Introduction by
Islamic Records
In the name of
Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, who honoured
us with Islam, and made us followers of the most virtuous of all beings, our master Mohammed, Allah bless him and grant him peace. Whoever
follows Mohammed they are saved, and whoever deviates from his path they are
lost.
Allah Almighty says:
‘And whoever desires a religion other than Islam (submission to the
One True God, Allah), it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he
shall be one of the losers.’(3:85)
Today, the lost
humanity is searching for a way to escape the wilderness, so that it can enjoy
happiness, and have the peace of mind whereby one's safety, property and family
are all respected and protected from violation. Where else can that be found,
but in Islam? ‘The Islamic Records’ is glad to present you with this speech:
"Happiness is in Following the Truth” made by His Eminence, Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al-Khalili, the Grand
Mufti of Sultanate of Oman - Allah save him - at the Sultan Qaboos University
in Al Khoudh.
In the name of Allah
the Compassionate, the Merciful
All praise is due to
Allah, who sent the Book, and provided the
scale (for judging the right and the wrong), clarified the argument, illuminated the evidence, and revealed the Truth. All praise is
due to Him, who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the Religion of Truth,
that ‘he may proclaim it over all religions, even though the Pagans may detest
it’(9:33). I bear witness that there is none to worship but Allah alone; He has
no partner. I bear witness that our Master Mohammed is His Servant and
Messenger, whom Allah sent as a guide, as a bearer of glad tidings, as
warner, as one inviting to Allah by His permission, and as a light-giving torch,
may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him and upon his family, companions, and followers. Peace be upon you and may Allah bless you
with His mercy and His benevolence.
I entreat Allah,
Glorified is He, to help us gain His approval in what we are saying and doing,
to guide us to the right path, to inspire us with the Truth and to aid us in following
it. I beseech Allah, Glorified is He, to show us the
wrong as wrong and help us to avoid it. Surely He has power over all things, and
He is worthy of answering our prayers, He is the best of all Protectors and the
best of all supporters.
Undoubtedly, you are
all aware of the status and position of Truth, and the great significance accorded
to it. It was because of the Truth that Allah Almighty has sent His messengers
and His books. Indeed, it was because of the Truth that Allah, Exalted is He,
has created the earth and the heavens. The earth and the heavens, as well as whatever exists therein, have
no purpose but to follow the Truth. Allah says, ‘Had the Truth followed their
whims, surely the heavens and the earth and whatever exists therein would have
perished’ (23:71). The Truth is greater than anything great, and is more
sublime than anything sublime. Indeed, Truth is one of the names of Almighty Allah. He described
Himself as the Truth saying, ‘This is because Allah is the Truth’ (31:30). He
also described whatever is worshipped other than Him as falsehood when He said,
‘whatever they call upon besides Him-- that is the falsehood’ (31:30). Anything or anyone worshipped save Allah Almighty is false, and
the worshipping is falsehood. Whereas, anything commanded by Allah Almighty is
the revealed Truth.
People differ in
their understanding of the Truth. Everyone claims to have the knowledge of the
Truth and to be right and whoever opposes him would be wrong. Wrong is an attribute
that every human uses to describe all those who contradict his approach and
ideology. Likewise, the Truth or the Right is the claim of every human. The atheist
claims that he is right; the innovator claims that he is right; the oppressor
claims that he is right. This is the nature of humanity. It is known that Allah,
praise and glory be to Him, has not assigned the affairs of human beings to
these deficient and limited minds to understand the Truth and to distinguish it
from the false. Human understanding alone without the assistance of Allah,
praise and glory be to Him, cannot be the fair scale that distinguishes between
the Truth and the false, revelation and misguidance. People, as you know, are different
in their dispositions and approaches and, their wishes and hopes. It is also
known that reason is one of the means that enable human beings to know the
Truth. Allah, therefore, has dignified the mind highly and commanded
people to use it for the purpose of understanding Truth. He considered the mind
as one of the means that distinguishes the Truth from the false. Allah, praise and glory be to Him, in His Book first proclaims the Truth,
and then takes the human mind to explore the spaces of the universe so that it
learns with certitude the Truth of what Allah presents.
It is known that the
Truth is based on the belief in Allah as the Only God and avoiding worshipping others
beside Him. This is what the Holy Qur’an commanded. In the Holy Qur’an, Allah
said, praise and glory be to Him, ‘your god is one god, there is no god but He,
the Beneficent and the Merciful.' (2:163)
Afterward, there
came verses that underlay the significance of the mind, which humans use to understand
the Truth without being swayed by passions. For, the Qur’an cites the signs
that indicate the oneness of Allah, and this is evidence that the mind was
addressed. The universe, as it is evident, and as even the atheist infidels
acknowledged, is an integrated unit; every part of it is complementary to the
other parts. Thus a sound mind cannot accept that this universe can have more
than one creator. For, the Qur’an says, ‘Behold, in the creation of the heavens
and the earth, in the alteration of the Day and the Night, in the sailing of
ship through the ocean for the benefit of mankind; in the rain which Allah
sends down from the skies, in the life He gives therewith to an earth that is
dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the
change of wind and clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky
and earth, (here) indeed are signs for people who are wise’ (2:164).
You see how Islam
dignifies the mind, raises its status here as the Qur’an made these signs clear
for the mindful. We, also, find that the Holy Qur’an, when confronting the
infidels and their corrupt and deviant beliefs, challenges them
with this argument addressed to the mind. Allah, praise and glory be to Him,
commands: ‘Say: praise be to Allah, and Peace on His servants whom He has chosen
(for His message). Who is better? - Allah or false gods they associate (with Him)?’ (27:59). These verses indicate that a human is required
to employ reason to deduce the facts that reason discovers. But this reason or
mind can be blurred by different human desires and passions. Thus they
misdirect reason from the right path, to such a degree that for these people,
reason becomes a means for misguidance instead of being a means for
reformation. Such people will be overtaken by the grievous truth, when. Allah rejects all those who were endowed with reason, but
used it improperly.
Moreover, there are
many things whose secrets are hidden from people, and whose benefits and harms
are concealed, thus preventing people from uncovering their benefits and harm
or distinguishing good from bad. Because of this, a human being needs guidance
from Allah, praise and glory to Him, which is the guidance of the Religion.
Although it is evident that a human being has been given many talents and
skills, Allah has privileged the human by offering him his riches,
appointing him His vicegerent on this earth and endowing him with physical, mental
and psychological capabilities that no other creature has been endowed with.
This earth which Allah has designated as an abode for humans, who have been made
vicegerent in it, is part of the universe, which is the Kingdom of Allah.
It is known that the
proprietor of a Kingdom possesses the authority to command and prohibit. It is
He who outlines for people the way they tread. Like people in authority who legislate
for their followers, this great universe must have an order. This order must be
compatible with the nature of this universe. Considering, once more, that the earth
is part of the universe, then the authorship of the order on the earth should belong
to Allah. Therefore, a human in the capacity of a vicegerent has to abide by Allah's
order. He cannot restrict himself to establishing order on this earth by way of
his senses and his mind alone, because reason or mind can be muddled by
overwhelming desires and different and conflicting passions. There can be, for
instance, a rage or unremitting desires that incapacitate the power of reason.
Because of this, it is an imperative that human should refer to the dictates of
Allah, Who established for humans the path of Truth that does not defer to
whims and caprices. Rather this path of Truth has been ordained according to
His Will and according to His judgment. Allah says, ‘If the Truth had been in
accord with their desires, truly the heavens and the earth, and all beings therein would have been in confusion and
corruption.’ (23:71)
If the Truth had
followed peoples’ passion, the order of this
universe would have been corrupted. For, this universe is based on a certain system,
and Allah has made this system involve all parts of the universe from the
smallest particle or atom to the enormous galaxy. All that exists in this
universe is firmly organized. Even if the movement or the behaviour of
different parts of the universe were involuntary, they are necessary.
In the same way, a
human being also has involuntary and voluntary movements. He is also part of the
universe. Even that which he chooses voluntarily is part of the universe. Thus this order (the
one chosen by the human being) should be completely compatible with the order
of the universe. When the behaviour of the human is in discordance with this order,
a disturbance, first of all, will occur between him and his self (or conscience).
It is then, that a human being will feel his essence, his instincts and nature,
that Allah, praise be to Him, has endowed him with, go against his passion or will,
because he has some desires or passions that do not accord with the order of
the universe. Beside this, this human being feels an incongruity between him
and this universe. That is why the compatibility between him and the universe
will disappear.
Consequently, he
will feel an animosity against this universe, heavy on his heart and senses.
This is what lies behind those utterances of foul words by those who are deprived
of faith. These people, while relating their interaction with nature, use expressions
that indicate their incongruity with the order of the universe. Sometimes they
feel they have conquered the universe or the nature. Hence they say ‘someone
has conquered nature‘. They say, ‘they have invaded the space‘. As if there is
an animosity between them and this space, thus they carry out invasions against
it. They feel animosity between themselves and nature and thus they say they
have ‘conquered nature’, when they accomplish something. This all originates
from lack of faith. Hence, no doubt a human
being is in need of an order that reflects his own interests, of which Allah
has knowledge, and not an order that is dictated by his passions.
Since people have
manifold and conflicting passions, it is inconceivable that everyone will have
his own order according to his passion. Allah has created human beings with a certain
nature characterized by sociality. The human being is social by instinct and
civic by his nature. Thus he longs for his conspecifics. Every human being, no
matter how powerful, influential, strong or wealthy
cannot be independent in his interests from his conspecifics. This is evident
in the life of all people. The rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, the
owner and the owned, the ruler and the ruled, the man and the woman, and the
big and the little, are all the same in this regard and not one of them can be
independent from his conspecifics. Rather, we usually find that the more one gets
influential, the stronger is one's need for others.
A ruler is the
neediest for others. He needs all social classes, experts in various fields, ministers and advisors, soldiers, police, physicians, craftsmen, cooks, servants and all kinds of traders.
This indicates that human life is a social life. With all these complexities,
to give everyone what he desires, spells disaster for any interdependency. The
conflicts of interests would lead, inevitably, to grouping, on the one hand,
and antagonism, on the other. Such a situation would lead to sedition escalating into bloodshed, loss
of lives, and carnage, all for the purpose of attaining what is desired by
those impassioned persons. It follows then, that if the Truth followed their desires,
the heavens and the earth would become corrupted.
Allah alone, glory
be to Him, knows the interests of all people. He is the Knower of the subtleties,
the Aware. He endowed human beings with their nature. He created this harmony
and homogeneity between human nature and the nature of this universe. Thus He
ordained the rules that preserve this harmony and this congruity, so that no
disturbances or deviation will occur, and that everyone
is given his right.
However, such bliss
is not attainable, unless faith reigns amongst the people, through their
feelings, their senses and through all their affairs and conducts. Unless all
their acts are conducted within the framework of this faith, the nature of this
universe (of which an important part, the earth, is entrusted to human being),
will be at the mercy of the products of the people. This is mentioned in the
Holy Book as Allah says, ’Do you not see that
Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to
you’ (31:20).
The foundation of
faith is to have the human believing in his creator, Allah, Glory be to Him.
This faith does not mean the superficial belief that many people use to claim
to be believers. That superficial belief is not able to dominate the feeling
and consciences. Nor, is it able to move the cords of psyche and its passions.
