighty, which is the essence of Islam, has two elements.
First, that God Almighty ought to turn into one’s object of worship and true purpose and love, and that worship, love, concern and hope ought to be for God alone, to the exclusion of all others. All of the commandments associated to His holiness, glory and worship, all the bounds set by Him, and all heavenly decrees ought to be completely and sincerely accepted. All these commandments, limits, legal guidelines and decrees ought to be accepted in nice humility. All of the truths and understandings, that are the technique of appreciating His huge powers and of discovering out the greatness of His kingdom and His sovereignty and are a information for the popularity of His favours and bounties, ought to be totally ascertained.
The second side of devoting one’s life to the reason for God Almighty is that one’s life ought to be dedicated to the service of His creatures and to sympathy with them and to sharing their burdens and sorrows. One ought to undergo ache to carry them consolation, and one ought to expertise grief to carry them comfort.
This exhibits that the truth of Islam is a really superior factor and that nobody can actually deserve the title of Muslim until he surrenders the entire of his being to God, along with all his colleges, wishes, and designs and until he begins to tread alongside His path withdrawing altogether from his ego and all its attendant qualities. An individual can be actually known as a Muslim solely when his heedless life undergoes a complete revolution and his evil-directing self, along with all its passions, is worn out altogether and he’s invested with a brand new life which is characterised by his finishing up all his obligations to Allah and which ought to comprise nothing besides obedience to the Creator and sympathy for His creatures.
Obedience to the Creator implies that with the intention to make manifest His honour, glory and unity, one ought to be able to endure each dishonour and humiliation, and one ought to be desperate to endure a thousand deaths with the intention to uphold His unity. One hand ought to be prepared to chop off the opposite with pleasure in obedience to Him, and the love of the grandeur of His commandments and the thirst for looking for His pleasure ought to make sin so hateful as if it have been a consuming fireplace, or a deadly poison, or an obliterating lightning, from which one should run away with all one’s energy. For looking for His pleasure one should give up all of the wishes of 1’s ego; and to determine a relationship with Him one ought to be able to endure every kind of accidents; and to show such relationship one should break off all different relationships.
The service of 1’s fellow-beings means to attempt for his or her profit purely for the sake of God in all their wants, and in all of the relationships of mutual dependence which God has established out of true and selfless sympathy for them. All in want of assist ought to be helped out of 1’s God-given capability and one should do his greatest for his or her betterment each on this world and within the hereafter.
—A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 5, pp. 59- 62
Blessings of Islam
I’d now want to enlarge upon the fruits of Islam. Let or not it’s clear that when a real seeker lives Islam in full, and every one in every of his colleges, with none affectation or pretence, spontaneously begins to tread the trail of God Almighty, the results of his efforts is that the upper manifestations of divine steerage, free of all intervening veils, hasten in direction of him. Numerous kinds of blessings descend upon him. The commandments and doctrines, which have been accepted on religion and as rumour, are actually skilled by him as realities and certainties by means of true visions, and particular and unambiguous revelation. The mysteries of the religion and the legislation are revealed to him and he’s afforded a view of the divine kingdom in order that he ought to arrive on the stage of excellent certainty and understanding. A blessing characterises his tongue and his phrases and all his actions and his actions. He’s bestowed extraordinary braveness and steadfastness and his understanding is expanded at a excessive stage. The attribute failing of humankind, meanness, miserliness, the tendency in direction of frequent stumbling, short-sightedness, proneness in direction of ardour, lowliness of behaviour and each darkness of his ego are completely faraway from him and he’s stuffed with the sunshine of divine attributes. Thereupon, he undergoes a whole change and places on the garment of a brand new delivery. He hears by means of God Almighty, sees by means of Him, strikes with Him and stops with Him. His anger turns into the wrath of God Almighty, and his compassion turns into the compassion of God Almighty.
