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The Quran, chapter 16/98: …When you read the Quran, you shall seek refuge in Allah from the Shaitaan the Rejected
Shirk is an offense not forgiven by Allah and those who indulge in shirk lose Allah’s protection against His punishments in this world and in the hereafter(4/48, 4/115). Shirk is generally understood as idol-worship and polytheism, which is a false understanding. This also results in a false understanding about monotheism/tawheed, because it is (also falsely) regarded as the anti-thesis of shirk. The false understanding that a monotheist/momin(believer in Tawheed/Allah’s oneness) cannot be a mushrik.
But according to the Quran, one CAN be a momin/monotheist and a mushrik at the same time. And that is what happens most of the time:
12/106: The majority of those who believe in Allah/God do not do so without being ‘mushrikoon’
Therefore, most of the monotheists/momineen/believers/(so-called)Muslims are in fact mushrik. Believers(monotheists) beware!
Shirk cannot be understood correctly without ‘ikhlaas’ as its antithesis. Shirk means neither idol-worship nor polytheism. It means ‘inclusiveness’ in ibadah/subservience of Allah. Inclusion of outside elements, elements that do not belong. Shirk is the condition of being inclusive/impure as opposed to ikhlaas, the condition of being exclusive(of outside elements)/pure. The word “ikhlaas” comes from the root Kha-Laam-Saad, which is used in the Quran to means exclusiveness.
This website is named after the 112th chapter of the Quran, rightly titled, Al-Ikhlaas:
112/1: Say: Allah is ahad/unique.
112/2: Allah is Absolute.
112/3: He does not beget, nor is He begotten.
112/4: And there is none even comparable to Him.
Belief in Tawheed(Allah’s oneness) is the starting point of a believer. Al-Ikhlaas is something additional to the belief in Tawheed and necessary to keep the believers/monotheists free from shirk. In fact, this chapter is not about Allah’s Tawheed/Wahidiayyat/Oneness, as it is claimed to be. Allah is One indeed, but this particular chapter is about Allah’s Aahadiyyat/Uniqueness. Being wahid/one is not same as being ahad/unique:
One(wahid) can be included/associated(i.e. one can be made a shareek) with another. Logically, the one will still remain one, and at the same time be included/associated with the other. Therefore tawheed and shirk cannot logically be the antithesis of each other.
On the other hand, the one who is unique(ahad) cannot be rightfully included/associated(i.e cannot be made a shareek) with anyone else, because He is unlike everyone and everything. The one who is as unique/ahad as Allah(112/2-4) cannot be categorized with anyone else. Because He is not just one, He is also alone in His roles, isolated from all others in His Attributes.
Due His uniqueness/ahadiyyat, no one can rightfully be included/made shareek in any of His roles, for example:
He is the rightful Rabbinnaas(114/1), as the One who is the rabb/developer of the skies and the earth and all that is between them, exclusively deserves to be entrusted with the development/rabubiyyat of the people as well.
He is the rightful Malikinnaas(114/2), because the One who has the Mulk/Power/Dominance/Ownership of the skies and the earth(25/2) deserves exclusively to be the Malik/Dominator/King of the people as well i.e. the Power/Mulk He grants(3/26) to people deserves to be executed exclusively in accordance with His will, His book.
He is the rightful Ilahinnaas(114/3), because The One who is the Ilah in the skies and the Ilah in the earth(43/84) exclusively deserves to be regarded as the Ilah/’ultimate authority’ in all human affairs as well.
It is this realization of Allah’s ahadiyat/uniqueness that can bring about ikhlaas/exclusiveness and eliminate shirk/inclusiveness from the believers’ lives, their ibadah/subservience, their deen/power-system. It is this realization that is absent in the Muslim world.
Tawheed(oneness/monotheism) and shirk(inclusiveness) can co-exist under one roof. Ikhlaas and shirk cannot. A person can be momin(monotheist/believer in one Allah) and mushrik(inclusive) at the same time. But he/she cannot be mukhlis(exclusive) and mushrik
(inclusive) at the same time. Ikhlaas(exclusiveness) and shirk(inclusiveness) are the antithesis of each other. The traditional “Muslim” belief about Tawheed and Shirk, therefore, is fundamentally flawed, fundamentally unislamic/unquranic.
Iit is the mukhlis/exclusive ibadah of allah, and not mere belief in Tawheed, that is the decisive factor in sparing Allah’s punishment in this world and the hereafter:
4/118: Allah has cursed him(Shaitaan); and he had said: “I will assuredly take a definite portion of your servants/ibaad”.
38/82: He(Shaitaan) said: “By Your majesty, I will assuredly mislead them all.”
38/83: “Except for those among Your ibaad/servants who are al-mukhliseen/Exclusive(to You).”
38/84: He(Allah) said: “Therefore the Truth is, and the Truth is all I speak,”
38/85: “that I will fill Hell with you and all those who follow you.”
