Chosen Saints of God and the Bigoted Mullas — Page 34
Ahmad (Holy Prophet) went up into the heavens: but Sarmad says that the heavens got transmuted into the person of Ahmad". . It is mentioned in "Tazkerat-ul-Khiyaal" that the Mullas based their allegations against him in this question and said. Sarmad has denied the physical 'Meraaj' (ascension to heaven) of the Holy Prophet. The Mullas who persecuted added another allegation to it. They asked Sarmad to recite the 'Kalima'. Sarmad recited “La Ilaha" (there is no God) and then kept quiet. . He refused to say any more. When the Mullas insisted on his reciting further, he replied, "So far I am engrossed in the above denial. I have not yet reached the affirmative stage. When I shall reach that stage I shall then recite "Il-Allah” also". . The worldly and mundane Mullas suddenly jumped at this and immediately declared Sarmad to be a confirmed infidel whose immediate murder was a dire necessity for Islam. They declared that unless Sarmad retracted he should be beheaded. This Sarmad was not prepared to do-being fully immersed in the love of God. The next day he was taken to the place of execution near the Jamia Mosque, Delhi. When the executioner came towards him with a drawn sword, Sarmad recited the following verse and laid his head on the block: "On account of an uproar we got awakened from the sleep of non-existence and opened our eyes. We saw that the night of tribulation has not ended, so we again went to sleep". (Rod-i-Kauthar: p. 390-391 and Qaamoos-ul-Mashaheer: vol. 1: p. 287-288). Imam-ul-Hind Maulana Abul Kalam Azaad, describing this tragic incident writes, “During the last thirteen hundred years of. Islam, the pen of the Jurisprudents has always acted like a drawn sword and the blood of thousands of the chosen one's of God has stained their persons. If one takes up a history book of. Islam of any period, he is bound to find that wherever the king was inclined to tyranny, the pen of the Mufti worked simultaneously with the tyrant. These murders were not limited to only the Sufis and the free-thinkers, even the fair-minded Muslim scholars had to suffer equally at the hands of these jurisprudents 34