Socio Political Thought Of Shah WaliAllah Rahmatullahi Alaihi

228 Selections from Hujat Alldh al-Bdlighah
tribute to him every year. The other was Caeser who controlled Syria,
Byzantium and the adjoining territories. Kings of Egypt, North
African potentates, and other African rulers were under him and paid
him the tribute.65
176. Demolishing the empires of these two powers and gaining control
over their dominions was, at that time, tantamount to dominating
the whole world. Their customs of luxurious living were prevalent
in all the areas that were controlled by them. A change in these
customs and deterring people of these dominions from them was
like awakening all areas about these things, even though they might
have subsequently deviated from the required course. HarmazrIn had
pointed to some of these aspects when 'Umar (may God be pleased
with him) consulted him with regard to the soldiers of ~ ersia.~~ As
to the rest of the areas situated far from the [realm of] balanced temperament,
they did not count much in the universal expediency. That
was why the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Spare the Turks as
long as they spare you, and leave the Ethiopians as long as they leave
177. In short, when God willed to set the deviating community straight,
and to raise a religious community (ummah) for mankind that would
enjoin good to them and forbid evil and change their corrupt practices,
it was all contingent upon the fall of these two empires. The
above objective was possible to attain only by addressing the conditions
of these two empires, because their typical conditions had
more or less permeated all the virtuous realms. Therefore, God decreed
their fall and the Prophet (peace be upon him) foretold this fall
in these words: "...Chosroes are doomed to perish, and there shall
never be any Chosroes thereafter. The Ceasers are doomed to perish
and there shall never be any Ceasers thereafter".68
178. Accordingly, Truth was revealed in order to subdue every falsehood.
This was realized by the triumph of the Prophet (peace be upon him)
and his Companions over the falsehood of the Arabs, and the triumph
of the Arabs (Muslims) over the falsehood of these empires. In the
same way, the triumph of the True Religion over the rest of the world
was achieved by the conquest of both these empires, and God's is the
strong argument.
179. Further, one of these principles is that his (the Prophet's)teaching
of Religion is integral to the establishment of 'general vicegerency'