The verse below calls ‘mukhlis/exclusive ibadah’(al-ikhlaas/Exclusiveness) the siraat-e-mustaqeem/straight path(leading towards Allah):
15/39: He(Shiataan) said: My Lord! Because Thou hast sent me astray, I verily shall adorn the path of error for them in the earth, and shall mislead them collectively
15/40: Except for those among Your ibaad/servants who are mukhliseen/exclusive(to You).
15/41: He(Allah) said: This(mukhlis/exclusive ibadah) is the siraate mustaqeem/straight path incumbent upon Me.
In the same manner, the Quran also calls itself the siraat-e-mustaqeem(6/126).This equates mukhlis/exclusive ibadah of Allah(al-ikhlaas) with walking the path of the Quran exclusively during the course of one’s life. That is the only purpose that we are given life for:
51/56: And I have not created the jinns and humans except that they may give ibadah/service to Me
But ibadah is not what it is generally understood as. Ibadah is much more than worship. Ibadah is one’s subservience to Allah’s will in all matters dealt with in His book. Allah’s ibadah/subservience/service cannot result without the implementation of His Hukm(Rule/Government/Verdict) in accordance with His Book.
This can happen only under Khilaafah(Representation of Allah’s Power and His Will) on a land where the Hukm/Rule/Government is dominated by those who have emaan/conviction in the sole authority of Allah and work for the islah/rehabilitation/reparation of the soceity. These khalaaif(representatives) will represent Allah’s will by ruling/governing in accordance with His Book. Only then can the believers make their subservience/ibadah exclusive/mukhlis for Allah. Only then will Al-islam be re-established. Those who think that al-islam is still in place and in practice should reconsider:
24/55: Allah promises those among you who believe and do works of islah/reparation, that He will make them representatives on earth, like He made representatives from those before them, and He will put in place for them their ‘deen/power-system/life-transaction’(which is to give ibadah/service to Allah, 10/104) which He has approved for them(i.e. al-islam, 5/6), and He will substitute security for them after fear. They shall give ibadah/service to Me, not including/making shareek with Me anything(i.e. ibadah will be exclusive/khaalis to Allah). And those who reject after that, they are the ones who are the wicked.
When Al-islam takes place, peace/harmony is attained and fear is replaced with security. The present state of the world(including the Muslim world) is hardly secure and peaceful. Nor is Al-islam promised to everyone who labels himself/herself a Muslim, but only to those who believe AND do works of islah/reparation. This promise does not suit the present-day Muslims, who are mostly those who believe AND commit shirk/inclusiveness in ibadah of Allah by upholding the hukm/rule/government/ of others beside Allah. According to Allah’s promise, under such conditions, Al-islam just cannot exist. So what “Islam”, then, have the Mullahs been preaching?
Whatever remains of al-Islam(or whatever it is that remains as Islam) today, remains as a ritualistic, superstitious religion, most of its beliefs and practices having nothing to do with the Quran. Al-Islam in Allah’s book is not a religion/faith. Al-Islam is the Deen/Power-system of Allah for those who have faith in Him, the believers, where Allah’s Hukm/Rule dominates all aspects of their lives. Al-islam is a moral and political code of life that the believers are indebted to living, in exchange for all the provisions of life given by Allah.
Man did not make any pledge before coming to this world to be subservient to man-made laws. He came into existence as a servant of Allah. Man is not obliged to and should not be made to follow any man-made rules/laws in matters already dealt with in the book of Allah. He is obliged only to give his ibadah/service to Allah by living in accordance with the rule/Hukm of His Book, and not to give it to Shaitaan:
36/60: “Did I not pledge to you, O Children of Adam, that you should not serve(give ibadah to) the Shaitaan? For certain he is your open enemy”
36/61: “And that you should serve(give ibadah to) Me? This is the straight path.”
But instead, it is Satan’s ibadah/servitude that is taking place all over the world, not in a ritualistic manner, but wherever people are made subservient/obedient to man-made laws instead of the divine laws. Any law contradictory to Allah’s laws is satanic/evil, as there are only two sides in the world. The hizbullah/side of allah(5/56), and the hizbush shaitaan/side of Shaitaan(58/19). You are either with Allah, or you are against Him and against your own selves by siding with your own open enemy(the Shaitaan, 36/60). There is no middle path. If one is not serving Allah exclusively, then it is the Shaitaan that he is including/making shareek in his ibadah besides Allah.
In all aspects of people’s lives that are not governed in accordance with Allah’s book, and Allah’s book alone, the Shaitaan takes over and his ibadah fills the void wherever Allah’s ibadah is absent. The world today is shaitaan’s domain, run by his puppet regimes, both secular and religious[equally as “Godless” as the seculars]. Any regime that does not govern in accordance with Allah’s book is Satanic. The clergy and the religious regimes intensifying Book’s misuse in the private realm of religious rituals and superstitious practices and hiding the book’s message under piles of falsehood, while the secular regimes excluding the Book’s laws and verdicts from the social realm in the name of democracy. These are all puppets of Shaitaan(’shaitaan’ literally meaning ‘alienated’/'alienating’ personality), and serve the same goal of alienating people to their Creator.
The superstitious uses of Allah’s book that are prevalent in the Muslim world is not how the book is supposed to be used. The Book of Allah was revealed so that people may establish Justice by ruling in accordance with it.
