My Letter to YMD on 25.12.2001. (9th Shawwal 1422 A.H.)

To

The Editor,

Yo

ung Muslim Digest,

Bangalore.

Subject: Mehdaviath

Sir,

As-Salaam-o-Ala

i kum-wa-Rahmathulla hi wa Barakathu

Allah (swt) has bestowed you with a facility to communicate with people through your magzine (YMD). You have to use it to unite the people & establish brotherhood, harmony & affection between them, showing

the facts and experience you have encountered after lot of thinking & researching on it. Subhan Allah, you are doing a good job. But besides you have misused it, by writing Mehdevis as Non-Muslims & tried to spoil the brotherhood & harmonius relations between Mehdevis & Non-Mehdevis, which we are enjoying from centuries.

Firstly : As you said, "Anyone who pronounces his belief in the oneness of Allah & the messenger-ship of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), as the final prophet,

does enter into the fold of Islam", Is 100% true. We Mahdevis not only pronounces the kalima but also stick to it. For has Kalima is our breathe, Kalima is our Blood and Kalima is our everything. We believe that Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) is the last & final prophet to the mankind.

Secondly: You have quoted a tradition "A Mehdi will arrive who will fill the world (Al-Arz) with peace & justice as it was filled with strife & tyranny before his arrival". Which is reported by Hz. Ibn-e-Masud Rz, a sahabi of

prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

Here, the concept of Mehdi (AS)'s spreading justice throughout the world (Al-Arz) will (auzubillah) contradict the Holy Quran. Allah (swt) said in the Holy Quran (11:118) "If thy Lord had so willed, He could have made mankind one people: but they will not cease to dispute", (11:119) "Expect those on whom thy Lord Hath bestowed His Mercy: And for this did He create them: & the word of thy Lord shall

be fulfilled:

'I will fill Hell with Jinns & men all together'".

That means, Allah did not want to make them one millat, And all men do not accept correct guidance & many will be put

in hell.

Further Quran says in (10:99) "If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed. All who are on earth! Wilt thou then compel mankind, against their will, to believe!."

This means to say that all people would not accept Iman.

Summing up the above verses it is clear that, there will not be peace & justices (or Mutual understanding) in this world.

Further, it is there in the Quran with reference to Christian's (5:14) "… So 'estranged them, with enmity & hatred between one and the other, to the Day of Judgment. And, soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.'"

And in (5:54) with reference to Jews "…. Amongst them we have placed enmity & hatred tell the Day of Judgment". Soban Rz narated that the prophet (PBH) has said

" When in my ummah this sword will commence its work, it will not stop still the Day of Judgment."

Summing up the above verses and hadith we can say that the world will be filled with Strife & Tyranny till dooms day.

From the period of Adam (PBUH) till now, the behavior ordained by Allah with regards to human beings had not changed in almost all spheres of life. The basic behavior of human being will not change in future also. And Peace and Justice will not be established till dooms day.

Allah goes on to tell (2:88) "… How little it is they believe! ". It criticizes that majority of the 'People of the book' who did not respect there prophetic messages & turned away from the Divine guidance. Indirectly, the criticism could apply to those people of the Prophet's very own

community who did not heed his message.

"… But most of them are perverted transgressors "(3:110) Allah said to the prophet (PBUH) "We sent thee not, but as a mercy for all creatures." (21:107). In spite of this,

still the world has not accepted to be Muslims in his (PBUH) very own time. Then how can you imagine that all the people of the world would become Muslims & Peace & Justice will be filled in the days of the Mehdi of the end time, who is not

at all a Prophet but an Imam?

Thirdly: Also in the above tradition (quoted by you) Al-Arz (the world) does not mean to say the whole world, but a part of the world.

To prove this let us look in to the 128th verse of Surah-e-Al-Araf, "Said Moses to his people 'Pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience & constancy; for the earth (Al-Arz) is Allah's to give as a heritage to such of his servants as He pleaseth & the end is (best) for the righteous."

Here Al-Arz means Egypt & not the whole world.

Again in the next worse "They said: 'we have had (nothing but) trouble, both before & after thou comesth to us.' He said: 'It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy

and make you inheritors in the earth (Al-Arz); that so He may try you by your deeds."

Again here also Al-Arz means Egypt & not the whole world.

Fourthly: It is true that the Mehdi we believe in was from the kinfolk of Prophet (PBUH).

Fifthly: According to the tradition you have mentioned, Mehdi & Jesus will appear in the world during the same time.

Which is cent % false. We believe this according to the sayings reported from Prophet (PBUH) "How could my Ummah ever come to ruin, with Me at its beginning, Jesus son of Mary coming at its ending & the Mehdi from among

My descendents appearing in its middle".

The prophet has also warned against the appearance of two leaders of the community (Khalifah) at the same time, saying "If the

people swear allegiance to two leaders at the same time, then kill the one who has appeared second." It was found in the text "Mishkat Al-Masabhi" by Wali-al-din –Mohammed

al-Tirmidhi. That is Mehadi and Jesus will not come at the same time but first Mehadi will come and then at the end Jeses will come. Which implies, they will not fight with the Dajjal together and will not offer namaz in the same congregation with one as Imam and the other as follower .

Sheikh Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani (722 AH-791AH) a famous scholar of logic, rhetoric, grammar, theology & jurisprudence of Samarqand during the rule of Timur; after a lot

of research wrote in his book, "As for what people say about the Mehdi following in obedience Jesus, or Jesus following in obedience the Mehdi, this is a matter on which

there is no reliable proof either way, so no body should pronounce the truth to be one way & not the other".

Sixthly : Hz Mehdi spread justice on Al-arz by his Dawath of Mehdiyath and Islam and

there was no need for him of a kingship and Government to do so.

Seventhly : With reference to Murshidism, you are right. We follow our Murshid's advice and they advice us according to Quran & Hadis.

Eighthly : With reference to Tarawih prayers you have approached a wrong Mehdevi. May be is too lazy to offer all prayers. But Mehdevi's of strong faith offer almost all

Tarawih prayers irrespective of age and sex in there mosques.

Finally: We follow the shariah and know the dictates of our religion and exact them. We cherish the memory of all four of the prophet's close companions, and believe that all

four legal methods are valued based on the truth. Our practices are not against the religious law at all, and we only act on that which is in accord with the Quran and the

example of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Our doctrines are surely within the bounds of the Sunni community. We declare that the Mehdi had already came and gone. He said

"Mazhab-e-ma Kitab ullah –o- itheba-e-Mohammed Rasool-ullah". i.e; My religion is of Quran & I follow Mohammed Rasool-ullah (PBUH). Besides five mandatory obligations of Isslam Mehdi Maud thought his follower,

1. Tark – e-Dunya (Renunciation of world implying Apathy

towards worldly lust which coming the way of Pure

love of Allah)

2. Uzlat-az-khalakh (Retirement, avoiding as far as

possible mixing up with crowds)

3. Sohbat – e- sadikhain ( Being in the company of pious people )

iv) Tawakal (Reliance on Allah in all matters)

v) Zikr – e- kaseer (Always remembering Allah and repeating His name

vi) Talab –e-Deedar – e-Khuda

(Intense desire for the vision of Allah )

vii) Hijrath (Exile or Migration for the sake of Allah) etc.,

This is our Iman, please check, investigate, research (or what ever you call it) up on Mehdevi's & then please clari

fy your doubts. For further doubts please visit our Ullema's & clarify your doubts. You can also visit our web-sites al-bayaan.com & promisedmehdi.com.

Thanking you,

WasSalaam,JazakAllah Your's in Islam

INAYATH-ULLA-KHAN

E-mail : softinu@rediffmail.com Mandya.

Date : 25.12.2001. (9th Shawwal 1422 A.H.)

Place : Mandya .