In the Name of Allah; the Entirely Merciful, the
Especially Merciful
One of the objections leveled against Hadrat Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, is that he arrogated the
status of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) to himself
by claiming that certain Ayaat (verses) of the Holy Qur’an in which the
Prophet (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) is singularly addressed by Allah have
been revealed upon him and that he (Hadrat Mirza) is being addressed by Allah
Most High in those same Ayaat. The anti-“Qadiani” site Irshad.org which is the
official site of the Idara Dawat-o-Irshad, USA, Inc., has a list of eighteen
such verses of the Holy Qur’an in which Allah is addressing the Prophet
(Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) specifically, and allege that Hadrat Mirza sahib “misappropriated”
the meaning of these verses to himself by claiming that they were revealed to
him and that Allah is addressing him in those verses. The reader may refer to
point number 6 of the article entitled “Qadiani Changes to the Translation of
the Holy Quran” on the Irshad.org website here, which begins with this
absolutely false statement: “Mirza Ghulam Qadiani claimed that the following
verse revealed in the Holy Quran to prophet Muhammad(SAW) were revealed and
intended for him and not the prophet Muhammad(SAW)!”
While it is true that Hadrat Mirza sahib did indeed claim
that these cited verses of the Holy Qur’an were revealed to him, it is
blatantly false and a manifest lie on the part of the Irshad.org website to
state that Hadrat Mirza further claimed that these verses were not originally “revealed
and intended for the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam)”. We
challenge Irshad.org or any other anti-“Qadiani” group or individual to produce
any evidence proving that Hadrat Mirza held the belief that any verse of the
Holy Qur’an was not originally revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alayhi
wasallam) or that Allah did not address the Prophet in any one of these eighteen verses.
The truth is that Hadrat Mirza sahib’s belief is that
these eighteen verses cited by Irshad.org were indeed originally revealed upon
the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) and that he (the Prophet)
was specifically addressed by Allah in these verses. However, Allah continues
to inspire chosen saints within the Ummah with revelations and inspirations,
and there are many examples of saints and pious people within the Ummah getting
fresh inspirations from Allah containing verses of the Holy Qur’an – including verses
in which the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) is specifically addressed.
For example, Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani has stated in
his Futuh al-Ghaib discourses that a saintly person who attains nearness to
Allah will be addressed with words from the Holy Qur’an which the Prophet Joseph (peace be upon him) is being specifically addressed:
إِنَّكَ
الْيَوْمَ لَدَيْنَا مَكِينٌ أَمِينٌ
Surely, thou art in Our presence today dignified, trusted
(Sura 12:54)
I have already uploaded the reference including scanned
page from Futuh al-Ghaib in a previous entry on my blog here.
Shaikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (Rahimahullah) also
claimed that the following verse of the Holy Qur’an in which Allah addresses
Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) was revealed to him and he (Sh. Abdul Qadir)
is being addressed by Allah:
وَاصْطَنَعْتُكَ
لِنَفْسِي
And I produced you for Myself. (Sura 20:41)
There are many other examples of verses of the Holy Qur’an
in which originally Allah is addressing another Prophet or even the Prophet
Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam) but which various Muslim saints from the
Ummah have claimed that they were inspired by Allah with the same Verses and
they too are being addressed in them. The very eminent and saintly scholar of
the Tawhid movement and associated with the Ahl-al-Hadith or Salafiyyah
sect of Islam – namely ‘Allamah ‘Abdullah Ghaznawi (Rahimahullah)
himself had frequent revelations and inspirations from Allah containing Verses
of the Holy Qur’an, including such verses in which the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘alayhi
wasallam) is specifically addressed. He too was accused by narrow-minded Mullas
of the Indian subcontinent of heresy. In response to this specific allegation,
and to clarify an important point, his son, Mawlana Abdul Jabbar Ghaznawi
wrote:
مغالطہ: اور قرآن میں بعض آیات ایسے ہیں کہ ان میں خاص رسول
اللہ صلعم ہی مخاطب ہےانکے سوائے کوئی مخاطب بن نہیں سکتا۔
ھدایہ: اگر الہام میں اس آیت کا القا ہو جس میں خاص آنحضرت
کو خطاب ہے تو صاحب الہام اپنے حق میں خیال کر کےاسکےمضمون کو اپنے حال سے مطابق
کریگا اور نصیحت پکریگا
Translation: “Error 162:
Certain verses of the Qur’an are such that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon
him) has been addressed specifically, and no one else can be addressed by them.
Clarification: If in the Ilhaam (inspiration) there is a verse in
which the Prophet (peace be upon him) is specifically addressed, then the Saahib-i-Ilhaam
(recipient of inspiration) should, nevertheless, understand it as
concerning himself and fit it into his own personal circumstances so as to
obtain beneficial guidance from it.”
Reference: Ithbat al-Ilham; p.142
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