57/25: We have sent our messengers with Clarifications. And We revealed with them the Book(of Allah) and the Standard, so that people may establish Justice…
But, in the presence of over a billion Muslims, the so-called followers of the Quran, there is widespread injustice and chaos in the world. Muslims, who are supposed to be establishers of Allah’s Justice and maintainers of the Divine standards for humanity(55/7-9), in a condition of poverty/dependence that was promised by Shaitaan(2/268), have become victims of zulm/injustice/mistreatment themselves.
Justice(al-qist) can only prevail under Al-islam, the deenillah/power-system of Allah i.e. where power belongs to the khalaaif, those who represent Him by ruling/treating people in accordance with His book. Any treatment of people, and of one’s self, that is in contradiction with the Quran is zaalim/unjust/oppressive. There can be no Justice without impartial treatment of people. No Impartiality(al-adal) without hukum/ruling/governing in accordance with the book of Allah. Any government(“hukumat”) and judiciary(so-called “adal-iya”) not in accordance with the book of Allah cannot be impartial/equitible. All men(and women) are equal. No man can be subjected to man-made laws. The rule of man over man is unjust, oppressive and illegal. No present day regime is just and legal, none of them quranic/islamic, all of them Satanic.
All human beings should be subject only to Allah’s law. He created humanity from the point of nothingness(19/67). All people are equal by default before Him. Only He can judge/rule them most impartially/equitably. He is the ‘Khairul Hakimeen’/Best of the Rulers(7/87, 10/109, 12/80). He is the ‘Ahkamul Hakimeen’/the Most Decisive of Rulers(95/8). The ahkaam(rules/laws/judgments/verdicts) of His book are most impartial, most just.
The Quran is Allah’s book for moral and political guidance of the believers in all realms of life. The entire book is obligatory(28/85) upon them, not just the “five pillars”. Allah’s guidance cannot be restricted to the “religious” realms. He is the Rabbil alameen/Developer of all realms of existence(1/1), and Quran is the Developer’s manual/guidebook(20/50) for the humans to make the best use of their lives and resources. It is a complete detailing of His laws that govern people’s life(10/38, 6/114), perfect in truth and impartiality(6/115). It is the Furqan/Discriminator/Criterion(2/185) of true/false, just/unjust, moral/immoral.
Allah is for all time, and so are His words. The Quran is alive, never outdated, never irrelevant. Without the message of the Quran, it is the Muslims who have become outdated and irrelevant in the world. The Quran is no ordinary book, it is as unique as its Author, a book apart from all others. It is fully detailed(7/52, 12/111, 17/12) as Allah does not run out of words. It is self-clarifying(4/26), as Allah’s word does not depend upon the additional words of man for clarification. The believers should not be in slightest doubt of this. They should uphold the authority of the Quran above all other authorities. No book in the world or even any traces of knowledge can take priority before the Quran(46/4).
But sadly, though they keep the Quran so close to themselves, YET they are SO far away from its message, SO ALIENATED to it that the Quran is the most “read”(parroted) YET least understood book for them. For a book kept so “close” and in such high “regard”, the general Muslims’ ignorance and alienation to its message is almost unimaginable. SUCH alienation can only be caused by THE Alienator, the Shaitaan and his human puppets.
Muslims have traded divine guidance in favour of manifest confusion. The most authentic sayings of the Messenger(peace be upon him) are recorded in the Quran by Allah Himself. This is one of them:
25/30: And the Messenger will say “My Rabb, my own nation has treated this Quran as a thing to be abandoned.”
Shame on the so-called Muslims for they will cause embarrassment and disappointment, in front of Allah, to the messenger who was sent as a ‘rehmatul lil aalameen’/mercy for all realms of existence. We cannot prevent that from happening. We can, however, try not to be among those who will make this happen. We can try to be those who are loyal(mukhlis/exclusive) to the messenger of Allah and hold tight to what he brought us, the rope of Allah(3/103), the Quran exclusively…
Al-islam today is a dream with hardly any action for fulfilling it, a hallucination in the Muslim mind. This website(www.thequran.wordpress.com) is an effort towards fulfilling the dream that is Al-islam. Help this effort in any way that you can.
4/95: Those of the believers who sit still, other than those who are hurt/disabled, are not equal with those who strive in the cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Allah has conferred on those who strive with their wealth and lives a rank above the sedentary. Unto each Allah has promised good, but He has bestowed on those who strive a great reward above the sedentary;
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Fahad Ali Khan
11/88: …I only intend al-islah/Reparation/Rehabilitation to the best of my ability; and my success is with Allah. In Him I trust, and unto Him I look.
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What is Secularism? Quoting from the book World Arrogance. (1992), by A. Zidan.
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pp.93-94…
‘Secularism’ implies that the Divine Guidance, worship of God, and obedience to Him, should be confined to the personal life of each individual and except for the small sphere of a person’s private life, all other affairs of this world should be settled purely from the worldly viewpoint, according to our own wishes and expediency. In such matters it is out of the question to think of what GOD may have commanded, what His Guidance consists of and what the Divine Books may lay down. This attitude owes its origin to the reaction that set in among the Western peoples as a result of their hatred of the man-made theology of Christian missionaries, a theology which had become a curse for them and which forged their shackles. Gradually, however, this attitude developed into an independent theory of life and then became the foundation of ‘modern civilisation’.
One often hears the utterance, ‘religion is a private affair between GOD and man’. This brief sentence is in fact the creed of ‘modern civilisation’. It implies that if a man’s conscience bears witness to the fact that there is a GOD Who should be worshipped, he is welcome to do so in his individual and personal life. But GOD should have nothing to do with this world and its collective affairs. The system of life built upon the foundation of this creed seeks to disassociate from the influence of GOD and Religion all the relations between man and man and between man and this world. Culture, education, economics, law, parliament, politics and administration of public affairs and international relations are all to be divested of this influence. Whatever is done in all these numerous aspects of life should be regulated by one’s own whims and knowledge. It would be irrelevant, indeed wrong in principle, and even a sign of the utmost ignorance to say that GOD has prescribed certain principles and laid down some commandments for us for the regulation of such matters.
pp.97-100…
The theory that GOD and Religion are concerned only with the individual life of man is completely meaningless, having nothing to do with reason and argument. It is perfectly obvious that the relations of man and GOD cannot lie beyond either of two alternatives. Either GOD is The Creator of man and the world in which he lives as well as being its Master and Sovereign, or He is not. If He is neither The Creator nor The Master, nor again The Sovereign, then it is entirely unnecessary to have any relations with Him. It is utterly absurd to worship [that is, serve] a being entirely unconcerned and having nothing to do with us. But if He is in reality our Creator, Master, and Sovereign and so also of this universe, then it is equally meaningless that His jurisdiction should be limited to the private life of an individual and from the very point from which the contact of one person with another commences, His jurisdiction should cease and come to an end.
Social Justice: The first pillar of Islam
Published August 20, 2007 Fahad , Islam , Muslims 8 Comments(Al-qist/the Justice)
“Do not read to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take it for granted, but to weigh and consider”
The Quran, chapter 16/98: …When you read the Quran, you shall seek refuge in God from the Satan the Rejected
Shahaada
3/18: God bears witness/shahaada surely that ‘‘la ilaha illa hua’/there is no god except Him, and so do the angels and those with the knowledge, established in Justice/al-qist. There is no god except He, The Mighty, The Wise.
شَهِدَ اللّهُ أَنَّهُ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ وَالْمَلاَئِكَةُ وَأُوْلُواْ الْعِلْمِ قَآئِماً بِالْقِسْطِ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ
As it can be read in the above verse, establishing Justice/’al-qist’ is a requirement for the very basic tenet of the Quran and Islam, the “Shahaada”, i.e. bearing witness to the unity of God/Allah, that ‘la ilaha illa allah’/'there is no god except God’. Establishing Justice is also the least important tenet for many Muslims. They will take to the streets protesting, burn effigies and embassies, and boycott foreign goods all for some stupid cartoons. Not that all Muslims are like that, only a minority. But poverty, child labor, honor killings, unjust death fatwas, and the so-called “terrorism”(fasaad) etc. i.e real problems causing injustice are not worth making an effort for most of them, the so-called followers of the Quran.
The Muslims consider themselves so close to the Quran, yet they are so far away from it that even the “first pillar of Islam” has become mere lip-service, as one cannot be witness to the unity of God unless he/she takes a firm stand with Justice.
4/135: O you who believe! Be established in Justice, as witnesses/shuhada for God, even if it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your relatives, whether they be rich or poor: for God is the protector of both. Therefore follow not the desires (of your hearts), lest you swerve from being impartial, and if you deviate or turn away, surely God is well-acquainted with whatever you do.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ شُهَدَاء لِلّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَى أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالأَقْرَبِينَ إِن يَكُنْ غَنِيًّا أَوْ فَقَيرًا فَاللّهُ أَوْلَى بِهِمَا فَلاَ تَتَّبِعُواْ الْهَوَى أَن تَعْدِلُواْ وَإِن تَلْوُواْ أَوْ تُعْرِضُواْ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرًا
When a Muslim stands firmly with Justice, only then can he be witnesses/shuhada of God’s oneness. Its importance can be realized by the fact that the Quran requires him to let nothing prevent himself from being impartial in discharging Justice, not even his parents or closest relatives, let alone his religion or nationality etc. For believers in the Quran, the top priority is supposed to be establishment of Justice and impartial treatment of all people.
5/8: O you who believe! Be established, for God, as witnesses/shuhada with Justice, and let not the hatred of any nation prevent you from being impartial(with them)…
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّامِينَ لِلّهِ شُهَدَاء بِالْقِسْطِ وَلاَ يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَى أَلاَّ تَعْدِلُوا
Again, the believers are commanded to stand firmly as ’shuhada lillah bil qist’/'witnesses for God, with Justice’ and even if they have a reason to hate some nation, they should not let the hatred prevent them from being just and impartial with them. No chanting death to entire nations for the injustices committed by their elites. The verse continues…
5/8: …Be impartial; that is closest to at-taqwa: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.
