This excerpt is taken from the book compiled by Hakim Ajmal Khan Sahib "Recognize Jamaat-e-Islami" .
By: Hakim Abul Hasan Ubaidullah Khan Rahmani
① Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, is the last Prophet and Messenger of Allah, and after him, no other prophet or messenger will come until the Day of Judgment.
② The Muslim Ummah, which is referred to in the Quran as "خیر امت" and "امة وسطا" and "شھداء علی الناس", is the last Ummah of the last Prophet, after which there will be no other religious Ummah until the Day of Judgment. (Because the formation of any new Ummah can only be done by a new Prophet, and since there can be no other Prophet after the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, therefore no other religious Ummah can be established until the Day of Judgment).
③ The Holy Quran has been preserved word for word and in meaning forever from distortion and alteration.
❀ [اِنَّا نَحۡنُ نَزَّلۡنَا الذِّکۡرَ وَ اِنَّا لَہٗ لَحٰفِظُوۡنَ]
Indeed, We have sent down the Reminder, and indeed, We will be its guardian forever.
Reference: Surah Al-Hijr:9
④ Just as the responsibility of protecting the words and meanings of the Holy Quran has been taken by Allah Himself, similarly, the responsibility of explaining and clarifying the Quran through the sayings, actions, and speeches of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, has also been taken by the Almighty.
❀ [ثُمَّ اِنَّ عَلَیۡنَا بَیَانَہٗ]Then it is upon Us to explain it in detail.
Reference: Surah Al-Qiyamah:19
⑤ Until the Day of Judgment, the continuity of the prophethood and messengership of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, is linked with the continuity of the Muslim Ummah and Islam (meaning just as the prophethood and messengership of the Prophet, peace be upon him, will remain in full continuity from the time of his mission until the dawn of the Day of Judgment, similarly, the religion he brought and the Muslim Ummah he established will also remain continuously established at all times and in every era so that the purpose of "شھداء علی الناس" can be fulfilled.
❀ [لا یزال من امتی امة قائمة بامر اللہ لا یضرھم من خذلھم حتٰی یاتی امر اللہ وھم علٰی ذٰلک]
A group of my Ummah will always remain steadfast on the religion of Allah. Those who oppose them will not harm them until the Day of Judgment comes, and this group will remain steadfast on this religion.
Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari:3641, Sahih Muslim:1037
❀ [لا یزال ناس من امتی ظاھرین حتٰی یاتیھم امر اللہ وھم ظاھرون]
Some people of my Ummah will always remain victorious and honored, and their success and honor will continue until the command of Allah, that is, until the Day of Judgment.
Reference: (Sahih al-Bukhari:7311)
❀ [لا تزال طائفة من امتی منصورین لا یضرھم من خذلھم حتٰی تقوم الساعة]
A group of my Ummah will always remain successful and fulfilled in their aims, and those who do not support them will not be able to harm them, and this situation will continue until the Day of Judgment.
Reference: (Jami` at-Tirmidhi:2192)
❀ [لا تزال طائفة من أمتي قوامة على أمر الله لا يضرها من خالفها]
A group of my Ummah will always remain firmly established on the religion with full intensity, and its opponents will not be able to harm it.
Reference: (Sunan Ibn Majah:7)
❀ [لا تزال طائفة من أمتي ظاهرين على الحق حتى تقوم الساعة]
A group of my Ummah will always be successful and victorious in the matter of truth until the Day of Judgment comes.
Reference: (Mustadrak al-Hakim:8389)
❀ [يحمل هذا العلم من كل خلف عدوله ينفون عنه تحريف الغالين وانتحال المبطلين وتأويل الجاهلين]
Among the people of every previous era, there have always been just people who keep away from the distortions of those who exaggerate in religion, the lies of the people of falsehood, and the ignorant interpretations of the ignorant.
Reference: Ash-Shari'ah lil-Ajuri:1/269
⑥ After the advent of the prophethood of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, only the path of following him has been left open. All other ways of inventing new religions, creating new Shariahs, and forming new Ummahs have been blocked until the Day of Judgment, as this historic declaration of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, has been repeated for fourteen hundred years from the mosques and pulpits of the Muslim Ummah.
