THE WORLD IMPORTANCE
OF
IMAM AHMED RAZA KHAN
BARELVI by Dr. Muhammad Haroon Phd New Muslim British Scholar of Cambridge University
BY-Dr. Muhammad Haroon
Allah's Name I begin with, the Compassionate,
the Merciful
General
Editor's Preface
It is every
Muslim's duty to invite people to Islam and to help improve society, especially
in this age of wickedness and immorality. It is especially important in this
age to publish Islamic literature, and it is especially important to publish
such literature in English, especially for the Muslim youth.
For these
reasons Raza Academy has undertaken the publication of a series of books in
English, concentrating especially on the literature of Sunni Islam, and the
works of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.
I would like to
thank all those involved, writers, editors, printers and administrations and
call for Allah Ta'ala's blessings on them and for prayers for them from all who
read these books.
Professor G.D.
Qureshi
General Editor,
Raza Academy
This Book is
dedicated to the Oppressed of the world
I -
Introduction
Hazrat Imam
Raza Khan Barelvi is a figure of World Importance, both to Muslims and to
non-Muslims, but he is little known in England. He has enormous numbers of
admirers and follower among Muslims all over the World, and rightly so, for his
writings and life works are superb quality and great intellectual and academic
depth.
The aim of this
little pamphlet is to make available in English some idea of the immense riches
to be found in the life and work of Imam Raza. All the most important problems
of Humanity today find their solution in his life and work. And all the most
serious questions facing the Muslims can only be solved by going back t the
thought of Imam Raza.
I hope, in
time, and with Allah's permission, to produce a larger work on Imam Raza. This
little pamphlet, however, is enough to show that Imam Raza is a man for all of
Humanity today.
Dr. Muhammad
Haroon
Manchester, April 1994.
II- The World
Importance of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) was a Sunni Alim (Scholar) in
British India, who was born in 1856 and died in 1921. He was the leader of the
Sunnis in his time, and was so great that he was called the Reviver of the
Islamic Century. The Reviver of the Islamic Century is the most important
person in the whole World in that period. Previous Revivers of the Islamic
Century have been men like Hazrat Imam Ghazzali (Radi Allahu Anh), who achieved
many things of the greatest importance in their day. Hazrat Imam Ghazzali (Radi
Allahu Anh), for example, is person that Europe learned Philosophy from!
It is the aim
of this article to show the importance to the Whole World of the work and ideas
of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih). A person is important to
the whole World if they have found the solution to all the most important
problems of the World of their time. A person like Karl Marx or Lenin was
thought of as of World importance because their work and ideas seemed to show
the path for Humanity to follow. In this article we will show that Imam Ahmed
Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) showed in his work and ideas the
solution to the most important problems of the Century. We today have lived in
the same Century as Imam Raza, and our World has very similar problems to those
faced by the World of Imam Raza is of importance to us today, and not just to
those who were alive when he passed away in 1921.
It is best to
begin by trying to sum up the central problems of the Modern Age.
This Modern Age
has been the age of the Triumph and then failure of Modern Civilisation. A
hundred years ago there was a tremendous confidence in Science. Since that time
we have seen the limited nature of Science, and its failure to bring a better
World, but instead Science has collapsed. This age has also the Crisis of
Capitalism. This age has also seen the failure of the Western alternatives to
Capitalism. Communism has failed. White racism has been seen in all its horrors
in Nazism. And the whole totalitarian ideal has been shown to lead to horrors
beyond belief.
The Modern age
has also been the time when Modern Culture failed. It has been an age of the
destruction of traditional culture, both in Europe, and in the rest of the
World. It has been the age of the Death of Religion, with the rise of mass
atheism and, more important, a decay of existing religious into cheap Modern
copies of the real thing. This has also been the age of the Death of Man. This
is the age of herd mentality, of mass movements, of the despising of the
individual, and the shameful manipulation of human beings by the
totalitarianism we have already mentioned. Rationalism triumphed, but then
failed as Humanity discovered what it was like to be ruled by rulers who had
Science to help them.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) was, of course, a Muslim. And the
Modern Age particularly affected the Muslim World with all the developments we
have just listed. This Modern Age is the Midnight of Islam, and of the Muslims,
and of the Human Soul. This is the age when the traditional Muslim society was
overwhelmed by the West, with the loss of Muslim political power, but also with
spiritual surrender among the Muslims, who accepted, copied, admired and
worshipped the West. The whole idea of the role of Almighty God in the World
disappeared, and was replaced by arrogant secularism and atheism. And this led
to Wahhabism and then to Islamic Modernism, and later Fundamentalism, where Islam
as a religion died, and was replaced by a cheap copy of the West, in the case
of the Modernists, and a Social and Political Movement modelled on Communism
and Fascism in the case of the Fundamentalists.
Traditional
society was destroyed, and replaced by a colonialist, racist, capitalist
society imported from the West. And then the West itself fails, and today we
stand among the ruins of all that the West tried to build, from Communism to
Fascism to Nationalism to Capitalism!
Anyone who
claims to be of World Importance must, then, be someone who showed Humanity a
path through these terrible triumphs and failure that have been the Modern Age.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) was such a person, and for that
reason is of World Importance.
It is easy to
sum up the actual life's work of Imam Raza. He worked to defend Sunni Islam and
its Society from the attack on it by The Modern World, and especially by
attacks on it from the inside, by Muslims who were aiming to get rid of Sunni
Islam, and replace it with some modern thing. The World Importance of Imam Raza all comes
from this attempt of his defend Sunni Islam and its Society.
This World
Importance began with Imam Raza's being an Alim, and working as a Sunni Alim.
Imam Raza worked all his life as a simple Scholar. He worked by answering
questions put to him by anyone who chose to get in touch. His role was as a
wise person, with a deep knowledge of Islam. His education was that of a
traditional Muslim Scholar, and was also extremely broad. He was an expert in
many fields, including all the Islamic Religious Sciences, but also Mathematics
and Astronomy.
The work as a
widely educated Scholar, only affecting the World by answering the questions of
the curious, is of enormous importance. This is the age of the mass
organisation, when the individual is swallowed up in a vast bureaucracy. Imam
Raza refused to work like that. In his time modern mass movements were
beginning to emerge. Imam Raza would not touch them. He did not wish to be a
bureaucrat, or a politician, or an administrator. People like Maududi and Hasan
al Banna were to bring this spirit of totalitarian organisation into Islam.
Imam Raza resisted it from the start, refusing to take part in such mass
movements as the Khilafat movement, and refusing to oppose such movements by
himself setting up mass movements. Man is dead in the Modern World because the
good individual isn't wanted, but only the mass member, who will shout the
slogans and do as they're told. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi
Alaih) showed that Man need not die in the Modern Age. He worked in a simple
way, just making his contribution by giving scholarly advice.
To still trust
in the good individual, and to turn your back on mass movements is truly of World
importance in the Age of mass advertising and Stalin and Hitler.
This is also
the age of the death of Wisdom and the rise of the Specialist. Today from an
early age the student knows more and more about less and less. The University a
place where the Professor cannot even known enough about his own narrow little
special subject. There is no Professor of Wisdom at Cambridge University. And
the educated are cut off from the past. There is no traditional education or
knowledge left, but the Scholar just studied are narrow subject, without any
contact with the Wisdom and Traditional learning of previous ages. An
astronomer would only know astronomy, and would have no idea at all about the
wisdom that an astronomer might have had two hundred years ago.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) Stood for a traditional of
learning that in the West in now dead. To him the aim was as broad a learning
as was possible, and learning that centred on the Wisdom that would come from
the Islamic Science and a learning that was firmly linked to a tradition going
back over a thousand years. Imam Raza would mention in his books writers of one
thousand years previously, as a matter of course. Today only some dry-as-dust
professor of Medievalism would be able to make such quotes. At the same time he
was able to comment, from a scholarly point of view, on questions of astronomy
or politics or even banking and currency. And at the same time he was able to
discuss the most difficult questions of Spiritual Enlightenment.
