Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 23
23 all Olil Amr (rulers), Mohaddith (Traditionists), Qurra’a (Reciters of Quran), Wa’iz (Monitors) and Zahid (Devotees). Therefore, they are all Mujaddids and the Hadith means that when a century will pass they would be alive, and none of the centuries could efface their names and trace. And there is an indication about it in Hadith. The indication is that those people who carry out the task of regeneration at the head of each century would be a Jama’at of great saints. Consequently, in the first century Hazrat Umar Bin Abdul Aziz, many Fuqahaa (Jurists), Muhadditheen (Traditionists) and beside them (in other ranks too) are saints as regenerators of religion too numerous to be counted. So many Mujaddids at the head of each century has he enumerated along with Hazrat Umar Bin Abdul Aziz. Likewise, he has mentioned at the head of each century as many divines as he could remember who are definitely more than one. There is another book — Darajat Mirqatus Saud Ila Sunani Abee Daud. In this. book, in the margin of above mentioned Hadith of Abu Daud, it is written that it is appropriate that the Hadith should be meant to imply a general expression. Hence, it is concluded that whoever is raised at the head of the century should not be a single person but rather there is a probability of more than one. No doubt, the benefit the Islamic Ummat gains from Fuqahaa (Jurists) is fairly extensive, yet the advantage it gains beside them from different stages of Olil Amr (rulers), Muhadditheen (Traditionists), Qurra’a (reciters of Quran), Wa’izoon (monitors), and Zuhhaad (devotees) is also equally great. Each art and science has a peculiar benefit which cannot be achieved from others. As a matter of fact, the protection of the law of politics and the spread of Adab (literature) is very important for the preservation of religion, as it safeguards human life and establishes the law of Shari'at ,