Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam
“Say to My servants that they should only say those things that are
best. For Satan doth sow dissension among them. For Satan is to man an
avowed enemy.” (Quran XVII: 53)
According To The Muslim Faith, When the
Almighty God created Adam (the father of the human progeny) out of a
lump of clay, and commanded the angels to greet him with a ‘Sijda’
(prostration in humility), Ibless the Satan hesitated to obey and accept
Adam as his superior because he claimed his own superiority over Adam
by virtue of his age long devotion to God and creation out of fire. His
reluctance to obey and bow before Adam, however, resulted in his
condemnation and he was therefore, eternally banished from the pleasure
of God. Under this great humiliating disappointment, the Satan, however,
pleaded with God that he and his progeny (the Satan belongs to the
progeny of the genii) may be granted an everlasting opportunity to
mislead mankind into error and sin in order to test the devotion of Adam
and his progeny to God. This request was granted by the Almighty God
with the commandment that whosoever followed the Satan’s path will
forfeit His pleasure and that his abode will be in the fire of hell
eternally. To accept either of the two options for the creation Adam and
his progeny, would not have been in the best interests of mankind just
like illness and health, blindness and clear vision, night and day, heat
and cold, good and evil, and so on.
The first treacherous act of Satan under
this arrangement started with the beguilement of Adam himself in the
well known episode of Eve and the “forbidden fruit” which resulted in
the banishment of both Adam and Eve from the heavenly paradise as a
punishment against God’s pleasure and thus the treachery of Satan, the
avowed enemy of the progeny of Adam, has continued throughout the ages
causing perpetual misery among the best majority of those people who
succumb to his mischievous allurements in defiance of the commandments
of God.
In this respect there are two kinds of
people in the world, those who follow the commandants of God, and those
who are susceptible to the beguilement of Satan. There has always been a
mighty struggle between the followers of Satan and the believers of God
ever since the creation of Adam in which the latter have always
vanquished the former
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > Injunction Of Islam
According to the Holy Quran, those who
follow the Satan’s enticement are rebels of God. They will have to
render an account of their misdeeds and sins on the Day-of-Reckoning and
suffer punishment in hell for they acted against the pleasure of God,
but those who defy Satan and stick steadfastly to the path of
Righteousness and Truth as ordained in the Holy Quran and preached by
Prophet Mohammed, are promised salvation and eternal bliss in paradise.
This is one of the principal articles of faith in Islam.
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > Retribution
The pages of the history and all
religious books of the world are full of the terrible stories of God’s
retribution upon those past rebellious generations of mankind who defied
the teachings of His Prophets and apostles under the mischievous
influence of Satan. There have also been numerous bloody wars between
the forces of evil and good, Truth and falsehood, the followers of Satan
and the devotees and believers of the Almighty God in which the latter
few have always vanquished the over -whelming many. As stated above
again and again God has sent His Prophets and apostles to all races and
nations of the world in order to warn and keep them on the right path of
Truth. As it happened, after their death people forgot their sacred
lessons and became victims of Satan’s treachery only to forfeit the
pleasure of God and earn His retribution. This is a divine decree which
no civilisation or modern progress can change in spite of all our
scientific and material advancement.
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > The Holy Prophet Mohammed
When the holy Prophet of Islam Hazrat
Mohammed (May peace and blessing of God be upon his soul) appeared on
the scene of Arabia in 750 AD, Satan had virtually established his
devilish kingdom over the Arabs who were steeped into abysmal ignorance
and sin.
What was the actual condition of Arabia
before the birth of holy Prophet Mohammed? According to the holy Quran,
“It was on the verge of fiery abyss.” The barbarous Arabs were
completely submerged under the evil influence of Satan. They were
soaking in superstition, ignorance, cruelty and idolatry and were torn
asunder by internecine feuds and wars. They had no settled government
and lived a nomadic life. Wine, women and every kind of vice and crime
summed up their general attitude towards life. Even the Jews and the
Christians had forgotten the teachings of their Prophets Moses and
Jesus, and had become idolaters. Writing about the condition of
Christianity in the 7th century was itself decrepit and corrupt. It was
disabled by contending schisms and had substituted the peculiarities of
superstition of the pure and expansive faith of the early ages.”
The teachings of the Prophet of Islam,
however wrought a dynamic transformation in the sinful life of the Arabs
within only a few years despite all the worst type of oppression,
insults and persecution by the evil forces of Satan in order to stick to
their devilish ways of life. But, in spite of all these obstacles,
Prophet Mohammed succeeded and succeeded triumphantly in completely
routing the forces of Satan and religion of Peace and Prosperity
happiness of the whole world as well.
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > Purpose Of Islam
The true purpose of religion is that
human beings should follow the right path according to divine teachings.
But before asking people to follow these teachings, it is first
necessary to explain the teachings and whose teaching they are:
secondly, about the one who is preaching them, and finally, the great
benefit that will be derived by following them. These are the
fundamentals on which religions are formed. To have a comparative study
of Islam in the light of the teachings found in other sacred books, is
to know what a comprehensive world religion Islam is pointing out also
how the author of such a religion was decidedly the last great Prophet,
there being consequently no further necessity at all for another Prophet
to rise. Quran is the final revealed Book of God and Mohammed is the
last Prophet.
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam> Islam – An Ancient Religion
As a matter of fact, Islam which means
peace and which represents the Divine Code for a disciplined, contented
and harmonious life of man on earth already existed in one or the other
form long before the advent of the Holy Prophet Mohammed. It however
needed a revival in an up to date form because due to individual and
political intrigues, certain abuses had crept into it. The preceding
generations had altered the true spirit and version of the former Holy
Scriptures to suit their own selfish ends and conveniences. Thus
mutilating the original commandments of God and bringing an ugly slur on
the fair name of Religion. These unauthorised intrusions and
mutilations therefore necessitated up to date ‘divine code’ in its
pristine glory and that is why a final and perfect religion in the form
of Islam was revealed through the Holy Quran and Prophet Mohammed with
the explicit warning that no more Prophets were to come after him. Islam
is therefore, a perfect religion for all humanity and for all time, and
not for the Muslims alone, whether the world accepts this divine claim
or not.
Unlike the past, Islam is now preserved
in its up to date perfection in the Holy Quran and because the past
generations proved themselves incapable of preserving the original
commandments of God in theory and true perspective had, as stated above,
tampered with them to suit their own intriguing conveniences, therefore
the Almighty Allah promised in the Quran to be its preserver Himself
this time. One of the living instances of this jealous guardianship is
that millions of Muslims easily commit this ‘Book of God’ to memory- a
feature unique in its own way which is nothing short of a miracle. There
is no instance in the living memory of mankind to show that any of the
ancient religious books or any other kind of book of such a voluminous
nature as the Holy Quran is, was ever committed to memory. This fact
alone proves that God’s original words have been preserved as He willed,
and that there have been no tampering whatever with them after the
death of the Holy Prophet Mohammed through whom the Quran was delivered
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > Unique Virtues Of Islam
There are many unique virtues of Islam
and its holy Prophet as compared with his predecessors. While the
preceding Prophets were endowed with only one ‘divine’ virtue to help
them to make their mission successful, Prophet Mohammed had the
exclusive distinction of possessing all those ‘divine’ virtues in him
which were bestowed upon his predecessors individually. For instance,
Prophet Mohammed was endowed with the exemplary patience granted to
Prophet Ayub, the miraculous virtues possessed by the ‘staff’ given to
Prophet Moses, the healing spell possessed by Prophet Jesus, the perfect
human beauty bestowed upon Prophet Yusuf and the supreme faith owned by
Prophet Abraham.
Further, no Prophet ever since the
creation of Adam, had the unique distinction of being succeeded by
illustration saints and divines among his followers as the Prophet of
Islam had a venerable line of religious teachers and saints who shunned
all pomp and show of the material world in order to serve the cause of
Islam and humanity selflessly and faithfully. Both morally and
spiritually they were pictures of perfection and stood out alone in the
multitude of intelligentsia, never deviating from the teachings of the
Quran or the tradition of the Prophet. Their one paramount aim of life
was the selfless service of mankind, strictly in accordance with the
teachings of the holy Quran both, in letter and spirit these holy
teachers of Islam in the garb of Sufi dervishes continued to keep the
banner of Islam flying for a period of nearly 900 years after the death
of the holy Prophet Mohammed by their matchless zeal, abstemious
character and amazing spiritual powers and it is due to this unique
dedication to the service of mankind that there are today 90 crores of
Muslims spreading all over the world whose ‘faith’ in their religion
remains as staunch and unshakable as it has ever been in spite of all
the political and social revolutions of the world ever since the death
of Prophet Mohammed.
Islam And Sufism > Blessing Of Islam > Khawaja Shaib
On the illustrious list of these great
Sufi Saints who preserved the spirit and promoted the cause of Islam by
their strict religious devotion and amazing spiritual powers under all
sorts of cruel persecution like the holy Prophet himself, the name of
Hazrat Khawaja Muinuddin Chishti of Ajmer stands high in perpetual
glory. For the spiritual salvation and moral uplift of the people of
Hindustan by peaceful means and universal love. In fact, this lonely
saint actually changed both the map and the course of Indian history at a
crucial period of her destiny not by sword or cannon but by the sweet
and melodious spell of his spiritual sway plus unparalleled moral and
religious character, a revolution which ushered in quite a new era of
peace and prosperity for millions of Indians, and a revolution which the
march of history and the present civilization cannot afford to forget
in the interests of mutual love and peace for which the people of the
world are so intensely thirsting today.
Because mutual goodwill and confidence
between man and man and nation and nation are once more rapidly
deteriorating, and because the world is searching for a lasting peace
against the forces of Satan that have once again raised their monstrous
head under the intoxication of new kind of scientific materialism, the
teachings of Hazarat Khwaja Munniuddin and Islam must, therefore, be
revived in the interests of world peace, as much as other recognised
religions.
We are sure, these lessons will prove of
immense value in easing the political and religious tensions and
restoring the waning faith of man in God and Religion without which
there can be no lasting peace in the world.
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