Their Ulema — Page 53
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 53 ] person who is not a prophet could not have revealed what lay ahead in the centuries to come. ( Tanq iha t- e-Abul-A‘l a Maud u d i , p. 27 under caption, ‘Dauri Jad i d ki B i m a r Qaumei n ’ [Ailing Nations of Modern Times]) This analysis is worth reading. Why has the Islamic Civili- zation collapsed? Why has all this death and destruction become rampant? Because those ulema to whom Muslims turned to were not prophets of Allah whose vision is free from the constraints of time and situation. Hidden Message Listen very carefully to this extraordinary statement, which carries an important message. Maula vi Maud u d i describes why these old ulema had failed and why corruption spread in the Muslim ummah. It is because these ulema were expected to find solutions to the problems faced by Muslims and respond to the onslaught of troubles that fol- lowed them incessantly with changing times. However, Maula vi Sahib further says, these ulema were incapable of facing these conditions. Only Allah, or a prophet who gets his wisdom from Allah, knows the ultimate truth of the matter. ’ He says that both these scenarios are absent. How can debris that had built up over centuries be removed [from the wisdom and truth of Islam]? Having said all this, he asserts that people should listen to him and follow him