Reply to a Mockery — Page 121
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 121 One of the main purposes in the advent of the Promised Mahdi was to re-establish the Ummah on the Shariah given to the Prophet Muhammad s as and to remind the people of what they had forgotten. In fact, he was to be the greatest Mujaddid of the Shariah. So why is the Maulaw i so critical when Hadrat Mirza Sahib presents the true Shariah and announces that mankind will be delivered from sin and weakness by following it? Maulaw i Sahib! Would you kindly explain what misery and what calamity did the Muslim Ummah beg the Almighty to deliver them from? Those who felt the anguish of the Muslim Ummah rendered this heartfelt cry: ادمح اک زامہن ےس اٹم اجات ےہ انم ن ی د� رہق ےہ اے می رے اهلل! � ی وہات ک ی ا ےہ اظرہ وہےت ی ہ ن سک ےئل دہمئ ربقح � دخا� ی ا ک ی ا ےہ ی ی ےک ارت ےن م ع�یس ر ی د� The religion of Ahmad is being obliterated from this earth, This is a cruel fate my Allah! What is happening? Why is the true Mahdi not appearing? delay in the second advent of Jesus? ( Al- H aqqu s - S a rih f i Ithb a ti H ay a til-Mas ih , Maulaw i Bash i r Ahmad Sahsaw a ni, p. 133, Ma t ba‘ An sa r i , Delhi, 1309 AH) Maulaw i Abul-Khair Naw a b N u rul- H asan Kh a n, at the start of the 14th century of Hijrah, was waiting so restlessly for someone to either deliver the Ummah from a vortex or to throw them into the midst of one. He wrote: