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

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Publisher’s Note
Bismillah Bismillah ir ir Rahman Rahman ir ir Rahim
Rahim
Date: 5 th December 2011
One day, answering a questioner [Mir Zunoon in this instance], Imam Mahdi Mau’ood AS
said, “Providing the proof is for Allah. Our business is only to propagate.”
The book “Siraj-ul-Absaar” is without a speck of doubt, proof provided by Allah SWT through
the pen of Hazrat Bandagi Miyan Abdul Malik Sujawandi Alim Billah RZ , who is a Mubashshire-Mahdi
AS , as the Imam AS has given glad-tidings to Hazrat Shah Dilawar RZ that scholars of
high ranks will come and bow before you. The whole episode of the event narrated a few
pages later, makes it evident that it was the divine hand which cleans the slate of knowledge
of the possessor of more than a dozen sciences of religion to turn him into a genuine
unlettered person [Ummi] to bestow divine knowledge and the manifest knowledge was
again divinely restored solely for refuting the allegations on the Khalifatullah, his teachings
and his followers.
We’re too humble to describe the greatness of this book, which needs no introduction. So
much knowledge is condensed in this small rebuttal tract that innumerable translations and
voluminous commentaries have been written on it because there is no way for any one
translation to capture the various aspects of each refutation. And no debate or argument on
the subject of emergence of Mahdi AS takes place satisfactorily without referring to this book
or without its finer points being lifted from it.
Like all his previous translations, this translation by Hazrat Syed Ziaullah Saheb RH is also is
smooth and flowing. We’re confident that like us, other readers will also be absorbed in
reading it and will not want to put it down without finishing it. It was this sentiment that
fuelled our burning desire to deliver the best translation into the hands of the community.
Do not forget that this is a translation of the Urdu text; one can only imagine the eloquence
of the original book in Arabic language. This should and may very well inspire many to learn
the language and relish it.
We’re immensely grateful to Hazrat Syed Ziaullah Yadullahi Sahab RH and lack the words to
thank him enough for accommodating our request despite his advanced age and ailments.
He left behind him one last gift to the community and we are pleased to present his work to
mark his first death anniversary and pay due homage. One can appreciate Hazrat Syed
Ziaullah Yadullahi Sahab’s selfless services and dedication to the community work, briefly
covered by Bhai Suhael in the short biography given in this book. By translating most of the
important books of Mahdavia, he has done for English Mahdavia literature what Hazrat Syed
Dilawer urf Gorey Miyan Mahdavi Murshid Qibla RH did for Urdu Mahdavia literature earlier.
Mahdavis, by and large, would have been blind to literary gems of their community had it
not been for the monumental translation works of these two selfless souls. We say Ameen
to all the Du’a and invocations for the Maghfirat of Hazrat Syed Ziaullah Yadullahi Sahab that
we hear, read and received in his favor. May Allah SWT place both of them in eternal bliss.
There are two fine points to be comprehended from the Naql Mubarak quoted above –
proof and propagation, both of which have been accomplished through the Imam AS , his
great companions and pious ancestors, were not without Divine intervention and support.
Our job now is to just present it and practice Mahdaviat for the proofs or teachings to have