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Why is the title “Ameer-e-Shariat” associated with Ataullah Shah Bukhari and not Muhammad ?

Dated: 28/10/1984

Location: The London Mosque

Language: English

Audience: General

Why is the title “Ameer-e-Shariat” associated with Ataullah Shah Bukhari and not Muhammad ?

As salamu alaikum. Huzoor, I wanted to know for the benefit of others, the meaning of Ameer-e-Shariat, because this title was acquired by the Hazrat Mawlana Maududi Sahab and to me… No, no. Adawla Sahab Bukhari. Also Adawla Sahab Bukhari. And this title, to some, is really very great. It is only deserved for the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. No, no. Not even that. There is no Ameer-e-Shariat.

There is an Ameer-e-People. Ameer is Sahab-e-Amr. Now, I will speak on this subject. This very construction is wrong and meaningless. You know, when the scholarly people of Islam, the earliest people of the centuries much closer to Huzoor-e-Akram sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, spoke of Shariah, Sahab-e-Shariat, they never referred this to me, Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Shariah always meant Allah Ta’ala. Because it is the enemies of our Huzoor sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which make people believe that Shariah-e-Muhammadiyah, peace be upon him, was invented by our Huzoor sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself.

While the reality is that not a single word of this Shariah, of this law, was made by Huzoor sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So the Shariah is not the person to whom the law has been revealed. The Shariah is the person who has revealed the law. So Shariah is only Allah, who has revealed the law, the word. And the recipient of the word is only the recipient of that Shariah and his warden of that Shariah. So the word Amir, in reference to Shariah, has neither ever been used in the Holy Quran, nor in the tradition, nor in the earlier terminology of Muslim scholars. In the first few centuries you will never find this mentioned even remotely, even a shadow of this reference, as applicable to any saintly person, any scholarly person, or even to Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

They always said, Shariah is Allah, and Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is a model for us of that Shariah. So Amir means Sahib-e-Amr. And Sahib-e-Amr, in Shariah, is only God. And others are demonstrators of Amr, explainers of Amr. And when Amir is used with reference to men, then men become Sahib-e-Amr, of course. Ul-Amr-e-Minkum, for instance, in the Holy Quran. So there can be an Amir of Momineen, of course, but never Amir of Holy Quran. What is Shariah? That is Holy Quran. So how could a person be Amir of Shariah? Amir of followers of Shariah is understandable, of course, but Amir of the Holy Quran, nauzubillah minzaalik, that is none but Allah. So this is an idolatry term with an idolatry stink in it.

So Ahmadis don’t accept this term as such, at all, in any sense. Except for Allah, but the word Amir is not used in connection with Allah either. So this combination is just meaningless. Useless and absolutely worthy of rejection.

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