Selected Course to Understand the Demands of Qur'an
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Allah (SWT)
has an actual intention in His universe and because that intention is surely
befalling, no one can withstand it. And He (Jalla Jallaloh) also has a prescribed intention in His universe, in the religion that He has established for the
people. In that prescribed intention of Al-Haqq (SWT), He gave man the freedom
to obey or to disobey. He gave them the freedom to follow or to withstand, and
that prescribed intention in what to do and not what to do is what the servants
of Allah withstand. But no one can ever withstand the actual intention in the
deeds that take place in Allah’s universe, For that when you read what Al-Haqq
(SWT) says:
<< And as for Thamud, We showed and made clear to
them the Path of Truth (Islamic Monotheism) through Our Messenger, (i.e. showed
them the way of success), but they preferred blindness to guidance>>
Ayah 17 from Surat Fussilat
Allah (SWT)
showed Thamud the way to guidance and made it clear for them, but they
preferred to disobey and withstood following Allah. Everyone can do the same
through Allah’s will (SWT) by which He has created man free to choose how to
apply the law of Allah (Shar’e Allah) or how to follow the path of sins. Allah
(SWT) being merciful on us has clarified to us the consequences of following
the way of guidance as well as the consequences of following the wrong path. It
is His mercy (Jalla Jallaloh) that He made the key to Heaven and the key to
Hell in our own hands. It is every one’s choice to walk the way of Heaven by
having Faith in Allah (SWT) or to walk the way to Hell by disobeying Allah (SWT).
Allah (TWT)
clarified to us what He is doing to those who take the road of Faith and to
those who take road of sins and infidelity. For every one who reached the road
of Faith and got what Allah has promised him, has got the will of Allah fulfilled
in him. And everyone who chose the road of sins and infidelity and got what
Allah has warned him, has also got the will of Allah fulfilled in him. The faithful
will not get away from Allah’s will and the same with the wrong doer, he will
not get away from Allah’s will. And the judgment in both cases is just, because
man chooses with his free will the way to go, whether it is the way of belief
or the way of sins and that is after Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) has clarified to him
the consequences of taking each way.
But Allah’s
Justice wanted to give man the freedom of choice in the course
<AlManhaj>. So with that freedom how do we say that He (SWT) leads whom
He wills to the right course and leads astray whom He wills? Before we discuss that
point we first need to know what is the meaning of the guidance <AlHoda>.
The guidance is the lead to the way, for when someone asks you about a specific
direction, you tell him to go to a specific place then to go right or left to
reach that direction as if you have guided him to it. And at the same time the
guidance is used in the sense of facilitating the way. When someone asks about
the way to go to a specific place and you tell him that there are two routes
leading to that place and you advise him to take the second route because it is
safe and illuminated while the first route is surrounded by danger and there is
a lot of burglars in it making it unsafe, then by that you have not only led
him to the way but you have also helped him to reach it safely.
The first type
of guidance, leading to the right way is from Allah to all His servants. The
prophets and messengers came to lead the people to the right path, the way to
Allah’s course <Al-Manhaj>. To convey the message to the people upon who
the messengers were sent, means to lead them to the way of guidance to Allah’s
course and to show them the way that pleases Allah and the way that leads to
Allah’s wrath and by clarifying that, the guidance reaches all the creatures.
After the last of the messengers, Muhammad (PBUH), came with the message of
Islam the nation of Muhammed was asked to lead the people to the way to Islam.
That is to talk to the people about it and to show them what Islam has brought
to them and if the Moslem nation does not do that then they will be accounted
for it.
Let us
consider the case when a man lives alone in a cave away from the whole world
and no one has conveyed the course of Heaven to him. That man will not be
accounted for on the day of Resurrection, yet the conveyance of Allah’s message
is still valid up till now and the evidence for that are the orients (westerners),
who try to find every possible way to defame the religion of Islam. This means
that those orients have attained some knowledge about a religion and a course
of Allah known to be the religion of Islam. But there are some people who know
that there is an Islamic course and religion but they never care to know or
read about that religion. Those people will be accounted for because man in
every aspect of his daily life when he hears about anything that interests him,
he starts asking and reading about it. If he wants to occupy a specific job, he
will be totally prepared for it by joining the college that will qualify him
for that position and he will start studying and reading from other references
to add to his knowledge about that position. And also if a man wants to buy
something, he will do a survey about all the competitor’s products in the
market and do a price comparison before he selects one.