❀ [ألا إن خير الحديث كتاب الله وخير الهدي هدي محمد وشر الأمور محدثاتها وكل محدثة بدعة وكل بدعة ضلالة وكل ضلالة في النار]
Be aware! The best book is the Book of Allah, and the best example and model is Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the worst thing is that which is newly invented in the religion, and every innovation in religion is misguidance, and every misguidance leads to the Hellfire.
❀ [لو كان موسى حيا ما وسعه إلا اتباعي] If Moses, peace be upon him, were alive, he would have no choice but to follow me.
Reference: Musnad Ahmad:15156
❀ [والذي نفسي بيده لو بدا لكم موسى فاتبعتموه وتركتموني لضللتم عن سواء السبيل]
By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if Moses were to appear to you and you were to leave me and follow him, then surely you would go astray from the right path.
Reference: Musnad al-Darimi:1/182, Hadith 441
The above six points are closely related to the issue of the finality of prophethood and messengership; in fact, they form the basis and are dependent on the finality of prophethood. Therefore, after complete agreement on these points, what do the scholars of the Ummah say on this issue if any individual or group of that Ummah openly declares that the Holy Quran became incomprehensible to the world shortly after its revelation (after the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs) and due to unfamiliarity with the correct meanings of key words like 'Ilah' (God), 'Rabb' (Lord), 'Deen' (Religion), and 'Ibadah' (Worship), about three-fourths of the Quran became suspended and incomprehensible, and this state continued for twelve to thirteen centuries such that the correct meaning of religion and worship could not be understood. Then that person appeared after thirteen hundred years and presented the true meanings of these key words of the Quran to the world as they were intended at the time of the Quran's revelation.
Reference: (The Four Fundamental Terms of the Quran: Authored by Abu Al-A'la Mawdudi)
Then this person declared the inherited and traditional religion of the Muslim Ummah as an example of [مَا اَلْفَیْنَا عَلَیْہِ اٰبَاءَنَا], and based on his personal and individual understanding of the Quran, defined a new meaning of religion that religion is the name of the current state of the whole, and then on the basis of this assumption... forms a new Islamic Ummah. Then, claiming the independence of his self-made religion and Ummah, he challenges the entire Muslim Ummah to either fully align with the religion and Ummah he presents or reject him and take the same position as the accursed Jews who rejected the invitation of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah.
Now observe this claimant's claim in his own words:
"There was a time when I myself believed in traditional and sectarian religiosity and practiced it. Then when I became conscious, I felt that merely following [مَا اَلْفَیْنَا عَلَیْہِ اٰبَاءَنَا] in this way is meaningless. Finally, I turned my attention to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. I understood Islam and believed in it. Then gradually, I tried to understand and learn the comprehensive and detailed system of Islam. When Allah Almighty satisfied my heart from this side, I started inviting others to the truth in which I myself had believed."
Reference: (Rudad-e-Jamaat-e-Islami: Part One, pp. 5-6)
The mentioned person clearly admits that the religion he has chosen is the result of his personal thinking based on the Quran and Sunnah, and the religiosity which he has abandoned by declaring it an example of [مَا اَلْفَیْنَا عَلَیْہِ اٰبَاءَنَا] is the inherited and prevailing religion of the Muslim Ummah, whose following cannot be anything other than [اتّباع سبیل المؤمنین] according to the Quran. In other words, according to this person who interprets the Quran by personal opinion, the inherited and prevailing religion of the Muslim Ummah and the inherited religion of the disbelievers and polytheists both hold the same status.
The inherited and prevailing religion of the Muslim Ummah, which has been unanimously accepted and trusted among the entire Muslim Ummah from the time of the Prophet, the era of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), the era of the Followers (Tabi‘in), the era of the early Imams, jurists, hadith scholars, and mujtahids up to today, and, God willing, will remain so until the Day of Judgment, is nothing other than the Oneness of God (Kalima Shahadat), fasting, prayer, pilgrimage, zakat, faith in Allah, faith in the Prophethood, faith in the Books, faith in the angels, and faith in the Hereafter. By rejecting this inherited religion, the person mentioned has apparently discovered a religion whose reality, in his view, is the establishment of a universal state and a dominant government, and in his view and research, the inherited and prevailing religion of the Muslim Ummah is only a means to establish the original religion (their invented religion).