The required faith is the deep faith that permeates all human pulses. It is
that kind of faith that leads human safely in this temporal world and brings
him happiness in the afterlife. This faith is what shows humans the right path.
It is also the scale of Truth by which a human being can distinguish between
the right and the wrong, between
enlightenment and misguidance, between the
beneficial and harmful and between the useful and the corrupt. People lacking
in this faith, are liable to having their criteria profoundly distorted. A case
in point is the difference in the condition of a person who turns from
disbelief into belief, or vice versa - may Allah save us from it - i.e. the case
of a person who turns from belief to disbelief.
A parable to the
same effect is chronicled in the Holy Qur'an about the story of Pharaoh's sorcerers
who came to the Pharaoh tempted by his wealth. They used their affiliation with
him to tell him, when he wanted them to challenge Moses, peace be upon him, who
came with dazzling divine signs (miracles), ‘and then would we be
rewarded if we win?’ The Pharaoh
replied: ‘yes, and you will be among those who are close to me’. He said so,
because he was aware that they were as much tempted by the status that would be
conferred upon them, (as a result of their proximity to him) as they were
tempted by any wealth. For such people only wealth and status matter and they
are the goal of their life. But when Faith dwelt within their heart, their view of the life was transformed. They no longer considered
life valuable unless the Truth and righteousness prevailed. Consequently, they
told the Pharaoh that they would not prefer him over what had dawned upon them,
nor prefer him above their one creator.
They told him also,
that he might sentence them in whatever way he chose, but he would not put an
end to that which is beyond this temporal life.
In this way, human
life transforms when Allah blesses them with faith. Analogous to this is the case
of the Prophet's companions before Islam. During their benighted era - Jahiliya, they were
like fierce predators preying on each other; but when faith permeated their
hearts, enlightened their vision and enlivened their feelings, they became ‘the
most righteous of all nations’. They were able to
‘command goodness and forbid evil’, and were also ready to sacrifice anything dearest
to them for the sake of Allah their Lord, and in order to extend His mercy to
all humanity. They came out to the world as messengers of mercy and compassion,
and were the exemplars of kindness. That is why even their adversaries said of
them: ‘History has not known more magnanimous conquerors‘. No doubt, all those
transformations were because of such faith that settled in their breasts. With
the recession of faith, disaster ensues, and the scales (of justice and good
conduct) undergo distortion, Allah forbid. People cannot concur on an
arrangement unless that arrangement is built on stable faith and principles of
the Truth and rights that have been sent by Allah, be He Glorified and Exalted.
We see in this era,
much anguish has been experienced by humans, in spite of all that humans have
been endowed with, in terms of intelligence, knowledge and other faculties.
Indeed, the reason is lack of faith. In spite of, or because of all these endowments such as, what this
materialistic civilization offers, humans come to suffer successions of
disasters. You hear of devastating wars in all the corners of the world, and no
part of the world is saved from it. If it was peace in one place, soon the war,
raging in one part, sends its sparks to inflame other parts. All this is due to
lack of faith.
You also know that
great wealth is wasted on senseless arms race between the super powers in
particular, which leads to the production of weapons that would annihilate the world.
One must then ask, has the civilization yielded any good with this recession of
faith? And what are the criteria on which this civilization is based? These criteria
are all inverted. Consequently, what is a blessing becomes a misfortune, good becomes
bad, corruption is righteousness and righteousness is corruption, the right is wrong
and the wrong is right, reformation becomes misguidance and misguidance becomes
reformation; all this is due to the recession of faith. Thus people are in dire
need for such faith.
This faith is not
given by merely claiming that one has faith, as we indicated in our previous seminars.
We have concluded that faith consists of a belief and practice. Therefore, the faith
should manifest itself in reforming the life of a person who claims it; otherwise this faith would not have any impact. Allah has informed
us as to what attributes one that is faithful will have in many of the verses
in His book, which you recite day and night.
