Hundreds of thousands of men of God and His Messengers have passed away
in history. Most of them lived among the common people, preached the message of
Tauhid, in a language the people
could understand and relate to. Invariably, the Messengers used to say: ‘I am
only a man like yourselves; but I have received the revelation that your God is
only One God. So let him who hopes to meet his Lord do good deeds, and let him
join no one in the worship of his Lord’.
(HQ, 18:111)
The followers of the Promised Massih Hadhrat Ahmad (as) used to
consider that Allah never leaves aside the requirements of Deen-i-Islam and would raise-up His Messengers to call the people
back to the path of Allah whenever faith degenerates in society, just as had
been His practice in the past. All praise belongs to
the Almighty Alone. Today, at a time when the
land and the sea are both corrupted materially and spiritually, we have a
Messenger of Allah among ourselves, who fits the Qur’anic descriptions of
Divine Messengers, word by word, phrase by phrase!
Now the same Jamaat-e- Ahmadiyya
has changed doctrines and adopted an official policy that Allah cannot raise a
common Ahmadi with a Divine Mission
However, to be fair to the Fifth Khalifa, he has not allowed anyone to accuse him of being a recipient of divine guidance in spite of his coterie’s image-building exercises! Thus, in spite of this idol worship or perhaps because of it, Ahmadis genuinely feel that they are glaringly missing something: their Khalifa is seriously, spiritually handicapped-
However, to be fair to the Fifth Khalifa, he has not allowed anyone to accuse him of being a recipient of divine guidance in spite of his coterie’s image-building exercises! Thus, in spite of this idol worship or perhaps because of it, Ahmadis genuinely feel that they are glaringly missing something: their Khalifa is seriously, spiritually handicapped-
(i) blind, for he does not see any spiritual vision worth sharing with the Jamaat;
(ii) deaf, for he does not receive any revelation from Allah the Most High to guide the Community and the world at large, and
(iii) dumb, for he cannot speak on spiritual matters without being corrected and reminded of his mistakes by the Chosen Messenger of Allah of our times.
That is why, in recent times, there has been considerable international
interest in understanding the spiritual claims of the Khalifa
of Allah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib of Mauritius
Father
Solim Azim (the eldest child and only son of Abdul Azim Sahib and Banu Rustom
Sahiba), the father of
the Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib was a renowned entrepreneur in the
timber trade, and his wife Bibi Momin Azim (born Aullybux) was a housewife
and devoted mother.
Both husband and wife knew harsh times, undergoing all kinds of
difficulties to raise their six surviving children (four boys
and two girls): Rashid, Azize, Momin, Salim, Munir & Sajeda. Allah so
decided to try them in all sorts of ways, be it in their financial situation,
through early and late pregnancy losses, and even with the death of two of
their daughters, Rashida, better known as “Peeran” (aged 7) and Fazila
(aged 6) within one week.
Despite all difficulties faced, the parents of the Khalifatullah
(atba) succeeded in saving enough for the growing up and welfare of their
children. Alhamdulillah. His
father Solim (known better as “Bhye
Solim”) was very much attached to his prayers, never missing his Tahajjud
prayers. Moreover, he was a generous soul, ever ready to help those facing
difficult times, giving away generously in times of Jalsa Salana, during
wedding preparations of some underprivileged members of the Jamaat Ahmadiyya
and for the construction of some Mosques in Mauritius
As he was friends
with some of the men who worked in the Darus Salaam Mosque, it so happened
that one day he discovered how they unfeelingly abused their position at the
Jamaat centre. When he saw such things, he maintained his
distance with those officials and rarely did he go to follow them in Salat,
because he knew how corrupted they were. He preferred to do his prayers at
home, confiding his joys and sorrows only to Allah. His home became his Mosque.
He did not have anything against the Jamaat of the Promised Messiah Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), but rather he had a problem with the corrupted people
who were sullying the teachings of Hazrat Ahmad (as) at that time.
When his son (Hazrat
Munir Ahmad Azim (atba)) decided to go and work for the Jamaat Ahmadiyya, he
told him: “O my son, I am not forbidding you to go and
work for the Jamaat, but I deeply know how these people (whom you will be
dealing with) are. One day, you will see for yourself their true faces.”
The Khalifatullah (atba)
was deeply attached to his father. As a child he
used to like being held on his shoulders and sharing a special father and son
relationship. This attachment and love grew more solid over the years. Late
Solim Sahib rarely reprimanded his children severely, but when he did, then the
fate reserved for that young beloved son of his was that he was bedridden with
fever (due to his anxiety that his father has been harsh to him)!
During the last years of
his life (in 1983 when he was severely ill, and even the doctors were desperate
about his case), it so happened that one day the
Khalifatullah (atba) – aged 22 – dreamt that the roof of his house was being
flown away.
He understood that this
meant that his father would be no more and therefore he pleaded with Allah to
postpone the death of his father. Thereafter, he saw the roof coming back on
the house and a voice said that in the aftermath of his prayers, therefore Allah has accepted his Duah and
shall take his father after seven years. This proved to be completely true when
after seven years, his father passed away at the age of 67 on 06 September 1990.