Fazl-e-Umar — Page 267
Fazle Umar 267 service to the Holy Qur’an. He became a challenge to the whole world and delivered over three hundred talks on Surah Fatiha alone. P RO n OU n C E M E n T OF E n E M I E S Allah had granted him a deep encyclopaedic intrinsic spiritual knowledge and understanding of the Holy Qur’an, thus fulfilling the prophecy that through him the glory of Islam and the dignity of the Qur’an would be convincingly established. He had said that there were hundreds and thousands of truthful realities in the Holy Qur’an, which Allah had disclosed to him with His special Grace through intuition and revelation. 126 In a public gathering in Delhi in 1944, claiming himself to be the “Musleh Mau’ood” (Promised Reformer) and reiterating his challenge about the interpretation of the truths and wisdom of the Holy Qur’an, he declared: “I do claim again that even if thousands of scholars assembled to compete with me in writing commentaries of the Qur’an, yet the world would accept and acknowledge that my commentary was unique in wisdom of divine truths in depth. ” These were Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood’s [ra] own pronouncements. One can gauge the extent to which his enemies accepted these claims from the comments of the Ahrar leader, Maulvi Zafar Ali Khan, Editor of “Daily Zamindar” Lahore, himself an eminent Muslim leader and writer. Maulvi sahib had the misfortune of being an opponent of Ahmadiyyat from a young age. However, when failure stared him in the face after each fruitless endeavour, he searched for a reason for his lack of success. At one time truth emanated from his lips and while addressing other opponent groups he had to concede: