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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Friday Sermon
HADHRAT AMIR’UL MUMINEEN MUHYI-UD-DIN
Munir Ahmad Azim
(07 Rabi’ul Awwal 1435 Hijri)
(Summary of Friday Sermon)
After having greeted all his followers (and all Muslims) round the world – mentioning the nearby islands, India, Kerala, Trinidad and Tobago etc. – with the Salutations of Peace, Hazrat Muhyi-ud-Din (atba) read the Tashahhud, Taouz and Surah Al Fatiha and then said:
Without faith in God Almighty, man is blind. The essence of all religions is to bring forward mankind as one family under the banner of the unity of the Creator of the Heavens and Earth.
Religion has been and will always be what man makes of it, and that is why man must take absolute precaution as to how he defines religion and how he goes about implementing religion, the true one in his everyday life. Religion may become a mere thought if not defined properly and acted upon. That is why God Almighty Himself brought forward Islam as the living religion of man. It is not only a religion, but the actual way of life of mankind, and especially the dedicated servants of God. From Prophet Adam to the last of all the law-bearing prophets, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), religion received its true meaning and purpose: to access to God Almighty (Allah – the Supreme and Absolute name of Almighty God; name which no human can and will hold).
ISLAM: The true purpose of life, absolute submission to the living and unique God, the religion of peace and harmony bringing mankind as one entity in the worship of the Almighty.
Since the dawn of time, whenever the demons tried to deviate man from the right path and keep him away from the worship of the Creator, God Almighty (Allah) sent times and times again His elects, His prophets, messengers and reformers of religion/faith to guide man back to the righteous path, to teach them the words of Allah and show them the signs of God Almighty, be it in themselves and in the heavens and earth so that they may recognise the absolute power and existence of God and adhere to His path and truth.
Thus, God Almighty sent His prophets and messengers with guidance in forms of divine revelations; and some of these divine revelations were clear laws or Divine Scriptures to guide man to God. Each time the highway leading man to God is broken; each time God Almighty raises His Chosen Messenger to repair that highway without which man shall not have access to the Almighty.
Islam, the religion of all prophets, the religion established and named by God Himself in the last law-bearing Book – the Holy Quran is the true religion of man and it is Islam which awakens in man true faith, such faith which shall make him gain access to absolute peace and tranquillity in God Almighty Himself.
The prior teachings of God, having been tampered by the hands of man to reflect their own thoughts about religion and what ought to be and not, thus God Almighty raised Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) not as a destroyer of faith but as the Messiah of faith, the divinely anointed king to bring man back to God with the support of clear revelations and laws which are treasures to man’s physical, moral and spiritual state.
The Quran is such a Book which pervades the life of man if he lets in the light of its words and impact penetrates him. Such changes shall happen in his life if he devotes his life to research truth and accept it. Seeking the truth of God is one thing, but to accept it and implement it is another whole matter.
If man can make religion, man can destroy it too. That is why divine intervention was needed to show to mankind the true religion of God so that he may tread on that path with divine-helped surety and confidence. What better name for the true religion than Islam – Submission to the Unique God in peace and faith?
Submission to Allah was, is and shall always be the rule of life with the prophets and messengers of God. Each time man loses his way, God sends to him a guide to indicate to him the right path and even to teach him how to stay on that right path till he accedes to his Goal: God Almighty (Allah).
When man loses his way and fabricates other meanings to religion, the Overpowering Lord sends His guide with His guidance to make them realise their error and stick to that right path, so that they may get to see the face of the Unique God which they are searching for.
When people have added innovations to religion and changed the scriptures of God to their likings, God comes to annihilate those false scriptures and people so as to establish once again His kingdom and rules.
If now Islam is defiled by the people, then it is not Islam which is to be blame or which is weak but it is the people who are to be blame. Allah sees therefore the need to send times and times again – and this till the Day of Judgement – such reformers of Islam and humanity at large who would incarnate the true spirit of the perfection of the last law-bearing prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and all prophets of God so as to show the world the truth and purity of Islam.
What are we then, if we are not submitters to the will of God? If we do not submit, we are doomed and liable to be easily tempted by the Satans which roam this world and our own beings, waiting for the right opportunity to rip us from the body of life, our Creator, our support for life.
If a baby is connected to its mother in the womb through his umbilical cord, then we must reminds ourselves that we are all connected to our source of life, God Almighty, without whose bond we would have been miscarried or aborted from life. If our body is alive, it is also because of the soul which resides in each of us, a soul which is connected with the divine and which awaits impatiently for the day it shall go back to Him. If we have such souls in us, we are lovers of God who yearn for our Allah only. If not, if we let our souls blend in the negativity of the world and let the Satans fool us, then we lose the essence of divinity which is in us, and we lose our Goal and even our soul. Our Islam disappears and we become unworthy of the title of human with humane qualities which God bestowed upon us in the first place.
