Naqliyat-e-Miyan Abdur Rasheed RZ - Khalifatullah Mehdi (AHS)

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“Miyan Syed Khundmir RZ , we have seen your patience; what
happened to it?” Bandagi Miyan RZ said, “Please treat me as ma’zur
(excused) because, when somebody tries to interpret (tavil) or
change (tahvil) in the sayings of Imam Mahdi as , I lose patience.”
Then they asked, “What do you say now?” Bandagi Miyan RZ said,
“This servant (banda) says nothing. He reiterates what Imam
Mahdi AS has said. That is, ‘If Allah gives me the strength
(command), I will collect jizya from these people.’”
52. Further, it is narrated that Imam Mahdi AS took a sword in his
hand, raised it and said, “It should be understood that this alone has
remained now for these people. They do not understand by
knowledge (ilm). On the basis of this alone one should decide
whether they are the testifiers of Islamic testification (kalima-go) or
infidels (kafir).
53. Further Imam Mahdi AS has said, “These people have become
harbi (belligerent).” This shows that these people have become
liable to be imposed the jizya. But Imam Mahdi as was not assigned
the job of collecting jizya. Hence, he did not impose and collect the
head tax.
54. Further, Imam Mahdi as and his companions were not happy with
the people (of the daira) going to the houses of the non-Mahdavis
either to learn or to listen to their sermons.
55. Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir RZ has said that Mullah
Moinuddin sent a person one day with a request, “Please send two
persons from your side to learn ilm so that the relations between
you and us could be established on the basis of sincerity and peace.”
Bandagi Miyan Syed Khundmir RZ reiterated, ‘Nobody will be able
to make peace with you.’ Again he sent word to send at least a
kamtar (inferior) person so that peace could be established. Bandagi
Miyan Syed Khundmir RZ said that he sent word in reply, “Even an
inferior person from our daira will not come to you to learn, peace
or no peace.” He further said, “Obeying the detractors is prohibited,
as Allah has said, ‘So do not pay any heed to those who deny thy
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mission.’ 36 Allah further says, ‘O ye who believe! Were ye to obey
some of those who have been given the Book, they would turn you
unbelievers after you have believed’” 37 . There are many Quranic
Verses on this subject.
5. IMAM MAHDI’S ADVICE
56. Imam Mahdi AS has said that the existence of the life of the
world is kufr (infidelity). That is, living with life, which is called
life (hasti) and self (khudi) and those items, which have been
described in the Quran as ‘the things of the life of this world’. The
person who is the lover and murid (slave) of the love of women and
children, wealth (amwal), cattle, commerce, cultivation, buildings,
dresses, eatables and other things, is a kafir. The person who joins
the company of such a person (kafir) or goes to his house or has
love and affection with him, is not from the aan (customs and glory
of great people of an age gone by) of Mahdi AS , the Prophet
Muhammad SLM and Allah. Allah has said in Quran: “Beautified for
mankind is the love of the joys (that come) from women and
offspring, and stored up heaps of gold and silver, and horses
branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is the comfort
of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent
abode.” 38 In other words, he who abandoned these things is a
mumin and he who did not abandon them is a kafir. Allah says in
Quran: “And woe to the unbelievers! There is severe chastisement
for those. Who prefer the life of this world to that of the
Hereafter.” 39 Allah says: “To those who choose the life of the
present with all its false glamour, Our way is to deal out in full
measure in this very world what they deserve for their deeds, and
they shall not in the least be deprived of what they merited. These
are they for whom in the next world they shall have nothing but
36 (S. 68: 8 SAL).
37 (S. 3: 100 SAL).
38 (S. 3: 14 MMP).
39 (S.14: 2 and 3 SAL)