The Reality of Khilafah — Page 152
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 152 pen, and do not transgress. God has clearly laid down His will in the Holy Quran that the pen shall be countered with the pen, the sword with the sword. Since we have never heard of Christian clergymen raising the sword for the propagation of their faith, if we tried to counter them with the sword, it would amount to abandoning the Quran; nay, it is outright misguidance and dis- obedience of Divine injunctions. The fact is that people who are devoid of spirituality want to fulfil their own selfish desires under the guise of Islam. May God grant them understanding. People of the Afghan temperament will disapprove of this teaching, but I only care for expressing the truth and not for appeasing anyone. Another extremely hazardous belief that is sabotaging Islam spiritually is that the maulaw i s await a Mahdi who would drown the world in blood and start killing as soon as he made his appear- ance. They also attribute the same signs to their fictitious Messiah who, they say, will descend from heaven and kill all unbelievers and spare only those who accept Islam. One with such ideas can- not be a true benefactor of his people; in fact, it would be frightful to travel alone with such a person lest he tries to kill you thinking that you are an unbeliever, while he remains ignorant of his own unbelief. Remember, that to present such nonsensical beliefs as an integral part of Islam and the Holy Quran is to bring ridicule upon Islam and to give the opponents occasion to mock our reli- gion. No logic can justify that a person should come and start kill- ing people without having first conveyed his message to them, or that he should strive to destroy the very government under whose protection he lives. It seems as if the souls of the people who hold such beliefs have become completely corrupted and the qualities of human compassion have been strangled within them, or that