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[Dr. Ghulam Jeelani Barq in his DOU ISLAM analyzes the cause of the decline and fall of Muslims. I am holding off my comment. You may agree or disagree.]
WHAT IS THE BEST DEED?
The Muslim is Allah’s soldier whose prime duty is to strive in His Cause with wealth and person. He must be prepared to leave his comfort zone and sacrifice his wealth, property, rest and even life in the service of Allah. Sacrifice appears to be the main virtue required of a Muslim. Look at Tawheed as the harbinger of unity, Salat as the recurrent, collective training at discipline rank upon rank, Saum as the yearly training of patience, steadfastness and unity, Zakat as our readiness to depart from our cherished wealth, Hajj as a symbol of uniformity in thought and action. All these acts prepare us for the ultimate goal of lesser or greater sacrifice as and when the need arises.
It is my conviction that if your Islam does not invite you to lay down your life for the Right Cause, you are following some phantom and not Islam.
9:20 Those who attained belief, and left their homes, and strove in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives, have a much greater rank with Allah. They are the ones who are truly triumphant.
Yes, such are the true believers. Obviously then, the best deed worthy of the greatest reward is striving in the Cause of Allah. But, the cowards among Muslims in the third to fifth centuries, and our enemies encouraged the Muhadditheen (most of whom were Muslims only in disguise) to forge an easy Islam. And here they go again:
- When asked, Rasoolullah said, “The best Islam is to feed (the hungry) and greet (others) whether known or unknown. (Bukhari, ‘Which Islam is best?’ Vol 1 pg 7) [Sweet, but it’s nothing close to putting one's wealth, property and life on the line. As mentioned earlier, the Muhadditheen did insert sweet stuff here and there to establish their credibility]
- When asked, Rasoolullah said, “The best Islam is to avoid hurting a Muslim by tongue or hand.” (Ref same) [Sounds good, but notice the relegation of strife. Notice the Jihad of sacrifice being side-lined]
Allah says that the Jannah will be achieved only by sacrificing with your property and labor and life.
9:111 Allah has bought from the believers their persons and their goods, for (in return) theirs is the Garden. ---.
The Mullah says the Paradise is yours whether you strive or not!
- Rasoolullah (S) said, “Whoever believes in Allah and His Rasool, keeps praying and fasts in Ramadhan, it becomes incumbent upon Allah to enter him into the Paradise whether he strives or sits at home.” (Bukhari vol 2 pg 90)
And,
- The Rasool (S) said, “Shall I tell you the best deed, the deed that will raise you in ranks, is better than sacrificing gold and silver, and ever better than that Jihad in which you lay down your lives? It is Zikrillah (saying Allah Allah).”
Now the greatest Zaakir is the beggar who says Allah ten times in one breath begging from people. According to this Hadith, the beggars should be the masters of Paradise and we all their humble servants!
Surely, there are Ahadith that motivate the Muslim toward a life of action and strife, but the Mullah would rather conceal them. Can he conceal the Qur’an? No! But he buries it under Ahadith.
Reflect on these verses:
3:142 Do you think that you would enter Paradise without Allah distinguishing those among you who strive, and without distinguishing the steadfast?
61:4 Verily, Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in columns as if they were a rock solid wall.
8:74 Those who believed and emigrated, and strove in the Cause of Allah, and those who hosted them and supported them, are True believers. For them is protection of forgiveness and honorable provision.
SUNNATILLAH (The Unchangeable Laws of Allah)
All actions have reactions - as you sow, so shall you reap. This Law of Allah has been repeated in the Qur’an over and over again. Anyone who exercised, consumed a healthy diet, and lived a moderate life, reaped the reward thereof regardless of what religion he or she followed.
Whoever worked hard and sacrificed comfort in the service of Allah's creation, he prospered. Obviously, contrary are the results of laziness and inaction when Zikr and Du'a replace strife and action.
As long as the Muslims followed the non-discriminatory Divine Laws, they touched the pinnacle of human achievement, and even ruled the world. Once they lost those qualities, Allah (His Law) beat them up into misery, subjugation, slavery and beggary. Today there are no less than 600 million Muslims in the world (please recall the authorship of this book in 1949). Wherever they live, they are the ignorant of the lowest order, ill-disciplined, uncivilized, ill-mannered, and to top this all, totally oblivious to better their dismal condition.
QUESTION: Who is responsible for the global humiliation of Muslims? There simply cannot be two answers. Undoubtedly, it is the Mullah with his brand of Islam. There are millions of Masjids in the Islamic world and millions of Mullahs in them. In his sermons, the Mullah preaches to his audiences:
- Only you (Muslims) are the chosen ones of Allah.
