With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 204
204 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n personalities of the past agreed with the Ahmad ī position, their views do not define Isl ā m, and Muslims are not obligated to follow them. ” 218 This is a very cunning way of covering up the weakness of his claims. What Farhan Khan is afraid of is the fact that he will be proved wrong and the mujaddid ī n are shown to disagree with him and agree with the Ahmadiyya Muslim position. This will be demonstrated in this chapter, Insh ā ’ All ā h ! The fact of the matter is that the references quoted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at are from scholars and mujaddid ī n who are accepted by all Muslims, not just the Ahmad ī Muslims. It has been the practice of common people ever since the earlier centuries of Isl ā m that whenever a claim was made in such a way that was beyond their comprehension or was apparently against their popularly held beliefs, they would oppose it, sometimes violently. Almost all of the holy saints of Isl ā m experienced this. For example, despite his very high rank amongst the mujaddid ī n , Hazrat Mujaddid Alaf Th ā n ī rh was declared to be a disbeliever because of his broad knowledge and understanding of the attributes of All ā h. Unfortunately, the same has happened today with the opposition of Hazrat Mirz ā Ghul ā m Ahmad as of Q ā di ā n who claimed to be the Messiah and Mahd ī of this age. Although his claims are exactly in accordance with those foretold for the Messiah by the Holy Prophet sa and by the saints and mujaddid ī n of the past, people still oppose him, due to ignorance, just as all prophets were opposed. Similarly, Hazrat Muhy-ud-D ī n Ibn ‘Arab ī rh , who is known to be one of the greatest saints of Isl ā m, was the first amongst the suf ī s to explain the concept of wahdat-ul-wuj ū d (the concept of believing All ā h to be One, but being everything). He claimed that All ā h has ordered him to do so and if he had not 218 Khan, With Love, Page 75