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A Call to Belief in Allâh and Returning to Him
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Allâh says in the Qur’ân:
“O you who believe! Answer Allâh and the Messenger when he
calls you to that which will give you life, and know that Allâh comes in
between a person and his heart. And
verily to Him you shall (all) be gathered.” (8:24)
Allâh
also says:
“And turn in repentance and in obedience with true Faith
to your Rabb (Cherisher and Sustainer) and submit to Him before the Torment
comes upon you, then you will not be helped. And follow the best of that which
is sent down to you from your Rabb (Cherisher and Sustainer) before the Torment
comes upon you suddenly while you perceive it not.
Lest a person should say: Alas, my grief that I was undutiful to Allâh
and I was indeed among those who mocked (at the truth).” (39:54-56)
Another
verse states:
“O you who
believe! Fear Allâh. And let every person look to what he has sent forth for
the morrow, and fear Allâh. Verily,
Allâh is All-Aware of what you do. And
be not like those who forgot Allâh and He caused them to forget their own
selves. Those are the disobedient.
Not equal are the dwellers of the Fire and the dwellers of Paradise. It
is the dwellers of Paradise who will be successful.”(59:18-20)
Know that Allâh did not create us without a purpose. He created us to
worship Him alone, for Whom there is no partner.
Allâh says:
“I created not jinn and mankind except to worship
Me.”(51:56)
Allâh
also says:
“And they were commanded not but that they worship Allâh,
and worship none but Him alone, and offer prayer perfectly, and give Zakaat.
And that is the right religion.”(98:5)
Know that when Allâh created us to worship Him, He did not leave us
without any guidance. Indeed, He
sent to us the best of the Messengers, our Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in the same way that He sent to every nation its Messenger. He revealed to him the
Qur’ân, the best of the books, in order for him to be a warner for all the
worlds. The Prophet (RA) conveyed
the message, fulfilled his trust, advised the community and strove in the way of
Allâh as is His right. There is no good but he guided the nation to it and
there is no evil except that he warned them about it. On the Day of
Resurrection, he will come as a witness to what he conveyed just as all of the
previous Prophets will come as witnesses against their people.
There will be no argument for anyone against Allâh after Allâh had sent
the Messengers.
Allâh says:
“How will it
be then, when We bring from each nation a witness and We bring you (O Muhammad)
as a witness against these people.” (4:41)
Now
is the time for you to know that whatever occurred to the people of Ignorance,
of enmity, fear, poverty, division and destruction, was because of their staying
away from revelation and their delving into lusts and desires to the point that
they worshipped idols and resorted to false gods as the deciders of their
affairs. Now is the time for you to
know that what the Companions of Allâh’s Messenger (SAW) and those who
followed them in good, obtained of affection, love, safety, riches, blessings,
power and leadership in this world and the Hereafter, was because of their
sticking to the Book of Allâh and the Sunnah of Allâh’s Messenger
(SAW).
Verily, now is the time for you to know
that what is afflicting the Muslims and their rulers today of division,
misunderstanding, weakness, being overpowered and ruled by enemies is all
because of their distancing themselves from and their heedlessness of the Book
of Allâh and the Sunnah of Allâh’s (SAW) —
except for those whom Allâh wills.
The number of Qur’ânic reciters are much more today than they were
during the time of the Companions (RA).
However, the difference between the two sets of reciters is that if one
of the Companions would learn ten verses of the Qur’ân, he would not go
beyond them until he learned their meanings and applied them.
Many of the Qur’ânic reciters today recite all of the Qur’ân, yet
they do not act in accordance with it. In fact, they are very far indeed from
what the Qur’ân is saying. The proof for that is that they do not take on the
character and manners preached by the Qur’ân and they do not implement its
commands. This is what leads them to their state
of evil and their being far away from the truth. And verily there is no might or
power except in Allâh the Most High, the Great.
If you understand that, then you must know that there is no savior for us
and no happiness in either this life or the Hereafter except by returning to the
Book of Allâh and the Sunnah of our Prophet (SAW). This
must be a sincere return to those sources, a return that springs from the heart.
The result of that return is our acting in accordance with the Qur’ân and Sunnah
in every aspect of our religious and worldly lives. This is the only path of
rescue, success and happiness in the two worlds. Allâh says:
“And verily
this is My straight path, so follow it, and follow not other paths, for they
will separate you away from His path.” (6:153)
Allâh
also says:
“Verily, this Qur’ân guides to that which is most just
and right and gives glad tidings to the believers who work deeds of
righteousness, that they shall have a great reward.”(17:9)
The
Prophet (SAW) also said:
“I
left among you two things that if you hold firmly to them you will never be
misguided: the Book of Allâh and the Sunnah of His Prophet.”
(Al-Hakim)
In
the Qur’ân, one also finds:
“Whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it; and
whatsoever he forbids you, abstain from it.”(59:7)
O mankind! This is the time for repentance, doing good deeds and fleeing
from what is forbidden. So repent
to Allâh before the fate of death reaches you.
It is only a few days, a few hours or a few minutes away before you
travel to the Hereafter. You will be left in the grave-pit alone. Your father,
child, spouse, best friend and wealth will not accompany you. You will be laid
to rest with your deeds alone. If those deeds were righteous, then you will have
felicity, delight and bliss. If they were evil, then for you will be punishment,
gloom and grief. Allâh has stated about the Hell-fire:
“There is not one of you but will
pass over it (Hell). This is with
your Rabb (Cherisher and Sustainer), a decree which must be accomplished. Then We shall save those who used to fear Allâh and were
dutiful to Him. And We shall leave the wrongdoers therein (humbled) to their
knees.” (19:71,72)
That passing over the Hell-fire by mankind is when they
pass over it on the Day of Resurrection, over the bridge that is suspended above
the side of the Hell-fire. That
bridge is finer than a hair, sharper than a sword and hotter than a coal.
People will pass over it according to their deeds.
The pious and God-fearing will cross the bridge and be rescued from
falling into the Fire. The evildoers will be captured by their crimes and shall
be flung into the Hell-Fire, being piled upon one another therein.
If the Fire is to be passed over, how can we, O slaves of Allâh, be
rescued from it except by fear of Allâh, obedience to Him and returning to Him.
Allâh has said:
“O mankind! Have fear of your Rabb (Cherisher and Sustainer) and fear a Day when no father can avail aught for his son, nor a son avail aught for his father. Verily, the Promise of Allâh is true. Let not then this (worldly) present life deceive you, nor let the chief deceiver (Satan) deceive you about Allâh.” (31:33)[1]
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[1] This ends the section excerpted from Shaikh Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Hamaad Al-Umar, Al-Irshaad ila Tareeqin-Najaah, pp. 6-9.
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