Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 22
22 Hadhrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad And whoso believes in Allah and acts righteously, the Grace of God would be sent upon him and he would be made to enter heavens Khaalideena Feehaa Abadaa — and they shall all be dwellers of these heavens. The expression of Mann has been described in Khaalideena. The Real Meaning of Mujaddid When we notice the sayings of the early great researchers and Auliya Allah — the saints of God, we find that they have connoted the same meaning of Mann which I have taken in the foregoing. Imam Almanawi explaining Mann Yojaddido says, Mann ( ) purports one person or more than one person. Allama Ibn Katheer says, each nation claims that it is only their Imam that has been referred to in this Hadith. But the clear fact is this, that it should be applied to the divine scholars of each group. Alqamee says, by Tajdeed (the regeneration) is meant that he would revive afresh all those values of Islam which people have discarded. He says further: Remember it well that a Mujaddid does not announce his claim of being a Mujaddid , rather he is recognized by the people with circumstances, conditions and through his services which he renders to Islam. Shaikh Muhammad Tahir Gujratee (1509-1578), who was a great divine of the sixteenth century, has given a note on this Hadith, that instead of being in unison regarding its expression the divines have differed. They have differed in recognizing as to who was Mujaddid of which century and who was not; and each sect of them has applied it to its own Imam. Nevertheless, it is more appropriate to apply it to a general expression and should not be particularized with Fuqahaa (the jurists), because the Muslims certainly had been greatly benefitted by