Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 163
163 Malfuzat – Volume IV practices and does not believe, by word and deed, in the Messenger of Allah sas as being the Seal of Prophets, there is nothing. How wonderful are the words of Sa’di: زبدہوورعوکشودصقوافص ٰیفطصم ونکیلزفیماےئرب Do abandon worldly pleasures and seek to incul - cate piety, sincerity and devotion; But do not step ahead of Mustafa (the Holy Prophet sas ). My objective, for which God Almighty has filled my heart with passion, is noth - ing but to establish the prophethood of the Messenger of Allah, peace and bless - ings of Allah be upon him, which in fact, God Himself has established for all of eternity, and so that every false prophethood that people have established through these innovations in the Faith may be destroyed. Look at all of these sufi orders and observe them in practical terms, then tell me, who believes in the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as the Seal of Prophets, I or they? It is unjust and wicked to suggest that all God Almighty desires is for us to declare with our mouths that the Holy Prophet sas is the Seal of Prophets, yet all the while one should continue indulging in the same misdeeds that one fancies and to create one’s own shariah. People have invented the Baghdad prayer and the ‘inverted prayer’ (ma’kus namaz), etc. Is there mention of such practices anywhere in the Holy Quran or in the example of the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him? Is there any evidence in the Noble Quran which establishes that one should recite the invocation: ِ ُہللِ ْا ًِْیْ َشَْیًْئ َْن َْیْاَل ُج ِ َر ِ ْاَد َ ْق ْ َاَل َ ِد َْبْ ْع َشَْیُْخُ ْا َ ْی (O Sheikh Abdul- Qadir Jilani bestow us something for the sake of Allah. ) Is there any evidence in the Holy Quran to endorse this practice? Sheikh Abdul-Qadir Jilani, may Allah Almighty be pleased with him, did not even exist in the time of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Then who taught these practices? Such people ought to have shame. Is this what you call adherence and observance of the religious law of Islam? Now decide for yourselves, with such beliefs and prac - tices, can such people be justified in accusing me that I have broken the Seal of Prophethood? The true and honest fact is that if such people had not adopted these self-invented practices in their mosques, and if they had believed in the true prophethood of the Seal of Prophets, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,