The last of all prophets rose from a region where no other had ever hailed from.
This was a shock that the Jews could not digest,
‘No, how is this possible?’
Similarly, when HDE Gohar Shahi is proclaimed as Imam Mehdi,
then people ask, 'Really? Do they not hail from Pakistan?'
Yes, absolutely, they become from Pakistan.
So?
Can Imam Mehdi not come from Pakistan?
Can The Advent of Imam Mehdi Take Place In Pakistan?
Look, it does not matter where Imam Mehdi comes from.
If you think you will benefit more because Imam Mehdi is from Kashmir as you are
or that you shall earn more spirituality,
then you should also know that you are from Kashmir and Prophet Muhammad (s) was from Medina
but you still have faith in the Prophet (s), don't you?
So, these things do not make a difference.
It doesn’t make a difference which city the Prophet (s) belonged to.
One in whose destiny God has written faith in Prophet Muhammad (s)
will benefit regardless of where he lives.
Similarly, it matters not where Imam Mehdi comes from,
whether Kashmir or Gujrat or Punjab or Arab or anywhere.
It’s not about where they come from,
it’s about whether or not we belong to them.
If we have established a spiritual connection with them,
then no matter where we come from,
even if it’s Bhaipheru,
if we have established a connection, we are fortunate.
Prophet Muhammad (s) was born in Mecca
so everyone from Mecca must be fortunate, right?
Despite that, there is a large group of people who became the enemies of the Prophet (s) instead of having faith in him.
Two of the Prophet’s uncles bore animosity for him.
One was Abu Jahl and the other was Abu Lahab.
Forget the city of Mecca, they were family!
So, my dear brothers, which city they come from and what language they speak does not make a difference.
If the acquisition of the Prophet’s benevolence depended on language,
then we Urdu and Punjabi-speaking people would have been deprived.
Isn’t that right?
Now, what’s interesting is that most of the saints of God that came into this world were non-Arab,
most of the fakirs that came into this world
were either from India, Pakistan,
or Bangladesh
or they come from a country where no one speaks Arabic.
The Qur’an also states
the reason why God descended the Qur’an in Arabic.
Why? So that you [the people of that region] could comprehend it.
Now, ‘comprehend it’ is my own translation,
whereas, the sentence used in the Qur’an is ‘for it to enter your intellect’.
This means that through recitation, the Qur’an enters the intellect, not the heart.
So, if we too are only reciting the Qur’an verbally, it will only enter our intellect, not our heart.
Many clergymen have fabricated a story that Imam Mehdi shall speak Arabic.
Alright, if Imam Mehdi must speak Arabic…
did Prophet Muhammad (s) speak Punjabi?
[You would say] ‘What nonsense!’
What do you mean what nonsense?
‘The Prophet (s) was born in Mecca hence his language was Arabic’.
Okay, so the Prophet (s) was born in Mecca and so Arabic was the language he spoke
but this does not denote his eminence.
Even Abu Jehl spoke Arabic.
For example, there was a family that returned to Pakistan from England,
so their other family members went to visit them upon their return.
One of the women said to another,
‘It was so strange to see small children speaking English there when even the degree holders here can’t!
Small children were speaking fluent English!’
The small children here speak English because English is the language spoken here.
These are the standards [the clergymen] have set.
Then they say [Imam Mehdi] shall be born in Medina.
Abdullah Ibn e Abi was also born in Medina.
Being born in Medina or Mecca does not gesture eminence.
The Shias think it is a matter of eminence that Maula Ali was born in the Kaaba
but they do not know that Maula Ali’s presence brings eminence to the Kaaba.
There is no comparison between the Kaaba and Maula Ali (a).
Our faith dictates that wherever Maula Ali (a) sets foot becomes the Kaaba.
You say that his being born in Kaaba makes him eminent.
What a ridiculous person you are.
Where one comes from and what language one speaks, these things do not make a difference.
Whoever God chooses, whoever God is with, whoever God has bestowed a rank, that is what is of importance.
You see, Prophet Muhammad (s)
There is a great issue which you would not know because you have not studied history.
If you had, then you wouldn’t have been so shocked.
If you were to study history,
you would have found that Muhammad (s) was the only prophet to have been born in Mecca.
Although, Abraham also visited the region of Mecca as well as Ishmael but they were not born there.
Ishmael was born in Iraq.
So, no prophet was born in this region.
This region of Hejaz.
No prophet came to this region.
No prophet was born in this region.
This region was subjected to spiritual ignorance.
It was subjected to a great amount of religious corruption.
Whilst other regions were ones in which prophets were born in abundance.
Moses was born in Egypt. Prophet Seth was born in Syria.
Abraham was born in Iraq.
Prophet Jonas was born in Palestine.
And there were many others, such as Joseph and Moses, they came from the region of Egypt.
Prophet Lot was born in Jordan.
So, that entire region...
Jesus was born in Jerusalem and next to Jerusalem is Palestine where Prophet Jonas was born.
They all remained in this region.
Now, if someone was to say that our prophet, Muhammad (s) is the last of all prophets,
the leader of all prophets and he is from Mecca!
Then what would be the response of the Jews?
‘From Mecca?!’ Mecca was unknown, wasn’t it?
No prophet was born in Mecca.
No messenger was born in Mecca. Or was there?
Right? So what would people think?
That the last prophet, the last messenger should come from Jerusalem,
or that he would have risen from Palestine, from Syria,
but that is not what had happened. He came from Mecca, where no other prophet had come before.
No prophet came from this region.
