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Sad Anniversary

"Boli amma Muhammad Ali ki Jan beta Khilafat pai dedo"

A slogan in Urdu, which translates to: "so spoke the mother of Muhammad Ali. Son! Lay down yourlife for the sake of hilafah"

March , marks a ery tragic eent in the history of #slam. $et, many Muslims don%t een reali&e it.

'ack in ()*+, the 'ritish with the help of their agent Mustafa amal destroyed the ery #slamic State,

which was estalished y -rophet Muhammad saaw/.

Muslims will not forget the &eal of reestalishing the hilafah shown y Muslims of that era today. #n

their call to reestalish the hilafah, Muhammad Ali 0ohar and Muhammad Ali Shaukat Ali 0ohar were

pioneers, etter known as the Ali rothers who headed the hilafah moement in #ndia.

#n a ook entitled "My life a fragment", Maulana Ali, writes aout his upringing and his eentual

affinity to the #slamic goernmental structure and his foundation of a hilafat moement which was to

prolong the long oerdue prognosis of its elimination of the hilafah goernmental structure.

Maulana Ali, came to the reali&ation that the hilafah is the seat of succession to the -rophet saaw/ or

in his words:

"...But the temporal losses of Turkey which we were advised by Europe to "cut" touched a peculiar

chord in our subconsciousness the !hord of eli#ion$ for the uler of Turkey was the Khalifah or

%uccessor of the &rophet and Emir'ul'Momineen or !hief of the (aithful and the Khilafah was as

essentially our reli#ious concern as the )ur*an or the %unnah of the &rophet."

#t should e noted that this is not only the understanding of Maulana Ali, ut also of the 1u2aha

0urists/ efore him. 3hey hae reminded us that the position of the halifah as Succession of the

Messenger in carrying the functions of estalishing the 4een and maintaining the integrity of #slam, in

such a way that makes it an oligation upon all the Ummah to oey him.

Al5Mawardi defined it as: Succession of the -rophet hood aimed at protecting the 4een and ruling the

worldly life.

Al56ahani, the founder of 7i&5ut53ahrir defined the hilafah as: A general leadership for all

Muslims aimed at implementing the Shariyah of #slam and carrying the message of #slam to the entire

world.

Maulana Ali reali&ed that the "8ttoman 9mpire" was the seat of the hilafah. 7e osered this with

admiration and oedience. 7is admiration was such that throughout the ook he mentions his affinity

to the Seat of hilafat. Upon reali&ing that the Seat of the hilafah was in danger of its eentual

reakup, he and his rother Shaukat Ali, estalished a moement which came to e known in the Su5

ontinent as the hilafat Moement.

A resolution was adopted at the hilafat onference held at arachi, #ndia in ()*(, according to

which, it was considered an irreligious act for the Muslims to enroll in the 'ritish army. 3his resulted

in the arachi trial, which commenced in 8ctoer ()*( in which Maulana Muhammad Ali, Shaukat

Ali, 7usain Ahamad Madni, and three others were sentenced to two years% rigorous imprisonment. 7is

imprisonment eoked a countrywide protest. 3he resolution for which he was prosecuted was adopted

and pulished throughout #ndia. 3he statement gien y Muhammad Ali efore the court rings out his

truly #slamic spirit. 7e acknowledges the supremacy of the 4iine Law Ahkam Shariyah/ oer

manmade legislation. 3he oldness and daring e;hiited y him efore the court was ama&ing.

3his moement sent delegations to 9urope and held conferences trying their utmost to presere the

entity of the hilafah. #t is true that this effort was not strong enough and was not planned well to

produce its results. 3his effort lacked the full awareness of the 'ritish plans to destroy the #slamic State

and to the e;tent to which they had their agents working for this goal. 'ut, neertheless, this attempt

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left a positie impact for the others to start new well5planned effort towards estalishing the hilafah.

#t should e noted that this was one of the more genuine #slamic Moements that the Su5ontinent

produced which called for the adherence to the heneer a -rophet died, another -rophet would take oer. And there will e no -rophet after # die.

'ut, there will e halifs. And there will e many of them. 3he Sahaah asked: >hat do you

command us to do 7e replied: 1ulfill the 'a%yah for them, one after another. And gie them their

rights. 1or Allah S>3/ will ask them aout that which he put them in charge of. ?6arrated y

Muslim@

Upon reflection of these Ayat and Ahadith, it ecomes clearly eident that the halifah must e

appointed and that the hilafah must e presered.

7aing this understanding, Maulana Ali, launched a moement to presere the hilafah. 3herefore,

what the hilafat moement was calling was the adherence to the orders of Allah and 7is Messengersaaw/. #t can e concluded that the moement was genuine in its adherence to the hilafah or the

authority of #slam.

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#n contrast, other moements of the Su5ontinent which fashioned #slam and the Muslims and roused

the masses to call for 6ationalism and Separatism as an alternatie to hilafah ruling system. Upon

the dissolution of the hilafah different moements emerged to fulfill the acuum of the authority

ested in the Muslim Ummah.

"boli amma Muhammad Ali ki ++ Jan beta Khilafat pai dedo"

"so spoke the mother of Muhammad Ali. %on lay down your life for the sake of Khilafah"

>ill the Muslims mothers today instruct their children with the same slogan