The defeat of Muslims at the hands of the non-Muslims nowadays is attributable to only one factor which is that Muslims has ceased to be good Muslims. There was a time when all the non-Muslim powers together would be filled with awe and tremble at the mere mention of a Muslim power. Today all the Muslim powers together cannot face a tiny non-Muslim foe! Time was when all the non-Muslim powers would dare not touch any Muslim power because of the conviction that other Muslim countries would not standby unconcerned without going to the aid of their Muslim brethren.
Today Muslims are fighting among themselves. Two Muslim nations are locked in a fierce war, each being determined to annihilate the other and destroy whatever the other possesses and holds dear.
Time was when Muslims were the torch-bearers of learning and enlightenment, when non-Muslims would flock to Islamic centres of learning and research to seek knowledge. Today, throughout the world, “Muslim” and “ignorance” are considered as two words of the same meaning, just as “Muslims” and “backwardness” are also considered as two words of the same meaning.
Time was when a Muslim, for fear of Allah, would adhere scrupulously to the commandments of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah and refrain from approaching anything that was forbidden by Allah and His prophet. Today a Muslim will not only not hesitate but even pride himself on gambling away millions of dollars, euros, rupees etc. in the course of one night at casinos, completely ignoring the Quranic injunction prohibiting gambling.
Sectarianism has assumed such horrible proportions that Muslims argue hotly on minor points of differences and disagree so violently that they draw swords and spill blood and pride themselves in letting the blood of fellow Muslims flow.
Belief in God has become only a lip service because Muslims see nothing wrong in going to the graves of saints to prostrate and to ask them to bestow riches or children upon them.
I can go on and on to cite instances of the social, moral and spiritual degradation of Muslims in the latter days. Suffice it to say, this is a most trying period in the history of Islam. The greatest challenge, the greatest tribulation that Islam has ever faced, this is the time that instead of Muslims converting non-Muslims, they are the ones being converted in great numbers and with incredible rapidly to Christianity.
These erstwhile Muslims after abandoning Islam become such virulent enemies of Islam that they are foremost in attacking Islam and they attack it with such vehemence as will defy description.
Shall Allah watch these terrible times, these tribulations, this deluge to engulf and swallow up Islam without any move to remedy the situation? Never!
The fact is, in the whole long history of the world, the greatest single event was the advent of the beloved Holy Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (peace be upon him) the Siraj-um-Munir (the light-giving lamp). The Holy Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him) is reported to have said:
“Even if only one day would have been left for the world to come to an end, Allah would lengthen that day and would not let that day end until he causes the Promised Messiah and Mahdi to appear”. (Abu Da’ud Vol.2: Kitab-ul-Mahdi)
In other words, the appearance of the Mahdi is so important for the fulfilment of the object of the creation of the world that he will, definitely, without doubt, be made to appear before the world comes to an end.
Therefore, if Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam and this humble self exist today, it is not without a purpose. As the religion of Islam has been taken as mere jest by most people of the world, including so-called Muslims who have lost touch with the true essence of Islam, therefore Allah has revealed and ordained yet again a name for such a Jamaat (Community) which shall revive the true Islam. Islam is the real religion. Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam is not a religion but it is the instrument which shall lead people to the true Islam. That is why Allah from among the names He revealed for His Jamaat, made Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam most attractive because this is the raison-d’ętre of the Divine Manifestation of this age, to bring back people to the true Islam.
We are a tiny representation of the Holy Prophet of Islam and his companions, and we have the task to reflect their perfection to the best of our abilities. The Holy Prophet, our beloved master Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) represented a world in himself who came to enlighten this temporal world with the light of a new day, of a new era of unification of mankind for the worship of the sole Creator of the Heavens and Earth. If we do not follow him and cut ourselves from him and the roots of Islam he planted in the hearts of mankind through the help of Allah, then we are doomed. Our oxygen is only found in the tree of life, Islam. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), the hallowed one came in the instance of a new dawn to make the world and mankind into men/women of light, to approach God Almighty in the purest state.
Therefore, Muslims have the duty to unite and cease to be in name only. Islam is alive, and the Khalifatullah of this era has come in this era to revive you from your spiritual death and make you realize the imperativeness of the situation at hand: to protect our Islam and our faith from becoming the subject of jest by the Satans of this world who are ever ready to bulldozer our faith and trust in Allah, in the Perfect and Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the living religion, Islam.
May Allah help and support us with His might in our pious purpose, Insha-Allah. Ameen. |
