The Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community today
rejects the coming of Divine Reformers in Islam.
However, in the official
website of the Community -Al Islam-,
under the aforesaid title, the following EIGHT
cogent reasons have been published
to convince the world of Islam that Divine Reformers [or Mujaddidin and other
Elects of Allah] will continue to arise till the Day of Judgement among Muslims.
Read the text :
“Some people think that since the Muslims have got the perfect book -
the Holy Quran - to guide them no reformer is needed by them; they can get
guidance from the Holy Quran by themselves.
The idea is very erroneous
and the facts of history do not lend support to it.
- In the first place, we
observe that despite the fact that they have the Holy Quran with them they
are deteriorating day by day. Discussions among them resulting in vast differences of opinion even about
the interpretation of the Holy Quran are on the increase. No doubt
they are conscious of the fact that they are going down, they do not find
enough of strength to rise up and stand on their feet. This is exactly
what we find in the history of previous religions; whenever their
followers have deteriorated they have not risen by themselves.
- In the second place, the
practice of God repudiates this idea, whenever darkness has enveloped the
spiritual realm, God has been raising a Reformer for the guidance of the
people. Look at the followers of Moses; they had a perfect book
(according to the need of their time) which contained guidance for them.
But whenever darkness enveloped them, they were given another guide in the
form of a Reformer who reformed the followers of Moses. So much so that
the Holy Quran says: We sent Messengers when he had passed
away.
- In the third place what is actually meant by the
perfection of a teaching is that God has mentioned all the ways of
spiritual achievement in that specific book and all the needs (religious
and spiritual) have been laid down with the ways they can be fulfilled.
But if the human mind distorts it with its self-suiting interpretations,
the book would lose its meaning for them and they would not be reformed by
it unless the truth is unveiled by removing the curtain of self-styled
interpretations. The perfect
teaching is no doubt like a sharp cutting sword which cuts the sin asunder
but there must be somebody who knows how to wield it.
- In the fourth place, however perfect and effective a teaching
might be, unless an example of its implementation is shown to the people
they cannot benefit from it. It is through the people of various
spiritual ranks that God gives the people models for them to look at and
follow them to their personal advantage.
- In the fifth place the Belief in God is such a tree that
unless it is watered with the fresh signs, it dries up. It loses the
certainty in the existence of God and comes down to the level of mere
philosophical conclusion that "He ought to exist".
This situation is full of doubts and
poisonous winds blow here to the detriment of the tree; the tree dries up. But the
faith that is obtained through the Prophets and the saintly people, is a living
faith and it is a living reality which, as it, shows God to the people and
creates a relationship between God and His servants and thus grants a new life.
That shows very clearly that even when a
perfect teaching is there, such people are needed who are the manifestation of
the various attributes of God and through whom a river of the fresh signs of
God begin to flow. Moreover the Reformers who are raised by God and are
vouchsafed the living word of God have a special kind of attraction for those
who are good natured. In fact it is this very attraction that wakes up the
sleeping people.
- In the sixth place it
can be said with the least fear of refutation that unless reformation is
real and complete it cannot do any good, rather it proves harmful. But so far as the reformation in the
spiritual realm is concerned it is not possible by any person other than
the one who is sent by God and receives the knowledge from Him. This
person gets the living word of God and he lives through it. The
worldly ulema can try to reform the people with the worldly knowledge
which might be authentic in a few aspects and unauthentic in many others.
The differences of the Muslim world of today have their origin in the
worldly knowledge of the ulema. There differences cannot be removed unless
a Hakam and Adl gives his decisions about them.
- In the seventh place, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him, has told his Umma that the Reformers would be raised
among them. This is positive proof of the fact that although the Shariat
is perfect, the Reformers are needed.
- In the eighth place the Reformers have already been
appearing among Muslims and that is a practical proof that the Reformers
are needed, though the Shariat of Islam is quite perfect. [Emphasis
added]
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