Even in the
luxury events like the tourism for example, if a man would like to visit a
specific country, he will read about it to know the popular places to visit and
to choose a place to stay in during his visit. If that is the way with our
daily life interests, then should we not give some more attention towards the
most important aspect of our life, the religion of Allah, and towards
worshiping Allah more and in a better way.
Absolutely,
that should have been happening but some of us are interested in the most
trivial aspects of life and if they hear about the religion of Allah that leads
to the right path and that either sends man to lasting delights or enduring punishment,
they will not listen to it and that is why they are accounted for.
So the
guidance is the lead to Allah’s path so that the people know the religion of
Allah, worship Him and obey Him in what He orders. But there is another way to
Allah’s path and that is the help from Allah (SWT), which He made exclusive to
His faithful believers. If a man is sincere in his belief, Allah will help him
and will provide him with more guidance and in that Allah (SWT) says:
<<While as for those who accept guidance, he
increases their guidance and bestows on them their piety>>
Ayah 17 from surat Muhammad
And if you read what Al-Haqq (SWT) said
to His messenger (PBUH)
<< Verily you (O Muhammad PBUH) guide not whom you
like, but Allah guides whom He wills>>
Ayah 56 from surat Al-Qassas
And if you also read what Allah (Jalla
Jallaloh) says:
<<And verily, you (O Muhammad BPUH) are indeed
guiding mankind to the Straight Path (i.e. Allah’s Reilgion of Islamic
Monotheism)>>
Ayah 52 from suurat Al-Shurah
We find
that Al-Haqq (SWT) has affirmed the guidance to His messenger (PBUH) and that
He has also disapproved him the guidance. Then how come can the messenger of
Allah (PBUH) lead to the right path and still he cannot lead the people he
loves to the right path? When you ask this question we say that you have not
understood the meanings of the Qur’an. For the guidance that Al-Haqq (Jalla Jallaloh)
has approved to his messenger (PBUH) is the leading guidance. Muhammad (PBUH)
has led the people to the way of belief and to the way of obedience and he has
clarified to them what brings Allah’s wrath and punishment. But the other
guidance that Allah has disapproved from His messenger (PBUH) is the aiding
guide in the way Allah (SWT) adds more guidance to everyone walking in the
right path and how He facilitates their way and makes them more loving to their
Faith.
That is why Al-Haqq (TWT) says about
His Divine Entity:
<<But Allah has endeared the Faith to you and has
beautified it into your hearts, and has made disbelief, wickedness and
disobedience (to Allah and His Messenger PBUH) hateful to you. Such are they
who are the rightly guided>>
If anyone
of us looks back to his life, he will find out that one day he must have out
cried from within himself with the feel that God is Great, that God is around, or
that God adjourns punishment but never disregards it. We do not say this except
if we are watching an event where the divine power is absolutely obvious.For if we reason what we are watching we will
not say or feel the same because it will then be a normal thing.
We do not say
God is there when we see the strong having victory over the weak because what
has happened is ruled by reason, the law that we see every day. The victory of
the wrong doers over the oppressed people does not let us say that God adjourns
and never disregards because it is also reasoned by the law, that we see daily
when the oppressors have victory over the oppressed people. But we do not see
the absolute power except in the injustice inflicted upon man. That is because
the judgment in everything is postponed till the day of Resurrection. The only exception
is the oppression of man, for Allah (Jalla Jallaloh) takes revenge from those
who devour people’s rights in the worldly life so that the life is balanced and
so that the people will know that there is a worldly revenge for injustice
besides the hereafter revenge.
That is why Rasoul Allah (PBUH) says:
Beware the prayer of the person
treated unjustly for there is no barrier between it and Allah. Allah lifts it
over the clouds and says: <With My Might and Majesty I will give you victory
even if it is after a long period of time>
