Tadhkirah — Page 793
1905 793 November 20, 1905 Translation: [Arabic] I am with you. O son of the Messenger of Allah. [Urdu] Gather together all the Muslims 974 who are on the earth [Arabic] [ on one religion ]. [Badr, vol. 1, no. 37, November 24, 1905, p. 2 and al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 41, November 24, 1905, p. 1] 974 Note by Hadrat Maul ana Jalal-ud-Din Shams ra : The Promised Messiah as said: The commandment ** [gather together all the Muslims who are on the earth on one faith], is of a very special type. Commandments are of two kinds. Of one kind are legal commandments like observing prayer, paying Zakat, refraining from murder etc. Such commandments carry with them a kind of prophecy that some people will contravene these commandments. For instance, the Jews were commanded not to pervert the Torah, which indicated that some of them would be guilty of it, and so it proved. In short, these are legal commandments, and the term applied to them is: Shari‘at. The other kind of commandments are Divine decrees. For instance: [We commanded the fire to become cool and safe;] and this came about exactly as commanded. The commandment in this revelation is of this type. Allah the Almighty has decreed that all Muslims on the earth should unite [in one faith] and that will certainly come about. Of course, this does not mean that no differences will be left. There would be differences but they would be negligible and of no consequence. [al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 42, November 30, 1905, p. 2] ** Note by Maul ana Abdul Latif Bahawalpuri: On page 53 of the Notebook of the Revelations of the Promised Messiah as , the revelation is recorded in Arabic as following: