Review of Religions: Seen and Unseen Qualities of Khilafat Ahmadiyya

Allah the Almighty tells us in the Holy Qur’an, that everything in this world is important and serves a purpose. As true Muslims, moreover, as Ahmadi Muslims, we know and believe that everything in the world has its seen and unseen properties, and more often than not, with reference to both the spiritual and material realms of Allah – the Unseen bears greater importance for our spiritual health. Therefore, we are inevitably led to ponder not just upon its seen and tangible, but also on its intangible and unseen properties in the light of the Holy Qur’an, and upon the links between these two properties and the qualities of the institution of Khilafat.

In the Surah “Al-Nasr”, so named after the clear Promise of Divine Help for all true Muslims, Allah says:

When the help of Allah comes and the Victory,

And you see men entering the religion of Allah in troops,

Glorify thy Lord with His praise and seek forgiveness of Him. Surely, He is oft-returning with compassion. (Ch.110.:Vs.2-4)

Here, as in many other places in the Holy Qur’an, Allah the Almighty speaks not only to the Holy Prophet^(saw),  but also to his spiritual posterity – the rightly-guided Khalifas of the age Through them, Allah also speaks and gives instruction to all of us.

As ever in the Holy Qur’an, the meaning of this Surah is manifold and inexhaustible. In relation to the blessed institution of the Ahmadiyya Khilafat, the grand centenary of which we all are celebrating this year, this brief Surah alone might present us with a topic for discussion lasting for days on end. But even if we take just one aspect of this Surah, then probably the most important is that it tells us of the absolute need and the true essence of Khilafat – as the only true religious system, upon which the entire Islamic Ummah should be organised. Let us once again read this verse of the Surah “An Nasr”:

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