Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi - Beliefs

Beliefs

Ahmed Raza Khan's beliefs regarding Muhammad include:

  • Muhammad, although human, possessed a Noor (Light) that predates creation. This contrasts with the Deobandi view that Muhammad was insan-e-kamil ("the complete man"), a respected but physically typical human.
  • He is haazir naazir (can be present in many places at the same time, as opposed to God, who is everywhere by definition).
  • God has granted him ilm-e-ghaib (the knowledge of the unseen). This belief and theory directly negates the Islaamic concept of "shirk" which attributes some qualities only to Almighty Allah, including the 'i'lm-e-ghaib' or knowledge of the unknown and unseen. Raza Khan writes:
We do not hold that anyone can equal the knowledge of Allah Most High, or possess it independently, nor do we assert that Allah’s giving of knowledge to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is anything but a part. But what a patent and tremendous difference between one part and another : like the difference between the sky and the earth, or rather even greater and more immense. —Ahmed Raza Khan, al-Dawla al-Makkiyya (c00), 291.
  • God has made him mukhtaar kul (having the authority to do whatever he desires).

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