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'Recently, an
Ahmadi brother sent us a question. According to him: 'It was Allah who
had already revealed to Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised
Messiah(as), ‘Inni ma'aka
ya Masroor' (Surely,
I am with you, O Masroor) Hence it is very clear when Allah Himself said
that 'I am with you, O Masroor’- that is, He is with the fifth
Khalifa Mirza Masroor Ahmad after the Promised Messiah. Then, how can Munir
Ahmad Azim Sahib, or anyone else, have the authority to do so?
Before, we
can answer the question first of all, we have to discuss about the divine
revelation revealed to the Promised Messiah(as). Actually, this revelation is
the third from the chain of revelations which is vouchsafed to the Promised
Messiah (as) in Arabic language and these revelations were received by him on
December 1907. (Tadhkirah, p. 1016) In that, Allah (swt) had
revealed to him, "Inni ma'aka ya Masrur" (I am with you, O
Masrur [happy one]) and Further, it was revealed to him “Inni
Ma'aka ya Ibrahim” in the same day! One thing we should also remember
is that these revelations were vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah (as).
But now, the Nizamies are completely devoid of
this heavenly blessings and they are claiming that this revelation is a
prophecy for Mirza Masroor Ahmad Sahib and certainly, we will have no
objection; rather, we will happily welcome it. But the question is did he
(Mirza Masroor Ahmad Sahib) proclaim and declared that the revelation of
Promised Messiah (as) would prove that he has been raised from Allah for the
benefit of the whole of mankind? And if not, what is the significance of
this own claim by Nizamies?
And what is the interpretation of this revelation according to
truth- seekers? What an incredulous and incredible claim by the
self-confessed? Some unfortunate people, without a basic understanding of the
revelations of spiritual leaders, embroiled in egotistical matters and
argued that 'Mirza Masroor Ahmad Sahib was a shy and magnanimous person, so, he
would not disclose revelation from the Allah.' This is a very dangerous and
untenable belief as it produced very grave consequences.
Elects of God and Revelations
Allah (swt) says in the Quran: “By the night when it covers up!; And (by) the day when it
brightens up; And (by) the creating of the male and the female.” (92: 2- 4)
Like the physical world there are in the spiritual world
males—God’s great Prophets and Divine Reformers—who teach and guide. (English
W/5 vol. Commentary(2018) page no:3390).
These are very clear statements in the Quran describing that the
spiritual male shall never conceal the revelation. In fact; it would be a great
sin if concealing revelations from Allah.
The Holy Quran says: “He sends down the angels with revelation by His command on
whomsoever of His servants He pleases (saying), ‘Warn (people) that there is no
God but I, so take Me (alone) for your Protector.” (16:3)
Promised Messiah (as) on Kinds of
Revelations
It should be remembered
that Divine revelation is generally of two kinds:
(a) The revelation
which concerns the recipient’s own person. It does not require to be made known
and published, though generally there is no special ban on giving it publicity.
(b) The revelation
which is meant for mankind at large. This latter kind of revelation must be
given wide publicity and it amounts to a veritable sin to suppress it. (English
W/5 vol. Commentary(2018) page no: 3390).
The first kind is general and mercy from Allah for all mankind
and Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah(as) says about this kind
that:
“The fact is that out of the forty-six parts of the angelic
light of Gabriel, only one part covers and is distributed over the entire
world. No sinner or evildoer even of the first order is outside its
purview.
I even believe, and experience testifies to it, that on occasion
even a woman of loose morals who belongs to the class of prostitutes and whose
youth has been spent in illicit sex, may sometimes have a true dream. It is
even more surprising that such a woman soaked in drink and in bed with her lover,
can even during such a night have a dream which turns out to be true.
But, the second kind is the life and soul of religion without
revealed guidance from God. What is the use of a religion that is dead, and of
what value is the book that is dead, and what can we gain from a God who is
dead?
God Almighty bestows this holy revelation upon only those
believers who truly believe in the Holy Quran as the Word of God and act upon
it with truthfulness and sincerity and who believe in Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa,
peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as God’s true and perfect Prophet,
who is most excellent and superior and more exalted than all the Prophets and
is Khatamur Rusul [the Seal of the Messengers] and accept him
as their leader and guide.
Such revelation is not vouchsafed to others, be they the Jews,
Christians, Aryas, Brahmuns, etc., but rather, has always been vouchsafed to
the perfect followers of the Holy Quran. It is vouchsafed to them now and will
continue to be vouchsafed to them in the future.” (Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya —
Part 3, p. 147)
The First promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) wrote
that God willed the garden of Islam to be evergreen and fresh, therefore at the
turn of every century, He sent a person for the reformation and the ignorant
contended with him. Yet, God did not abandon His way. In the latter-days,
having found the Muslims in ignorance, God revived the religion of Islam. Other
religions were not revived in this manner; people who lacked spirituality and
were led by their selfish desires brought these faiths in decline.
An Elect of God in This Era
O people of Ummat-e-Muhammadiyya, Muslims await a
promised Mahdi and Messiah (the Reviver of all Faith, Messiah and Islamic
Prophet-Reformer) in this era. The advent of the Promised Messiah (as) was
prophesized by the Holy Prophet (sa). The second coming of Jesus, as an Imam
among the Muslims, is a great blessing of our times.
All Ahmadis agree that most prophecies regarding the Imam Mahdi
and the Promised Massih have been fulfilled at the time of Hadhrat Ahmad (as).
Yet, it is a fact that there are several prophecies remain to be fulfilled in
greater measure in our times. It is thus instructive to note that several Hadiths
foretells of the coming of the Mahdi (that is, the Khalifatullah)
in some 20 to 30 years after the 1400 years after Hijra (of the Holy prophet of
Islam).
“People will gather around the Mahdi in 1400”. (Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 108). In another Hadith, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “Count two or three decades after the decades of Hijri 1400. At that time, the Mahdi emerges...” (Asmal MasalikLieyyam Mahdiyy Maliki Li Kull-id DunyaBiemrillah-il Malik, Qalda bin Zayd, p. 216)
In the beginning of the year 2001, Allah chose a spiritual progeny of
the Promised Massih (as)- Hazrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib of Mauritius as His
chosen messenger of our times- at a time when the world was about to enter the
Third Millennium of the Christian Era and the Muslim world had firmly entered
the Fifteenth century. In these turbulent times, more than ever, Islam as a
religion and Muslims as a community are under relentless attack from varying
forces. So, the appearance of the new Messenger of Allah could not have been
more timely and necessary. Hazrat Azim agreed with this proposition and noted
in one of his discourses on his advent as a divinely-raised Khalifatullah in
this era, by linking this profound claim against the sacred traditions of the
Holy Prophet (sa) concerning the appearance of the Guided Ones (Mahdis)
in the Later Days.
“If we analyse these Hadiths, all these points in the direction
of my epoch, my coming. I was expelled from the Nizam-e-Jamaat Ahmadiyya on 01
January 2001 (that is, 1421 Hijri). We are now in 1432 Hijri and I made my
proclamation as Amir’ul Momeneen on 19 January 2003 (that is, 1423 Hijri),
Muhyi-ud-Din on 06 December 2003 (that is, 1423 Hijri), Khalifatullah on 26 May
2008 (that is, 1429 Hijri) and Messiah, Mujaddid and Prophet of Allah
officially (though I already received these revelations beforehand until Allah
made me stand up to proclaim it officially) in 2010 (that is, 1431 Hijri)”.
In December 2003, proclaiming that Allah had made him the Muhyi-ud-Din/
Mujaddid of this era, Hazrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba)
stated:
“I want neither pelf nor power. I have been commissioned by
Allah as a Warner unto mankind, to deliver His Message to you. Should you
accept it, you shall have felicity in this life as well as in the life to come.
