Truth Prevails — Page 65
( 65 ) Moreover, coming down on an Ummati , in its nature and fullness if this Wahyi is found to be of a perfect degree, under the statement in this behalf of the Promised Messiah, as recorded in his Alwasiyat the Prophets agree that the Wahyi of such a degree is the Nabuwwat in itself. Writes the Promised Messiah, in Alwasiyat : “When that communion, in its nature and fullness, reaches the point of perfection, and there is no impurity or denseness left in it, and quite openly when it embraces knowledge of things in the domains of the Unknown, that Wahyi , in another style of expression, is called Nabuwwat , this being a point where all the Prophets agree. Therefore, it was not possible that the people, of whom it had been said (in the Holy Quran) that they were the best, because raised, and reared for the benefit of mankind, and who had been taught to pray ‘Guide us to the straight path – the path of those on whom had descended the blessings of the Lord’ – all the members of this Ummat would have gone deprived of this high rank, not even one single individual equal to the task of rising to it. ” ( Alwasiyat , page 16) Evidently, therefore, Mr. Faruqi is not justified in laying it down that only Tashri’i Wahyi is called the Wahyi Nabuwwat. But of course, he would be quite right to say that the Wahyi of Nabuwwat , which descended on the Promised Messiah was not of the kind that embodies a new Sharia. In this respect, it was only the Wahyi of Nabuwwat-i-zillia. Question of kufr and Iman It is not entirely correct on the part of Mr. Faruqi when he says: “As a ‘ Mojaddid ’ comes only to revive or renew an existing faith, hence one who denies him does not become an infidel. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 22) On this point it should be remembered that we have never called any muslims, who denies the Promised Messiah, an ‘Infidel’ or disbeliever of Islam. Maulvi Muhammad Ali, the late leader of Lahore Section in his book ‘ An - nabuwwat - fil-Islam ’ states that it is necessary to believe in a Mojaddid and his denial makes a man Fasiq , ‘rebellious’. As the Promised Messiah was not a mere Mojaddid but he has been called by Allah a Nabi , and Rasul , therefore he has himself indicated plainly, for instance in Khutba Ilhamia , that the person to whom he conveys his message, he should yield faith, and not become a kafir , not become a disbeliever. As we see it, kufr is of two kinds. Refusal to accept a Nabi , bearing a new Sharia is of one kind. Refusal to accept an Ummati Nabi stands on a different level. Since the Holy Prophet Mohammad is the bearer of a new Sharia , refusal