Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 98
98 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH logic of their arguments. Earlier, they argued, as an evidence of their truthfulness, that the majority of Jam a ‘at was with them. However, when God Almighty turned us into the majority, they have started saying that consensus of the majority of any Jam a ‘at on some issue is not proof of its truthfulness, for it is clearly mentioned in the Holy Quran, “And most of them are perfidious. ” (Al-Taubah, 9:8) As long as they were in the majority, their argument was that the majority of the believers of a Prophet could not be erring. When we became the majority, they declared us as an example of , “most of them are perfidious”. However, they have admitted that their helpers have disappeared, and this is what is mentioned in the above quoted Quranic verse. Then Allah, the Almighty says: These people are lamenting with jealousy that they could not get authority and power. However, if they had been given authority over the whole world, they would not have given even a trifle to the people. refers to the hollow at the back of date-stone. This means that they are greedy by nature. The same stinginess—asking “why has a boy been appointed as