3. UMMAH-NESS ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD

3. UMMAH-NESS Islamic Brotherhood ~ 81 ~ bringing Ummah into being. For a community to lay claim to the divine succour, worship and the imparting of religious knowledge are not by themselves sufficient. Take the case of Abu Muljim, the murderer of the fourth Caliph. When people in a fit of anger rushed to avenge the murder by cutting his tongue off, he said ‘Do whatever you will, but spare my tongue to enable me to utter God’s name till my last breath.’ Yet the Prophet had foretold that Ali’s murderer would be one of the most hard-hearted and one of the most wretched members of his community. And so far as imparting religious knowledge is concerned, Abul Fazl and Faizi, the Emperor Akbar’s courtiers, were so competent and well-versed that they could perform the feat of writing a complete commentary of the Holy Quran without using those letters of the alphabet which have points. But they were the very ones who led Akbar astray and perverted the religion itself. How then can worship and religious learning alone suffice to elicit the divine succour? “The great warriors Shah Ismail Shaheed and Syed Ahmed Shaheed and their followers were, by all