One problem a
student of Imam Raza faces is precisely that he was a polymath, wise in many
fields. The professor of Islamic law might be able to understand one of his
works, but that same professor would be helpless before his comments on
astronomy, or maths, or politics. No living scholar can write properly on Imam
Raza. He is too big, too broad, too wives, too difficult.
The cure to the
World's problems today is precisely to produce a Scholar with the breadth and
Wisdom of Imam Raza. We today are too narrow, too specialised, and too clever
without being wise. And the memory alone of a man like Imam Raza is of World
Importance.
And it was the
very aim of Imam Raza to keep scholars of his kind in existence. Sunni Islam is
based on the existence of such Ulama (Scholars). The Maududis and the Hasan al
Bannas aim to get rid of such people and put in their place the narrow modern
professor, organised into committees in a Leninist Party!
The basis of
Sunni society in the guidance of the broadly educated, Wise Alim working
privately and without any organisation or bureaucracy. All the modern problems
of totalitarian organisation and narrow specialism disappear when the Scholar
works like that.
And Imam Raza
was more than a Scholar. He was an artist. He was a poet, of the first class,
in several languages, writing especially poetry n praise of the Prophet
Muhammad (Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam). This tradition of poetry, yet again,
goes back hundreds and hundreds of years. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
(Rahmatullahi Alaih) is thus carrying on a tradition that the Scholar should
also be an artist. The Sunni Islamic ideal is the total human being. Such a one
was Imam Raza! And this total human being as an ideal is the cure to the Death
of Man today. Instead of society being let by boring businessman and
politicians, the ideal is that we should turn for guidance to the Complete
Human Being, who has wide wisdom, and social, scientific and artistic
knowledge.
And of course,
Imam Raza was defending the age-old culture of his day. Today culture is
rootless. Writing and art are cut off from the traditions of the past. European
painting and poetry no longer copy or build on the painting and poetry of even
fifty years ago. Yet Imam Raza carried on artistic traditions of immense age.
And his whole education was like that. It was a total culture, drawn from the
whole history of Humanity. For this reason Imam Raza is of World importance.
And Imam Raza
also took an interest in medicine. The great fault with Modern Medicine is that
it is cut off from traditional medicine, and also is in the hands of narrow
scientists, and not in the hands of Wise Men.
And Imam Ahmed
Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) was not merely such a wise and talented
scholar, artist and doctor. He defended all this traditional wisdom from
attack. And the attack came in the name of Science. Perhaps the greatest
importance to the World of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi
Alaih) was his opposition to Science.
Throughout most
of Imam Raza's life, Science was worshipped. This was the age of total
confidence in Newton and Darwin. It was only towards the end of Imam Raza's
life that the Einsteinian revolution began to bring doubt into the worship of
Science. And this Science was thought to be the total enemy of religion. And
this Science was especially worshipped in the Muslim World. Science was the
reason given fro Western dominance. All the peoples in the colonies were only
fit to be dominated by the white man, with his Science. And many Muslim also worshipped
also Science. And these Muslims, such as Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan, tried to change
all of Islam to fit in with Western ideas about Science.
But did people
did more even than that. They made Science the reason for imposing tyranny on
the Muslims. The Muslims were not "Scientific", So the Muslim had to
be forced to be "Scientific". And that meant that there could be no
freedom for the Muslims, but Western experts, and Muslim "experts"
everywhere must rule absolutely, without the agreement of the Muslims, in the
name of Science.
And of course
today we know that this "Science" is mostly crackpot nonsense.
Science In Imam Raza's day was fiercely racist, and by the time of his death in
1921 was providing the justification for both Communist and Fascist tyrannies
in the West. And the disastrous consequences of the worship of science are
well-known today. The Muslim would especially has suffered terribly at the
hands of Science, with such disasters as the total destruction of the
environment in Soviet Central Asia by a Communist regime that could never find
a fault in Science, and a turning back to the traditional wisdom that existed
before the religion of Science came to rule the World.
