Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 180
180 had no care for himself but was only concerned for his ummah. Turning over and over in his bed, he kept saying: 5 َ َائِھِم ْ مَسَاجِد ي خَذُوْا قُبُوْر َ اَنْبِ َّ صَارٰی اِت َّ َھُوْد َ وَالن ي ْ لَعَن َ ہللا ُ ال Curse of God be on the Jews and the Christians, for they turned the graves of their prophets into objects of worship. He meant to warn his followers not to go against what he had taught them all his life and, forgetting his teaching of Tau hi d , start worshipping him after his death. Imagining the Holy Prophet’s state of anguish at that moment and his expression of such devotion to Tau hi d , no one who professes to love him could even think of Shirk —associating partner with God. Yet, many of those who call themselves Muslims are openly defying this teach - ing. Thirteen hundred years ago, no Muslim could have imagined that a time would come when the upholders of the Kalimah, ‘There is no God but Allah’, would prostrate before graves, offer the daily prayers while facing the tombs of their elders, attribute knowledge of the unseen to mortal men, ascribe Divine powers to their holy men, address prayers to the dead and make offerings over their graves, offer sacrifices in the name of others besides God, and, worst of all, claim that they have been taught all this by the Quran and the Holy Prophet s as ! Yet, wherever Muslims live in the world, the majority of them are guilty of one or more of the above-mentioned deeds. Even though, seeing the Holy Prophet’s anguish and hearing his prayers, Allah saved the grave of the Holy Prophet s as from such vile innovations, the graves of other Muslim divines have become abodes of idolatry just as much as Hindu temples. Things have reached such a point that if the Holy