ْ اعْدِلُواْ هُوَ أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَى وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِنَّ اللّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
The closest that a person can get to attaining Taqwa is to attain Impartiality/’al-adl’ in one’s discharge of Justice/’al-qist’. And attaining Taqwa is the only basis for increasing one’s value in the sight of God:
49/13: O people! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may be able to identify(each other). Surely the most honored/’akram’ of you in the sight of God is the one with most Taqwa. Surely God is knowledgeable, well acquainted.
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
The above verse addresses all humanity, without any classification by color, region or even religion. Therefore Quranically, no white person has any basis to feel more valuable/noble than a black, no Pakistani more than an Indian, no Muslim more than a non-Muslim, and vice versa. No basis, other than his/her Taqwa, i.e. the awareness and discharge of Justice and Impartiality.
Keeping in mind that Taqwa best manifests itself in the form of social justice and impartiality….
Masaajid
9/107: And there are those who take a masjid to harm by causing Kufr/Rejection(of God’s message) and to divide the Believers – and as an outpost for those who have been waging war against God and His messenger from before. They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; while God bears witness that they are liars indeed.
9/108: You shall NEVER (even) stand therein. The masjid whose foundation was laid from the first day on Taqwa, is more deserving that you stand therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and God loves those who make themselves pure.
وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُواْ مَسْجِدًا ضِرَارًا وَكُفْرًا وَتَفْرِيقًا بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَإِرْصَادًا لِّمَنْ حَارَبَ اللّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَيَحْلِفَنَّ إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلاَّ الْحُسْنَى وَاللّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُون
َلاَ تَقُمْ فِيهِ أَبَدًا لَّمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ أَحَقُّ أَن تَقُومَ فِيهِ فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُواْ وَاللّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُطَّهِّرِينَ
According to the above verses, the masaajid whose foundations are laid on Taqwa are more worthy for the believers to stand in it. The masaajid which do not take a firm stand for the establishment of social justice and impartial treatment of all people, are a way of causing ‘Kufr’/Rejection(since such masaajid do not judge by the book of God), and division among believers. Such masaajid become an outpost for those who cause ‘Fasaad’/mischief(the so called “terrorism”) by waging war against God and His messenger’s impartial system of Justice, something the Quran does not take lightly(5/33).
The Quran commands that such masaajid should be abandoned by the believers who want to become ’shuhada bil qist’ for God and should instead take a stand in masaajid where the priority from day-one is to promote awareness and establishment of Justice.
Salaat(“Namaaz”)
The concept of Salaat(or “namaaz”) has been reduced to a daily ritual(weekly for many). Just stand up, sit down, head down a couple of times and you are made to think that you have fulfilled your most important “farz/obligation” as a Muslim. Due to the false division between ‘Huqooq ullah’(the rights of God) and ‘Huqooq ul ibaad’(the rights of people), you are made to think that you have at least fulfilled your duty towards God by performing some rituals. But the fact is that ‘Huqooq ullah’ and ‘Huqooq ul ibaad’ are the same thing, because even Salaat should result in Taqwa(social justice and impartial treatment), if the purpose of Salaat is heeded:
20/132: And enjoin your people with Salaat and be patient about it. We do not ask you(for) provision, We provide(for) you. And the end-result is to(attain) Taqwa.
وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاصْطَبِرْ عَلَيْهَا لَا نَسْأَلُكَ رِزْقًا نَّحْنُ نَرْزُقُكَ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلتَّقْوَى
But in the presence of over a billion “practicing/praying” Muslims, the so-called “followers” of the Quran, about 30,000 children die every day of easily preventable causes due to non-availability of basic needs. The Quran mocks such ‘musalleen’(those who establish Salaat), calls them those who belie ‘ad-deen’/'al-islam’:
107/1: Have you seen the one who belies ad-deen(al-islam)?
107/2: that is he who repels the orphans
107/3: and does not urge the feeding of the needy.
107/4: Therefore, woe unto ‘al-musalleen’/who are in Salaat,
107/5: those who are heedless of (the purpose of)their Salaat
107/6: Who would be seen(at salaat)
107/7: but refuse even small necessities (to the needy)
أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّينِ
فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي يَدُعُّ الْيَتِيمَ
وَلَا يَحُضُّ عَلَى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ
فَوَيْلٌ لِّلْمُصَلِّينَ
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَن صَلَاتِهِمْ سَاهُونَ
الَّذِينَ هُمْ يُرَاؤُونَ
وَيَمْنَعُونَ الْمَاعُونَ
For such Muslims, their shahaada, their salaat, their masaajid, don’t fulfill the purpose.
Solution: Judgment by the Book of God
God commands that whenever believers judge between people, they should judge with Impartiality…
4/58: …And when you judge between people, judge with Impartiality…
وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُم بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُواْ بِالْعَدْلِ
…and the way to judge among people with Impartiality is to judge with the book of God:
4/105: Surely We have sent down to you the Book(of God) in truth, that you may judge between people, …
إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ لِتَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ
2/213: People used to be one single nation, and God appointed the Prophets as bringers of glad-tidings and warnings; and with them He sent down the Book(of God) in truth, so that they may judge between people wherein they differed in it;…
كَانَ النَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً فَبَعَثَ اللّهُ النَّبِيِّينَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ وَأَنزَلَ مَعَهُمُ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ فِيمَا اخْتَلَفُواْ فِيهِ
But try inviting them towards God and His messenger to judge by the Book of God and see how many turn away averse, not content with the Impartial judgment of God’s book:
3/23: Have you not seen those who have been given a portion of the Book(of God)? They are invited to the Book of God, to judge between them, then a group of them turn back in aversion.
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ أُوْتُواْ نَصِيبًا مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللّهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّى فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ
24/48: And when they are invited towards God and His messenger to judge between them, a group of them turn back in aversion,
وَإِذَا دُعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ
Muslims’ responsibility towards Humanity and their abandonment of the Quran
The ignorance of these important Quranic commandments displays the Muslims’ abandonment of the Quran:
25/30: And the Messenger will say “My Lord, my nation has treated this Quran as a thing to be abandoned.”
وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًا
Are problems like the mufsideen(“terrorists”) killing innocents in the name of God and His messenger, honour killings, child labour etc not worth protesting for? Are 10 million children(under 5 years old) dying every year due to poverty not worth getting emoted for? According to the Quran, saving a single life is equal to saving all humanity. But they would rather protest against cartoonists, Rushdies and popes while humanity is killed thousands of times everyday:
5/32: …and whoever saved a single person, it would be as if he saved the whole humanity…
وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا
The true followers of the Quran are supposed to be maintainers of the Balance in the distribution of Justice:
55/7: And the sky has He raised high, and He has set up the Balance,
55/8: that you may not transgress in the Balance.
55/9: And establish the Weight in Justice and fall not short in the Balance.
وَالسَّمَاء رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ الْمِيزَانَ
أَلَّا تَطْغَوْا فِي الْمِيزَانِ
وَأَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِيزَانَ
Establishing a balanced system of social justice and impartial treatment by judging/ruling in accordance with the book of God, is a responsibility of the Muslims because they consider themselves to be believers and followers of the Quran. God revealed His book so that people may establish Justice. Is that how the the book of God is being used by its self-proclaimed custodians and labeled followers?! Or is it being used to establish only their superstitious beliefs and practices?!
57/25: We have sent our messengers with Clarifications. And We revealed with them the Book(of God) and the Balance, so that people may establish Justice…
لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَأَنزَلْنَا مَعَهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْمِيزَانَ لِيَقُومَ النَّاسُ بِالْقِسْطِ
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Fahad
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So when you read the Quran, you shall seek refuge with God from Satan the rejected. (The Quran 16/98)
THE DESERVING STRUGGLE
The Quran 22/78: And struggle in the way of God a deserving struggle…
The Quran commands to struggle in God’s way a deserving struggle/’jihad’ (22:78). How does the struggle/’jihad’ in God’s way deserve to be? This article will explain how that ‘jihaad’/struggle deserves to be according to the Quran, and in doing so also clarify the misconception that the word refers to some “holy war” to convert the entire world forcefully.
According to the Quran, a deserving ‘jihaad’ is the struggle with one’s self and wealth, and with the message of the Quran, in order to become a ‘muslim’/submitter to God. Lets see how…
THE STRUGGLE TO BECOME A MUSLIM/SUBMITTER TO GOD
If one wants to become something in life, for example a doctor, he will have to struggle/strive to become it. He can’t be a doctor by birth, nor can he become it by just saying some magic words. Same is the case with becoming a ‘muslim’/submitter to God. But mostly it is believed that to be a ‘muslim’/submitter, you just have to be born in a Muslim family, or just proclaim the Shahada(3/18).
But according to the Quran, one can neither be a ‘muslim’ by birth nor can he be transformed into one just by saying the ‘magic words’, but he/she has to struggle/strive to become one. That struggle is called “jihaad” in the Quran.
Take the example of Ibrahim and Ismaeel. They were neither ‘muslim’/submitters by birth, nor could they transform into ‘muslim’/submitters by proclaiming the Shahada, but had to call on to God to make both of them ‘muslim’/submitters to Him.
2/128: “Our Lord, and make both of us muslim/submitters to You, and from our progeny a nation submitting to You …
If the prophets cannot become muslimeen/submitters so easily, how can today’s “Muslims”? Are they better than the prophets?
22/78: And struggle in the way of God a deserving struggle. He is the One who has chosen you, and made no hardship for you in ad-deen/the system(of God), the creed of your ancestor Abraham; He is the One who named you al-muslimeen/’the submitters(to God)’, from before as well as in this(Quran)…
This jihad/struggle is linked with there being no hardship in God’s system, the religion of Ibrahim(not muslim by birth), and being al-muslimeen/those who submit to God’s system. Therefore the deserving jihad/struggle is the struggle to become submissive/’muslim’ to the system of God. Becoming a ‘muslim’ requires a struggle without which a person should forget about entering the ‘Paradise’:
3/142: Or did you think that you would enter Paradise without God knowing those who would stuggle/jahidoo amongst you and knowing those who are patient?
THE STRUGGLE WITH ONE’S SELF AND ONE’S WEALTH
In order to stay in a state of submission to God, a believer has to struggle with his self and his wealth.
49/15: The Believers are those who believe in God and His messenger, then they did not doubt, and they strive with their wealth and their selves in the way of God. These are the truthful ones.
Why struggle with the self? Because the self is the advocate of sin (12/53)…
12/53: And I do not make myself free of blame, for the self is the advocate of sin, except what my Lord has mercy on. My Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.”
Therefore, struggle with the self means to not giving in to sins.
And why struggle with the wealth? Because…
89/20: …you love wealth with inordinate love!
Therefore, struggle with one’s wealth means to not hoard(70/18) without recognizing in it the right of the needy(70/24).
THE STRUGGLE WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE QURAN
25/52: So do not obey the rejectors, and strive against them with it(the Quran) a great striving.
Striving with the message of the Quran against the rejectors is called the great jihad/struggle/striving. This includes propagating the message of the Quran, clarifying the misconceptions, exposing lies and disproving the allegations made against it.
THE JIHAAD/STRUGGLE IS FOR ONE’S OWN PROSPERITY
29/6: And whosoever struggles then he is only struggling for himself; for God is in no need of the worlds.
5/35: O you who believe, be aware of God and seek a way to Him, and struggle in His way; that you may prosper.
Therefore ‘jihaad’ in the way of God is for people’s own selves, so that they can prosper, and it has nothing to do with forcing the entire world to convert to the Muslim beliefs.
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Fahad
Peace everyone.
Welcome to Person al-quran. This blog is very honoured to host the 9th edition of Carnival of Islam in the West, a monthly blog carnival including articles mainly(not exclusively) by Muslims.
History
The Carnival was created by Hakim Abdullah, who blogs at www.wasalaam.wordpress.com. The resource page of the blog carnival can be found on his blog here. The previous eight editions of the Carnival were hosted at:
Eighth Edition: Apr 13, 2007 Truth & Beauty
Seventh Edition: Mar 10, 2007 Abdur Rahman’s Corner
Sixth Edition: Feb 19, 2007 Hakim Abdullah
Fifth Edition: Jan 12, 2007 Hakim Abdullah
Fourth Edition: Dec 09, 2006 Islam And The West
Third Edition: Nov 10, 2006 Travellers on the Path of Knowledge
Second Edition: Oct 14, 2006 Unwilling Self-Negation
First Edition: Sep 08, 2006 under|progress
Purpose
Islam is to the Muslims a key element in their identity. It represents belief, ethics, society and culture and occupies a large aspect of their being in the world.
The Carnival of Islam in the West has been a good opportunity to witness the diversity of this Muslim identity, by seeing how the human elements within the Muslim community contributes to the various colours of Islam present in the world. With Muslims now living in the West and forming significant minorities, we will be able to see an interaction of culture, like two colours forming yet another hue to beautify the world with.
I hope you will enjoy the present and future editions of the Carnival and take with you feelings of joy at seeing a world culture among world cultures.
In this edition we have received submissions in the category of “Religion and Philosophy”, “The State of the Ummah” and “News and Politics”. So without taking any more of your time, I present the articles included in the 9th Edition of the Carnival of Islam in the West…
Religion and Philosophy
Irving Karchmar presents Waiting for God posted at Darvish, about finding God during the simple deeds of everyday life.
Farouk A. Peru presents Islam – From Existence to Essence posted at Jidal Society Home Page, about Islam as a phenomena of change to become a human being.
Hakim Abdullah presents What is the Punishment of God? posted at Hakim Abdullah. Hakim contemplates the similarities between the recent disasters in the U.S. with God’s punishments incurred by the past generations due to their misdeeds.
Muhammad Asadi presents The “Islamic” Threat: Real or Imagined? posted at ASADI.ORG Web Journal. Can the ‘Islamic Threat’ stand in the face of rational questioning? In this article Muhammad Asadi reproduces the arguments of both sides in debate format, after several hours of argumentation.
Abdur Rahman presents Intention & Meeting People of Other Faiths posted at Abdur Rahman’s Corner, about communication with people of other beliefs and ideologies should be in a certain way, read on.
Farouk A. Peru presents Fundamentalist Islam – A Fundamental Contradiction posted at Jidal Society Home Page, about what is known as Islamic fundamentalism which advocates terrorist acts contradicts Islam at a primordial level.
Atiya presents Our Prophet posted at irshaad.net, about manifesting the character of the Prophet within ourselves.
Abdur Rahman presents Own Your Own Responses posted at Abdur Rahman’s Corner. Some wise words of advice about how our souls should be.
Muhammad Asadi presents Mullah’s War against Islam posted at ASADI.ORG Web Journal, about how the Islamic Clergy represents a retrogressive force in Islam against the evolutionizing force of the Quran.
