A Great Victory for Ahmadiyyat — Page 20
[ 20 ] scholar. Only one who acts upon this admonition alone is a Muslim, for Imam ‘Abdul Wahh a b has raised this matter to the definition of a Muslim. According to him the issue that the Holy Prophet sa has raised in this h ad i th is so critical that a Muslim is only he who believes the prophecy which states that when the ummah is divided into seventy-three sects, seventy-two will be hell-bound and only one will achieve salvation. Prophecy About a Prophecy Hadrat Imam Mull a ‘Al i Q a r i, who has written a commen- tary on Mishk a t [a book of A h ad i th ] and who is a recogn- ised authority in the H anaf i Sect, writes with reference to this h ad i th : These seventy-two sects, all of them will be in the fire. The righteous ones will be those who truly follow the Holy Prophet sa and are firmly established on the pure Ahmadiyyah doctrine. ( Mirq a tul-Maf a t ih’- Shara h Mishk a t , vol. 1, p. 248) Look at the understanding of this im a m. How clearly he explains this h ad i th and emphasises that the sect of Mu h a m m a d ( Mu h a m m a d i a h S e c t ) wo u l d b e t h e Ahmadiyyah sect and none other.