In a
Hadith recorded in Sahih Al Bukhari, the
Holy Prophet of Islam (sa) ruminates about the decline of scholarship and eclipse
of spiritual knowledge and right understanding. And in another tradition, the
Holy Prophet (sa) spoke about the emergence within the Ummah of misguided (and
misguiding) leaders who will deviate people from the Straight Path through
their ignorant pronouncements. The traditions are as follows:
“One of the signs of the Hour is the disappearance
of knowledge and the prevalence of ignorance".
"God Almighty does not take away the
knowledge of Islamic Law and Faith by removing its books from His servants, but
He takes it away through the death of scholars. When all scholars pass away,
the public will make ignorant people their leaders; when they are asked about
something, they answer without knowledge; they are misguided and they misguide
others."
According
to the Promised Massih (as), the traditions of the Holy Prophet (sa) are
actually the profound commentary of the verses of the Holy Qur’an. These
Ahadith could arguably be linked to what Allah says in the Holy Qur’an: “And
among men is he who disputes concerning Allah without knowledge and without
guidance and without an illuminating book.”(22:9)
In his
book “The
Victory of Islam”, Hadhrat Ahmad (as) confirms that within a century
after the departure of a Divinely-raised Reformer, the community drifts away
from the straight path of Sahih Al Islam. Through their grand theological
discourses over satellite television and Internet, these leaders misguide the
people when they seek guidance on spiritual matters. That is because they speak
without knowledge and without divine guidance.
Truth
be told, none has exceeded Mirza Masroor
Ahmad Sahib, the Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Community, in paying a
greater tribute to the wisdom and truthfulness of these prescient prophecies
about the state of spirituality in Islam over time! Through his ignorant pronouncements
on Islamic Khilafat and the future of Mujaddidiyat in recent months (May 27 and
June 10, 2011), Masroor Sahib is guilty of trampling upon the teachings of the
Promised Massih (as) and worse, casting aspersions on the profound Divine
Scheme of permanent Khilafat for Muslims.
In
order to perpetuate the mythical grandeur of the Ahmadiyya Khilafat and to
preempt any doubts about its aura in the spiritual realm, the Fifth Khalifa has
fed a very appealing story to the faithful: That Islamic Khilafat ended in 30
years, Islam was without its divinely-raised Khulafa for 1400 years and that the
Khilafat was reestablished after the death of the Promised Massih (as). A common Ahmadi hearing this story would be
forced to bend before the Khalifa as the poor man (and woman) was told that the
Divine system has come out of the world after a period of 14 centuries and all
blessings originate from there!
Ahmadis
need to awake from their bliss of ignorance if they want to know the true
conception of Khilafat and the real teachings of the Promised Massih (as) in
this regard. The Promised Massih (as) literally frowned upon the idea of
30-year Khilafat in Islam, pointing out that Islam offers permanent Khilafat
for all times.