- This Ummah is a forgiven community. Allah will not punish you ever.
- This world is carrion and its seekers are dogs.
- A believer can never get filthy.
- Reciting the Kalemah ensures Paradise for you.
- All knowedge other than Fiqh and Hadith is useless and detestable.
- Science is for the Kaafir.
- Two units Nafl Namaz at night is the greatest deed in the world.
- Whoever rules you is your bona fide ruler whether he is the British king or the German Fuhrer.
- Kharqah (A loose robe) is the best dress in the world.
- Du'a (praying to Allah for doing things for you) is the brain of all worship. Ask Allah to do this and that for you in any situation and He will do it for you because He is Able to do all things.
- Recite this du’a and get the reward of 100,000 Hajj and 100,000 martyrs.
- Recite that du’a and you get 100,000 palaces in Paradise.
- Without a ‘Murshad’ (spiritual guide), salvation is not possible.
- Allah has vested all authority to the dead saints, so visit their graves and get your du’as approved.
SECTION 24 SOME CONCEALED AHADITH ON JIHAD (Jihad = Strife with wealth and person. Jihad is commonly confused as fighting which is, in fact, the last resort against persecution and in self-defense.)
- Someone asked, “O Rasoolullah! Which people are the best people?” He said, “The believer who strives in the Cause of Allah with his wealth and person.” (Bukhari, vol 2, pg 90 Kitabul Jihad)
- “Spending a morning or evening in the Way of Allah is better than the world and all it has.” (Same)
There come times in the history of nations when they must defend themselves with their lives (Benign aggression), so:
- “Know that the Paradise is under the shades of the swords.” (Bukhari)
- Rasool (S) said, “By Allah! My greatest desire is that I get slain in the Cause of Allah, then given a new life, get slain again, live again, and get slain again.” (Kitabul Jihad)
- “The Fire will never touch the feet that become dusty in the Way of Allah.”
- "There is great blessing in the foreheads of the horses until the Day of Resurrection." (Bukhari, volume 2 pg 96) Horses here would indicate the armory of today.
- “Standing guard on the Islamic frontier for one day is the best deed in the world, and better than all that it has.” (Bukhari, vol 2 pg 100)
Dear readers, I have the conviction that if the Prophet (S) were alive today, he would have made artillery, armory, flying and sailing a part of our religion. Is not a ‘Muttaqi’ one who has strong defenses?
[But, power being the greatest deterrent against war, Allah has already made strong defense an essential part of Islam. See below]
8:60 Make ready for them all the power you can muster, and all the equipment you can mobilize so that you may deter the enemies of Allah, and your enemies. And others beside them whom you know not, Allah knows them. Whatever wealth and effort you spend on your defenses, will be your spending in the Cause of Allah, and it will be repaid to you generously. And you shall not be wronged.
Alas! The Muslim world today (1949 - & no different in 2010) is plagued with ignorance, poverty, laziness, corruption, illiteracy, sectarianism, disunity, mutual violence, empty rhetoric, unclean environments and the lack of will to improve their own condition.
TRAITORS: No nation in the world has ever produced as many traitors as Muslims do in a single century. There are 350 million Hindus today (in 1949) and you will fail to find among them a single traitor.
INACTION: With the Muslim’s imagination gone out of focus with his false beliefs, why should he work hard? The world for him is unclean corpse, the Paradise belongs to him alone, he has all proprietorship of God’s blessings, and the houris are waiting for him. Where is the deprivation? Nowhere except in this ‘Najis’ (unclean) world which he has conveniently ‘given’ away to the ‘Kuffar’ (unbelievers). Why, then, work hard to attain skills, knowledge and education?
Getting slain in the Cause of Allah will bring the reward of one martyr, but reciting dua’s and wazeefahs (chanting on rosaries) promise him the reward of 100,000 martyrs. Why depart from the beloved comfort zone?
The Mullah has been preaching false beliefs to us for a thousand years. As a result, superstition and ‘Al-Baatil’ (Falsehood) have penetrated the deepest ventricles of the Muslim brain. Every person among them has become a du’a monger and fallen deep into the cold valley of inaction. Help some Muslim practically and after a formal 'thank you' get ready to hear, "Please pray for me." What! Hasn't he helped you practically? There is no fire in him to rise to new heights by working hard and making progress.
The Muslim has become a cold-blooded animal perpetually in hibernation.
During the WWI, when the Allies were annihilating the Ottoman Caliphate (Khilafat Usmania), the 100 million Muslims of India were doing nothing but relentlessly praying in Masjids and homes, “Our Lord! Help us against the community of unbelievers,” firmly believing that their prayers would smother the enemy guns and bring victory to Muslims!
The Qur'an has been telling us that if we love wealth and quit action and strife, Allah will bring another nation in our stead.
47:38 Behold, you are those who are called upon to spend in the Cause of Allah. Yet, among you there are such who turn stingy. Anyone who is a miser is a miser against his own ‘Self’. And Allah is the Rich, and you are the poor. And if you turn away, He will replace you with another nation, and they will not be like you.
Here we are looking for even the Paradise in charity, by way of du’as and intercessions that will never work.
31:12 ---. And whoever chooses to be practically ungrateful, must know that Allah is Self-Sufficient, Owner of all Praise (He is in no need of your praises on rosary-beads and chanting).
Those Banu Ummayah (the Umayyads) that ruled the world from the deserts of Sindh (today's Pakistan) to France, those Banu Abbas (the Abbasids) whose thunderous power used to cause tremor in the world, and that Spanish dynasty of Muslims that had civilized the entire Europe - Where did they go?!
Those Saljuks the shine and strike of whose swords brought shock and awe to injustice in the world, those Taimuri (of Tamerlane) thunderbolts that shone from Delhi to Constantinople, and that Saladin! - Why don’t we see them today? - And 123 empires like these, Ah!
When their generations sank in luxury, quit hard work, ran away from sacrifice, their mighty dominions split asunder. Allah made them history and buried them in the graveyard of history forever. He did not care that these people claimed to believe in the Prophet (S) and recited the Kalemah with reverence, used to pray Namaz, fasted and went for Hajj.
6:6 Do they not see how many a generation We (Our Law) annihilated before them? We had established them on earth better than We have established you, and We showered on them abundant blessings from the sky, and caused the rivers to flow beneath them. But, when they trailed behind in humanity, We (Our Law) annihilated them and raised in their stead other generations.
RESURGENCE?
None will come up to hold our hands to lift us from this quagmire of total misery. The Muslim has forgotten the Eternal Divine Law:
13:11 -- Behold, Allah never changes the condition of a nation unless they (first) change their own selves --.
WHAT IS THE BEST DEED?
The Muslim is Allah’s soldier whose prime duty is to strive in His Cause with wealth and person. He must be prepared to leave his comfort zone and sacrifice his wealth, property, rest and even life in the service of Allah. Sacrifice appears to be the main virtue required of a Muslim. Look at Tawheed as the harbinger of unity, Salat as the recurrent, collective training at discipline rank upon rank, Saum as the yearly training of patience, steadfastness and unity, Zakat as our readiness to depart from our cherished wealth, Hajj as a symbol of uniformity in thought and action. All these acts prepare us for the ultimate goal of lesser or greater sacrifice as and when the need arises.
It is my conviction that if your Islam does not invite you to lay down your life for the Right Cause, you are following some phantom and not Islam.
9:20 Those who attained belief, and left their homes, and strove in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives, have a much greater rank with Allah. They are the ones who are truly triumphant.
Yes, such are the true believers. Obviously then, the best deed worthy of the greatest reward is striving in the Cause of Allah. But, the cowards among Muslims in the third to fifth centuries, and our enemies encouraged the Muhadditheen (most of whom were Muslims only in disguise) to forge an easy Islam. And here they go again:
- When asked, Rasoolullah said, “The best Islam is to feed (the hungry) and greet (others) whether known or unknown. (Bukhari, ‘Which Islam is best?’ Vol 1 pg 7) [Sweet, but it’s nothing close to putting one's wealth, property and life on the line. As mentioned earlier, the Muhadditheen did insert sweet stuff here and there to establish their credibility]
- When asked, Rasoolullah said, “The best Islam is to avoid hurting a Muslim by tongue or hand.” (Ref same) [Sounds good, but notice the relegation of strife. Notice the Jihad of sacrifice being side-lined]
Allah says that the Jannah will be achieved only by sacrificing with your property and labor and life.
9:111 Allah has bought from the believers their persons and their goods, for (in return) theirs is the Garden. ---.
The Mullah says the Paradise is yours whether you strive or not!