But Imam Raza
fought Science a hundred year ago! If you read Imam Raza's writings on Science,
what stands out is his complete contempt for the Scientists. To Imam Raza the
Quran and Islam are the truth, and nothing can be allowed to contradict them.
If Scientists did so, he just dismissed their arguments with contemptuous
laughter! Imam Raza treated them as a bunch of stupid children.
Yet Imam Raza
himself was no mean Scientist. He was a very gifted mathematician, and knew the
heavens so well he could set a clock just by looking at the night sky! And he
was familiar with Western Scientific ideas. He wrote a reply to a Western
Astronomer who had forecast a catastrophe due to an alignment of planets, and
in that reply he relied entirely on Western theories of the heavens and
gravity, and correctly forecasted that there would be no catastrophe.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) Position was that Science was
true, but limited, and could never be accepted as better than, or superior to
Islam, and as providing a reason for getting rid of any Islamic idea, or any
part of the Sharia, the law of Islam. So he could himself be quite expert in
Science, but treat it with complete contempt the moment anyone tried to change
Islam to fit it in with Science.
This is a World
Importance. To Imam Raza no traditional wisdom should have been overthrown, but
Science should always be kept as the servant of Wisdom, and not as a rival to
Wisdom and a replacement of it. After one hundred years this is the position to
which the West itself is returning, as Green politics and the Green Movement
shows. But in the Muslim World there is still this silly worship of Dopey
Science, which everywhere is supporting tyranny. The West has seen how Science
was behind the tyranny of Stalin and the Racism of Hitler, and so the West has
begun to put Science in its place.
Imam Raza was
putting Science in its place before all the damage was done! And he was putting
Science in the inferior position to which it belongs at a time when traditional
Wisdom still existed. He himself was soaked in this traditional Wisdom. He was
right, and the West was wrong, 100 years before the West realised it was wrong!
In his lifetime
Imam Raza tried to reply to the silliness of the Scientists, but of course he
was only one man against a whole World of dopey Europeans. He did, however, set
Muslims the task of putting Science in its place. He saw that the great
challenge was this worship of Science and the way it was threatening the Wisdom
of Islam itself. Today we are in a much better position to challenge this than
we were in Imam Raza's day, for today many in the West have themselves realised
the limits of Science.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is a figure of World importance
for his defence for Islam against Science, and his attempt to show its limits.
Only by following the line of Imam Raza can the Muslim World escape from its
disastrous past and present.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is of World importance also in one
very simple way. He was a cosmopolitan. The modern age is the age of fierce
nationalism and racism. But Imam Raza was simply a Muslim. And his homeland was
not just one country or even continent. His homeland was the Muslim World
Community. His fame extended to the whole Muslim World, and he was given
honours in Makkah itself. He drew on the international culture of Islam. He
spoke to all peoples. He wrote answer to question in many languages, including
English, always replying to the question in the language it came in! Today this
seems so strange, when men and women no matter how great, look only to one
country or group, or race. Even a World-famous singer will not be cosmopolitan,
but most likely American. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) was
a cosmopolitan, and of course he was this because he was a Sunni Muslim, and
the aim of his life was the defence of Sunni Islam. Sunni Islam is the most
cosmopolitan of all religions. Christianity is centred on the white race.
Catholicism is centred in Italy. Sunni Islam has had many centres, with whole
traditions centred in Turkey, or Central Asia, or India, or Egypt and so on.
Imam Raza's message is a cosmopolitan message: join the Muslim World Community,
which is in all countries and all races and nations! And what an important
message that is to the World!
Today we live
at a time when Wahhabism has ended up in the disaster of the Saudi regime,
which is the West's best friend, the disaster of Islamic Modernism in the
failure all over the Muslim World of all the efforts they have made, and today
with the disaster of Fundamentalism, which as well perhaps also lies in the
future.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) totally opposed all these wrong
paths from the very start. He would never make any concessions to the West, and
Science, and spent all his life fighting Wahhabism. He criticised Sir Sayed
Ahmed Khan as not a Muslim at all. He attacked anyone who ran down the Prophet
(Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam). He refused absolutely to allow the Prophet
(Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam) to be criticised in any way, and refused to
allow my doubt to be cast on the total superiority and perfection of the
Prophet (Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
(Rahmatullahi Alaih) produced a beautiful translation of the Quran into Urdu to
fight against Wahhabi translations of the Quran which were trying to run down
the Prophet (Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam).
Hazrat Imam
Raza also resisted all the political schemes of these traitors to Islam, who
tried to use Islam to promote their own power. He attacks the Deobandis and
other Wahhabis who united with the Hindus in the hope that they would rise to
the top of India secular society. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi
Alaih) saw that these efforts could only end in Communalism and mass murder as
the Hindus would never agree to share real power with these Wahhabi Muslims.
And Imam Raza criticised the mass politics used by these Wahhabis to turn the
Muslims simply into a herd of voters to support their schemes to get themselves
top in the jobs!
And Imam Raza
totally opposed any opening of the gate of Ijtihad. He would not allow anyone
to change Islam to put themselves in power.
And Imam Raza
above all tried to defend the actual Muslim Community. Muslim traditional
society was complicated thing, but its basis was Sharia which could not be
changed, and a system of Scholars (Ulama) who guided the Muslims and guarded
the Sharia, and the whole structure of Sufi Orders, with their Pirs, and
Tariqas, and Khankas, and tomb s, and traditional ceremonies, such as Milads.
This society id the perfect society of Almighty God in the world. And Imam Raza
sought to defend it.
He defended it,
of course, from wahhabis and others who would like to change all that Sharia by
Ijtihad, get rid of Ulama, and put journalists and politicians like Maududi in
charge. And totally break up and destroy the whole structure of Sufism. In its
place these people have, since Imam Raza's day, put a horrible society modelled
on Capitalism or Socialism, run by themselves, for the benefit of themselves
and their family and friends, who everywhere where need secret police to
prevent this "Scientific" society from being got rid of.
He defended
Muslim Society from people who wished to put it at risk, by dragging the
Muslims into all manner of adventures. The Wahhabis were not interested in the
Muslims and their life, but only in getting themselves to the top of society.
And so they thought nothing of bringing the whole community into danger. In the
First World War they tried to get the Muslims of India to launch a Jihad
against the British, and then tried to get the Muslims to migrate from India!
Today the Fundamentalists are always trying to throw the Muslims into one
desperate crisis after another.
Hazrat Imam
Raza fought this by exposing its falsity in Islamic law. In the World War he
supported the Turks. He criticised the Turks for their claim to have the
Caliph, and demanding that all Muslims should follow them, and engage in Jihad,
and the Indian Wahhabis for supporting this. He did this by explaining the
position of Sunni Islam on the Caliph and on Jihad.
In the World
today there are several busloads of men who claim to be Caliph! If such a claim
was accepted, each would be the rightful ruler of all the Muslims in the World
today. And such claims are put forward by ambitious men, who wish to set up
their own tyranny. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) explained
the position of Sunni Islam on this question. There is no Caliph in the World
today, and there can be none. The next Caliph will be the Imam Mahdi, and his
coming will be part of the end of the World. In this way, Imam Raza sweeps away
all these false claimants, and defends the Muslims from their tyranny.
