The Reality of Khilafah — Page 88
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 88 Allah, the Best of Creators, and this is what He points to in the verse: 1 ْتَهَباَشَت ْمُهُبْوُلُق Let those who have been given the power of reasoning reflect on this. In addition to this similarity, something else might happen by the command of Allah, who is the Greatest and Most Powerful. He may despoil the people who follow a Prophet with such cor- ruption that they open the doors of apostasy on themselves. However, Allah’s wisdom demands that He does not torment or destroy them but instead calls them to the truth and has mercy on them. He is indeed Ar h amur-R ah im i n [the One who is the most Merciful of all who show mercy]. Allah will then awaken a deceased Prophet who was previously sent to those people and direct this Prophet’s attention to them as if he had awoken from a slumber. He will find them steeped in injustice and corruption, exceeding all limits, and in a state of woeful misguidance. He will see their hearts filled with prejudice, falsity, transgression, and evil. Upon this, his heart and soul will become distressed and full of apprehension. He will wish to come down to reform his people and to convince them through evidence, but he will not find any way to do this. Allah’s plan then comes to his help and makes him succeed in his desire. Allah creates someone like him, whose heart and nature are similar to his heart and nature, and causes his will to descend on his peer, and the former will rejoice at this for he 1. Their hearts are alike ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:119). [Publisher]