Azam Ali, Ahmadi Moslem
Chapter 09 – Illustrations
Illustrations of Rules of Universal Application
The Holy Qor-aan is an embodiment of Directions. Some authors have divided them into Commandments and Prohibitions like that was done by some translators of other Scriptures. This sight treats them as Rules of Universal Application because obeying or violating those rules invariably produces the foretold consequences.
The application of these rules keeps providing illustrations in all places, in all scenarios. Some materialize on personal levels of individuals. Some occur on a much wider scale on community or national levels.
Some of those rules of universal application spelled out in the Holy Qor-aan are that I personally saw Abba Ji following them all our lives as stated in Tr – Azam Ali, an Ahmadi Moslem – Ch – 20 – Universal Rules. His life of obeying those rules extended over 80 years. It provided an untold number of illustrations in the following and many other arenas.
- Remembering Allah at every step in his life – 013:029
- Showing by his conduct that he was commanded to be the best of the Obedient and not be of the Idolaters – 006:015
- Showing by his conduct that he was commanded to be the best of the Obedient who did not recognize any partner of the Almighty God – 006:164
- Showing by his conduct that he was commanded to be among Believers – 010:105
- Following the Best Exemplar – 033:022
- Praying far beyond the Five daily prayers the Ish-raaq and Ta-huj-jaud – 017:079
- Being aware of and praying about the weakening of body – 036:069
- Being congruent in saying and doing the same thing – 061:003
- Never telling others what he didn’t do himself – 061:004
- Always praying before eating and finishing food – 026:080
- Always seeking increase in knowledge – 020:115
- Always seeking his entries and exits as a Truthful person – 017:081.
- Always praying before travelling for safe journey– 011: 042
- Always praying for recovery from illness. Initially I didn’t understand why he was praying for himself so fervently when in good health. Now I understand. – 026:081
- Raising family with the same values with which he lived — 002:129
- Administering judgeship – 004:059
- Never fearing death that was inevitable and just a Transition to a better everlasting life — 003:186, 021:036, 029:058 and 026:082
Father often did things instinctively. In the initial stages of course, he must have tried hard, like memorizing long portions of the Holy Qor-aan particularly where the Almighty God has perceptualized prayers offered by the past Prophets. But he was so used to them by the time he got so many of us that he did them all the time as our example to follow.
Father’s life was witnessing himself and drawing others’ attention to similarly innumerable illustrations that precipitated results when those rules were followed or violated. Pleasant memories were left when those rules were followed. The opposite was equally true and he quoted illustrations when the rules were disobeyed and untoward consequences ensued.
Bhutto
One example that everybody saw with their own eyes was Zulifqar Ali Bhutto. He ruled Pakistan as a dictator with an iron-fist dressed up to look like a genuine democracy. He got his way by greasing the cooperation of corrupt clergy and perpetually hungry politicians.
Father had a clear, candid and convincing opinion about their political motives and actions. He lamented about Bhutto’s alliance with clergy and atrocities they committed as the Government. Father expressed resentment in the High Court Bar against such misdeeds
Law recognizes a process known as eminent domain. It allows the government to acquire private property for community benefit by paying fair market value to its owner. Three elements must exist for the legal process to be triggered.
- Firstly, it must relate to land which means any property whether developed or not.
- Secondly, it is needed for the larger good of the public.
- Thirdly, fair market value is paid to the landowner whose property was taken.
Corrupt governments in uncivilized countries have abused the law of eminent domain to usurp developed properties. They snatch away income-producing, productive or developed property from its owner to benefit one of their cronies appointed as a hired employee to run, operate and control it.
Bhutto was a law graduate who knew how to abuse a legal process by dressing it to look like it was under the law. He labelled his highhandedness with the patriotic sounding noble process of Nationalization. His crooks and thugs took over other businesses without compensating their owners. They nationalized Rice Husking factories.
After years of hard work my younger brother had bought a small piece of land and put machinery there to operate his small business as a rice husker. The Bhutto regime nationalized his rice husking business, land and factory without compensation and disallowing any legal recourse to impugn such a high-handed illegality.
- They nationalized rice husking factories.
- They paid little or no compensation.
- They totally outlawed all judicial remedies which citizens ordinarily had.
One day my brother was a small businessman with his own business raising a family and paying bills. Next day he had no job, no work and no money. And worst of all, he had no judicial remedy since any legal recourse had been outlawed by the very corrupt Bhutto.
Father had been a Judge. All his life he had fairly provided justice to others and judicially struck down injustices of all kinds. He knew what eminent domain meant. He was highly disturbed by the brazen day-light robbery by Bhutto junta.