In the World
today there are many Wahhabi and Fundamentalist groups who wish to launch
Jihad. What they want is a war to put themselves in power. And they don't care
if such a war brings terrible danger to the Muslims. Imam Ahmed Raza Khan
Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alahi) replied to this demand foe Jihad with the
traditional position of Sunni Islam, which is that of Hazrat Imam Abu Hanifa
(Radi Allahu Anh). The Muslims have no need to fight unless they are attacked, and
unless they are denied the right to practise Islam. And of course the Muslims
must not fight unless victory in certain, for it is a sin to be defeated in
Jihad, and Muslim blood must not wasted. Now that means that in places like
India at the time Imam Raza wrote, there was no need for Jihad, because the
rulers allowed the Muslims to practise Islam, so that India was Dar-ul-Islam,
The Land of Islam, and not Dar-ul-Harb, the Land of War. And of course most of
the World today is Dar-ul-Islam. Apart from a few places, like Serbia, or
Kashmir, where Muslims are being murdered, and it is impossible to be a Muslim,
the whole World is Dar-ul-Islam. For this reason there is no need to engage in
Jihad, and the attempts by Wahhabis and Fundamentalists are totally wrong,
wicked, non-Islamic attempts to endanger the Muslims just to put themselves in
power!
Imam Raza thus
defended the Muslim Community from the danger of a power grab by a
self-appointed Caliph, and the danger of a war launched to put the Wahhabis in
power.
Hazrat Imam
Raza also showed how the Muslim Community could really survive safe in this
World. He outlined this is his famous four-point programme of 1913. The
Muslims, he said, should form an island in Society, and within that island
totally preserve the traditional society that was Sunni Islam. They should this
by settling their own disputes among themselves, so that the Community had its
own leaders, and they should also buy and sell from each other so that the
Muslim Community would draw closer together and provide a place for Muslims to
live. And the wealthy Muslims should provide the savings to finance investment,
so that this Muslim island in society could grow and develop. And the Muslims
should study Islam, and revive it, so that the Muslim Community would grow ever
more Islamic as time went by.
This was the
path by which the Muslims would survive, and preserve all their traditional
society, without any need fro Jihad, or any need to rise in non-Muslim society.
In this way the terrible racism and Communalism were trying to take over
non-Muslim society! And on this island in society Sufism and the Sharia could
survive, and watch the Modern World go its merry way to Hell! And there would
be no need to interfere Islam to fit in Science and Westernization, and so on
need for the nonsense of Wahhabism and Modernism, and the modern political
method of the Modernists and Fundamentalists.
And Imam Ahmed
Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) and others put these plans into action,
so that today Sunni Islam and its traditional society have survived, despite
all the horrors of the Twentieth Century.
And now today
the true greatness of this plan is visible, for all this Modernists and
Fundamentalists have failed! They have built nothing good or lasting in the Muslim
World. And the non-Muslim have also failed to create a good society. Communism
and Fascism have both failed, and even the gains of moderate Socialism are
disappearing as the West returns to a pure, merciless, version of Capitalism.
And the World realise the failure of all these Scientific projects, and the
failure of Science itself.
And so the
World importance of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is today!
He
criticised these modern projects when they were new and had not failed. He knew
that that they were wrong. Now they have failed, and Imam Ahmed Raza Khan
Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is proved right.
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) truly is the man of the century!
And Sunni Islam will be made the success of the coming century, if his ideas
are followed! And all this is his reward for his total love and respect for the
Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam)!
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) day is now! We live in a World of
anti-Islamic and non-Islamic governments and society, and we live in a World
cut off from religion and the great wisdom that existed before the horror of
Modern Science. Imam Ahmed Raza Kham Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is a model of
how to live, and how to act, and how to face this terrible World.
I n conclusion
we have seen all the ways in which Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi
Alaih) is important to us today, And we have seen that all he did that is
important comes from his defence of Sunni Islam from the attacks of the Modern
World. Imam
Ahmed Raza kHan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is of World Importance because
Sunni Islam is of World Importance.
And Sunni Islam
has the answer to the problems of the World because it is the True Islam, and
the True Religion.
And Sunni Islam
proves itself true by having the answer!
Hazrat Imam
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alaih) is of importance to all humanity
because he calls us back to the one God, Allah Ta'ala, and to the Religion
which Allah Ta'ala has sent.
Imam Ahmed Raza
Khan Barelvi (Ramatullahi Alaih) himself put at the centre of his own life, and
at the centre of his all work, the most total and complete love for and respect
for our beautiful Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allahu Alaihi wa Sallam).
And that is why
he is of World Importance.
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