THE MESSAGE TO MY
PEOPLE
When Islam came, the world was going through the “DARK AGES”.
With Islam, it brought hope, justice and freedom. The word Freedom meant the
freedom from ignorance, barbarism, and from those false rituals which had enslaved
the whole world. It was the time when Christianity, Idol-ship, Hinduism, Judaism
and other religions were being blindly driven by the Ecclesiastical classes.
The Church had become the symbol of corruption, Kaba was center of Idol-ship,
Bait-ul-Maqdas had lost its importance and the temples of India were open only
for Brahmans.
The History of Arabs reflects clearly the division, the
jealousy and the desire to become dominant over others. At the arrival of Islam
they all resisted against but surrendered helplessly and all converted into Islam
by choice, opportunity and force. It is evident that at that time many of them
were fake converts and they were killed and punished by Prophet (PBUH).
Nevertheless, Islam spread rapidly and instantly and all over
the Arab Islam was being followed within the first 100 years. The victories in
wars and the lootings as the result attracted many opportunists to join Islam.
It is a long debate how Islam spread to many places of the world but wherever it
went it was accepted overwhelmingly against the existing injustices of other
religions. The new converts accepted whatever Arabs told them. Many of these
Arabs associated the things to Allah and Prophet (PBUH) which were false and were
not the practices of Islam. The people of Arab especially, who were just sunk
in abyss of barbarism took everything with great devotion and loyalty as they
thought it to be a wonderful religion which had brought rights and equality for
them.
By the passage of time, the religion became a profitable
institution and the ecclesiastical class in Islam started to emerge and
dominate. The corrupt Pardoners and Monks of Christianity started to appear and
declared themselves the stakeholders of religion. The common man was made afraid
by the wrath of Almighty and by the help of that fear they included many of the
attributes in religion which only helped and benefitted these clergymen. These
clergymen opened a debate against each other to get maximum shares from the business
of religion. They tried to convince and used numerous devices in this regard,
Ahadees became one of the most powerful tool for them. In this way they were able
to bring back the ignorance, division, injustice which was tried to wipe out at
the arrival of Islam. The most quoted Hadees to justify the “Firqas”
Sectarianism is as under;
The Hadees of Prophet (PBUH),
"The Jews
were divided into seventy-one sects, one of which is in Paradise and seventy
are in the Fire. The Christians were divided into seventy-two sects,
seventy-one of which are in the Fire and one is in Paradise. By the One in
Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, my Ummah will be divided into seventy-three
sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two will be in the
Fire." It was said, O Messenger of Allaah, who are they? He said,
"Al-Jamaa’ah." Sunan
Ibn Maajah, no. 3982.
What
is meant by al-Jamaa’ah is the ‘aqeedah and actions of the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) and his Companions.
The Holy Quran Says
"Verily those who split up their religion and became sects; you have absolutely
nothing to do with them." Holy Qur'an 6:159
30:32 (Do not fall in idol worship,) like those who divide their religion into
sects; each party rejoicing with what they have.
42:14 ironically, they broke up into sects only after the knowledge had come to
them, due to jealousy and resentment among themselves. If it were not for a
predetermined decision from your Lord to respite them for a definite interim,
they would have been judged immediately. Indeed, the later generations who
inherited the scripture are full of doubts.
The
Holy Quran clearly says that
“Surely Allah
does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him,
and He forgives what is besides this to whom He pleases; and whoever
associates anything with Allah, he indeed strays
off into a remote error.”
(14:116)
Throughout the1500 years of history of Islam only a few
people did try to understand the philosophy of Islam. Unluckily, people like me
have never opened the pages of The Holy Quran to read what Allah has said to
us. For our society, unfortunately, the doctrine of Islam is all what clergy
say and what we get from the society. Another menace to deviate from the
spirits of Islam is increased use of Social Media which is contributing miles
to provoke differences, extremism and hatred among the Muslims. Knowingly and unknowingly
we all play our part by not highlighting and discouraging these acts.
In our country there are so many
sects, extremists, modest and moderns who preach Islam in their own way and our
nation is the victim of these groups who just for the sake of their own
survival never let us through the light of our religion. They trade by selling
their own Islam declaring others “Kafirs”
I am amazed I will go to hell if I use
a tie with my dress, if I don’t keep my trousers above ankle while praying, if
I don’t have a beard and so on. But let me ask some questions from these
fanatics. They don’t bother if some poor dies on the road out starvation but
they spent millions of rupees on religious rituals. They hire a Naat Khwan for
Thousands of rupees for one night and they feel they have done a virtuous deed.
They spend millions of rupees on Moharrams, they cause time and resources of billions
of worth, they cause destruction, they provoke extremism, they harm and disturb
a common man while they recite and read on loud speakers, block the streets on
the arrival of Rabi-ul-Awal, they simply waste uncountable resources in a
country where there are billions of people who don’t have anything to eat and
live with.
Then who gets benefits? These clergies?
Yes it is.
I simply ask myself will Allah be
pleased on their acts. And a poor mind of mine answers, “No”. How can Allah be
happy when his created man is suffering of cold, of hunger, of disease and
others are celebrating religious rituals? The Prophet (PBUH) will never be pleased;
The Umer (RA) will not feel glad who was concerned of a dog.
The division is not in Islam, The
division has been created and these rituals have been created to console the
depressed souls and to express the religious emotions. When Prophet (PBUH) has
declared equality then how can we be superior on the basis of sects?
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It is now the need of the time
especially the coming generations to decide what they are. Are they just puppets
in the hands of these groups or they have the reason to judge.
The recent situation of country torments
every sensible person. I believe that religion has a permanent place in the
society, when people have religious awareness they can become active participants
of the society and the situation can be turned against sectarianism, extremism and
division.
Allah addresses in The Holy Quran, to “Mankind”,
and “Muslims”. He calls us and not the clergies only to read and understand the
religion and what Allah says. It is the supreme obligation, which Clergies will
never advise and force, to listen what Allah says in His Book. And we will be
asked for what we do, not our parents neither society nor the clergies. Get rid
of these false and fake religious rituals and understand what exactly Allah
says.
“ILM HASIL KRO CHAHAY TUMHAIN CHEEN JANA
PARAY”
and China was no religious
institution, it was to get knowledge, the reason to open our minds and to
pursue for what Allah has created us….
