Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 481
28 September 1905 481 mentioned in the a ha d i th that the Mahdi will wage war when he comes. Promised Messiah as — You do not know. This concept is completely false. All a ha d i th of this type about the Mahdi have been declared by the Mu h addith i n [scholars of Hadith] to be majr u h [questionable]. There is only one hadith, 1 ٰی س ْ َّی ِ ع اَلَ ِ ا َ ی ِ د ْ ھ َ م َ اَل ٰی س ْ َّی ِ ع اَلَ ِ ا َ ی ِ د ْ ھ َ م َ اَل ; meaning, ‘There is no Mahdi to come except for the Promised Messiah’, the very Promised One who is referred to in [ S a hih al-]Bukh a r i as 2 ْ م ُ ك ِْنْ م ْ م ُ ك ُ م َا م ِ ا ْ م ُ ك ِْنْ م ْ م ُ ك ُ م َا م ِ ا [ Im a mukum minkum — ‘your Imam from among you’]; that is, the one who is to come from this very Ummah. Further, it is not written anywhere about him that he will fight wars. On the contrary, in [ S a hih al- ] Bukh a r i , which is ِہللا ِ ّب َِتَا ك َ د ْ ٰع ََب ِ ب ُ َت ُ ك ْ ل ا ُّ ح َـ ص َ ا ِہللا ِ ّب َِتَا ك َ د ْ ٰع ََب ِ ب ُ َت ُ ك ْ ل ا ُّ ح َـ ص َ ا [the most authentic book after the Book of Allah] it is clearly written that 3 َ ّب ْ ر َ ح ْـ ل ُ ا ع َ ض َ ی َ ّب ْ ر َ ح ْـ ل ُ ا ع َ ض َ ی [ ya d a‘ul- h arb —‘he will end warfare’]. In other words, there will be no religious wars during his time. This is because there is no need for war- fare anymore. Our adversaries do not wage war against us. They criticize with the pen. So, how great a weakness would it be failing to reply to the pen with the pen, but rather resorting to weapons for this? In such a situation when attacks are occurring with the pen, it is verily our duty to stop them with the pen. Moreover, if it was the intent of Almighty Allah that the advancement of Islam during this era would be through war, 1. Al-Mustadrak ‘ala a s - S a hih ayn, Kit a bul-Fitan wal-Mal a him, regarding the hadith of Sa’d ibn Malik, Hadith 8363 [Publisher] 2. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a b A ha d i th al-Anbiy a ’, B a b Nuz u l ‘ I s a ibn Maryam ‘alay- hima as-Sal a m, Hadith 3449 [Publisher] 3. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a b A ha d i th al-Anbiy a ’, B a b Nuz u l ‘ I s a ibn Maryam ‘alay- hima as-Sal a m, vol. 1, p. 490, Qadeemi Kutub Khana, Karachi, published in 1961 [Publisher]