OBEDIENCE TO KHILAFAT AND NIZAME JAMAAT Aziza Rahman National Secretary Tarbiyat Lajna Mentoring Conference 2011 THE HOLY QUR’AN ON OBEDIENCE • And they were not commanded but to serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, and being upright, and to observe Prayer, and pay the Zakat. And that is the religion of the people of the right path. 98:6 • Hearken; it is to Allah alone that sincere obedience is due. 39:4 • O ye who believe! Obey God and obey the Prophet and obey those in authority from among you. 4:60 THE HOLY QUR’AN ON OBEDIENCE • The response of the believers, when they are called to Allah and His Messenger in order that he may judge between them, is only that they say: ‘We hear and we obey.’ And it is they who will prosper. (24:52) • And whoso obeys Allah and His Messenger, and fears Allah, and takes Him as a shield for protection, it is they who will be successful. (24:53) • And they swear by Allah their strongest oaths that, if thou command them, they will surely go forth. Say, ‘Swear not; what is required is actual obedience in what is right. Surely, Allah is well aware of what you do.’ (24:54) THE HOLY QUR’AN ON KHILAFAT “Allah had promised to those among you who believe and do good works that He will surely make them Successors in the earth, as He made Successors from among those who were before them; and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them; and that He will surely give them in exchange security and peace after their fear: They will worship Me, and they will not associate anything with Me. Then whoso is ungrateful after that, they will be the rebellious.” ( 24:56). THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW) "Prophethood shall remain among you as long as Allah shall will. He will bring about its end and follow it with Khilafat on the precepts of prophethood for as long as He shall will and then bring about its end. A tyrannical monarchy will then follow and will remain as long as Allah shall will and then come to an end. There will follow thereafter monarchial despotism to last as long as Allah shall will and come to an end upon His decree. There will then emerge Khilafat on precept of Prophethood." The Holy Prophet said no more (Masnad Ahmad) KHILAFAT AS SECOND MANIFESTATION OF ALLAH’S MERCY You should therefore, neither grieve over what I have told you (that the hour of my demise is nigh) nor should you be heart-broken for it is mandatory that you see God's second manifestation. The coming of that manifestation is a lot better for you because it is eternal whose succession will not terminate till the end of days. When I go, Allah will send to you the second manifestation and it will stay with you forever. (Al-Wassiyat, pp. 6-7) RESPONSIBILITY OF THE KHALIFA • To take care of the spiritual, moral, social and intellectualwelfare of his followers • . To maintain a unified community of righteous people THE IMPORTANCE OF KHILAFAT Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) writes in his Tafsir al-Kabir: “that the concluding words of the ayate Istikhlaf, ‘Whosoever is ungrateful after that, they will be rebellious’ (24:56) signifies that Khilafat is a great Divine blessing. Without it there can be no solidarity, cohesion and unity among Muslims and therefore they can make no real progress without it. If Muslims do not show proper appreciation of Khilafat by giving unstinted support and obedience to their Khalifas they will forfeit this Divine boon and in addition will draw the displeasure of God upon themselves’’ = OBEDIENCE TO KHALIFA OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH = DISOBEDIENCE TO KHALIFA DISOBEDIENCE TO ALLAH HADITH He who obeys me, obeys God; and he who disobeys me, disobeys God, And he who obeys the Amir [i.e., the head of the state], obeys me; And he who disobeys the Amir, disobeys me’’.