The last of all prophets rose from a region where no other had ever hailed from.
This was a shock that the Jews could not digest,
‘No, how is this possible?’
Similarly, when HDE Gohar Shahi is proclaimed as Imam Mehdi,
then people ask, 'Really? Do they not hail from Pakistan?'
Yes, absolutely, they become from Pakistan.
So?
Can Imam Mehdi not come from Pakistan?
'Pakistan is like this and like that', [they say in a derogative manner].
Now you see, God reveals the fountains of guidance from a region that is most plagued by misguidance.
Just ponder the state of the people of Mecca upon the arrival of the Prophet (s).
They would bury newborn baby girls alive.
They would entomb baby girls alive.
They were engulfed with immodesty and indecency.
You must know about belly dance, right?
Belly dancing is a part of the Arabian culture
and it is a very ancient tradition in which women dance in immodest clothing.
In this dance, you have to shake your torso
but in doing that, everything else shakes too, including the skeleton.
This was part of their culture.
They would consume alcohol and hold great gatherings
where belly dancers dance before them.
They would have goats butchered and roasted on fire,
they would be drinking fresh goats milk
and tasting honey whilst they would be enjoying belly dancing.
They would be gnawing on a goat leg and drinking milk.
They would not even drink water, the Arabians.
And this was their culture.
One day, upon the influence of his friends,
the Prophet (s) must have been around 21 or 22 years old.
A few friends of the Prophet (s) pressurised him into going to see a dance.
The Prophet (s) wasn’t thinking, ‘I am the last prophet’.
A prophet does not know he is a prophet when he is born, he is made to forget.
Now, this was the first time Gabriel had to be sent to the Prophet (s) by God.
So the Prophet’s friends convinced him to go see the dance with them.
Before they arrived, Gabriel appeared to the Prophet (s) and asked, 'Where are you going, O Messenger of God?'
And the Prophet (s) replied, 'With my friends, to watch the dance'.
Gabriel said, 'O Messenger of God, this is not why God has sent you', and the Prophet (s) returned.
Now, what corruption did the clergymen bring to Islam?
There are two types of dance.
There is the indecent dance the very purpose of which is to provoke lust.
'It is unlawful to dance and sing in Islam', say the clergymen.
What sort of singing is unlawful? All kinds? All kinds of singing are impermissible?
That cannot be possible. Or can it?
When the Prophet (s) migrated from Mecca to Medina,
the females of Banu Fajjar,
in welcoming the arrival of the Prophet (s) sang the hymn
'Tala al Badru Alayna',
which means, 'the Moon has descended over us'.
They would play the duff and sing this song and the Prophet (s) was pleased by this.
Whereas, these obstinate clergymen declare that reciting Naat and Qawwali is impermissible.
Whereas the sort of singing that gives rise to lust within you is unlawful,
women dancing indecently, that’s impermissible.
However, if a few women decide to dance in an enclosed room,
like our mothers and sisters want to celebrate and dance in the house with no men and only women,
as long as the dance is modest and not indecent, then there is nothing wrong with it.
Now, once what had happened was,
nowadays, we have doors and locks in our homes
but at the time of the Prophet (s), they only had huts with a burlap canopy or a curtain of some kind.
You just had to move it to the side to enter. You can’t knock on burlap, can you?
So, one day the Prophet (s) was in their hut and a few women had come to visit.
Bibi Aisha was also present
and those women were dancing whilst the Prophet (s) was resting and observing their dance in the corner of the room.
Due to the noise of their dance and cheer,
Abu Bakr Siddiq ran into the hut.
Now, the problem is the women were all standing and dancing
and so Abu Bakr Siddiq did not realise that the Prophet (s) was also present in the room.
So he came in and demanded,
'What on earth is going on here?!
This is all wrong and unlawful! Stop this immediately!'
Bibi Aisha said, 'Dear father, the Prophet (s) is also present here'.
But he was too angry to pay heed, just like Nadeem bhai doesn’t listen to anything when he is angry.
The women had made way and he spotted the Prophet (s).
Then he said to the Prophet (s),
‘O Messenger, these women are dancing!'
The Prophet (s) said, 'Yes, we know. You may take your leave'.
And the Prophet (s) said to the women, ‘Carry on with your celebration and cheer, you are doing nothing wrong’.
There is something else I would like to mention
and the reason is that [the clergymen] from the Taliban
and the type of Shariah they impose
declares even dolls to be haram.
Now, this hadith is authentic. It is an agreed-upon hadith.
This means that
this hadith carries a general consensus across all sects.
The narration is that the Prophet (s) one day rushed into their hut,
and when the Prophet (s) came in,
Bibi Aisha was retrieving something from the cupboard.
There was a cupboard there and she was taking something out of it.
When she noticed the Prophet (s) rush in,
she hid behind her back what she had retrieved.
The Prophet (s) asked, 'Aisha, what are you hiding?'
She said, 'Nothing, nothing'.
The Prophet (s) repeated, 'Show me'.
She showed it. It was a doll.
The Prophet (s) said, 'Why were you hiding this?
Go and play with your doll'.
The Prophet (s) did not stop her.
And which Shariah do they practise today?
I’ve seen it.
A little girl was playing with a doll and the Taliban shot her dead.
Because of a doll.
But this is mentioned in the ahadith!
This is why we have such strong opposition to the clergymen
because they have destroyed the religion.
Just like the army of Pakistan has destroyed Pakistan.
First they had Bangladesh, God knows what they will do now.
This is how the clergymen have destroyed the religion of Islam.