Shazad Mirza presents I am shocked by muslims in the media posted at Islamic facts, islamic info, islam general, about Muslim image in the West and media sensationalism.
The State of The Ummah
Farouk A. Peru presents Islam – Where we Begin and End posted at Jidal Society Home Page, about what are ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ and what should they be in the world.
Yahya Birt presents The Islamist: A Review posted at Yahya Birt. A review of an important personal account of time spent with UK Islamist groups in the 1990s including Hizb ut-Tahrir, published in May 2007.
Farouk A. Peru presents Islam – Freedom of Belief and Practice posted at Jidal Society Home Page. Islam gives a freedom to believe which has been denied by cultural practice.
Farouk A. Peru presents What Muslims should protest against … but don’t posted at Jidal Society Home Page. The wrong things in the world emote the Muslims. Find out what should move them.
News and Politics
Muhammad Asadi presents Worthy & Unworthy Victims: The Virginia Tech Massacre & Iraq posted at ASADI.ORG Web Journal. “Media coverage of the massacre at Virginia Tech, by the U.S. mainstream media (CNN, FOX etc.), that is being broadcast throughout the globe these days, brings to our attention the use of the construct of “worthy” and “unworthy” victims by this media.”
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That’s all for this edition. Thanks to everyone who participated. Special thanks to Farouk for helping me write this post.
Future hosts can be found on the carnival index page. The next edition of the Carnival will be hosted by Writeous Sister Speaks Jun 08, 2007. You can submit your blog articles by using the carnival submission form.
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Peace.
Fahad
There are those who reject the unusual/extra-ordinary events mentioned in Al-Quran and often base their rejection upon the verses which mention the ’sunnatullah’(practice of God). According to them all acts of Allah are His sunnat/practice and according them these verses say there is no change in any of His acts.
For example, one of the reasons they reject the virgin birth of Jesus because they say that sunnatullah is that a father is necessary for child’s birth. The fact is that they do not not quote the parts which spells out the sunnatullah. They deliberately leave out those parts or verses . These are what they usually quote:
17:77 Sunnat/practice of those we already sent before from our messengers. And you will not find any bypass for Our practice.
but they leave out 17/76 which spells out sunnat of Allah: “And they nearly frightened you to off the land to expel you from it. And then they would not have stayed after you except a little.”
They quote verse …
33:62 God’s practice with those who have passed away from before, and you will never find any replacement for God’s practice.
but they leave out 33/60-61 which spells out the sunnat of Allah:
33/60-61: “If the hypocrites, and those with disease in their hearts and those who spread lies in the city do not refrain, then We will let you overpower them, then they will not be able to remain as your neighbours except for a short while. They are cursed wherever they are found. They shall be taken and killed in a slaughter.”
They quote…
35:43 …You will not find any change in God’s practice. And you will not find any bypass for God’s practice.
but leave out the first part of the verse which spells out the sunnat of Allah:
35/43: “Arrogance in the land, and evil scheming. And the evil schemes only backfire on those who scheme them. Were they looking for anything different from the method used on the people of the past?”….
They quote:
48/23: God’s practice with those who have passed away from before, and you will not find any replacement for God’s practice.
But leave out the part that explains the sunnat…
48/22: And if those who do kufr had fought you, they would have turned the backs to you, then they would have found neither an ally nor a helper.
That is what Allah calls His sunnat, the parts which they leave out. Who do they think they are trying to deceive?! They ignore what Allah calls His sunnat, and come up with their own definitions of Allah’s sunnat in order to rationalize Al-Quran.
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Fahad
Dividing Al-Quran into ‘Paras’/smaller volumes
Published January 26, 2007 Quran , Traditionalism 2 CommentsQuoting an article by Dr. Kamal Omar from
http://web.archive.org/web/20041015181033/www.thedivinebook.org/dividing.asp
Dividing The Scripture into smaller volumes
Allah has divided His Book in 114 Surahs and not ‘Paras’. You can group a few Surahs together and bind the Book in as many volumes as you wish, but the basis of division must be only in accordance with the Surahs. No other division into volumes is allowed under any terminology like Al-juzv (1/30th part) and Al-hizb (1/60th part) etc., since this amounts to blasphemy. To give an example the 13th Para closes after the first Ayat of the 15th Surah; and the 14th part, thus, starts at the 2nd Ayat of the 15th Surah. And still more blasphemous it is that the Opening Surah of Al-Kitab is kept outside the so-called 30 parts. It is clarified within the Text of the Scripture that Saban-min-Al-Masani (15/87) generally termed Surah Al-Fatiha (i.e., the Opening Surah) is the Ist Surah in the Divine arrangement of the Divine Text. The Text of the Book throws an open challenge to one similar Surah, in the 2nd Surah (2/23) and to produce ten Surahs in the eleventh Surah (11/13).
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A chat with Bassam Zawadi
Published January 16, 2007 Discussions , Fahad , Islam , Traditionalism 11 CommentsThis msn chat was part of the debate with Bassam Zawadi:
The chat has been removed upon Bassam’s request because according to him, I did not have his permission to publish it. According to me, I had.
Update later.
By the way, there is a small debate in the comments section as well.
