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WHY ISLAM ?
There are several reasons that Islam is the only religion on the earth which must be accepted by all human beings. Allah (GOD) has declared those not accepting Islam; as non-believers.
(1) All the religions are from Allah (GOD). Allah descended one after the other about 124000 prophets on the earth. Some of them were given divine scriptures. When the sins of the people are increased beyond the limit fixed by Allah, he sends a prophet to guide them to the straight path. The Satan is downgraded. The evil of the people of earth is reduced to a great extent. Such a purified state on the earth is maintained for some years. Then slowly and slowly, again sins of the people on the earth is increased. When it crosses the limit, once again another prophet is sent down on the earth. The earth and the people are purified again. This cycle of system is repeated again and again until the final prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) was arrived. (2) When a new prophet comes on the earth, he brings with him several laws. Everybody has to follow the laws of the prophet. A new prophet may either reform or abolish some laws of previous prophet according to the demand of the time as instructed and guided by Allah(God) with a divine inspiration. This is exactly same in the manner as it happens in the court of law of a state or country. In the state or country, when a new law is made replacing or reforming the old one, every citizen of that country has to follow the new law. Thus old law is quashed. Now it is crystal clear that Islam is the latest religion on the earth and prophet Mohammed(Pbuh) is the last prophet, every citizen on this earth must follow the rules and laws brought by Islam and its prophet. Is it not a logical statement to accept Islam? (3) The laws of a country are to be followed by the citizens. Some laws may be hard. Some may be very hard and some laws may be easy to follow but we have to obey them. Exactly in the same way, in a religion, some law may be hard, some may be very hard and some may be easy. But we have to follow them. What a strange thing it is that we are arguing against the laws set by the almighty Allah(God)! Prophet is a messenger of the laws of Allah. Allah is feeding us, gives us fresh air to breath. So, we must submit ourselves to him. The one who submits oneself to the God, cannot argue against him. Servant cannot argue against his master. So, whether it is a matter of wearing a scarf on the head by a woman or may be the other thing, we cannot argue. When an engineer manufacture a machine, he knows its full knowledge and guides the other persons how to operate or deal with that machine. In the same way, Allah is the creator of the universe. He better knows why he framed such and such laws for the man and woman. (4) As regards miracles of prophet Mohammed (Pbuh), he was unique. So many people from previous religions who acquired supernatural powers were defeated by him with the power of almighty Allah given to him. His followers and devotees were able to perform miracles in such a way that the opposition leaders and kings including magicians were defeated and impressed by immense spirituality, converted from their parent religion into Islam. So, I do not want to describe about miracles of Islam. I want to give only logical and true reasons to accept Islam. (5) When the entire Europe was in darkness, Martin Luther created separate Christian group, called as the Protestant Christian, the Islam was just in a developing phase. When whole the world was ruled by one or the other kings, Islam developed a theory of Democracy. What a surprising thing it is that very few non-Muslim people know that the inventor of the democracy is a prophet Mohammed (Pbuh)! He advised his followers that after his demise (taking veil from this world), they should elect their leader whose mission would be ruling the Muslim state with the Islamic laws and propagate the message of the prophet. So, by democratic way, the four initial leaders of Islam, namely Abu Bakar, Omar, Usman and Ali (may Allah be pleased with them) chosen by the Muslims. They ruled in a most fantastic way with their spiritual powers in such a way that the Islamic state boundaries extended in Africa in the west and Afghanistan and Iran in the east. The democratically elected leader of the Islamic state was known as khalipha. The second khalipha of Islam, hazarat Omar(may god please with him) in one of his noble speech in front of his followers told that he would be questionable in the time hereafter, in the court of God, even if a dog under his reign remained hungry! What a pious leader he was! I give you one more example of fourth khalipha Hazarat Ali (may god please with him). In one battle with non-believer, he rode on the chest of his enemy. He was about to cut the throat of the enemy. As he was about to kill, the enemy spit on the face of Ali (may god please with him). Looking to this, he(Ali) left the enemy unharmed and alive. The enemy asked with an exclamation the reason why he was not killed. Ali (R.A.) replied, he was fighting for the sake of almighty Allah and not for personnel cause. But when the enemy spit, he (Ali) angered. So, if then, he killed the enemy, the cause for the killing would be accounted for his anger rather than for Allah. He feared that