Concept of Khilafat in Islam and Importance
Khilafat has been driven by Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Mirza Masroor Ahmad — The Ahmadiyya Khilafat was set up in 1908, following the passing of the author of the Ahmadi Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Presently we enter the current day. Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the Successful 5th Khalifa of Islam. In June 2020 the Caliph composed a progression of letters to different world pioneers asking them to consider the incapacitating and decimating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic as a perfect notice for humankind.
The letters were kept in touch with Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Letters were likewise kept in touch with Pope Francis and the UN Secretary-General. The world chiefs were asked by the current Caliph of Islam that during these tricky and flimsy occasions world pioneers must maintain the best expectations of equity at a homegrown and global level and set a positive and respectable model for their kin.
Similarly as different religions of the world experience different periods ever, comparably, the religion of Islam has seen different times during its 1,400 years. As the hadith beneath recommends:
O Muslims! This Prophethood (The rule of Muhammad) will stay with you as long as Allah wishes it to remain. At that point it would conclude, to be supplanted with Khilafat which would be on the example of prophethood and would stay as long as Allah wills. At that point, this Khilafat would likewise conclude. At that point, there will be Kingship and will stay as long as Allah wills. At that point, there will be the standard of the oppressors and that period also will conclude. From that point forward, Khilafat on the example of prophethood would reappear.
This prescience features 4 times in Islam. Initially, a Khilafat after the downfall of the Prophet Muhammad (harmony and gifts of Allah arrive). Also, a period of authority. Thirdly, a standard of oppressors. At last, a Khilafat would re-show up after the rise of the Messiah.
The people group had been established and situated in Qadian, India, from its commencement. In any case, on the segment of India in 1947, the Muslims of India moved to Pakistan in enormous numbers. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to a great extent moved from India to Pakistan, including the Caliph. Another town was underlying Pakistan, called Rabwah, and the Khilafat stayed based there for the coming many years.
The subsequent Caliph died in 1965 and was prevailing by Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad. During his Khilafat, the oppression of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community started to strengthen in Pakistan, and the public authority was administered against the network without precedent for 1974.
Appointment of the Caliph:
According to Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Every Caliph is chosen on the death of his archetype by an Electoral College of Ahmadi Muslim authorities. The Electoral College is comprised of the leaders of every country’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, senior Imams, and chose authorities. Ahmadi Muslims accept the choice is guided by God.
Solidarity of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community:
The Caliph is an individual through whom the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is joined far and wide. Each Ahmadi Muslim vows loyalty to the Caliph and vows to obey him in every strict choice. This permits the network to remain profoundly coordinated, organized, and joined the world over and is a framework that discovers its premise in the Quran: for instance Quran 4:60, Quran 8:47.
Correlation with the Pope:
In Roman Catholicism they accept that Pope can’t blunder, their choices are in every case right. At the point when they are gone up against with the predicament of one Pope in history giving a decision on a similar issue from the decision given on a similar issue by another Pope, they had no answer for the issue. We as Ahmadis accept that Caliphs, the delegates of the prophets, are not faultless. They can commit errors.
However, what we accept is that in any event, when they commit errors, since they are honest, when it is called attention to them that this mix-up has been submitted, they are adequately valiant and they love truth enough that they acknowledge their slip-up and retouch their direction. So they are human and they are guided by the light of their inward truth and when you are genuine at that point even slip-ups don’t have a particularly significant effect, as long as you commit your errors in genuineness and you are sufficiently straightforward to possess your missteps and redress them…
