With-Love-to-Muhammad

Opinion of the Sahāba ra , Ā’immah, and Mujaddidīn rh 205
rendered this service, he would have burned himself into ashes.
However, the so called scholars, who were not very familiar
with the attributes of Allāh, opposed him and declared fatāwā
(pl. of fatwā) of kufr (disbelief) against him. This opposition was
so severe that when Hazrat Sheikh Shahāb-ud-Dīn ‘Umar
Suhrawardī rh was asked about Imām Ibn ‘Arabī rh , he said ذاa‏“‏
(he is a man of no faith). Later on, when Hazrat Imām ‏”رجلaزدق
Ibn ‘Arabi rh passed away, he said to the people with great
sorrow that a qutab 219 has passed away. Upon this, the people
were very surprised and asked Sheikh Shahāb-ud-Dīn rh what
made him call Ibn ‘Arabī rh a man of no faith earlier and change
his mind later. He replied that he said that in order to stop
people from meeting him because he was a man of a very high
status and one who presented such facts which were beyond
their calibre. He also said that he was afraid that due to their
limited understanding of the attributes of Allāh, their faith
could be endangered by him. Some of his followers whom he
prevented from meeting Hazrat Imām Ibn ‘Arabī rh included the
likes of Hazrat Sheikh Baha-ud-Dīn Zakaria Multānī and Hazrat
Sheikh Sa‘dī Sherāzī! If these great scholars were prevented
from listening to his explanation of wahdat-ul-wujūd, one
wonders: What was the level of the understanding of common
people?
The mujaddidīn rh that are presented by Farhan Khan are
those whom we, Ahmadī Muslims, accept wholeheartedly.
Their views do not differ from the views of the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Jamā‘at. None of them denied the advent of the
Promised Messiah and Imām Mahdī as a prophet after the Holy
Prophet sa . This is the one concept that all the mujaddidīn rh and
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Literally means, “star”, and refers to a spiritual master or sheikh who
provides focus for spirituality