he might be questioned in the court of Allah. So, he did not kill the enemy. On hearing this reply, the enemy converted into Islam. (6) Democratically elected khalipha system lasted up to first four khaliphas, totaling 25 years approximately. Then, dictatorship was introduced against Islamic laws. The Military ruler Yazid bin Muawiyah was the first military dictator in Islamic history who himself captured throne and martyred Imam Husein, a son of prophet Mohammed's son-in-law. Imam Husein insisted that democratically elected person must be set on the throne as khalipha. Imam Husein and his whole family except one son were martyred in the tragedious Karbala battle where Imam Husein and his pious family were tortured, kept thirst for three days and nights and martyred. This was the end of democracy then and dictatorship and kingdoms took place in Islamic States. Even prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) forecasted that elected khilaphat system would last up to first four pious khaliphas only. So the introduction of democracy in the world was made first by Islam. Now the Islam has second number in regard to population of its followers. (7)Very Important thing to note is that, the divine book of Islam is intact, word by word unchanged. It is a great miracle of prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) that the holy book quran will remain unchanged and intact till the destruction of this whole universe. The other miracle is that, the saintly people of Islam’s dead body never get rotten. The body remains intact even after so many years. Many historic events have witnessed this thing. In our chishtiya sect of Sufism in Islam, it has been a tradition that when a saintly person demise, grave is opened after forty days of his burial and if the body is found intact, stone/cement-brick grave is made as a symbol, so that the devotees can pray for blessings. There are so many Muslim saints tombs constructed. What a true religion it is! (8)See the first chapter of holy book quran. It is called as Surah Fateha. The opener of the blessings from Allah. It is like this. “All the praises are for the Allah, the guardian of all the worlds of the entire universe. The most generous and most merciful. The owner of the day of judgment. We pray to you only and seek for only your help. Guide us on the right path, the path of the righteous who you blessed and rewarded and not on the path of those upon whom you angered and who were deviated from the right path.” After this chapter, the second chapter starts. The very first verse of the second chapter is this. “ Alef Laam Mim (secret code words), this is the book in which there has no place for any doubt. Guidance for those who fear and who bring faith on the unseen, pray Salaat (prostration) and expend from which given by Allah and bring faith on which has been descended upon you and descended upon the previous and believe firm on the day of judgement.” So, the Muslims have faith on all previous prophets and on prophet Mohammed. It is a prerequisite that one must have faith on prophet Mohammed. The Muslims recognize all previous prophets but laws will be followed which are brought by Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh). (9)Naturally, due to its last arrival on this earth, Islam includes all essence of previous religions. It includes congregessional prayers performed five times a day. It includes a loud repeated chanting. It includes meditaion. It includes yoga. Everything that comes in the definition of a prayer is included in Islam. The hindu notation of kundalini awakening is known as lataaif energy opening in Islam. (10) See the definition of Allah in Islam. In quran, the definition of Allah is given. “Allah is alone and unique. Allah is free of desires. None has born from him nor has he born from anything. Nothing can be compared with him” Looking to this, prophet Jesus is called as son of Mary(Mariam). Angel Jibrael(Gabriel) was ordered to blow on Mary to conceive. Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) had no shadow of his body. He had a shadow less body like angels. No light can create shadow of his body. Even though, he is known as a human being in quran. But it should be noted that the divine light is showering on the prophets and saintly people and they are connected to Allah(God). It can be easily understood like this. The sun gives rays. The rays are never separate from the Sun but we cannot say that the rays itself are the Sun. So, saintly people are not God but they are not separate from God.
TRUE AKIDAH IN ISLAM, A Path Of Paradise ( Jannah )
In the name of Allah Subhanahu, the most merciful and generous for whom all the praises belong.
In the holy book quraan, at the starting verses after first chapter Surah Fateha, i.e. the stating few verses in surah Bakarah, there is a mentioning of the definition to identify the people of the faith and infidels. There is a mentioning in these verses about the people who declared themselves to have brought faith but Allah said that in fact, they had no faith at all and in their hearts there was a desease ! These are called as munaafiq. The munaafiq are hidden infidels or hidden disbelievers. So, these hidden disbelievers are required to be identified to save our faith or imaan. It is only the akidah, by which, these hidden infidals or munaafiq can be recognised.
