73 Divisions in Islam and One True Jama'at

73 Divisions in Islam and One True Jama'at — Page 11

73 DIVISIONS IN ISLAM AND ONE TRUE JAMA’AT 11 Messia h (as) , only the followers of Messiah can form a Jama’at which resembles Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and his companion s (ra). To establish that the above mentioned three conditions were fulfilled, I shall present here my translation of a portion of an editorial published in Urdu in Pakistani daily newspaper “Nawai Waqt” [5]. “ One of the special importance of this decision has been that on it the consensus of Ummah has been in substantially correct manner. Throughout the history of Islam, such an overwhelming complete consensus has never been reached on any important topic. Other t han the big religious scholars, holders of Shar’ i a, all the political leaders and political leaders of each group have agreed on this consensus. Other than these, all sufia karam, aarifeen Billah, the leaders of Tassawaf and practices had complete agreemen t. Excluding Qadianis all the rest of 72 sects which are considered to be of Muslim s , agreed and are happy on the solution of this affair. Among the leaders of the nation and a’maideen, there does not appear to be any group which does not have a joyous attitude towards this decision. Nation should take a notice of this. ” And that was not the only newspaper which testified the number to be 72 following is another testimony of an English newspaper published from U. K. [6]. “By a constitutional amendment the National Assembly