Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 155
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 155 The fear that is created in their hearts and the thing from which they are afraid of, Allah, the Almighty will remove it and transform it into security. Therefore, promise is not that whatever is fearful for Tom and Harry will not happen with the Khulaf a ’. But the promise is that whatever is fearful for them, Allah, the Almighty will remove it and transform their fear into security. For example, consider the snake which is apparently a very terrible thing, but there are people who can carry snakes in their hands. For such people the fear of snakes is meaningless. Similarly, poverty is very frightening, but it was of no importance to the Holy Prophet sa. If somebody considers it very humiliating when he does not get a meal even for one time then shall we consider it humiliating (God forbid) for the Holy Prophet sa ? He considered poverty his honour, rags better than the costly dress, and worldly treasures pollution. For him the fear of poverty was meaningless. So Allah, the Almighty does not say, “Whatever fear is created, it will be transformed into security”. But He says, “There will not be any thing which will be frightening for them”. By taking this difference into consideration you will come to know that no such misery came to any of the Khulaf a ’ which they were afraid of. And if it came to them then Allah, the Almighty transformed it into security.