بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Friday Sermon
HAZRAT KHALIFATULLAH AL-MASSIH AL-MA’OUD
Munir Ahmad Azim
16 September 2011 ~
(17 Shawwal 1432 Hijri)
(Summary of Friday Sermon)
After having greeted with the Salutations of Peace, the Messiah (Massih’ullah) read the Tashahhud, Taouz and Surah Al Fatiha and he said:
The “people of the truth” fall into two categories. Those of the first get married, have children, houses, crops, but their hearts are not attached to these duties, which are not veils for them (which can hinder them from the contemplation of God) ... They no longer see themselves, but only God, Sublime and Exalted, because for the “people of the truth”, the being of the world is the Being of God; in reality, everything comes from Him.
The second category of “people of the truth” always love God, and are consumed by the love of God and the knowledge of God in His essential unity, and they know their self and they destroy it (their ego) and affirm the unity of their self and God, they retain their self, and they are destroyed in their self, and they remain in their self and they hate what occurs outside their self, and love the hidden interiority of their self, and they despise their self because the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:
من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه
“Man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu.”
He who knows his self knows his Lord.
This is also one of the revelations which I received at the beginning of the Divine Manifestation, whereby God taught me His wonders, that I may become even closer to Him, and that I trust Him, by knowing myself profoundly.
Moreover, when they attach their vision “outside” of their ego, whatever the thing they see, it is their self which they see, and what they contemplate is their self, because for the “people of the truth” the world and their self are one and the same thing; what they see, it's verily their self which they see. Like the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:
رأيت ربي بعين ربي
“Ra’aytu rabbi bi ayni rabbi”
That is to say: “I saw my Lord through the (merciful) eye of my Lord.” This is also one of the revelations which I received from Allah at the beginning of the Divine manifestation along with the revelation: He who knows his self knows his Lord.
In another Hadith the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “Ra’aytu rabbi bi rabbi” that is to say: “I saw God through God.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said such words because the world with all its parts has no real existence. Since the world has no real existence, it has no power or action of its own. If the “people of the truth” are beaten or insulted, they consider that these actions are those of God, and not those of others.
As for them, therefore, all that they understand is that of their self, for Almighty says:
فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّواْ فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللّهِ
“Fa-aynamaa tuwalluu fa thamma wajhul-laah.”
That is to say, “Whither you turn is the face of God.” (2: 116)
For this reason, the “people of the truth” say that all creatures are nothing but our (one) self, all human beings are our brothers, belief and unbelief, beloved and enemy, pure and impure, heaven and hell, wrath and mercy, good and evil, wealth and poverty, praise and scorn, holiness and hunger, insignificance and greatness, life and death, sickness and health, right and wrong – this is the same for them, because the meaning of: “Whither you turn is the face of God.” They became very clear. Anyone who understands the meaning of “Whither you turn is the face of God” reaches a complete understanding, and whatever he sees, “the face of God” is what he sees but God knows best.
Will the man who in quest of God be satisfied with a distant station? No, because he aspires to nothing less than union. The true seeker carries a sign on his face; on his forehead shines a radiant light. He is always available (ready to help), courteous, respectful, determined, towards indulgent censorship, honouring the true friend. His purpose transcends all purposes; nothing to impede him, flattening the abrupt; he has no other target except the target at hand. Attachment to the family neither turns him away nor blames him. Beautiful is a description which, by itself, is enough to define him: seeker of truth. Such is the one who seeks Him (The Truth); he makes his Quest his only objective. Then, after stripping his soul of his faults after he has found them, he thereafter clothe himself again with it (the purified soul). He is the servant of God at all times and all places, fulfilling his legal ritual obligations, of his own accord he adds other good deeds until the truth becomes his hearing, sight, language and speech, and his hands and feet. He dies before his death to live in his Lord, because this death is the ultimate migration (towards Allah). He calls himself back to the Lord before being called, this being the best substitute for the truth. Before his own being, from truth he perceives the (Powerful) Being, he sees Him after him, and whichever way he turns. Only God existed and nothing else along with Him. He is now as He was, essentially unique, Last as well as First, there is nothing except Him, the Interior, Exterior, Without Beginning and Without End. Whatever you see, you see His Being. In absolute unification, in Him is no reserve. How could the essence of God be confined under a veil? The only veil is His light.
When the sincere aspirant perceives within himself the first effects of this divine attraction which is to experience pleasure every time he thinks of the Glorious Supreme Reality, he must make every effort to enhance and strengthen the experience and at the same time banning everything that is incompatible with it. He needs to know, for example, that if he spent an eternity to work in this communion, this would count for nothing, and he has not fulfilled his duty as he should have.
The Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “The heart of the believer is the throne of God” - Qalb’ul mu’mini arshu Allah – قلب المؤمن عرش اللّه and another of his statements: “The believer's heart is the highest heaven.” This is the secret of hearts, the seat of the Tawheed wherein the spiritual birth occurs. Our consciences are only a virgin in which only the Spirit of truth can penetrate. Then the individual soul becomes pregnant, like Mary, of a Messiah who delights the heart. Not the Messiah who travels on land and sea, but the Messiah who is beyond the limitations of space. So when the soul has been impregnated by the Soul of the soul, through such a soul the world is fertilised.
Dispenser of divine grace – God places His gift on the palm of His hand and therefrom He provides for those who are the object of His mercy. He who knows himself, knows his Lord, that is to say: If I know myself, I know God. The heart is a game, not the body.
True self-knowledge is therefore to contemplate in oneself the Spirit of God. The only reality is that is it through Himself that He sees Himself and by Himself He knows Himself.
May Allah guide us on the right path and illuminates our hearts to understand the sermon today. Ameen.
Announcement:
1. It is with deep sadness that I have heard the demise in Kerala of Ratheesh Sahib, the dynamic youth who used to do our typing in Malayalam for website posting, during the first week of September. May Allah reward him for his deep interest in doing this noble work and may Allah forgive him, and clear His path towards salvation. Ameen.
2. It has come to my attention that the leaders from the mainstream Ahmadiyya Association sent another Maulvi in Kerala is more influential than the supposedly great defender Maulvi Muhammad Ismail H.A. The latter was the one who refused to accept the Mubahila challenge which I invited him to because of his negative campaign against me. This resulted in nothing good for the Ahmadis in Kerala. Now their leader has sent another so-called greater defender (of their cause) by the name of Maulvi Mahmood Ahmad Sahib from Kerala itself so that he may go wherever there are the members of the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam and convince them to return to their fold in the Jamaat Ahmadiyya, as well as convince them to reject the divine manifestation along with the great number of Ahmadis and other Muslims who are in contact with our Jamaat and who are studying a lot the Divine Manifestation and the Proclamation of this humble self of this era and by the grace of Allah, they got lots of signs from Allah and Almighty Allah is illuminating them with His light and they are come in the Jamaat, Insha-Allah.
I am thereby giving a severe warning to this so-called Maulvi Mahmood Ahmad Sahib of Kerala, go and do your own work, cleanse yourself in the first place, and I advise him to read and study today’s sermon. Do not play with fire, for he shall burn in it. Maulvi Mahmood Ahmad Sahib thinks that this is a plaything; he is playing with the faith of people and they (those like him) are poisoning the minds of people to turn their backs to the truth. Beware, for you are playing with the reputation of a chosen one of Almighty Allah. If he continues in his dirty quest after receiving clear warning, grievous shall be his consequences, and he shall face a great humiliation. Like Allah told me several times: I shall humiliate all those who humiliate thee.
3. Last Wednesday, I came face to face with a Mauritian Maulvi in Mauritius. Since I was expelled from the Nizam-e-Jamaat Ahmadiyya in 2001, this senior Maulvi wherever he saw me, used to apply boycott and not bid Salaam. It is after ten years that when this senior Maulvi saw me, he could do nothing else except bidding Salaam, shake hand and enquire about this humble self’s news. I appreciate this action; they are beginning to reform themselves. When a reformer comes it is to reform!
But this poses a problem: This senior Maulvi has neither obeyed his leader nor the so-called missionary who came from London and who is doing his campaign to forbid the Ahmadis from bidding us Salaam, and those who have bidden us Salaam should do Tauba (according to him). Tauba to whom? Tauba with the so-called Maulvi Abdul Ghanee Jahangeerkhan who came from London? The Senior Maulvi has not obeyed the junior Maulvi. They have made a jest of themselves. When shall you see this kind of imbecility? It is only in the times of a Divine Manifestation, when Allah sends His prophet that you get to see all these jests. They used to condemn the other Muslims because the latter used to not to bid the Ahmadis Salaam and apply boycott, but now the Ahmadis have become worst than the others.
May Allah guide the Ahmadis to well understand the message of the Promised Messiah (upon him be peace), who like this humble self today, he came to revive Islam. May Allah open your eyes, so that you may not be blinded with all which your authority is telling you; whereby they are giving out non-Islamic instructions, but when they come face to face with the concerned person (towards whom they canvassed the application of non-Islamic instructions), they themselves accomplish their Muslim duty, whereas the common Ahmadis become all the more deviated because they are following that which the Maulvis are telling them to so without using their mind and intelligence and without basing themselves on what the Quran is saying. Insha-Allah.
