The fact is that already you know the answer in a different context. But if you are reminded that there is a situation that is taking place, then you immediately know what the answer is. The fact is that the embezzlement is singled out for all the atrocities among the Muslim sects, while the fact is that there are many other sects, most of the sects in fact, have fundamental differences with each other, much more than anything else. It is so fundamental and so inextricable that it is indeed a punishment to realize that within Islam, such sects exist with views on the fundamentals of Islam more like any other religion than Islam itself.
For instance, I quoted some points from Haramani view of Islam. And I told you a little bit ago that there is a need to be so fundamentally different from the rest of the Muslims that apparently if a sect has to be inculcated, that is a sect. But apart from that, there are albis. There is a part of some types of Shias who claim that Mahāprabhu’s ﷺ was not only inferior to Hazrat Ali, but Hazrat Ali was God Himself. So that also has been mentioned in a way in our panchalama. But they have many stories attached to these views.
Otherwise, they claim that these stories are a circulation in Pakistan. I am not quoting Sunnis, enemies of Shias, but I am quoting those Bajaris where these stories are read by the Shias themselves, but they have borrowed them from the extremist elements. So some enemies who attended these Bajaris and who I know are most trustworthy, they have related these things. For instance, it is said that during the mirage, the ascent of Mahāprabhu’s ﷺ, when He reached finally the place where none other was present except God and other spiritual beings such as our beloved Hussain.
Even the Japanese who walked with Him were left far behind. He said, my wings will burn if I go beyond that certain limitation. So at that place, ultimately he met God as if two physical beings meet each other, as if two material beings meet each other. So Allāh sent His hand to him to shake hands with Hārārāṭī. And there he immediately noticed that the ring he was wearing was that of a Sunni. So he said, oh God, what I am seeing? This is the ring of a ring. So Allāh told him that he was meeting Him. So he said, according to this story, that if you were God, why didn’t you tell me there? Why did I have to travel all the way to the seventh heaven and the top to meet you?
Now these are the stories which have been told in Shia Madālas, even in Pakistan. Whether the Muslims, whether the Muslims believe in them or not, but to accept people, they won’t follow. They tell these stories and they are accepted in, you know, in the courts. And people start shouting in favour of the Sunni, Hārārāṭī, Hārārāṭī, you know. And nobody minds, nobody realizes what they are being told. There’s such differences, and many more, isn’t it?
For instance, the Brahmins believe that all their enemies are one hundred percent false. And no Muslim can say prayers behind them. And citizens’ publications in Pakistan, which I am referring to now, are quite often mislead. They have been told in uncertain terms that the question of their being Muslim is absolutely out of question. No sane Brahmin can ever believe that any enemy of his could be considered as a Muslim.
Yet, they tolerate each other, and they live in one community as Muslims, and they have singled enemies out, to be chucked out of Islam, for the reason that we believe that our Prophet ﷺ had prophesied that Mahdi and Masih would come, and we believe he has come. And we believe that our Prophet ﷺ was last of the prophets, that is to say, last of the law-bringers, last prophet with a book, last prophet with a sharia. And his subordinates can come, not independent prophets. And that too because he himself is prophesying that his subordinates would come, and he names him Mahdi and Masih, and calls Masih Prophet himself quite a few times. So this is our point.
So any sane man can judge that the differences they hold between themselves are far greater and far more heinous to their sensibilities than the differences which we hold. Yet, he hasn’t singled out. Why? The answer to this question is exactly applicable to that answer. Why Islam has been singled out? It’s a matter of relativity. The fact is that we have been singled out because all these sects believe that we are in life force. We are not a spent force. We have all the potential to spread out and envelop the whole Muslim world if people are told what we really believe.
So they are afraid. If you are afraid of something, then you take your weapons against that thing. If you are not afraid of a thing, you don’t go on living as if you really believe. You are afraid of those powers on earth which are capable of getting you over time. So the strength of the message of Islam is such that all the non-Muslim world knows that if a religion has the potential and capability of conquering the entire non-Muslim world, then it is Islam. While Judaism and Hinduism and all the religions, they do not have that potential. They are religious, traditional in fact. They are not religious anymore.
A majority among them is atheist. Most of the Jewish people you meet, the educated Jewish people, and you put just an expression to them, they would admit they are atheist. Yet they are Jews because religion has become a tradition. And so it has become in Hinduism. They don’t bother about their differences, if there are differences. And their names are far greater than supposed to accept in India. Yet they all reconcile with each other, live in harmony, because it is more like a nationality now than a religion. And nationalities don’t suppress.
So Judaism has become mis-nationalistic. Religions spread and only those which are charged, fully vibrant, they are powerful enough to spill over the borders. And that is Islam and that is atheism. So ultimately it’s one and the same thing.
