Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 4
4 Hadhrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad two basic demands from us. It is on these two demands that I would like to focus my present speech. The First Demand The task of turning mankind into one Ummat and one family under the banner of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of God be on him) demands that we have complete and durable unity among our own ranks. I stated in the Ansarullah Rally that in the early period of Islam — in the first three centuries of Islam’s first renaissance — there occurred great revolutionary changes in human life through Islam and the spiritual beneficence of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of God be on him). Nevertheless, one thing is quite significant and that is the diffusion which is very clearly seen in this unity, the unity of the first period of Islam. For instance, we take Fiqah (the Islamic jurisprudence) which in fact is similar to the general law. When the general laws are produced in accordance with Godly guidance they are termed as issues of Fiqah. For example, the issues of bargaining, the issues of solving the disputes and fights, the issues of matrimonial relations, the problems of trade, the issues of partnerships in business, the safeguarding of one another’s properties, anti embezzlement issues, problems relating to honesty, and anti treason issues, etc. In short, all the laws have been formulated by the jurists in the light of Islamic guidance. Although there had been the law of the world before Islam, yet it is a fact that the service rendered by the Muslim Jurists in this field for mankind, after toiling day and night, has given humanity the foresight which resulted in the opinion that this is the proper way in which