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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Friday Sermon
HADHRAT AMIR’UL MUMINEEN MUHYI-UD-DIN
Munir Ahmad Azim
28 March 2014 ~ (26 Jamad’ul Awwal 1435 Hijri)
(Summary of Friday Sermon)
Upon telling the date for today’s sermon, Huzur (atba) stated that the days which have gone away from our lives shall never return. Once a soul leaves this world, there is no return...
In addition to greeting our Muslims brothers, sisters and especially his disciples around the world, Huzur (atba):
1. Greeted the children in the Ummah of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) also, stating that parents should give their children a good « tarbiyyat » (education & upbringing) in Islam, give them good examples to emulate and see to it that they follow the commandments of Allah. Nowadays it is sad to see how children and the youths are drifting away from Deen (Islam) and they are turning to mundane attractions, going to take dance and music lessons. Huzur (atba) states that the children needs to do some exercises like in school they are taught physical exercises etc., but not such activities which drifts them away from Deen. Instead of going to Madrassa, Deen classes, parents now are sending them to do extracurricular activities, like swimming etc. (instead of taking care of their religious education) in the hours which should have been devoted to religious learning. Nowadays, not just children are encouraged to go swimming in pools but ladies also. Now such instructions to do sports are being taken as words coming down from the heaven and there are lines (of people/women) ready to go swimming etc., as if without receiving these instructions, therefore they did not know that they should do sports/physical exercises.
2. Made an appeal that we should pray for the Ummah of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) as Islam is in a very critical situation. It is the Muslims themselves who are leading Islam to its lost, bringing in decadence and innovations and now when people of other faiths are gauging Islam, they are looking at it in a suspicious way. All the teachings of Islam and the words of the Promised Messiah (as) have been trampled.
3. Stated that it is the children who shall have to hold fast the torch of Islam tomorrow and they have from their young days the vital role to stay attached to the Deen-e-Islam.
4. Gave an account on the excellent works being done by his disciples around the world and cited the Amir of Comoros Island who is travelling great distances to make Dawa and to gather together the Jamaat members.
5. Gave a brief about the loss of favours incurred by those who left the Divine Manifestation and who hurt him deeply through their actions and words before renouncing their belief in him. Huzur (atba) told these people that it is those greats works which the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam in the different countries are doing which those who witnessed with their own eyes the divine revelations upon the humble person of Huzur (atba) should have got, yet they turned their backs, and now people from other nations, despite not witnessing divine revelations live (like those who left the Divine Manifestation) are now doing great works for Islam, for the Jamaat of Allah. And Huzur (atba) reminded the assembly of believers about the poignant and hurtful words and smses which were said against him before the break-up in the (Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen). They used to say that he had no function/role in the Jamaat, that it was the other one who was leading the Jamaat and thus his job was only to sit on the mat, and even under the mat. Huzur (atba) reminiscence these words with a breaking heart, because he reminded the assembly that these words were said against the elect of Allah, and thus their consequences shall be grievous for the way they behaved with a Messenger of Allah. Like he used to say for those who mocked the divine manifestations, these people shall go to their lost little by little without being conscious of what is happening to them, be it through their wealth and children (and other means also). Huzur (atba) stated that he had no intention to talk on this subject in this present sermon, but that Allah knows best why He made him reminiscence the past on that day. He said that never to turn against a Messenger of Allah and mocks him because Allah shall be the one to seek revenge on behalf of His Messenger. Allah shall bring these people to their lost.
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:
On Thursday 20 February 2014, I was in the North of Mauritius in one of its biggest villages called Triolet. On the way I met two Mullahs coming from Bangladesh. They presented themselves to me after greeting Salaam, and with very good and sweet words they invited me in the mosque at about 10:00a.m. I met many other Muslims coming from Bangalore and India. They asked me my name and before I have finished giving my full name, when I reached: Munir Ahmad, one of the Mullahs told me that his Burzuq’s name is Munir Ahmed, but then when I gave completed my full name: Munir Ahmad Azim, all of them looked at me with big surprised eyes and they suddenly turned aggressive.
Gone were the good and sweet words! Their tone changed and they immediately asked me: “You have proclaimed that you are the Mohyuddin, Khalifatullah etc.” Without any hesitation and fear to creatures, although they were in great numbers in the mosques, I replied them in the affirmative. They then asked me a series of questions pertaining to the titles I have received from Allah, wanting to know who told me that I was the Khalifatullah, Mohyuddin etc. I told them that it is my Creator, my Rab, in whose hands my life, health, food, dignity and honour are found. They did not believe me and called me liar and thus started a debate on the finality of prophethood in which they believe.
