Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 18
(India) Seminary of Islamic Study. Maulana Qasim was a popular. Muslim leader and a formidable debater against the leaders of other religions. He was declared an apostate and infidel, by 12 ulemas of Mecca and 32 of Medina, because he held that the coming of a prophet could not and would not abrogate the position of the Holy Prophet Muhammad as the khatamanNabiyyeen, the Seal of the Prophets. . Tantum religio potuit swadere malorum! So great were the enormities that religion could induce human beings to perpetrate. . So wrote Lucretius the Roman Epicurean Philosopher even before the coming of Christianity. (Translated by historian Arnold. Toynbee. ). When in the seventh century AD the world had sunk to the depth of unrighteousness, God had sent His Seal of the Prophets and through him His perfect Religion of Islam in the Quran for mankind. Soon after the Message of Islam was delivered, the. Messenger-Prophet had left this world. The task of taking Islam to mankind or bringing mankind to Islam was entrusted to the. Prophet's Companions, who were taught and practised esoteric. Islam or Sufism (so says, among others, Ibn Khaldun in his. Muquaddima, though the name 'Sufism' had not yet been invented). Just as during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet Islam could not be preached peacefully, unhindered in Arabia, which necessitated and compelled wars between Muslims and polytheist. Arabia, the same happened after the Prophet between Muslim. Arabia and non-Muslim world around. The Companions of the. Prophet lived, fought and died, all for God, and not for themselves, so says Sir John Glubb in his Great Arab Conquest. The phenomenal progress of Islam was maintained during 25 years of the reigns of the first, second and third Caliphs-Abu Bakr, (The substance of the above statements of the last thirteen Hijra centuries has been taken from the Urdu booklet, Chosen Saints of God and the Bigoted Mullas, by Maulana Dost Muhammad Shahid, and translated into English by Mr. Muhammad Akram Khan Ghauri, published by The London Mosque, 16. Gressenhall Road, London SW185QL. ) 18