Al-Qaul Al-Mahmood - Khalifatullah Mehdi

Al Qaul Al Mahmood
Hzt Syed Ali Yadullahi Makki Badey Miyan RH
avoids things prohibited by Shariat. These are the intrinsic, also called great, miracles. The Mahdi AS and
his disciples had imbibed these qualities.
When the Imam AS reached the age of forty, Allah told him: “I have made you the Mahdi and the
Seal of Vilayat-e-Muhammadi (Muhammadan Saint Hood). Invite the people to the faith of Allah. The
call may be unpleasant to your opponents. Your call to the Muslim Ummah is general and common as
was the call of Prophet Muhammad.”
In obedience to the command from Allah, the Imam claimed that he was Mahdi. Soon after, people
started opposing him as was the habit of the earlier people. The opposition assumed the proportions of
open hostility. Mahdi AS silently suffered them but remained steadfast in his claim and mission. Many
groups, clans and tribes blamed him. Although the number of his devotees was small, the burnished
swords of his opponents did not deter him. His claim was based on sound logic but people did not listen
to the voice of reason.
Oppression of the Imam AS and his disciples was the order of the day. However, he was indifferent to
the rich and powerful, but entertained the poor. His mission was to abolish exploitation and oppression.
Despite oppression and violence, the Imam AS behaved with great equanimity and composure.
MIGRATION
The Imam took to migration 14 in accordance with Quranic injunctions. To decree the defaulters in
migration as hypocrites, he quoted the Verse:
“When angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls, they say: ‘In what (plight)
were ye’
They (the souls) reply: ‘Weak and oppressed were we in the earth’.
They say: ‘Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you to move yourself away (from evil)’
Such men will find their abode in Hell, What an evil refuge!” [4:97].
This Verse points out that migration is inevitable when one is weak, and the penalty for not
migrating is an abode in Hell. This shows that the punishment is for non-observance of an obligation
(wajib). Hence, when one down and out with no power to propagate (the religion), migration becomes
obligatory. Baizavi 15 , too, holds that the Verse makes migration obligatory. One has to migrate from a
place where religion (deen) cannot be established.
Prophet Muhammad SAS said: “Whoever migrates from one place to another in love of (or to
preserve) the religion, even though it may be a short distance (less than a foot) away, he will be entitled
to go to Paradise, and remain in the company of the Prophets Abraham and Muhammad.”
14 At the age of forty and continued for the rest of his life.
15 Also spelt Baydawi; his full name is Abdullah bin Umar al-Baydawi.
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