Should you reject the word of Allah, surely Allah will decide between you and
me. As from today, I take Allah as my witness that I am the Muhyi-ud-Din of
this era.”
Anyone who has a sense of Islamic history and Prophetic
traditions cannot mistake the remarkable parallels in the phrases/wordings used
by Hazrat Azim (atba) in his proclamation of Divine appointment in December
2003 with what the Holy Prophet of Islam (sa) addressed his own people at the
very beginning of his sublime mission. Moreover, if we look at the
history of prophethood, it was at the age of forty that the Holy Prophet of
Islam Muhammad (sa) began to receive messages from the Unseen and was raised to
that august spiritual position through recurring Divine revelations. Likewise,
the Promised Massih Hadhrat Ahmad (as) was also blessed with Divine revelations
by the time he was forty years of age. It is remarkable to note that Allah, the
Exalted chose to elevate the spiritual status of Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib by the
time he turned forty years of age in 2001. In the last two decades, Allah, the
Most High bestowed many titles on Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib- “Hazrat”, “Amirul Mu’mineen”, “Muhyi-ud-Din”, “Mujaddid”,
“Khalifatullah”, “Nabiullah” and “Rasulullah”.
Revelations and the Ahmadi Conjecture Today
The belief in the vital presence of Divine revelations is not a
‘blind belief’; it is a rational belief after having contemplated the Existence
that cannot be comprehended by our basic senses. Yet, revelations also entail
the spiritual and living presence of a credible claimant- not someone for whose
sake others will speculate and issue conjectures. The larger question is this:
does the Divine blessing of revelations exist now among the Ahmadis? What is
happening in the Nizam-e-Jamaat today?
Based on a simplistic reading of profound texts of Divine revelations from another era; Ahmadis today follow their own ‘fertile’ imagination or speculative conjecture that their present elected chief, Khalifatul Massih V Mirza Masroor Ahmad Saheb is the embodiment of a Divine revelation vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah (as) in the last century. Yet, the caliph himself has never come forward to claim or agree that Allah (swt) has indeed raised him with Divine revelations which ought to be presented before the world.
In the history of Jamaat—e-Ahmadiyya, the second
caliph Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad Saheb (ra) publicly claimed
and acknowledged- based on Divine inspirations he said he received in 1944- that he was the
embodiment in certain senses of a great revelation vouchsafed to the Promised
Messiah (as) in the past- the prophecy on Musleh Maoud. However, no such blessing
or acknowledgement of Divine Grace has come forth from the present Caliph in 17
years as the man-elected chief of the community. Hence, make no
mistake, any such lofty claim by others in his name and on his behalf, carry no
weight and value in the eyes of spiritual doctrine and practice: these are mere
desires of exaggeration by camp-followers- reminding us of the habits and
manners of idol-worshippers!
On the other hand, Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad
Azim (atba) of Mauritius is a spiritual progeny of the
Promised Messiah (as). Over the last two decades, Allah (swt) has blessed him
with an abundance of Divine communications and spiritual messages, and he
speaks with the help of the Roohul Quds, a great bounty and special
blessings of the Almighty in this difficult era for the Ummat-e-Muhammadiyya.
Indeed, a recipient of revelations is the very embodiment of
Divine mercy for the community of believers. Devout Muslims are those who
wholeheartedly submit to the Will and Decree of the Almighty Allah, at all
times. When Allah (swt) confers a great blessing, they will not behave like
the Iblis, which quoted its own heritage and superior mundane
standing in saying no to “Labbeik” to the Divine decision of
appointing a man as His Khalifatullah. It is hoped that sooner than
later, the cobwebs of confusion created by the satans in
the Nizam-e-Jamaat will perish, and the truth of His wisdom
and Mercy will unravel upon all right-minded Ahmadis as they recognize and
accept the Divine Mission of Hazrat Munir Ahmad Azim Saheb (atba) in this
era, Insha Allah, Aameen.' [ VOICE OF IMAM, Vol.3, April 2023, pp. 28-34].