It is also known
that there is an instinctive competitiveness, and an innate love to pursue one's
own interest, even if these interests were just illusion. This drive exists nevertheless,
to achieve dominance and superiority in this earth, and to influence people through
their ideas regardless of whether and how they are deviated. All of these have become
causes for conflicts and fighting. During this era, we have been embroiled in
such striving and many resulting conflicts. However, in despite of their conflicts,
people were united on one specific point, fighting the Truth, confronting Truth,
and taking people away from the path of Truth. On these policies (against the Truth) all parties
of international conflicts have agreed.
In the conflict between Communism and Capitalism, there were third players,
which were conspiring against Islam, and these were Zionist Crusaders. You know
something about the history of communism, and how it was
trying to misguide people, how it tried to
polarize all people. It wanted to impose its theory concerning the universe, the governance, and economy upon all people. For this purpose it
employed all the means that it could bring to bear. Consequently,
humanity suffered from many miseries that Communism brought about. Despite this, there
were many fools, even among us, eagerly following and willing to apply it. Communism
is the hell - a red fire that scourges through everything. It annihilates
people's wealth in all its form, whether material
and productive, or profits and well-being, and it obliterates the cultivation
and the livestock. Nonetheless, many people
presented communism as though it was a mercy. I heard many people, with whom I was discussing it, saying that ‘communist principles
are principles of benevolence’. What kind of benevolence is this? After having
won the civil war, Mao Tse-tung, for the sake of venting his anger and revenge,
killed, according to some statistics, around nine million people. Whereas other
sources say he killed up to twenty million. Stalin's massacres also did not
occur in a far remote past. It was many lives that he destroyed for satisfying
his vindictiveness, and to quell opposition even if this opposition was as
simple as expressing one's opinion. In this manner, thousands were killed by
Communists for the purpose of intimidating people, so no one would dare to
oppose. Alas people were glorifying those idolized, these heartless oppressors otherwise
known as communist leaders.
Communism was considered at that time as a great manifestation of progress,
nay, it was considered as a measure of progress. Thus the communist countries
and their satellites were termed as the progressive countries. Contrarily, all
those that opposed communism were regarded as reactionary, and when this opposition was based on religion then the opposition
were called the religious reactionary forces. They described the so-called ‘religious
reactionaries' as the most backward of all.
But to what end did
Communism come? Within no more than seven decades, rather, the first day it was born, its impurities and defects were
exposed, which led to its spectacular debacle. Those who were building its structures
turned afterwards to dismantle them, their own tools in their hands; in a sense,
they were destroying their own homes. They began talking about rebuilding or
restructuring. They even began dismissing those who were still clinging to Communism
and ignoring its obvious faults, as reactionary. So
there was a complete turnover: Communism has become a symbol of reactionism when
it was once the symbol of progress.
When Gorbachev began
his policy of perestroika (rebuilding), the common reaction was to crack jokes.
It was said that Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Podgorny gathered in
hell to converse about what is supposed to be rebuilt. They inquired if anyone
has built anything. All said ‘no, we were all destroyers’. So they wondered what
it meant then, if Gorbachev wanted to rebuild, what could he rebuild if there
had not been any building? Gorbachev announced afterwards that communism had died.
He did not assume that the alternative is the opposite system of capitalism. A
few years ago, there was an interview with Gorbachev on a British Television programme.
He was asked whether or not he believed communism in Vietnam and China could
survive. He answered in the negative, and that in his
opinion, Communism was destined to die. He was then asked what the alternative
could be. He replied that, he did not think that the answer lay in capitalism, democracy or socialism, rather in another system for which we have
yet to adapt ourselves.
That day, after
hearing that, I said, the new civilization, though it was not declared, is the
civilization of Islam. There is no other solution that can rescue this humanity
but the Islamic solution.
However, if
Gorbachev made only general hints to that end, it was down to Castro, the extreme
and radical communist, to announce that the only remaining way is the route of Qur'an.
