True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 80
[ 80 ] The followers of Maul a n a Maud u d i , who are eager to silence the Ahmad i s, and the Maul a n a himself, admit of the gravity of the situation. The vice, the evil, and inequity plaguing the world today has never been seen before. No one except a Prophet can set it straight. A review of the history of nations, as noted in the Holy Qur’an, reveals that Almighty Allah has never been unmindful of the needs of His servants. He has been bless- ing them with His warners, rejuvenators and Prophets whenever and wherever the slightest signs of moral turpi- tude and spiritual weakness occurred. A Prophet was raised to put an end to disparity and dishonesty in weights and measures. Again, a Prophet was raised to stamp out misuse of public funds or personal property. In short, Allah the Almighty has been raising Prophets to eradicate even minor evils. Why has the way of Allah changed now that there are countless spiritual ills, but the need for a divine rejuvenator is denied. That reminds me of the saying of an English thinker who said that, leaving everything else aside, if we consider the evil of homosexual- ity, there is great justification for the people of Lot to make a strong protest on the Day of Judgment as to why they were destroyed, but the people of the present age, who exceed them in this evil millions of times, were not destroyed. New abominations are continuously invented. New ways of oppression, tyranny and injustice are born. Yet,