Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 57
This is the testimony of those whose children al'e today bent destroying us root and branch. May Allah guide _t. hemaright I A point may arise here that, according to some people, the II hove reference to the second cycle of Caliphate is applicable to the term of Hazrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz of the Umwite dynasty. That would indeed be too far. fetched an interpretation of the tradition. for, the Caliphate based on prophet- ic values prt'sumes the existence of an appropriate or. ianisation and implies· a reiular epoch· in "terms of time. 'fhe Caliphate of Hazrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz was confined to one individual's term which again was too ·short. lh•ed {lasting a little over 2 · years) to have been the subject of the Holy Prophet's (peil<'e of Allah he on him and His choicest blessings for ever and evermore) prediction of a cycle of ren- naisanC'e on the pattern of the early Caliphate of the Holy companions. It is known to all students of history that the caliphate of Hazrat Omar bin Abdal Aziz was sand-wiched between tyrannical imperialism and oppressive rule and not an indepen- dent epoch. Oppressive despotism long continued after the brief rule of Hazrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz. 'rhe tradition under discussion foretells the emerg- en<'e of the second cycle of caliphate after the expiry ot the term of oppressivedespotic rule. Clearly therefore the Caliphate of Hazrat Omar bin Abdul Aziz could not have bet'n the subject of the prophecy. Besides the last words of the tradition "then the Prophet was silmt " definitelv indicate that the reference here was to the cycie of caliphate which was desti- ned to initinte a new chapter in the history of Islam, by the foundation of a new revolutionary epoch. The Caliphate of Hazrat Omar bin Abdul Azi1. is in no way a milestone on the road to a new era. From whatever angle we examine the subiect, it would be sheer obstinacy to foree this 57