Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 8
8 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad prevalent in this age. Many thieves and robbers lurk in the dark and there is a dan - gerous conspiracy against Islam and the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and against the Book of Allah. However, the Muslims do not seem bothered at all. Internal disorder has given the opponents an opportunity to brazenly plunder the wealth of Islam. In my view, a greater part of this internal disorder is owed to the scholars, while some is also due to the errors of those who call themselves Muwahhids (believers in the Oneness of God)—those who have equated Islam to nothing more than empty words and who do not make any progress at all. They are, as if, determined to believe as the Christians and others who are enamoured by falsehood have believed, that God’s powers are buried in times gone by and now God is power - less. They have nothing but mere tales and fables on which to cling, which are devoid of all signs of the spirit of truth and life. In other words, one could say that the essence and sum total of Islam which these people have presented to the world is nothing more than to follow old stories. This injustice which has been committed against Islam is something of which very few examples can be found anywhere else. For Islam was the only religion that could be deemed a liv - ing Faith in all eras; in that respect, it still is, because its signs have not been lost away in some previous age in the manner of other lifeless Faiths. In fact, Islam is always accompanied by signs. However, these dull Muwahhids have sought to turn Islam into a dead religion as well, by confining its light and blessings to a single era of the past. Initially when this sect was introduced, many wise peo - ple were drawn to it as well, but no one thought to examine their baggage, as it were, to see what they possessed. When they were searched closely and carefully, ultimately, it was discovered that except for raising the hands during the Prayer (rafa yadayn), saying ameen aloud after the Imam finishes reciting Surah Fatihah (amin bil-jahr), or folding one’s hands over the chest, and other such matters of secondary importance, they possessed nothing. All they stressed upon, for exam - ple, was the importance of reciting Surah Fatihah behind the Imam in congrega - tional Prayer, whether or not one understands the meaning of the actual chapter itself. Muhammad Husain emphasised these sorts of issues for twenty years in his periodicals, but ultimately all of these useless discussions led to nothing of spirituality. In the end, the force of these sharp tongues move the sorts of people aforementioned to dishonour and insult the Four Imams. p. 284 ْبَْصَُرُ َ ْْل ُ ٗه ُِكُ ُر ُْدْ َّت َ ْل ٌ َْشَْي ٖ ٗه ِ ُل ِْثْ َم َ ُك ََْيَْس ْل