Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 231
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 231 Allah, the Almighty showed His Divine Power by raising Abu Bakr ra and saved Islam from ruin, and fulfilled this promise that: “[He will surely establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them. He will surely give them in exchange security and peace after their fear…] The same thing happened at the time of Hadrat Moses as. ” 51 It is evident from this quotation that the Promised Messiah as has accepted the resemblance of Abu Bakr ra with the successor Prophet of Hadrat M u sa as (Moses). A tradition of the Holy Prophet sa also illuminates this point. He says that “if there would have been any Prophet after me, it would have been Umar bin Al Khatab”. 52 It means that Hadrat Umar ra would have been the Imam after him. If Almighty Allah were to carry out Prophethood right after him, then Hadrat Umar ra would have been the Prophet, but instead he is the Imam and not a Prophet. 51 Al-Wa s iyyat , R uha n i Khaz a ‘in , Vol. 20, pp. 304-305, by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian as. 52 Sunan Tirmidh i , Abw a bul Man a qib, b a bun Man a qibi Ali bin Abi- Ta lib, Hadith No. 3724, by Muhammad bin ‘ I s a Abu ‘ I s a At-Tirmidh i , publisher D a ru I h y a ’ittur a thil Arabi, Beirut.