With-Love-to-Muhammad

204 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
personalities of the past agreed with the Ahmadī position, their
views do not define Islām, and Muslims are not obligated to
follow them.” 218 This is a very cunning way of covering up the
weakness of his claims. What Farhan Khan is afraid of is the fact
that he will be proved wrong and the mujaddidīn are shown to
disagree with him and agree with the Ahmadiyya Muslim
position. This will be demonstrated in this chapter, Inshā’ Allāh!
The fact of the matter is that the references quoted by the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at are from scholars and mujaddidīn
who are accepted by all Muslims, not just the Ahmadī Muslims.
It has been the practice of common people ever since the earlier
centuries of Islām that whenever a claim was made in such a
way that was beyond their comprehension or was apparently
against their popularly held beliefs, they would oppose it,
sometimes violently. Almost all of the holy saints of Islām
experienced this. For example, despite his very high rank
amongst the mujaddidīn, Hazrat Mujaddid Alaf Thānī rh was
declared to be a disbeliever because of his broad knowledge and
understanding of the attributes of Allāh. Unfortunately, the
same has happened today with the opposition of Hazrat Mirzā
Ghulām Ahmad as of Qādiān who claimed to be the Messiah and
Mahdī of this age. Although his claims are exactly in accordance
with those foretold for the Messiah by the Holy Prophet sa and
by the saints and mujaddidīn of the past, people still oppose him,
due to ignorance, just as all prophets were opposed.
Similarly, Hazrat Muhy-ud-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī rh , who is
known to be one of the greatest saints of Islām, was the first
amongst the sufīs to explain the concept of wahdat-ul-wujūd (the
concept of believing Allāh to be One, but being everything). He
claimed that Allāh has ordered him to do so and if he had not
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