Islamic Inlightment

                                                
Starts with Name of God

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most MercifulA verse from the Holy Quran

He is Allah the Creator the Evolver the Bestower of Forms (or colors). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: Whatever is in the heavens and on earth doth declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the exalted in Might the Wise.

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Seeds of Strife

The intellectual confusion and disruption in the Muslim society brought about by the false prophets are matters of grave concern to every follower of Islam. In these days of materialism and godlessness, people are little inclined to prefer claims of higher spirituality; but were the people infatuated with the craze to put forward their claims to prophethood like Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani and his zealous followers, condemning every other Muslim, rejecting him as an apostate and an unbeliever, the resulting confusion and anarchy, strife and struggle in the world of Islam could be very well visualised by all of us. Would not, then, the community raised by God to make Islam brotherhood a living reality by effacing the prejudices of colour, race, nationality and tongue turn into small, warring religious factions, condemning one another to the point of heresy?1

The danger posed by the continuance of prophethood in Islam was realised by Maulvi Muhammad Ali Lahori, a prominent follower of the Mirza, who raised his voice against it, but he could not go to the root of the menace for he still continued to hold the Mirza as a revivalist and Promised messiah. Appealing to the good sense of his co-religionists, Maulvi Muhammad (Ali says:

“Reflect, for the sake of God, that if the belief of Mian Sahib2 is accepted that the prophets will continue to come, and that thousands of prophets will come, as he has written explicitly in Anwar-i-Khilafat, will not these thousands of groups denounce one another as Kafirs? And so, what will happen to Islamic unity? Let us assume that all those prophets will be confined to the Ahmadi group alone. Then, how many factions will there be in the Ahmadi group? After all you aware of what happened in the past, how one of these groups became favorable to and another opposed to the Prophet after his advent. Then, will that very God who has expressed the will to unify all the peoples of the world at the hands of Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him), now divide Muslims into numerous factions, each one of them calling the other Kafir, having no Islamic relationship and unity among themselves? Remember that the promise to make Islam predominant over all religions in the future is true, then, that tragic day when thousands of prophets will go about with their own separate exclusive mosques, each with its own group of mentors of true belief and salvation, denouncing all other Muslims as infidels, will never dawn in the history of Islam.”1

1. Philosopher-Poet Iqbal has pointedly expressed the principle of Unity of Islam in one of his articles. He says:

“Islam is essentially a religious order which has defined limits, that is, belief in the Unity and Omnipotence of God, faith in the prophets and termination of prophethood on the advent of His last Messenger, Muhammad (peace be upon him). Faith in the last mentioned creed is, in reality, the distinguishing feature between a Muslim and a non-Muslim and is a determinant whether a certain individual group forms part of the Muslim community or not.”____

(Harf-i-Iqbal, pp. 136-7).

2. That is, Mian Bashir Uddin Mahmood, the son and successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani.

3. Radd-i-Takfir-i-Ahl-i-Qibla, p. 49-50

In short, the termination of prophethood and revelation signifying the end of the probation of the probationary period of human race with the advent of the last prophet, Muhammad, the Shining Light and Leader of all Humanity (on whom be peace and blessing), is without doubt the greatest of divine blessings on man. This is the spiritual principle for unity of mankind and a means to divert the energies of human beings to fruitful channels. It protects the identity of Muslims and their vigour and power for it gives them confidence in themselves as well as in the ever-abiding nature of their religion, places the responsibility of universal leadership on their shoulders and urges them to strive in the way of God to the Last Day. This is the foundation on which the edifice of Islam has been raised.
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