With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 205
Opinion of the Sah ā ba ra , Ā ’immah, and Mujaddid ī n rh 205 rendered this service, he would have burned himself into ashes. However, the so called scholars, who were not very familiar with the attributes of All ā h, opposed him and declared fat ā w ā (pl. of fatw ā ) of kufr (disbelief) against him. This opposition was so severe that when Hazrat Sheikh Shah ā b-ud-D ī n ‘Umar Suhraward ī rh was asked about Im ā m Ibn ‘Arab ī rh , he said “ a Kذا زHدMق a رجل ” (he is a man of no faith). Later on, when Hazrat Im ā m Ibn ‘Arabi rh passed away, he said to the people with great sorrow that a qutab 219 has passed away. Upon this, the people were very surprised and asked Sheikh Shah ā b-ud-D ī n rh what made him call Ibn ‘Arab ī rh a man of no faith earlier and change his mind later. He replied that he said that in order to stop people from meeting him because he was a man of a very high status and one who presented such facts which were beyond their calibre. He also said that he was afraid that due to their limited understanding of the attributes of All ā h, their faith could be endangered by him. Some of his followers whom he prevented from meeting Hazrat Im ā m Ibn ‘Arab ī rh included the likes of Hazrat Sheikh Baha-ud-D ī n Zakaria Mult ā n ī and Hazrat Sheikh Sa‘d ī Sher ā z ī ! If these great scholars were prevented from listening to his explanation of wahdat-ul-wuj ū d , one wonders: What was the level of the understanding of common people? The mujaddid ī n rh that are presented by Farhan Khan are those whom we, Ahmad ī Muslims, accept wholeheartedly. Their views do not differ from the views of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at. None of them denied the advent of the Promised Messiah and Im ā m Mahd ī as a prophet after the Holy Prophet sa. This is the one concept that all the mujaddid ī n rh and 219 Literally means, “star”, and refers to a spiritual master or sheikh who provides focus for spirituality