- Rasoolullah (S) said, “Whoever believes in Allah and His Rasool, keeps praying and fasts in Ramadhan, it becomes incumbent upon Allah to enter him into the Paradise whether he strives or sits at home.” (Bukhari vol 2 pg 90)
And,
- The Rasool (S) said, “Shall I tell you the best deed, the deed that will raise you in ranks, is better than sacrificing gold and silver, and ever better than that Jihad in which you lay down your lives? It is Zikrillah (saying Allah Allah).”
Now the greatest Zaakir is the beggar who says Allah ten times in one breath begging from people. According to this Hadith, the beggars should be the masters of Paradise and we all their humble servants!
Surely, there are Ahadith that motivate the Muslim toward a life of action and strife, but the Mullah would rather conceal them. Can he conceal the Qur’an? No! But he buries it under Ahadith.
Reflect on these verses:
3:142 Do you think that you would enter Paradise without Allah distinguishing those among you who strive, and without distinguishing the steadfast?
61:4 Verily, Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in columns as if they were a rock solid wall.
8:74 Those who believed and emigrated, and strove in the Cause of Allah, and those who hosted them and supported them, are True believers. For them is protection of forgiveness and honorable provision.
SUNNATILLAH (The Unchangeable Laws of Allah)
All actions have reactions - as you sow, so shall you reap. This Law of Allah has been repeated in the Qur’an over and over again. Anyone who exercised, consumed a healthy diet, and lived a moderate life, reaped the reward thereof regardless of what religion he or she followed.
Whoever worked hard and sacrificed comfort in the service of Allah's creation, he prospered. Obviously, contrary are the results of laziness and inaction when Zikr and Du'a replace strife and action.
As long as the Muslims followed the non-discriminatory Divine Laws, they touched the pinnacle of human achievement, and even ruled the world. Once they lost those qualities, Allah (His Law) beat them up into misery, subjugation, slavery and beggary. Today there are no less than 600 million Muslims in the world (please recall the authorship of this book in 1949). Wherever they live, they are the ignorant of the lowest order, ill-disciplined, uncivilized, ill-mannered, and to top this all, totally oblivious to better their dismal condition.
QUESTION: Who is responsible for the global humiliation of Muslims? There simply cannot be two answers. Undoubtedly, it is the Mullah with his brand of Islam. There are millions of Masjids in the Islamic world and millions of Mullahs in them. In his sermons, the Mullah preaches to his audiences:
- Only you (Muslims) are the chosen ones of Allah.
- This Ummah is a forgiven community. Allah will not punish you ever.
- This world is carrion and its seekers are dogs.
- A believer can never get filthy.
- Reciting the Kalemah ensures Paradise for you.
- All knowedge other than Fiqh and Hadith is useless and detestable.
- Science is for the Kaafir.
- Two units Nafl Namaz at night is the greatest deed in the world.
- Whoever rules you is your bona fide ruler whether he is the British king or the German Fuhrer.
- Kharqah (A loose robe) is the best dress in the world.
- Du'a (praying to Allah for doing things for you) is the brain of all worship. Ask Allah to do this and that for you in any situation and He will do it for you because He is Able to do all things.
- Recite this du’a and get the reward of 100,000 Hajj and 100,000 martyrs.
- Recite that du’a and you get 100,000 palaces in Paradise.
- Without a ‘Murshad’ (spiritual guide), salvation is not possible.
- Allah has vested all authority to the dead saints, so visit their graves and get your du’as approved.
SECTION 24 SOME CONCEALED AHADITH ON JIHAD (Jihad = Strife with wealth and person. Jihad is commonly confused as fighting which is, in fact, the last resort against persecution and in self-defense.)
- Someone asked, “O Rasoolullah! Which people are the best people?” He said, “The believer who strives in the Cause of Allah with his wealth and person.” (Bukhari, vol 2, pg 90 Kitabul Jihad)
- “Spending a morning or evening in the Way of Allah is better than the world and all it has.” (Same)
There come times in the history of nations when they must defend themselves with their lives (Benign aggression), so:
- “Know that the Paradise is under the shades of the swords.” (Bukhari)
- Rasool (S) said, “By Allah! My greatest desire is that I get slain in the Cause of Allah, then given a new life, get slain again, live again, and get slain again.” (Kitabul Jihad)
- “The Fire will never touch the feet that become dusty in the Way of Allah.”
- "There is great blessing in the foreheads of the horses until the Day of Resurrection." (Bukhari, volume 2 pg 96) Horses here would indicate the armory of today.
