The Reality of Khilafah — Page 44
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 44 of God, rather it is the creation of some fabricators. After all, they claim that all the Companions were treacherous usurpers and that not a single one of them was honest or faithful. If this is the case, then what do they rely on for their religious guidance? What Book of Allah do they have in their hands to instruct them? This shows that they are a people deprived of everything. They have no religion and no Divine scripture. For, if they believe that the Companions turned infidels and hypocrites and became apos- tates, and were engrossed in idolatry and were blemished with the stain of disbelief, and did not purify themselves, then they must also maintain that the Quran is inauthentic and interpolated. They must maintain that words were added and removed from the Quran, that it is no longer in its original form, and that it has lost its pristine purity. They cannot avoid this conclusion after having insisted with such impudence that those who made the Quran available to the righteous believers were themselves a group of dis- believers, traitors and apostates. If they believe that the Quran is lost to us and that whoever collated it was a cursed disbeliever, then they must undoubtedly have lost faith in the Word that was revealed to Abul-Q a sim, Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n [the Seal of the Prophets] and the doors of knowledge must have been closed upon them. Further, it becomes incumbent upon them to deny all Divine scriptures since they can no longer testify to the truth of the Prophets or believe in their Books. Let us for a moment assume that all the Companions apostatised after the departure of the Seal of the Prophets and only ‘Al i , may Allah be pleased with him, and a few others alongside him adhered to the illuminating Shariah; and that even those few people, despite their faith, were inclined to hide the truth and their faith for fear of the enemy