Among other questions concerning the Mahdi and Messiah to come, they put to me put a question to me regarding a Hadith, “I have left for you the Book of Allah and the Sunnah, if you hold fast to it you will never go astray.”
Some people claim that the Hadith concerning the Mahdi are contradictory and the Hadith concerning Nabi Isa (Jesus, upon him be peace) are not certain. According to them, in the absence of a clear verse of the Holy Quran, saying that there is someone who is going to come and in the light of this Hadith, is it not the conclusion that the way to bring back the glory of Islam is just to follow the Holy Quran and follow the Sunnah of Hazrat Muhammad (saw)?
When they finished the question, and before I replied to them, they told me: “You are a Qadiani, you are the follower of Mirza (that is, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as)). You are liar, imposter like Mirza.” I told them: “Yes I am an Ahmadi who believe sincerely in my master Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as). By the grace of Allah, I will answer you all your questions and you will see who is a liar, imposter etc., between Hazrat Mirza Sahib, me and you people who have trampled the teachings of the Holy Quran and sayings of the Holy Prophet (saw) into dust.”
There are other people, who label themselves Muslims, yet they ask such preposterous questions, and I wish to refute them too in this sermon, especially concerning their questions and ridiculing about the splits in Jamaat Ahmadiyya and how a Khalifatullah has come from within “them” (the Jamaat Ahmadiyya). All their answers are found in the Quran itself.
My answer to them: As far as the last part of the question goes, there is no denying that the only way to bring the people of Islam together, that is, Muslims, and to put them on the right path is to make them put into practice the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. There is absolutely no denying this fact. But the big question that follows is who is going to bring it about and how?
While the Holy Quran remained intact until now, while in the very presence of the Holy Quran people started to differ with each other and fell into sects and schisms. Why in the first place this process began and is it a process without a direction and without a trend or do you have a positive plan to observe in this process?
When the second part of the question comes, then you can positively answer this question without denying again, that we find a direction and a trend and that direction and trend are downwards. Right from the start, that is from Hazrat Muhammad’s (saw) time, despite the fact that Sunnah was the clearest at that time and the Holy Quran was the strongest in influence, after him people began to differ and kept on differing with each other until time came when Khilafat was no longer there and from then on it was total rot. New sects, new schisms came into being and the Holy Quran started to be looked upon as a book speaking on divergent views and paradoxically so at the same time, according to some, the Holy Quran has this view and at the same time by others, it had that view and both those views by different groups were in direct clash with each other.
So all this started and went on and on until you reach this stage. So far as the necessity of getting together upon the Holy Quran and the Sunnah is concerned, that is obvious. But how to go about it; this is the big question. Unless someone solves this question, this dilemma will not be solved. Time is against us, that is obvious. The more you travel away from Hazrat Muhammad (saw), the more divided you are and the more corrupt are your religious scholars. They become less God-fearing and instead of bringing us together, they create disorder, they create hatred of one against each other. This is also a known fact of history. So if there is, let’s forget for the time being any Mahdi and any Messiah (suppose they won’t come) how will the Ummah survive then? As the questioner himself believes that the only way for survival is to stick to the Holy Quran and the tradition and the practice of the Holy prophet (saw).
So why are they not sticking to both the Quran and Sunnah and why did they start leaving and separating if they had stuck? They could not have become divided had they really stuck to the Quran and Sunnah. So the process is of that of deterioration and constant decadence which have never gone back once it started. Every other generation we find is a less pious generation, less God-fearing, every other generation we find is less confident of an Islamic way of life. There are of course sporadic movements here and there spread all over the history. But those sporadic movements have failed to set a trend up in the opposite direction, that is the most important thing. So those who believe that without anybody having even come, this process will be reversed, they are living in a paradise which has no reality because we have never seen nations do this. Let’s go back to religious history as preserved by the Holy Quran. And let’s find our answer there. That is indeed a very positive and sure history.
According to the Holy Quran whenever a truth was revealed, after some opposition and some very hostile opposition for that matter, ultimately it got established and then people began to deviate from the right path and go into a decadent society.
What happened then according to the history of the Holy Quran, either a prophet was sent from Allah to save those people or if the religion was abolished altogether a new prophet came with a new religion. We never read anywhere in the history of religion that after a religion decayed and people became corrupt and the religious scholars differed with each other on fundamentals then suddenly out of the blue the religious scholars of a later time repented all this behaviour, they got together, shook hands with each other, embraced each other and said ‘let us forget about our differences and be one’.
How could they forget their differences when they thought they were based on the Holy Quran or the Holy Book or whatever that book was and persisted they were in the right unless they dialogued, unless they tried to convince each other, tried to convey their point of view to others. And in a religious society that has become so divergent, this is not permitted. People become so intolerant that they are not ready to listen to other’s views. It is not only the scholars, the whole society became corrupt. And according to the history preserved in the Holy Quran it has never happened before, never once that a people following a religion became corrupt, they were put together again and rectified again by their Pirs or Fakirs or Ulemas or Sufis and all these people.
Why not? Because according to the Holy Quran it is the religious leadership which became corrupted first and the masses follow suit later on. Once the top becomes corrupt mentally and are less God-fearing, then the masses follow automatically behind them and it is always the leadership which destroys people, it is true as much of religious leadership as of political leadership as of other leadership. The fundamental most important thing is correct, honest, true leadership.
If religious leadership had been intact, there is no reason why they started to differ with each other. They differed may be primarily by some mistake but definitely the process ultimately degrades into a process of conscious difference with a crooked, bent mind within. That resulted in those differences (like we are witnessing nowadays also).
So considering that there is no Mahdi – I am talking on that preposition, that there is no Mahdi to come and no Messiah to come and none is required and ‘Nabuwwat’ (prophethood) of every sort is finished forever – what will become of the Muslims at whole? That is now the responsibility of those who hold this for you to prove and to do satisfactorily. If an individual becomes a good Muslim, let him, but who is going to look after the ascendency of Islam over the rest of the religions of the world? Those Ulemas? Who is going to revive the Muslims’ integrity as such?
These Ulemas, had they been capable of doing it, they would not have differed in the first instance and surely the century which took people back to the life of Hazrat Muhammad (saw) by the effort of the Ulemas – to supposedly make the people commit themselves to Islam, through the application of the Quran and Sunnah – yet they went on fighting with each other, they went on blaming each other for heresy and not only heresy but they called each other traitors of Islam, not only out of the pale of Islam but worse than those who were outside the pale of Islam, treacherous people according to them. And according to some other, they were great religious scholars of Islam, great servants of Islam.
So this being their attitude even today, how can you say that Islam would revive once again? What would be the means and measures? There should be some reasonable hope somewhere, and the religious history (which constitutes the defiled thoughts of those scholar and Ulemas throughout history) denies this, rejects these possibilities altogether. What is the answer according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah?
I stop here for now. Insha-Allah, I shall continue on the same subject next Friday. May Allah give us Muslims around the world the Tawfiq to ponder over the state of Islam nowadays and to follow the guidance of Allah as stipulated in Quran and Sunnah, and which gives hope for the maintenance of Islam and its conservation till the Day of Judgement. Insha-Allah, Ameen.
Before closing his sermon, Huzur (atba) spoke about the circumstances of his expulsion from the Jamaat and the vision he received from Allah in which He saw a hand from the Unseen taking the letter in which the fourth Khalifa stated a fearful destiny for Huzur (atba), but then Allah stated that it was a Mubahila which the fourth Khalifa-tul-Massih had done with him and thus crushed the letter and dumped it in a dustbin.
Afterwards Hazrat Khalifatullah (atba) broached the subject of the Mubahila which Janbah Sahib is now in with Sultani Sahib. He talked for some time about the trial which Allah did with the Jamaat Ahmadiyya as a whole with the Mubahila which took place between him and Janbah Sahib and our respective Jamaats. He said that now, how come Janbah knows how to put the seal of his Jamaat in a Mubahila, whereas he cowardly did not do so when he entered into Mubahila with the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam? He thinks that he is strong now, and Sultani Sahib once said that he shall enter Mubahila with the winner of the Mubahila. Who does he thinks won the Mubahila? Now he is in Mubahila with Janbah Sahib? And how come names of innocent children, as young as 19 months old are being mentioned in the Mubahila when they are not aware of what is happening to them?
Next Huzur (atba) talked about Shaheeb Haneef Sahib from India (and the like of him) who talks nonsense when he said that the Khalifatullah (atba) was hiding behind the Musleh Ma’ud (ra). Huzur (atba) issued a warning to this person, not to go about the way he is treading, like an imbecile who prefers to talk ill about someone who is defending the honour of the Musleh Ma’ud Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (ra). He reminds Shabeeb Haneef Sahib that if that Mubahila went forward in the first place, then Shabeeb Haneef Sahib was the “Agoa” (in this context, the one who brought to attention the negative response of Janbah Sahib against both Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra) and Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim (atba) which thus culminated in a Mubahila between the two parties).
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