Only the true akidah in Islam is the right path towards Allah and the beloved prophet. The Imam of prayer, i.e. salaat or namaaz must follow true akidah. The salaat will be accepted only if one is offering prayer with true akidah.
The prophet of Islam had forecasted that there would be as many as 73 firqah or groups in Islam but only one would be on right path and that will go to jannah or paradise. Only one group will follow the traditions and actions followed by the companions or sahaabas of the holy prophet.
While it is very difficult to identify the right group on the basis of Kalamah, Salaat, Fastings ( Rosa ), Zakaat and Hajj as all groups perform these basic orders of Islam, it is only akidah by which the right group of jannah can be recognized. The properties of true akidah are mentioned below. If following properties are not adhered to by the imam of the prayer, one should not perform salaat behind such imaam. Because, in hadis, it has been narrated that ones deeds depend on ones intentions. Now if we perform salaat behind faulty imam by saying in our intention that we are following this imam of present prayer, then according to hadis, whatever akidah is followed by the imam will be automatically counted as the akidah of his followers.
(1)The first kalemah, the foundation or heart of Islam is Lailah illallah Mohammed rasulallah. Meaning is that, None but the Allah is one who must be worshiped and Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is the messenger of Allah.
Here, very important thing to note is that Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is a messenger of Allah. See, the present tense has been used. Past tense is not used. One cannot say that Mohammed ( Pbuh ) was a messenger. Hence, it is crystal clear that prophet Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is always alive.
(2)In holy book quraan, in surah Bakarah, it has been mentioned that those who are killed in the way of Allah are not to be called as dead, but they are alive but people do not know. The ayat is “ la takulu le mayyuktalo fi sabilillahe amawaat bal ahayaa walakin la tashourun” Here, those who are killed for the sake of Allah are called Shahids (martyr) and they are always alive. Now in holy book , it is mentioned in ayat 69 of surah Al Nisa that the nabiyyin,siddiqin,saalehin and shohadas are considered to be best friends of Allah and at other place in quran further stated that they(these friends) are happy with Allah and Allah is happy with them. So, the true belief is that all friends of Allah are alive as martyrs are belonged to this group who are alive according to quraan. In surah Aley Imran in quran, in verse 169 it is written that “ wa laa tahsabanna allazin qotelu fi sabilillah……” do not consider the martyrs who are killed in the way of Allah as dead, but they are alive and they are provided provisions(rizk) by their lord.
(3)It is the well known thing that the sahabas or companions of the prophet followed the prophet in the best way and the prophet was very pleased to see it. He told that his sahabas were like stars and following them or their guidance would lead you to the right path. Now one can see from the various hadis books and sahabas’ history that when they were in need, urgency or help, they used to rush to their beloved prophet and the prophet used to remove their woes. Though, Allah is there all times. The companions of prophet could have directly sought help from Allah rather than to go to prophet. But this is not the case. Hence it can be argued that a help from nabi ( rasul ) is a help from Allah. This can be generalized to all friends of Allah called as auliya allah. This seeking help of companions of prophet from him clearly implies that to seek help from nabiyyin, siddiqin, salehin and shohada does not become shirq. Following two examples are enough to understand that the sahabas were going for help to beloved prophet. Examples of previous prophets are also given. (a)One sahaba came to prophet and told, “ oh my sins, oh my sins.” meaning that he had so much sins. The prophet asked him to utter couple of sentences of forgiveness what he told three times and then prophet replied to him, “ go, all of your sins are forgiven.” Thus one can conclude that the prophet was even able to see the gaib ( unseen ) that his sins were forgiven. Ones sins are always a gaib or unseen. Nobody can see the sins forgiven but of course, our prophet was looking sins forgiven. (b)One another sahaba was eye-blind. He came to prophet and wanted that his eyes get the sight. The beloved prophet put his saliva to sahaba’s eyes taking on to his finger tip and the sahaba had immediately his blindness removed. There are so many such incidents where sahabas asked prophet to help them instead of going direct to Allah. (c)People sought help from Hajarat Issa (A.S.) to remove leprosy and blindness according to Quran and Quran has not stated this thing as a shirq. As Ulemah of Islam is like previous prophets, their help cannot be considered as a shirq. (d)Musa (A.S.) asked dua to Allah to strengthen him with the help of his brother Harun. This is written in holy quran. See, a prophet is requesting to Allah for his brother Harun’s help for supporting Allah’s deen/religion. This is in surah bakarah. (e)Hazarat Suleiman(A.S.) sought help of his court-member, hazarat Asif Barakhia, who brought the robust throne of queen Bilkis within twinkle of eye lashes of hazarat Suleiman(A.S.) This is according to quran in Surah Namal/an Ant.
The muslim believe that Allah is Khaliq- A creator, and all other thing except him is his creation, then there is no chance of any shirq as even though one is asking help from somebody, the original helper is almighty Allah and the party from which the help sought is just a mediator for help of Allah. When such intension or concept is created, there cannot be shirq. This is the reason our holy prophet forecasted that his ummah will not be doing a sin of shirq. Yes, he told that his ummah will be trapped in temptation of the rich.
(4) From the above when the friends of Allah are alive, their graves are considered as the signs of Allah. When they are alive, their divine help can reach everywhere. In surah Ambiya in verse 91, Hazarata Mayam(AS) and Hazarat Isa (AS) have been written as symbol for alamin(creation). So, the prophets, the siddiquin, the saalehin and the martyrs may be considered as symbols and so as their resting places(shrines) also. To respect these shrines is a good and noble thing.
The prophet of Islam has been admired by holy quran in surah ahjaab saying him as Siraaj- um-muniraa. ( Meaning very brightening sun ). Now see, if the sun of this world is seen around half of the globe at a time, and that it will last till qayaamat- a day of judgement, what may be the position of the sun of risaalat ( Siraj-um-muniraa ) told by Allah. Undoubtedly our beloved prophet can be present everywhere anytime he may wish. Ayat of surah tauba in quran “ lakad jaakum rasulum min anfosekum ………Raufurrahim” tells that prophet has been sent towards us from mankind for mankind and who gets woes when monenin(believers) are in trouble and he is well wishers and rahim for the believers. The properties of Arrauof and Arrahim have been assigned to him to help the momenin of all times and all places till qayaamat-a day of judgement. This clearly states that the prophet is alive and is helping to the believers of all times and at all corners of the earth.
(5)Our prophet is assigned a property of Rahamtal lil Alamin. ( Rehmat for all Worlds ). In quran in surah ambiyaa it is stated “ wa maa arsalnaak illa rahamatal lil aalamin” The meaning is that “and you are sent for no other cause but rehmat-the blessings for all worlds.” It is said that there are 18000 worlds. Now to become rehmat for all 18000 worlds can only be possible if the prophet can see those worlds, can reach to those worlds and can help the creations of those worlds. So, indeed, he has been given immense power by Allah to help and guide the entire creation of the universe. Now prophet said that the Ulema ( Ulema-e-baatin ) of his nation are like the previous prophets. This hadis is directed towards auliya allah- the friends of allah, who are like previous prophets before hajarat Mohammed ( Pbuh ). So, their graves are considered as signs(symbols) of Allah. Safaa and Marwaa are two small hills but in quraan, these hills are shown as a sign(symbol) of Allah. This is, because, these hills have a relation with one lady friend of Allah called Bibi Hazaraa (A.S.)who was searching water around these hills in the desert for her son Ismail(A.S.). So building a relation with friends of Allah is always a beneficial and blessing act. While anything related with the friend of Allah is recognized as a symbol of Allah then definitely, the places where such friends of Allah are resting in their graves must be considered as the symbols of Allah. To express love towards such symbols of Allah, one can kiss such symbolic structure of grave. Saitan had worshiped Allah for 240 million years but when he refused to honour the prophet Adam, he was punished and made saitan, kicking at his previous worship. So, to disregard or to dishonour any friend of Allah by whatever way becomes a reason of great displeasure of Allah. We can obtain a divine help by visiting such holy places of graves of auliyas, the friends of Allah, just to please them. Due to this reason, hazarat Khwaza Moinuddin Chishtee Sanjari(R.A.), a great saint in India, had stayed for forty days and did his prayers at the grave of great saint hazarat Daata Ganj Bax Ali Hijaweri(R.A.) at Lahore in Pakistan and received immense spiritual blessings from his grave. His historic