In this regard, observe one of his claims:
"That if these phrases of worship, which are only means, operate separately from the sole objective of establishing governance, then in the sight of Allah, they will have no reward."
Reference: (Tajdeed wa Ihya-e-Deen: p. 24), (Rudad-e-Jamaat-e-Islami Part Three p. 32)
Now, claiming the independence of his newly discovered religion and the newly formed nation based on it, this claimant challenges the Muslim Ummah with these words:
"On this occasion, I want to state very clearly one thing, which is that the rise of such a call, like our call, in any Muslim nation puts it to a great test. As long as certain scattered elements of truth come mixed with falsehood, a Muslim nation has a reasonable excuse not to accept it and not to support it. But when the whole truth is unveiled and presented in its pure form, and the nation claiming Islam is invited towards it, it becomes inevitable for them to either support it and stand up to carry out this service, which is the sole purpose of the birth of this Muslim Ummah, or else reject it and adopt the same position that the Jewish nation had taken before. In this situation, there remains no room for any third path for them."
Reference: Rudad-e-Jamaat-e-Islami: Part Two, p.17
It is understood that the religious reformers and renewers of the faith and Ummah who led religious movements for thirteen centuries before were not based on clear truth but were a mixture of truth and falsehood, "just as between the coming of one prophet and the next, there is a mutual mixture of truth and falsehood, and then the next prophet comes and unveils the truth, purifying it from the mixture of falsehood." Therefore, the Ummah has so far escaped divine accountability by rejecting those previous religious movements, but today, when the mentioned person has completely purified the truth from the mixture of falsehood and unveiled it by removing the veil of falsehood, the Ummah can no longer escape divine accountability by rejecting it, just as the Jewish nation could not escape after rejecting the invitation of the Holy Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم.
A few lines later, he writes further:
"Now that this invitation has arisen in India, the moment of trial for the Indian Muslims has come. As for the Muslims of other countries, we are preparing to deliver our invitation to them. If we succeed in this effort, wherever it reaches, the Muslims there will also face this trial."
Reference: (Rudad-e-Jamaat-e-Islami: Part Two, p. 18)
In the above lines, the word trial refers to the "سنۃ اللہ" which is the punishment on the nation of the invitation that comes from rejecting the invitation of the Prophets. The same punishment will come upon the Muslim Ummah for rejecting the invitation of this claimant.
This person's threat to the Muslim Ummah is not even slightly different from the threat of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani and Baha'u'llah Irani, in which both threatened the Muslim Ummah that if it does not accept their religious interpretations word for word, then it will have no connection with the religion of God.
The Prophet of Mercy, peace be upon him, was stopped by God from wishing punishment for the disbelieving and polytheist nation by saying:
[لَیۡسَ لَکَ مِنَ الۡاَمۡرِ شَیۡءٌ اَوۡ یَتُوۡبَ عَلَیۡہِمۡ اَوۡ یُعَذِّبَہُمۡ فَاِنَّہُمۡ ظٰلِمُوۡنَ]
You have no authority over their punishment; God may turn to them in mercy or punish them; indeed, they are wrongdoers.
Reference: Surah Al-Imran: 128
But it seems that this claimant has received a revelation of punishment from God.
The mentioned person has only refrained from openly claiming prophethood and messengership; otherwise, when he utters such threats, it is clear from what position he speaks or it is quite obvious.
At one point, this person writes:
"At this time, we are especially looking for people who, like Khadijah al-Kubra (may Allah be pleased with her) and Siddiq al-Akbar (may Allah be pleased with him), listen to this call of truth and become fully involved in it as if they had been searching for it until now."
Reference: (Rudad-e-Jamaat-e-Islami: Part Three, p. 23)
Consider, what would be the status in his eyes of followers like Hazrat Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) and Siddiq al-Akbar (may Allah be pleased with him) whom he is searching for his group?
Now, since more than five hundred million of the Ummah of Islam worldwide are outside the circle of devotion to this person, they are completely in the position of being accursed by the Jews, and his few thousand followers belong to the group of those who are forbidden. This person has definitely placed the same distinction between his handful of followers and the Ummah of Islam as exists between the Jews and Christians and the Ummah of Muhammad (peace be upon him).