But have the effects of this communism, though it has since died, and its corpse
rotted to a degree that no one can bear its stink, ended? No. Indeed, that
rotten corpse has bred worms that fed on its poisons. These worms roamed the
earth, particularly in our Islamic society, to throw up these poisons,
dressed up as modernity, which denies
religious values. They try to destroy Islam by various means.
These products are
polished up to glare as if they were stars, which are in reality just piles of
benightedness. The conspiracies of these successors of the rotten communism on Islam
are no less serious than their predecessors, though their kind is no more venomous
than the worms that fed on the rotten corpse of communism. They say words,
whose meanings are not usually obvious to many people, though their aims are to
destroy the doctrine of Islam, to undermine the fabric of Islam and to deny the
religion in the name of this modernity. They employ glaring
terms, which are on the surface benevolent, but which are torment within. They
decorate these terms to fob them off on people in the name of good. But what
good can come out of the denial of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, or out
of the denial of the Day of Judgment.
Even if effort is
made to conceal them, these beliefs would reveal themselves when their authors
are filled up and no longer able to contain their hatred against this
benevolent religion and its followers. You know a few years ago, someone here
published an article in which there was an explicit denial of the Day of Judgment.
The article was based on analyzing an atheistic poem by a muddle-headed atheist. But the
analyst went beyond what had been written in the poem, and regarded what had
been said in the benevolent religion as a wilderness or maze. That episode was
followed by another, where the speaker
considered the poem to be the God. He also attributed to the poem the power of
revival and death. Thus Communism is not more harmful than these people, even
though, it used force and terror, in spreading its
beliefs and principles. However, tricks are nonetheless used, and who knows what would be
the consequence if these people gained power, Allah forbid.
We are certain that
these ideas are destined to end, Allah willing; since it is certain that Allah
would let Truth prevail in the context of arguments. This is Allah's
preordination for nature: struggle between Truth and false is inevitable. This
struggle exists since time immemorial. Ever since Satan rebelled against
Allah's order and declared war against Adam and his progenies, whom Allah chose
to become his vicegerent on earth, the struggle between the Truth and Falsehood
is still raging. But Allah would let the Truth prevail and the false lose. This
is a fact, and history reveals a pattern of events that confirm this fact.
Moreover, there are
many verses that confirm this fact:
‘It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion
of Truth, that he may proclaim it over all religion, even though the Pagans may
detest (it)’. That is to say Allah must reveal this religion over all other
religions, in spite of all the conspiracies of disbelievers, and it will by all
means prevail. The religion of Islam is the metaphorical rope that the world is
waiting for (to be rescued by).
Around two, or more,
years ago, some texts were read out from seminars by an American who was
converted to Islam. He had been promoted through many positions until he became,
President Nixon's Chief Advisor. The seminar was entitled ‘The Islamic leadership in the
twenty-first century’. During these
seminars he conveyed a sense of some optimism, even in regard to the role of
the Jewish. Among them was Berzezinski, who was a national
security adviser to President Carter. He wrote in an American newspaper, words
to the effect that a collapse is awaiting America, and that the USA has lost
its morality, and the one who loses morality cannot legislate moral laws for the
rest of the world. In the context of presenting this paper of Berzezinski,
Natan Garos pointed out that Islam is that which is anticipated to take up the
leadership of this anxious humanity. Still these people, in spite of their
awareness of this fact, bear grudges and hatred against Islam. They still want
to delay the expected era of Islam. Thus they encourage infiltration into Islam
for the purpose of evoking evil drives among people, and to disseminate those
corrupt and venomous doctrines, which destroy everything, if it was not for the
divine intervention. However, whatever they do, we are confident
that the will of Allah will prevail and that His religion will be proclaimed
‘over all religions‘. That the happy ending will be piety, that reformation and
enlightenment are awaiting humanity within the context of this benevolent
religion, the religion of Allah, be He Glorified and Exalted, which is the
Truth and has offered the ultimate solution.