When he arrives at that stage, his prayers are heard as a mark of his having been chosen, and never merely as a trial; and he turns into the proof of God on earth and personifies safety from God. There may be pleasure in heaven on his account and the best present that’s bestowed upon him is the phrase of God which descends upon his coronary heart free from any doubt, like the sunshine of the moon shining by means of with none mistiness. It carries an efficient sense of pleasure with it and bestows satisfaction, consolation and safety. The distinction between this converse with God and revelation is that revelation is sort of a perennial spring that flows constantly to the chosen ones of God. They converse, see and listen to with the Holy Spirit and all different intentions are born of the breath of the Holy Spirit. The reality of the matter is that they turn into the reflection and embodiment of the Qur’anic verse:
وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰٓ * إِنۡ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحۡيٞ يُوحَىٰ [5]
However converse with God is totally different. It implies that the phrase of God descends upon them within the type of verbal revelation. They hear the response to their questions from God corresponding to a good friend receives from a good friend. We are able to solely outline it by saying that it’s a particular manifestation of God the Wonderful, which is conveyed by means of a favorite angel. Its objective is to provide intimation of the acceptance of prayer, or to speak a brand new or secret matter, or to make conscious of one thing that’s to occur sooner or later, or to convey God’s pleasure or lack of it regarding any matter, or to create certainty and understanding regarding some matter. It’s a divine voice that manifests itself within the type of converse with the intention to create understanding and satisfaction. It’s not doable to outline it any greater than to say that it’s a voice which proceeds from God and is skilled in scrumptious phrases stuffed with blessings, which isn’t induced by any considering or reflection or any intrusion of self and is blessed with a divine manifestation and divine majesty.
—A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 5, pp. 226-233
I consider in Islam alone as a real faith and think about all different faiths as bundles of falsehood. I understand that by believing in Islam fountains of sunshine are coursing by means of me. By way of the love of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him], I’ve arrived at that prime stage of converse with the Divine and of acceptance of prayer which may solely be achieved by a follower of the true Prophet and by no different. If the Hindus and the Christians and others have been to supplicate their false gods, even unto dying, they might not obtain that stage.
I hear the phrases of God, which the others consider in solely as a concept. I’ve been proven and have been informed and have been made to grasp that Islam alone is the true religion on this planet, and it has been disclosed to me that I’ve obtained all this by means of the blessing of following the Khatam-ul-Anbiya’ [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] and that the equal of it can’t be achieved in another faith for they’re all false.
—A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 5, pp. 275-276
God be thanked a thousand instances, Who has bestowed upon us a faith, which is such a method of accomplishing to the information of God and to the concern of God, as has had no equal in any age. 1000’s of blessings be upon the stainless Prophet (sa) by means of whom now we have entered this religion and 1000’s of divine mercies be bestowed upon his companions who irrigated this backyard with their blood.
Islam is such a blessed and God-indicating faith that if an individual follows it actually and acts upon the teachings, steerage and admonitions contained within the Holy Phrase of God Almighty, the Holy Qur’an, he would behold God on this very life. For the popularity of God, Who’s hidden from the sight of the world behind 1000’s of screens, there isn’t a different means besides the teachings of the Qur’an. The Holy Qur’an guides in direction of God Almighty by means of purpose and heavenly indicators in an easy method. It comprehends a blessing and a magnetic energy, which attracts a seeker of God each second in direction of God and bestows gentle, consolation and satisfaction. A real believer within the Holy Qur’an doesn’t merely ponder like philosophers that there must be a Creator of this glorious universe; he acquires a private perception and, being honoured with a holy imaginative and prescient, he sees with the attention of certainty that that Creator in reality exists. He who’s bestowed the sunshine of this Holy Phrase doesn’t merely guess like those that rely on purpose alone that God is One, with out affiliate. However by means of tons of of shining indicators which take him by the hand and lead him out of the darkness, such an individual learns for himself that God has no affiliate in His Being or in His attributes. He is ready to show to the world that he believes God to be such a unity. The majesty of the unity of God so fills his coronary heart that as compared with the divine will, he regards the entire world as not more than a useless insect and certainly as nothing in any respect.
—Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Half V, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 21, pp. 25-26
Continued Beneficence of Islam
The God of a real faith ought to be a lot in accord with purpose and the sunshine of nature that His existence ought to be a matter of proof for individuals who possess purpose however who don’t have any heavenly guide during which they consider. He ought to be corresponding to doesn’t savour of coercion or artificiality. Such perfection is attribute of the God Who’s offered by the Holy Qur’an. The followers of different religions have both deserted the True God, as have the Christians, or have attributed improper and low attributes to Him, as have the Jews, or have disadvantaged Him of His attributes, as have the pagans and the Aryas. The God of Islam is similar True God Who’s seen by means of the mirror of the legislation of nature and is seen within the guide of nature. Islam has not offered a brand new God however has offered the identical God Who’s offered by the sunshine of man’s coronary heart and by man’s conscience and by heavens and earth.