And then he saw the worst kind of abuse of the process of law by manufacturing the commission of lawless and at the same time ousting any recourse to law to seek any correction. This damage to his son hurt Father beyond words. He often said, “What can the people do when the government itself becomes the oppressor.”
Bhutto regime amended the Pakistan Constitution on September 7, 1974, and declared Ahmadis as non-Muslim. Millions of them were labelled as a minority. Sharp teeth were later sown into legal processes that ensued. For instance, their greeting us-sa-laa-mo-alai-koom (peace on you) was made punishable with three years’ imprisonment under the Pakistan Penal Code. Other examples of similar harsh legislation are detailed elsewhere on this site.
Indeed, things like this happen when the coming of divine punishment has become inevitable. The above nationalization was on Father’s mind when on December 26, 1974, Father and I were at the end of the Annual Conference in Rabwah. Father took me with him to meet Khaleefatool-Massih III r.a. of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam.
During the meeting Father said that such grave injustices generated Bud Doaa (invoking curses) from the core of citizens’ hearts against their own government. The Khaleefa knew the effectiveness of Father’s prayers and quickly said, “Chaudhry Sahib, don’t wish bad for Bhutto. He needs our prayers.”
Father bowed in silence. But the Rule of Universal Application had been violated. It had been ordained to be avenged, as we humans conclude, very severely.
Wa ka zaa-lay-ka ja-ul naa fee kool-lay qur-ya-tin Aa-kaa-bay-ra mooj-ray-mee haa lay yum-ko-roo fee haa Wa maa yaum-ko-roo-na il-laa bay un-fo-say him Wa maa yaush-o-roo-n سُوۡرَةُ الاٴنعَام – Ch:006, Verse 124
And like this We made in every town Its wrongdoers the leaders for scheming in it. And they do not plan except with themselves And they do not realize. 006:124
The deep-rooted hurts in the hearts of so many God-fearing people are not dissolved by the mere words spoken kindly by their worldly or even spiritual leaders. The Bhutto regime for years had crushed its own citizenry. Someone somewhere saw it all.
It was no surprise to us when Father dreamt that a pig climbed a few steps up on a ladder and then fell flat on his back with all four legs raised like a dead stray mutt. Father right away interpreted this dream to mean that Bhutto’s end was near, and in death he would be disowned, discarded and dishonored like a pig or stray dog.
Not too long after this dream, this formidable dictator of Pakistan was imprisoned, tried for scheming and causing an opponent’s murder in the first degree, convicted, and sentenced to be hung by the neck till dead.
Bhutto was finally executed by hanging. Reading the details of Bhutto’s execution illustrated the fate perpetually sketched in the Holy Qor-aan for all wrongdoers.
Yoe-ra-fo ol-mooj-ray-moo-na bay see-maa hoom Fa yoe-kha-zo bay in-na-waa-see wa ul-uq-daam سُوۡرَةُ الرَّحمٰن – Ch: 055, Verse 042
The criminals would be recognized by their marks Then they will be caught by the forelocks and feet. 055:042
The Judicial records show that Attorney Ahmed Raza was the intended victim. His car was sprayed with a machine-gun burst. Due to a last-minute change his father Nawab Ahmed Khan drove the car and died, while Ahmed Raza who sat in the front seat got saved.
A book titled Last 323 Days is available on the market. Its link on-line is as follows. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/10/04/bhuttos-fatefulmoment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3BrhlvS2aM
The book was written by the Military commander Col Rafiuddin. He had been commanded to supervise Bhutto’s execution. He wrote that Bhutto was alert and in good health but feigned faintness as a last maneuver to avoid execution. He was carried by the guards by head, hands and feet to the execution chamber – just as outlined above.
The one who got credit for inflicting on Bhutto humiliating death was his own favorite army General Zia-ul-Haq whom Bhutto had brought forward and promoted – allegedly out of line, seniority and merit – with the sole qualification that the General used army’s muscle to implement nefarious designs which the scheming mind of Bhutto conjured up.
But General Zia-ul-Haq who became an instrument to inflict the punishment on the violator Bhutto, himself became the perpetrator of adding further teeth to the bite that Bhutto had originally sunk into the Ahmadiyya body fourteen (14) years ago on September 7, 1974.
Eventually on August 17, 1988, the military plane in which General Zia-ul-Haq was flying with an American diplomat and 27 others exploded soon after taking off. Even an investigation by Governments failed to find and nail who had planted, detonated and exploded the Air Force plane. An unsolved mystery of 21st Century? Who knows?