- “Standing guard on the Islamic frontier for one day is the best deed in the world, and better than all that it has.” (Bukhari, vol 2 pg 100)
Dear readers, I have the conviction that if the Prophet (S) were alive today, he would have made artillery, armory, flying and sailing a part of our religion. Is not a ‘Muttaqi’ one who has strong defenses?
[But, power being the greatest deterrent against war, Allah has already made strong defense an essential part of Islam. See below]
8:60 Make ready for them all the power you can muster, and all the equipment you can mobilize so that you may deter the enemies of Allah, and your enemies. And others beside them whom you know not, Allah knows them. Whatever wealth and effort you spend on your defenses, will be your spending in the Cause of Allah, and it will be repaid to you generously. And you shall not be wronged.
Alas! The Muslim world today (1949 - & no different in 2010) is plagued with ignorance, poverty, laziness, corruption, illiteracy, sectarianism, disunity, mutual violence, empty rhetoric, unclean environments and the lack of will to improve their own condition.
TRAITORS: No nation in the world has ever produced as many traitors as Muslims do in a single century. There are 350 million Hindus today (in 1949) and you will fail to find among them a single traitor.
INACTION: With the Muslim’s imagination gone out of focus with his false beliefs, why should he work hard? The world for him is unclean corpse, the Paradise belongs to him alone, he has all proprietorship of God’s blessings, and the houris are waiting for him. Where is the deprivation? Nowhere except in this ‘Najis’ (unclean) world which he has conveniently ‘given’ away to the ‘Kuffar’ (unbelievers). Why, then, work hard to attain skills, knowledge and education?
Getting slain in the Cause of Allah will bring the reward of one martyr, but reciting dua’s and wazeefahs (chanting on rosaries) promise him the reward of 100,000 martyrs. Why depart from the beloved comfort zone?
The Mullah has been preaching false beliefs to us for a thousand years. As a result, superstition and ‘Al-Baatil’ (Falsehood) have penetrated the deepest ventricles of the Muslim brain. Every person among them has become a du’a monger and fallen deep into the cold valley of inaction. Help some Muslim practically and after a formal 'thank you' get ready to hear, "Please pray for me." What! Hasn't he helped you practically? There is no fire in him to rise to new heights by working hard and making progress.
The Muslim has become a cold-blooded animal perpetually in hibernation.
During the WWI, when the Allies were annihilating the Ottoman Caliphate (Khilafat Usmania), the 100 million Muslims of India were doing nothing but relentlessly praying in Masjids and homes, “Our Lord! Help us against the community of unbelievers,” firmly believing that their prayers would smother the enemy guns and bring victory to Muslims!
The Qur'an has been telling us that if we love wealth and quit action and strife, Allah will bring another nation in our stead.
47:38 Behold, you are those who are called upon to spend in the Cause of Allah. Yet, among you there are such who turn stingy. Anyone who is a miser is a miser against his own ‘Self’. And Allah is the Rich, and you are the poor. And if you turn away, He will replace you with another nation, and they will not be like you.
Here we are looking for even the Paradise in charity, by way of du’as and intercessions that will never work.
31:12 ---. And whoever chooses to be practically ungrateful, must know that Allah is Self-Sufficient, Owner of all Praise (He is in no need of your praises on rosary-beads and chanting).
Those Banu Ummayah (the Umayyads) that ruled the world from the deserts of Sindh (today's Pakistan) to France, those Banu Abbas (the Abbasids) whose thunderous power used to cause tremor in the world, and that Spanish dynasty of Muslims that had civilized the entire Europe - Where did they go?!
Those Saljuks the shine and strike of whose swords brought shock and awe to injustice in the world, those Taimuri (of Tamerlane) thunderbolts that shone from Delhi to Constantinople, and that Saladin! - Why don’t we see them today? - And 123 empires like these, Ah!
When their generations sank in luxury, quit hard work, ran away from sacrifice, their mighty dominions split asunder. Allah made them history and buried them in the graveyard of history forever. He did not care that these people claimed to believe in the Prophet (S) and recited the Kalemah with reverence, used to pray Namaz, fasted and went for Hajj.
6:6 Do they not see how many a generation We (Our Law) annihilated before them? We had established them on earth better than We have established you, and We showered on them abundant blessings from the sky, and caused the rivers to flow beneath them. But, when they trailed behind in humanity, We (Our Law) annihilated them and raised in their stead other generations.
RESURGENCE?
None will come up to hold our hands to lift us from this quagmire of total misery. The Muslim has forgotten the Eternal Divine Law:
13:11 -- Behold, Allah never changes the condition of a nation unless they (first) change their own selves --.
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