Truth Prevails — Page 140
( 140 ) Method for Election of the Khalifa The simple and easy way for the election of the Khalifa suggested by Islam has been described by Ibni Khaldun as follows: “After it is conceded that the selection of Imam , in a collective procedure, the burden of the implied duty falls on those considered capable for discharging the obligation, while the mass of the body politic would be expected to accept the choice made, and proceed to render allegience and obedience to the Khalifa, the moment he emerges from the deliberations, since the Commandment from Allah stands: ‘Obey Allah and the Apostle, and those in positions of authority over you. ’” In his Al-Khilafa , the learned editor of Al-Minar of Egypt has supported this view. He has quoted from Allama Sa’eeduddin Taftazani, out of Sharhil Maqasid, wherein he agrees with the authorities on the subject to hold that capable people in this behalf would be the Ulama , and the prominent people in the body politic. ( Al-Khilafa , page 11) In the procedure laid down for the purpose in the Ahmadiyya Movement, these statements have been kept in view. It is true that Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, in his Lecture entitled “ Khilafat-i-Haqqa Islamia ”, has also referred to the simple procedure in practice for the selection, or election, of the Pope. But in the same Lecture there is also due notice taken of the view expressed by the learned editor of Al-Minar , as well as the foundation on which Allama Rashid Raza has taken this stand. From the reference to the procedure for selecting or electing the Pope. Mr. Faruqi tries to conclude that this is the true interpretation of a dream in sleep the Promised Messiah had seen, that Mahmud had brought with him into the house, an Englishman which word Mr. Faruqi takes to mean the Dajjal. Similarly he refers to an Ilham of the Promised Messiah, namely, (we shall send it back to the Christians) Tazkira page 766; and he concludes that this, too, seems to have been intended to warn against the cunning of the Khalifa at Qadian, and the Jama’at going astray in his hands. He says the pronoun “ha” is feminine, which indicates a body of men characterised by a feminine gait, accepting a similarity with the Christians in ordinary life and social culture. (Truth Triumphs, Page 45, 46) These are only so many more wrong statements by Mr. Faruqi; so many more distortion of texts, to give a measure of seeming plausibility to the meaning and conclusions he wants to extract from them. In the dream under reference, he quietly adds “ Dajjal ”, after the word “ Angrez ”, Britisher; our home, or our house, he interprets to mean the Ahmadiyya Community, which is not the meaning in which the Promised Messiah took this expression. Nor does the pronoun “ ha ” stand for the Ahmadiyya Movement. This Ilham stands in Tazkira , page 284, in its complete form. It has been interpreted by the Promised Messiah himself in Tazkira 292 as follows: