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Munadi says that this prediction concerns the deen and it includes the majority of people
- not all. Hence none can object to it by saying that many are not included in the
generality of the statement. Alqamah reports tht Sayyidina Abdullah bin Masood
(Radiallahu anhu) said: “No day will come when the following day will not be less in
respect of knowledge. And when there will be no Ulema to enjoin good works and
prohibit from evil, all will come to destruction.” (Jami-us-Sagheer)
According to a Hadeeth Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “The pious ones
will pass away one by one and people will be left like rotten barley or bad, (worminfested)
dates, of whom Allah will take no notice.” (Mishkat, Bukhari)
So we see that there will be decline in religious application and deem attitudes. There will
be weakness and lessening of zeal. Therefore under these circumstances while striving
for goodness and well-being one should look upon the present situation. In this present
era the people who have seen the eminent elders and derived spiritual benefit from their
company and grace, now turn away from elders of the following generation because they
have found them to be somewhat different. Hence they avoid contact with later
successors. In this respect I have seen many people who had seen and been in the
company of Hazrat Ganghohi. After the death of this eminent saintly peronality, they did
not turn to his most eminent spiritual successors, (Khulafaa)
Moulana Khalil Ahmed Saharanpuri, Hazrat Moulana Shaikhul-Hind, Hazrat Moulana
Abdul Raheem Raipuri (May Allay fill their graves with floor). In this they deprived
themselves of further spiritual good for these saintly ones were bastions of guidance.
Similarly many of the mureeds who had been attached to these personalities, did not later,
after their death, turn towards their successors, because they compared the successors to
the predecessors and found them to be less eminent. The successors were thus not held in
the same esteem. Even these ones too only deprived themselves of great benefit and
further spiritual advancement. These people should have realized tht those who had
passed will never return and those who will come will be worse than what is with us now.
What is to be seen is this: does this person follow and act upon the essentials of deen or
not, because whosoever denies any of the essentials of deen is outside the pale of Islam.
Then, the more a person is desirous of following the Sunnah, the more well-guided he
will be, for real guidance lies in the Sunnah, and conforming to it.
THE SIXTH POINT that is worth consideration is that the Ulema are men born from
among us. They are not some creatures born and bred elsewhere. Hence the people
among whom they are born and the envirom-nent will have its influence on them. As the
iron, so the sword. As the clay, so the utensil. As the copper so will be its gilt.
Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said:
“The ones among you who were the best in the time of ignorance will be the best of you
in Islam, when they become Alims.
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