One other high quality of a real faith is that it shouldn’t be a useless creed. The blessings and greatness which have been cultivated in it, to start with, ought to persist in it until the top of the world for the promotion of the welfare of mankind, in order that ever contemporary indicators ought to affirm its previous indicators and shouldn’t allow the sunshine of its fact to turn into an previous story. I’ve been writing over an extended interval that the Prophethood which was claimed by our lord and grasp Muhammad, the chosen one [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] and the heavenly proofs within the type of indicators which he had set forth, nonetheless proceed in Islam and are bestowed upon his followers in order that they need to arrive on the state of full understanding and may witness the Residing God immediately.
The indicators that are attributed to Jesus are mere tales, and are nowhere to be seen, and due to this fact this faith, which teaches the worship of the useless, is itself useless like its god. A verity can’t be confined to previous tales. Each individuals have a retailer of tales setting forth alleged miracles and wonders. It’s a attribute solely of Islam that it doesn’t current merely the faulty and imperfect consolation of tales and tales, however satisfies the seekers with dwelling indicators.
A seeker after fact shouldn’t be happy with mindless worship of the useless and shouldn’t be delay with sorry tales. We now have come into the market of the world to buy the most effective. We should always not waste our religion by exchanging it with false issues. A dwelling religion is that by means of which we are able to discover the Residing God. The Residing God is He Who can encourage us immediately, or may a minimum of carry us in touch with one who’s immediately impressed. I convey this excellent news to the entire world that the God of Islam is such a Residing God. These with whom nobody can now converse are useless and aren’t God. Nobody can see their indicators at this time. He whose god is useless can be put to disgrace in each area and can be humiliated and wouldn’t be helped in any approach.
My objective in making this announcement is {that a} faith which is true doesn’t change. Because it was to start with, so it will be on the finish. A real faith would by no means turn into a dry story. Islam is a real faith, and I name everybody – Christians, Aryas, Jews and Brahmus – to point out them the reality of Islam. Is there anybody of them who seeks the Residing God? We don’t worship the useless. Our God is Residing. He helps us by means of His inspiration and revelation and thru heavenly indicators. If there’s a single Christian who is really a seeker after fact, let him make a comparability between our Residing God and his useless god. For such a trial, a interval of forty days would suffice.
—Majmu’a Ishtiharat, Vol. 2, pp. 310-312
Enduring Indicators of the Reality of Islam
The Islam whose qualities now we have set out shouldn’t be one thing for proof of which now we have to refer solely to the previous and need to level solely to the ruins of tombs. Islam shouldn’t be a useless religion in order that it could be mentioned that each one its blessings have been left behind and there’s nothing forward. The principal high quality of Islam is that its blessings at all times accompany it. It doesn’t converse solely of the previous however affords current blessings as effectively. The world is at all times in want of blessings and heavenly indicators. It’s not as if it wanted them prior to now and doesn’t want them now.
A weak and helpless human being who’s born like a blind is in want of figuring out one thing of the heavenly kingdom and must see some indicators of the existence and energy of God in Whom he believes. The indicators of a previous age can not suffice for a subsequent age, for listening to shouldn’t be the identical as seeing and, by the passage of time, previous occasions turn into like tales. Each new century, in a fashion of talking, begins a brand new world. Subsequently, the God of Islam, Who’s the True God, manifests new indicators for every new world. At the start of every century, particularly at the start of a century which has strayed distant from religion and integrity and is enveloped in lots of darknesses, He raises a substitute prophet within the mirror of whose nature is exhibited the type of a Prophet. Such a one demonstrates to the world the excellences of the Prophet whose follower he’s and convicts all opponents by means of the reality and the show of actuality and the frustration of falsehood.
—A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 5, pp. 245-247
The signal of a real faith is that by means of its educating such righteous ones ought to proceed to come up who ought to arrive on the stage of a Muhaddath to whom God Almighty ought to converse head to head. The at the start signal of the reality of Islam is that always it produces such righteous ones with whom God Almighty talks:
تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ أَلَّا تَخَافُواْ وَلَا تَحۡزَنُواْ [6]
This alone is the check of a real, dwelling and acceptable faith. We all know that this gentle is to be discovered solely in Islam and that the Christian religion is with out such gentle.