stay is commemorated by a symbolic room constructed at the grave vicinity of Daata Ganj Bax. After receiving blessings from his grave, Khwaza Moinuddin (R.A.) uttered praising sentences “Ganje baxe faize aalam majahare noore khuda, Naqisaara peere kamil kamilara rehnuma.” The meaning is- “From Ganj bax, whole of the world is getting blessings who is the divine light of Allah and who is a perfect master for the uneducated and who is a guide for the learned people like me.” One must follow the true path of such great scholar and saint of Islam who made nearly nine million muslims. Such building of relation with saints can be obtained by reciting their love songs and their praise songs called as naats. By reading the books of saints of Islam and their history, true faith can be sharpened. The building of relation of Allah’s friends can be achived by going to their graves much often. If the dog who accompanied the ‘ashaabe kahaf’ the cave-people of friends of Allah whose historical event is mentioned in holy book,quraan, is belonged to paradise, and the donkey of hazarat Ujjair(A.S.) and the camel of hazarat Saleh(A.S.) are belonged to paradise only due to their relation with friends of Allah, we will be definitely among the people of paradise if we attach ourselves with any friend of Allah by whatever good means. For this reason, the great tomb of our prophet is a center of pilgrimage after hajj. One must understand the basic thing of the holy quraan that while reading a true events of previous nabiyyin mentioned in holy book quraan is giving us rewards (sawaab ), and that reading of event in holy quraan can be treated as a prayer or zikr of Allah, we can conclude that reading of history of an Islamic saints and recitation of their names and praise songs can be considered as a zikr of Allah. In this manner, on the contrary, to throw stones at the saitan, as is done during hajj, is also a zikr of Allah. Hence, to angry with saitan and their followers and to say harsh words to saitan and his followers is also a zikr of Allah. So, we can perform zikr of Allah by three different ways(a) by reciting holy attributed names of Allah by tongue or by heart(b) by reciting names of friends of Allah and reading their history guidance message and (c) abusive or harsh speaking and abusively reacting to saitan and their followers. Surah lahab in quraan comes under this “C” category.
Above faith is a true aqidah in Islam. If your beliefs are according to the beliefs mentioned above, you will be certainly on the right path of Islam. So, come to this right path and be the heirs of the jannah or paradise.
(6)And the solid argument in support of prophet’s ilm-e-gaib ( knowledge of unseen ) is that prophet could see angels or malaaeka ( farirshta ) as he could see to jibrael and could talk to jibrael and that the prophet can see all malaaeka who bring durud and salaam from muslim ummah to the grave of the prophet. The common man or human being cannot see the angels whereas the prophet can see them. There are examples in the hadis that prophet could see malaaeka. The Malaaeka and Jinn are the creations of Allah who are gaib for common human being. Thus one can easily conclude that prophet knows the gaib- the unseen. A kind of ilm al gaib, known as ilm al ladunni, has been awarded to hazarat Khidar ( A.S.) as stated in quraan, and our beloved prophet Mohammed ( PBUH ) is a leader of him, so, confirmation of prophet’s ilm al gaib is thus proved by the holy book. In surah taqweer in quraan, it is clearly stated that this prophet is not a miser to show the gaib-the unseen ( wa maa howa alal gaibe bedaneen ). So, according to holy book, the prophet has not only acquired the knowledge of gaib-the unseen but he is generous to show it. One of the unseen creation, the jinn can even be seen by common human if one is possessed by the jinn or one who makes the jinn as his servant by some ilm or knowledge. So, it is possible that with the help of knowledge and divine strength, if common men can be able to see some gaib or unseen creations, there is every matter to believe without doubt that the highest learned prophet of Islam can see gaib and can control them too, for, he has been taught by the Allah.
