Questioner: While sitting with the Ghairas Jamaat friends, our Muslim brothers, they are trying to put a few questions in regards to the basic things that if Allah loves his Prophets, and he has also up to the time of the Promised Messiah (AS), why he put them and their nation into suffering longer time than they have achieved the governing time? I mean to say…
Huzoor (rh): I know. I know what you mean. Is that all?
Questioner: A second part of the question is, sir, that if and we are ready to take the nations according to the ilham of the Promised Messiah(AS), you will gain a big country first of all after some time. If we are going to have that…
Huzoor (rh): Which is that ilham?
Questioner: It is that… Tumhe mulki azeem ata kiya daayi jaayi kaam.
Huzoor (rh): And what do you mean by mulk?
Questioner: Mulk is not a country, but might be in my feelings is the whole nation, whole Islamic nation, whole faith.
Huzoor (rh): Mulki azeem?Mujhko kya mulkon se mera mulk hai sabse juda?
Questioner: Sabse juda. Exactly.
Huzoor (rh): That could be the meaning of that mulk. That is…
Questioner: I understand, sir. Even that, for that purpose as well, which you are taking as poorly holy, are we preparing ourselves or our jamaat for that? And if we are, the time wants us to submit to them our constitution, our planning, sir.
Huzoor (rh): Yes, I know. Please… Just a moment. Without the answer to this question, how can I attend your question? Please wait for a while. The first question is about the suffering of prophets in the path of Allah. And this is a general question raised by so many people, but it is also an innovation that the suffering period of the prophets, according to theQuestioner, is always much longer than the period of relief and victory. So why suffering is so long and the period of relief and victory is so short? Now, as far as the suffering in the path of Allah is concerned, it has to be seen in the context of human reformation. No people on earth can be deformed without being called to perseverance, sacrifices, toil and sweat. Without this, no people can be revived and no people can be cured of the moral evils from which they suffer. If you call for a life of ease and plenty, and this is the message of a messenger, then all the worst type of people will rush forward to this messenger. Those who are more materialistic would say, labbaik, Allahuma labbaik, much louder and with such enthusiasm. They say, we are ready, we are going to follow you, lead us to plenty, lead us to gold, lead us to the amenities of life and so on and so forth. Is that what religion came for? No. So the religious message is bitter. It invites to a life of suffering and self-sacrifice. Now this is in general the way how people are purified and transformed, how they are made to turn away from materialism to spiritualism. Sacrifice at every step is being taught and instilled into them. Now conceive a prophet which leads a life of ease and comfort because he is loved by God, he has all the best things to himself and yet is inviting all the people to suffering and to sacrifice and everything. How could the message of such a prophet be accepted? So it is he who has to first present the very model of suffering for a nobler cause and that establishes the truth of that prophet. This is the greatest favour he can show to his people that he demonstrates to them, look here, I am calling you to a life of suffering because I suffer most and I have chosen this path not in vain, I am the wisest man among you, yet if there were no God, if there was no reward after death and so on, why should I give away all that I have for the sake of nothing? So that shows my firm faith in the life to come. That shows my firm belief that this life is only transient in passing, is not substantial. Only then people can understand and believe in such a prophet. As far as the period of his comfort is concerned, his comfort in reality lies in the life to come for which he sacrificed all the best things of his own life here. If that be true, then the period of success should be shorter in comparison to the period of suffering because that is only an interim period between labour and reward. That is not a reward in itself. It is only to further strengthen the faith of the people and to show to them that all that was promised to this man, this humble person, was promised by a greater and more powerful being which could bring about victory despite the fact that all the factors were against this victory. So this humble man who suffered so much at your hands is now made the king and sovereign and victorious or whatever it is he is made. That establishes the fact and then he has no longer anything to do here. He has delivered the message, he has demonstrated the message and from then on he is awaiting his return. This is what was demonstrated in the end by Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself when in the last moments of his life he was offered according to him himself both the possibilities, to live longer here or to return. His answer was and while he was uttering these words he passed away. He gave up his soul to his sublime companion, to his higher companion that is God. So he said I don’t want any longer to be here, I have no interest in this earth, call me back to yourself, you are my love, you are my friend, you are everything to me. So that is what they yearn for, that is what they have offered sacrifices for, why should that period of waiting be made longer for them, that is a punishment not a reward for them because they live in a life of reality in religion, not only in a myth. So in their terms you should understand their life history, not in the terms of a materialist.
