The Reality of Khilafah — Page 164
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 164 َ ُنتُم ْ ل َ تَعْلَمُون ک ْر ِ إِن ِّک َبصَار ِ وَاسْئَلُوْا أَهْل َ الذ ْأ َا أُولِي ال ی فَاعْتَبِرُوا [Consider, O you who have insight, and ask the people who remember, if you do not know]. If you ask why you should believe that this narrative is true, the answer is that this has been an ongoing bone of contention between two religions, and to merely claim that their scriptures have been interpolated cannot take away from the consistency of this narrative. It could only have been rejected if the Holy Quran itself had denied it. However, since neither the Holy Quran nor Hadith refute this episode, we cannot possibly deny it. 1 Even if we were to admit that those scriptures were not revealed by God and were purely the works of men, we could not do away with that which has been established by the unanimous testi- mony of two religions as historical truth, nor can we consider it to be dubious and conjectural. We do not deny the existence of R a machandra and Krishna and Vikram a ditya and Buddha just because we believe that the scriptures that speak of them were not revealed by God. The reason we do not deny them is because of historical consistency. Some semi-mullahs are so stuck in the pit of ignorance that they use the word ta h r i f [interpolation] out of context, and ignore—and even try to erase—consistent historical evidence. It is a pity that there are those among the Muslims who are called maulaw i s and yet they refuse to accept historical verities and unduly bring in irrelevant points as proofs of interpolation. They do not understand that if the Jews had done the interpolation, 1. ٭ The fact that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, described the Messiah, who was to come, as part of his ummah also proves that he believed the Messiah’s descent to be nothing other than a spiritual phenomenon. —Author