Fazl-e-Umar — Page 58
Fazle Umar 58 “God Almighty teaches us a prayer in Surah Fatiha and that is: O Lord, guide us not along the paths of those who have incurred displeasure (Arabic Magh- doob) nor of those who have gone astray (Arabic Dhalleen)… From Hadith it is apparent that by ‘Maghdoob’ are meant the Jews and by ‘Dhalleen’ are meant the Christians… On the other hand, everyone is in agreement that this Surah (Chapter) was revealed at Mecca. Now this is a strange thing that when this Surah was revealed the Jews were not opposed to the Holy Prophet nor were the Christians opposed to him [saw]. His enemies were only the polytheists of Mecca…What is the significance of this? Why is it that Allah failed to mention the polytheists who severely opposed the Holy Prophet [saw] in Mecca and instead mentioned the Jews and Christians that were there in a tiny, insignificant minority? This points to the fact that Allah, Who revealed the Holy Qur’an, is the Knower of the Unseen. Allah was aware that according to His destiny, the religion of Mecca was to be destroyed and annihilated forever, …there was no need to teach a prayer concerning them. A prayer was taught relating to those religions that were to survive and with whom Islam was to clash either spiritu- ally or materially. ” 34 F I R ST S P E E C H AT A n A n n UA L G AT H E R I n G From his earlier speeches, the most important and worthy of consideration is the speech delivered during the Jalsa Salana (Annual Gathering) eighteen months before the death of the Promised Messiah [as] , held in December 1906. On this auspicious occasion apart from the organisation’s finest scholars and nobles there were many men, women and children from the surrounding communities. Huzur was very anxious because this was his first speech in front of a large public gathering and also because of the importance of the occasion. Despite this Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib’s speech was