(7)In holy book quraan, it has been mentioned several times that Allah has put so many signs for the clever persons to think and then questions why the persons are not going to think. It means that we must think the nature and glorify the Allah. Upon healthy and positive thinking for the sake of Allah, one will definitely get the true path. Upon thinking about Iron piece inserted into red hot oven, one will see the Iron piece becomes red hot. Before the Iron piece was inserted into oven, it was cold, its colour was grayish black. One can hold it by ones own naked hand. But see the effect of its contact and its relation with the oven fire that for just few minutes of its contact with oven fire, the Iron piece got the burning property of fire then think while our beloved prophet remains in contact with Allah all the times, how can the properties of Allah not be received? Certainly, the properties of Allah are received by the prophet. The Allah has assigned the prophet so many properties. One such property is AL Adlo ( Justful ). So, Mohammed ( Pbuh ) has also this Al Adlo property. Second property is Al Haqq.( Truth ) so the prophet is also Al Haqq. In short, the Allah’s properties are assigned by Allah to his beloved prophet. In this way, when Allah is everywhere so as his prophet. Allah is al-alim so as his prophet is al-alim. When al-alim property is assigned by Allah, then the prophet has all knowledge including the gaib or unseen. In surah fatah in quran, the hand of the prophet has been called as a hand of Allah at the incident of bait-e-rizwaan for this reason. Such properties are assigned to all friends of Allah through prophet via spiritual guide. When the believer obtains properties of Allah in a perfect way, he is said to have reached to the state of fanaa-fi-allah. It must be noted that acquiring attributes from Allah cannot be said as association or partenership with Allah. Allah has delivered these attributes to his friends. So, supremacy of Allah is not challenged at all. The friends of Allah are the sources from where the light(noor) is emanating or revealed. It is for this reason that though Allah is speaking quraan but the voice is coming out from the holy mouth of the prophet.
For the above reason, there is a hadis al qudsi that Allah says that when a true believer prays so much with zikr tremendously and continuously then a time will come when his hands will be the hands of Allah, his eyes will be the eyes of Allah and his tongue will be the tongue of Allah. When the believer reaches this state, he will have properties of Allah assigned to him and he will be able to create miracles and he will be in the group of friends of Allah called as Auliya Allah.
It should be noted that in quran, in surah al Ahzaab in ayat number 45 it is written that “ Ya ayyohannabi inna arsalanak shahidaun wa mubashsheraun……………sirajam munira” “O prophet, we have sent you as witnessing, giving happy news, fear warning and calling towards Allah by the order of Allah and as a shining(brightening) sun(or lamp)” Everybody knows what should be the attributes(qualities) of a good witness. The witness must be physically present at the place of an event for which he/she is witnessing. Further, witness must have seen and recognized the characters of an event. So, all the doubts about attributes of the prophets and friends of Allah are now removed. From this, one can easily differentiate between the true akidah and bad akidah people. Some people argue that we must be unite and should not differentiate among muslims! But bad akidah people cannot be true muslims. Can we mix milk with a curd(yogurt)? If the milk say that the curd is from the milk so let us unite (the curd and the milk), then what will be the result? In stead of curd becoming milk, the milk itself becomes curd. This is the reason our beloved prophet warned us about various groups and told that only one group is on right path and that will go to jannah.
(8) And finally the important thing to note is that while the companions of the prophet best followed the prophet and they and their followers till eight centuries never spoke single sentence against prophet which might even smell to show our beloved prophet like a common human, the faulty or false groups can be easily identified. Call them to show single incident of sahaba, tabein, tabe-tabein in which they-the false people would like to consider our prophet as without knowledge of gaib or not able to help or not able to go anywhere. In holy book quran, there are some ayats which were used to say in front of non- believers ( kafirs ) or in front of munafikin but those ayats(sentences) must not be taken as a qualifications for the prophet. Those ayats are set for the examples to show kindness, nobleness, unproudiness and non-arrogantness ( modesty ) in front of non-believers. And for this reason, the companions of the prophet demonstrated the way how to follow the prophet. They used to praise the prophet through out their lives after accepting Islam. This can be understood in this way that when the school teacher of 8th class teaches to the students of that class, he will demonstrate before them so simple but if the same teacher will teach the class of 12th , he will demonstrate higher things. In the same manner, our beloved prophet demonstrated his prophethood according to the learning capacities of the persons.
(9) The easiest way of identifying the true akidah is like this. As for example if Mr.Tariq has obtained Ph.D. degree, the highest degree of a university and there are four persons who are describing him. One calls him as a 9th grade passed, second says him first university degree passed, third person says him as master’s degree holder and fourth person calls him as a doctorate or Ph.D. degree holder. From these persons who has correctly recognized Mr. Tariq ? Definitely, the fourth person has correctly recognized Mr. Tariq. Of course, other three are correct but ultimate correct is the fourth person who could recognize the ultimate degree. Exactly in the same manner, only the right path is that true akidah in which our prophet is recognized with the highest degrees. If other three persons deny Ph.D. degree for Mr.Tariq then they are considered as false or wrong persons due to their not recognizing the degree. The smallest degree of our Prophet is, according to hadis, “Allah ya’ati wa ana kasimun” meaning “Allah is giving to me(to Prophet) and I am the distributor” The treasures of almighty Allah are with the Prophet and those are being distributed by the holy prophet to whom he may wish. This thing is worth noting! All other degrees of our Prophet are greater than this. This shows the greatness of our Prophet.
