Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 54
T E S T I MON Y OF T HE HOLY Q U R AN 54 verse refers only to the Companions and that true Khilafat ended in their age, so that henceforth there would be no trace of Khilafat in Islam until the Day of Judgement; as if, like a short-lived dream, Khilafat lasted for only thirty years and, thereafter, Islam suffered an eternal doom. But may I ask: Can any righteous person believe that the blessings of the shariah of Moses as and his Khilafat con - tinued for 1,400 years without interruption, but the blessings of that Prophet s as —who has been declared to be ‘the Most Exalted Messenger’ and ‘the Best of all the Prophets’ and whose shariah will last till doomsday—were limited really only to his own time and God Almighty did not desire that examples of his blessings should be manifested through his spiritual Khulaf a ’ for a long time to come? I shudder at hearing such statements. It is a pity that such people, too, are indeed called Muslims who utter such blasphemous words, by way of complete insolence and cunning, that apparently the future holds no more Islamic blessings; rather, they have long since come to an end. Besides, it is strange logic to infer from the word minkum that since the Companions were the prime addressees, therefore, this Khilafat was limited to them. If the Holy Quran were interpreted in this way, it would amount to a bigger transgression than that of the Jews. Now let it be clear that the word minkum has occurred approximately eighty-two times in the Holy Quran and on all those occasions, except for two or three where a specific context has been given, the word minkum stands invariably for all the Muslims who will be born until doomsday. Now, by way of example, I write a few of those verses in which the word minkum is found: