Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 303
— Part III 296 representing the hand of God, no man has a right to bear an oath of allegiance at his sa hand. It presents the Prophet’s sa hand accepting the oath of allegiance from other humans as a proxy for God. This is because a person who contracts on behalf of another person has to be duly authorised. Throughout the Holy Quran, in the case of the oath of allegiance at the hands of all Prophets as , the Holy Quran speaks of them as recipients of God’s revelation before they were authorised to take the oath of allegiance of other humans. This indicates that man may never bow in religious obedience to another human, unless he has previously prostrated himself to the will of God. Had it not been so, to bow to the will of the Prophet sa could have been taken as idolatry. By not comprehending the true import of this verse some people have actually alleged the Holy Quran to be teaching idolatry while in fact it is exactly the opposite. The Bahais in particular raise this objection and once I had the experience of successfully confronting a Bahai on this issue. In a question and answer session, a Bahai challenged me by referring to the same verse I have quoted. He argued that the statement that 'they are only taking the oath of allegiance to God' cannot be considered as metaphorical because the remaining verse removes this understanding by explaining that: over the hands of those who are taking the oath of allegiance is actually the hand of God and not of Muhammad sa.