(10)In salaat (namaaz), there is “attahiyaat” ( attahiyaato wassalawato ) which is compulsory to recite, and which contains in it the words- assalamo alayka ayyohannabiyyo, meaning salam to you o nabi, clearly states that nabi- the prophet is in front of you. In Arabic, the root word is alaa. Alaa means at or upon. Alaa is made of arabic letters ain, laam, ya. If you join small kaaf after the last letter “ya” of alaa, it will make alayka-at you(upon you or to you ). If “ha’” is joined after “ya” the word alaa will become alayhe-upon him. Ha and Mim if joined after ya will make alaa as alayhim (upon them), if nun and alef are joined, alayna(upon us) will be made. If small kaaf and mim are joined, alaykum(upon you all) in plural form will be made. From this, one can easily conclude that prophet is present in front of you during salaat(namaaz).
(11)In holy book quran, in ayat two of surah Hujarat, “ ya ayyohallajina aamanu la tarfau aswaatakum……. Wa antum laa tashourun” states that “o believers, do not keep your voice louder than the voice of nabi(Pbuh) while talking to him as usually you talk loudly to each other while you talk to each other, lest your good deeds should be destroyed and you even cannot know” This ayat is alarming us that even to speak louder in front of nabi(pbuh) is treated as insult to him and becomes a reason to destroy our good deeds. Now think of those who speak displeasing words about our prophet by one or other way. What will happen to those people ? Their good deeds are vanished without their knowledge. They will know this thing at the time of day of judgement. Normally, if someone drinks wine, a sin will be written in his or her account as wine is prohibited in Islam but this sin will not erase his or her good deed like salaat(namaaz), fastings etc. This clearly implies that to insult or to displease nabi or any friend of Allah becomes so great sin that cause all previous merits(sawaab) of good deeds destroyed. Further, in ayat number 104 in surah bakarah, holy quran teaches us “ya ayyohallajina aamanu la takulu raaenaa wa kulun zurranaa….azaban alim” do not say raaenaa(to his beloved prophet-pbuh) and say anzurnaa and listen to him(prophet) and there is tremendous woes(azaab) to disbelievers(infidels). The word raaenaa has good meaning in arabic language but it has abusive(mean) meaning in the dictionary of jews. So, Allah declared through quran that it will be considered as insult to his prophet if some word is used for his prophet which has abusive meaning in any language of the universe eventhough there is no intention to do any kind of insult. The history of descending this ayat was that the companions of prophet(pbuh) used to say the word raaenaa just to request the repetition of meaning what prophet talked of during holy speeches. Though, the intention of the companions was never to have any kind of bad meaning, the quran ordered not to say any word which can have bad meaning in any other language or dictionary. Thus clear indication is that Allah wants no smell of disrespect of his beloved prophet from near or far. Any kind of disrespect to prophet or friends of Allah will be considered as a sin of so high magnitude that it will erase all good deeds of a person. Only disbelief (kufr) can make the good deeds erased and this ayat relates the sin as good as that of kufr(disbelief). So, come to true akidah and make our prophet happy by whatever way you can. The akidah shown in this essay will definitely make our prophet happy. These beliefs are adopted by the saints and friends of Allah.
(12)In surah Mujadilah in ayat number 22 it is written “La tajidu qawman yuminoona biAllahi waalyawmi alakhiri yuwaddoona man hadda Allaha warasoolahu walaw kanoo abaahum aw abnaahum aw ikhwanahum aw AAasheeratahum olaika kataba fee quloobihimu aleemana waayyadahum biroohin minhu wayudkhiluhum jannatin tajree min tahtiha alanharu khalideena feeha radiya Allahu AAanhum waradoo AAanhu olaika hizbu Allahi ala inna hizba Allahi humu almuflihoona You will never see that those people who believe in Allâh and the Last Day they love those people who have opposed Allâh and HIS Rasool (Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), even if they are their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their family members. These are those people in whose hearts Allâh has imprinted Faith and has strengthened them with a spirit (Rûh) from HIMSELF. HE will admit them into such Gardens (Paradise) underneath which canals will be flowing. There they will live forever. Allâh is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allâh. They are the members of Party of Allâh. Be aware! Only the members of the Party of Allâh are going to be successful.
