True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 91
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 91 ] Distinction between the True and the False Claimants Now I will cite to you the statement of Im a m Ibn-e- Qayyim. He is the same outstanding scholar and philoso- pher who has been mentioned in the White Paper as a great Islamic thinker. What is his view of why the claimants are opposed. He says that: Ever since the world has been created, many false claimants to prophethood made their claims and dis- played some pomp and glory in the beginning, but they could not achieve their objectives nor were they granted a long time period. The Prophets of Allah the Almighty and their followers annihilated them and rendered them totally helpless. This is the way of Allah from the beginning of times and so will it remain. ( Z a dul-Ma‘ a d , vol. 1, p. 500–501, published in Kanpur. ) These are splendid words of wisdom. Let me pause and comment on these before going on. Ibn-e-Qayyim was really a great scholar of Islam. I am aware that some of the great scholars did make some mistakes of judgment but they certainly were great thinkers. They studied the issues with wisdom and depth and extracted pearls of wisdom. When he says that the false claimants showed some pomp and splendor in the beginning, he is describing a sign of the false claimants. The fact of the matter is, and the history of Islam bears it out, that the false claimant never made a