Siraj-ul-Absar (English) - Khalifatullah Mehdi (AHS)

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“If one were to write the details about the enmity of Sheikh Ali Muttaqi 6 against the
Mahdavia group, it will become a voluminous book, instead of it being a concise
account. In short, the Sheikh went from Gujarat to Bait-ullah [Makkah] because his
machinations could not bear fruit in Gujarat. In Makkah, he obtained fatwas for the
killing of Mahdavis and sent these fatwas to the scholars and rulers of Gujarat. He
also wrote a tract against the Mahdavis and sent it along with the fatwas. The great
scholar of Gujarat, Hazrat Abdul Malik Sujawandi, who is among the taba’in
[followers] of the Companions RZ of Hazrat Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS , wrote a
rebuttal based on the great books of the Ahl-e-Sunnat-o-Jama'at and named the book
as Siraj-ul-Absar. A large number of people have performed the tasdiq of Hazrat
Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS after reading this book. Among them is Hafiz Abul
Qasim who is a contemporary and classmate of Mullah Jeevan. 7 He studied the book,
Siraj-ul-Absar, with great care and concentration. Then he wrote the commentary of
this book, which is long and comprehensive. This commentary is a very cogently
argued book. Its title is Zia-al-Qulub. — See Mustatab by Hazrat Miyan Syed
Shihabuddin Shaheed ‘Alim RA .”
Hazrat Miyan Syed Husain ‘Alim RA , grandson of Hazrat Bandagi Miyan Syed Ali Sutun-e-
Deen RA writes:
“Since, Allah Most High showed Miyan ‘Alim Billah the right path to perform the
tasdiq of Hazrat Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS , he went to Hazrat Bandagi Miyan Shah
Dilawar RZ and requested him to perform the talqin [initiate into the order of Hazrat
Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS ] and treat him as one of his servants. Hazrat Shah
Dilawar RZ said, ‘You are a scholar and this servant [of Allah] is ummi [unlettered
person]. He pronounces qul as kul.’ Miyan ‘Alim Billah RA respectfully submitted,
‘This servant has given up his erudition and sagacity and come to you. He will follow
what he hears from you. He has wiped clean the tablet of his heart from things other
than Allah.’ After this, Hazrat Bandagi Miyan Shah Dilawar RZ initiated him into the
order of the Imam AS . Hazrat Shah Dilawar RZ reminded the ‘Alim Billah RA of the glad
tidings given by Hazrat Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS , ‘Great scholars of the manifest
and immanent knowledge will become the disciples of Hazrat Bandagi Miyan Shah
Dilawar RZ .’ Those glad tidings became true in case of Hazrat ‘Alim Billah RA . He
wrote a few tracts in proof of the Mahdiat of Hazrat Imam Mahdi Al-Mau'ood AS , like
the Siraj-ul-Absar and Siraj-ul-Millat. — See Tazkira-tus-Salihin by Miyan Syed
Husain ‘Alim.
The author of Tarikh-e-Sulaimani writes:
“There were 1400 seekers of Allah Most High in the Daira of Hazrat Bandagi Miyan
Shah Dilawar RZ . Seven hundred of them came to the Daira of Shah Abdul Karim
Nuri RA and the remaining seven hundred went to the Daira of Hazrat ‘Alim
Billah RA .—See Tarikh-e-Sulaimani, Gulshan Nahum, Chaman Awwal.
Hazrat Syed Dilawar of Begum Bazaar, Hyderabad.
28 th Jamadi al-Awwal, 1373 AH.
6 Sheikh Ali Muttaqi was a Mahdavi earlier. However, he could not endure the rigours of faqiri [indigence]
and hunger and deprivation and abandoned the Mahdavi religion. He then ran away to Makkah. There he
wrote a tract criticizing the Mahdavi religion and sent it to Hazrat Shah Dilawar RZ . —See Asami
Musaddiqin, published, Page 7.
7 Mullah Jeevan is the author of the book, Nur-ul-Anwar, which is a famous textbook on the principles of
Fiqh.