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

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not pay any attention to him.) If he did not have the sword [of miracles] in his
hand, the fuqaha would have issued the fatwa of killing him. If he were a
wealthy man and had great power in his hands, they would have become his
obedient people in their greed of his wealth.
Further, Sheikh Izzuddin Abdur Razzaq Kashani has written in his book, Tafsir-e-
Taveelat, under the Divine Command:
“Those who disbelieve among the People of Scripture and the idolaters could not have
left off (erring) till the clear proof came unto them, A messenger from Allah, reading
purified pages, containing correct scriptures. Nor were the People of the Scripture
divided until after the clear proof came unto them.” 27
that, “they are veiled from the path that led to the religion and the truth like
the People of the Book, or they are veiled from the truth itself like the
mushrikin [idolators]. And the mushrikin were not those who would break
away from their polytheism, until there came a bayyina [clear proof; one with
indisputable evidence], who guided them to reach the matloob [the object of
one’s love—God]. This is so because various groups of the Jews, the
Christians and the polytheists, who had, under the influence of their carnal
desires, gone astray and who were hostile to each other; and every group
claimed that it was on the true path and invited others to join its path and
denounced the faith of the others as false. Despite all this, they used to remain
united on the point that they would not give up their faith, until the prophet
who was promised in the Torah and Bible appeared. Hence, they said, they
would follow the promised prophet, and remaining on the one Kalimah
[creed], would reach a consensus on the tareeq-e-Haq [the right path].”
“In exactly the same way, different people of the religion [the people of the
seventy-two sects of Muslims] are behaving like the above-mentioned
intolerant people. They are waiting for the emergence of the Mahdi AS in the
Aakhir Zamana [the Last Era]. They promise that they would follow the
Mahdi AS on the consensus of one kalimah [creed]. I do not think that the
condition of these people of the seventy-two sects [of the Muslims] is any
different from the groups of the Jews, the Christians and the polytheists
described in the previous paragraph. They presumed that they would follow
the Mahdi AS when he emerged and Allah Most High might save them from
the mischief of opposing the Mahdi AS . Hence, Allah Most High mentioned
their utterances and explained that the hostility and severe discord and
arrogance of these people was exposed after the emergence of Mahdi-e-
Mau’ood who came with the bayyina [indisputable evidence] [that is, the
Vilayat (Sainthood)]. This is so because not just each sect but every person
thinks that the Mahdi would be according to his desire and would uphold his
opinion to be true. His pretense is because he has camouflaged his false faith
27 Quran, S. 98:1-4 MMP.