—Hujjat-ul-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 6, p. 43
We are able to furnish conclusive proof to each seeker after fact that from the time of our lord and grasp the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] as much as at the present time, in each century there have appeared males of God by means of whom God Almighty has guided different individuals by the show of heavenly indicators. Of those have been Sayyed ‘Abd-ul-Qadir Jilani, Abu-al-Hasan Kharqani, Abu Yazid Bistami, Junaid Baghdadi, Mohy-ud-Din Ibne-’Arabi, Dhunnun Misri, Mu’in-ud-Din Chishti Ajmeri, Qutb-ud-Din Bakhtiar Kaki, Farid-ud-Din Pakpatni, Nizam-ud-Din Dehlvi, Shah Wali-ullah Dehlvi, and Sheikh Ahmad Sarhandi (Allah is happy with them, and they’re happy with Him). Their quantity exceeded 1000’s. So many extraordinary happenings regarding them are set out within the books of the realized ones that even a really bigoted opponent has to confess that these individuals manifested extraordinary indicators and miracles. I inform you actually that by means of my analysis, as far as it’s doable for one to find in regards to the previous, I’ve come to the conclusion that the variety of heavenly indicators in assist of Islam and as a sworn statement of the reality of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] which have been manifested by means of the Auliya’ of this Ummah, is to not be equalled within the historical past of different religions. Islam is the one faith which has progressed by means of heavenly indicators, and its numberless lights and blessings have ever demonstrated the existence of God Almighty as if He’s seen shut at hand.
Make certain that on the rating of its heavenly indicators Islam has not been put to disgrace in any age. On this age of yours, you might, when you wished, be the witnesses of indicators in assist of Islam. Say actually: have you ever not witnessed indicators in assist of Islam in your personal age? Is there another faith on this planet that may produce such testimony? These certainly are the explanations which have damaged the again of Christian missionaries. He whom they arrange as god has nothing in his assist besides a couple of meaningless tales and false narratives.
The indicators of the reality of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him], whom they reject, are seen on this age like pouring rain. For seekers the gates of heavenly indicators are as open at this time as they have been in any earlier age, and for many who are hungry after fact the banquet of bounties is as a lot accessible at this time because it was earlier than. A dwelling religion is as a lot accessible at this time because it was earlier than. A dwelling religion has at all times the hand of the Residing God at its again and such a religion is Islam.
—Kitab-ul-Bariyyah, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 13, pp. 91-92
If anybody ought to have a query that there are tons of of false religions which have flourished by means of 1000’s of years, although they will need to have originated in some imposture, the reply is as follows. Based on us, imposture implies that an individual ought to himself trend intentionally a couple of sentences, or ought to invent a guide claiming that it has been revealed to him by God Almighty whereas nothing of the sort has been revealed to him. We are able to affirm on the premise of full analysis that such imposture has by no means been in a position to flourish in any age. The Guide of God bears clear testimony that those that have been responsible of imposture towards God Almighty have been quickly destroyed. We now have already acknowledged that the identical testimony is borne by the Torah, the Gospel and the Holy Qur’an.
The false religions that we observe on this planet at this time like these of the Hindus and the Zoroastrians don’t characterize the dispensations of false prophets. The reality is that their followers by means of their very own errors have fallen into accepting their present doctrines. You can not level to any guide which claims clearly that it’s a divine guide whereas in reality, it may be an imposture and an entire individuals may need held it in honour all through. It’s, nonetheless, doable {that a} divine guide may need been misinterpreted. A political authorities seizes jealously an individual who falsely claims to be a authorities official. Then, why would God, Who’s jealous of His glory and His kingdom, not seize a false claimant?
—Anjam-e-Atham, Ruhani Khaza’in, Vol. 11, pp. 63-64, footnote
ENDNOTES
[1] The Holy Qur’an, 2:113.
[2] The Holy Qur’an, 50:17.
[3]The Holy Qur’an, 41:31.
[4] The reference is to verse al-Baqarah, 2:113.
[5] ‘Nor does he converse out of his personal need. It’s nothing however pure revelation that has been revealed by God.’ – The Holy Qur’an, 53:4-5.
[6] ‘Angels descend on them, saying: “Concern ye not, nor grieve.”’ – The Holy Qur’an, 41:31.
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