If we return back to
doctrines, we will realize that every doctrine, not compatible with this religion,
is a corrupt doctrine and cannot be accepted by a sane mind. While those who profess
to accept doctrines incompatible with Islam, over-stretch their mind and
contradict their own inner voice which emanates from the deepest recess of
their psyche. This is made clear through conversation with them. Once I was conversing
with a few Christian theologians, they could not come up with an answer to question
about their claim that Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, is the servant, the
human, the son and the God, Allah is above
that. I asked them was Mary, peace be upon her,
when she was bearing Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, bearing the God, or the foetus
was just a human who transformed thereafter to God? Their response was that he
was eternally a God, though he was
transformed into human and yet contemporaneously reserved His divine nature. I
then asked them, ‘Who was running the affairs of the world, while he was a
foetus in his mother's uterus? So who was running the universe’? Here, the theologian
admitted that the answers to these questions are difficult. He proceeded to say
that reason cannot arrive at knowledge of the fact with certainty, and we have
to depend on faith without involving our reasons in that.
I replied, ‘Islam
has taught us to the contrary; Islam has dignified
reason and guided it to see Allah's signs. Allah has given us evidence that
involves reason, which points out that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is unparalleled
and without associate, ‘He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none
like Him’ (112:3-4). Glory be to Him, He has no partner
in His properties, nor has He an equivalent in His self, attributes or deeds.
So these people are living in anxiety; and who can save
them from their distress but the faith which is represented in the True Islamic
doctrine.
All Muslims are
required to carry this doctrine to people all over the world. This world must
be rescued from its spiritual wilderness, and be led through the path of righteousness.
As for those atheists who can only think in empirical evidences, they cannot
penetrate the transcendental truth.
They think the
universe is only their perceptible world. They do not believe what is beyond
the senses. Those people have reached the extremes of their anxieties. How is
it that they can believe in a cause of an effect when they perceive that
effect, and cannot believe in the creator of the whole of this universe? It is
true that they believe in electricity without being able to see electricity.
They believe in atoms, though they cannot see atoms. Yet they affect blindness
in order not to see the signs of the creator though the whole universe is just
an evidence for his creation.
Every atom of the
atoms of this world is a statement that He alone is the almighty and fixer of
this existence and that He possesses all the attributes of perfection.
They believe in
electricity because they see the effect of electricity. They believe in atoms because
of their knowledge of the effect of atoms. However, they do not believe in the creator
and inventor of this universe, who, ‘the seven heavens
and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory; and there is not a single
thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification;
surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving' (17:44).
Since human cannot
avoid evil unless he is aware of himself. Avoiding evil can be done by
knowledge. Thus the poet said: ‘I knew not to do evil, but to circumvent it. He
who does not know evil falls into it.’ Indeed, it is the Islamic youths who are
targeted. They are required to study the convoluted methods of devious people,
so that they may be immune to their beguiling talks. Many young Muslims that
were righteous and pious have deviated because of ignorance, and lack of persistence in holding to the firm cord of faith.
We all have to hold
to the firm cord of faith, and we have to
study this evil so that we are more circumspect, may Allah help us. I plead to
Him to take us through the right path and to take us in our hand to what he
likes and approves, to show us the Truth as the Truth and enable us to follow
it, and to show us the false as false and enable us to avoid it. He has power
over everything, and He is worthy of answering our prayers, He is the best of
protectors and the best of helpers. May Allah bless our Prophet Mohammed and grant him peace, along
with his relations, companions and followers. Glory be to your Lord, the Lord
of Honor, above what they describe; and peace be on the messengers; and all
praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the
worlds. Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you all.
Reference:
For a better Understanding of Islamic Monotheism
Happiness is in Following the Truth
By The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman
His Eminence: Sheikh Ahmad bin Hamad Al-Khalily
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