(13) In surah Mudassir, verse 25 it states that “This is a word of human” word is meant here as quran and human is meant for prophet Mohammed(pbuh) by the non believers but in the next verse Allah replies to non-believers that “Soon I shall throw them in hell fire” Now think about this. Some so called today’s muslims used to say our prophet as human being only. Such people must see the reply given by Allah. Hence the strong faith muslims today call such people as one kind of present day munaafiq. And due to this they avoid to perform salat behind faulty akidah imam.
IMPORTANT: In holy quraan, it is written in surah Hasr that if quraanic verses descended on the mountains, the mountains would break up into particles like sand! Now such heavy verses were taken by our Prophet through angel jibrael(A.S.) but think of those verses which were taken directly from Allah by our Prophet without any assistance from jibrael(A.S.) which are known as hadis-e-qudsi. Hadis-e-qudsi were those talks which were spoken by Allah through the heart of our Prophet. In narrating such hadis, our Prophet used to say that “Allah says that…..” In such hadis, actually the talk was said by Allah and Prophet himself was the narrater. The weight of such hadis-e-qudsi could not be taken up by even jibrael and hence such talks of Allah had to be directly put in the heart of the holy Prophet. The Significance of hadis-e-qudsi is so great. One such hadis is “Allah says that he cannot be contained in the earth or skies but he can be contained in the heart of the mo’min(believer)” This hadis explains who the perfect believer is. For this reason, the hearts of the spiritual Islamic saints are reckoned as qibla. For this reason, holy house of Mecca is said as house of Allah as it is built by hazarat Ibrahim(A.S.) and hazarat Ismail(A.S.). For this reason, Prophets hands are said as hands of Allah. Due to this reason, sajad-e taazim is allowed for pious saints(friends of Allah) and prophets, though it is not compulsory like previous nations’ laws(shariat). The fastings of month of muharram,that is, fastings of aashura, 9 &10 were compulsory in previous shariat but not compulsory in Islam but are allowed to keep if a person so wish. In the same way sajad-e-taazim is allowed but not compulsory in Islam. In hadis books, the incident of hazarat Akramaa has been mentioned. Hazarat Akramaa performed sajada-e-taazim, prostration of respect at the holy feet of Prophet Mohammed(Pbuh) at the time of accepting islam. Beloved Prophet did not advise to hazarat Akramaa or other companions gathered near holy Prophet not to perform such sajada. This clearly implies that such sajada is allowed. Compulsion of such sajada is removed due to the fact that it is difficult for common muslim person to recognize the pious person or the friend of Allah. Only the person of wisdom and knowledge can recognize the real personalities who may be respected by sajada-e-taazim.
On one another incident mentioned in hadis books, quoting that incident, some scholars of islam declared sajad-e-taazim as haraam(denied work). This happened due to mis-interpretation. One villager was arriving with his camel to Prophet. The camel made sajada in front of our beloved Prophet. Looking to this, the companions asked holy Prophet whether they should perform sajada as camel had done. In reply Prophet replied “If I order you to perform sajada, I would order the wife to perform sajada at the feet of her husband” In this hadis, it has been clearly mentioned “I would order” means if he ordered then there would be compulsion. So, Prophet removed compulsion of sajada-e-taazim, but still, its allowance is remained. Taazimi sajada depends on love and knowledge of the performer. This is the reason why such act is common in the way of tariqat, the more advanced sufi path, the path of friends of Allah. The great saint, hazarat saiyed Nizamuddin Auliya had explained in details about such sajada and wrote that sajada-e-taazim was allowed in Islam.
This short essay will be definitely useful to acquire true belief and akidah. Such akidah will lead you towards jannah. The sins are forgivable but bad akidah or faulty akidah cannot be forgivable. If Allah wants to take any one to jannah, he first guides to that person towards true akidah. So, one must seriously think for the above essay.
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