“… when guidance comes to you from Me, whoever follows it, there will be no fear for them, nor will they grieve.” (Al-Baqarah, 2: 39)
“Fight them until persecution is no more, and
religion is all for Allah. But if they cease, then Allah sees all that they do,
but if they pay no heed, be sure that Allah is your Protector; the best
Protector and the best Helper!” (Al-Anfal, 8: 40-41)
The times we are living are difficult times for Islam. While those who sow hatred against Islam are doing their best to destroy the true path that leads to Allah The Almighty, on the other hand, Allah is inspiring other hearts to accept Islam. Through the satanic plans of the hate-mongers who sow hatred against Islam – whereby they have devised strategies to picture the religion of Islam as a terrorist religion, but Allah is devising another vaster plan, for the great victory of Islam.
This strategy, twenty-two years in the making,
is about buying Islam and selling it at a low price and seeking to lower its
value and dignity and calling it a terrorist religion.
The more they shout that Islam is the religion
of terrorism and that the Qur'an is a book of hatred and violence, but on the
other hand Allah guides the hearts – those who are true and sincere, whereby
through them He enables the expansion and growth of Islam in the world. And
this truth - about the growth and expansion of Islam in the world - is
spreading panic among the different nations of the world who oppose themselves
to Islam and all its concepts.
For a long time, anti-Islamic movements/ people
have fueled the growing hatred against Islam, and they found out that it is the
union that gives strength to Muslims, as well as their attachment to their Deen
– the religion of Islam.
The only way to break that unity was to create
such situations for Muslims to wage war against other Muslims. They have
realized that if Muslims were to come together, this would mean an end of their
reign in the world, because they have seen and studied the ability of a simple
person from Arabia, who was illiterate [i.e., who neither knew how to read nor
write] but who nevertheless changed the whole nation and the world by bringing
everyone to accept the concept of the One True God, the Unique God, and to worship
Him exclusively, that is to say, to worship Allah alone.
After the initial victory of Islam with the
conquest of Mecca, and the conquest of Arabia and of the other countries of the
world to Islam, the anti-Islamic nations – those who harbour hatred against the
concept of the Unique God, against the establishment of the submission of man
to his Creator and who previously received the message of the Oneness of God
through their prophets, like Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, without forgetting also
the Messengers of God who appeared in Asia like Ram and Krishna – have forgotten
the original teachings of their prophets and they started taking themselves as
almighty beings, just like Nimrod did in the time of Abraham, and Pharaoh in
the time of Moses. Everyone who rose up against the messengers of Allah
perished whereby they met with an atrocious end.
Now in our times, hatred for Islam has reached
its peak. Strategies of all kinds have been elaborated over the course of a
hundred years to bring Islam and Muslims to their knees. The Muslims, who were
the most powerful people in the world, became the slaves of the West, and they
fell prey to the trap of Gog and Magog, and Dajjal of modern times and thus
they gradually left their Islamic practices to enter the Western trap.
The West [Western Culture] has invaded
everywhere, and the first plan is to make Muslims leave Islam willingly, in a
subtle way [which does not openly appear that they are leaving Islam] by making
Muslims get attracted with Western customs and to thus abandon Islamic
practices.
Today in the world, we have many Muslims who
describe themselves as Muslims, and who say that their religion is Islam, but
unfortunately their practice is not Islamic. If one looks at them, one will say
they are European or American Christians who go about the world without shame
and religious guidance.
That strategy had been developed since a long
time, and has infiltrated the Muslim world and the world as a whole to transform
Muslims into worldly creatures that run behind the world instead of remaining
attached to God or to maintain the unity that once helped us to conquer the
world to Islam.
Bear in mind that a large part of Europe belonged
to Islam, but the concept of false gods that the Romans and Greeks and pagans
in general introduced into the monotheistic religions in the world spoiled
those [monotheistic] religions, whereby their priests, monks, rabbis became corrupt
and turned against monotheism, seeking worldly power instead of spiritual
salvation.
Allah says in the Qur'an: “O you who have
attained faith, indeed, many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s wealth
illicitly and turn people away from Allah’s path.” (At-Taubah, 9: 34)
Now, with the advent of Islam and after
studying how the greatest prophet – the Seal of the Prophets – Muhammad (pbuh) acted
as an exceptional commander for the original monotheism, i.e. say, Islam, and
conquered many hearts and countries to Islam, during his lifetime and even
after his death through his well-guided caliphs, then and there began a plan to
put a stop to the propagation of Islam in the world.
Despite Islam facing sectarian shocks, whereby Muslims began to divide among themselves through different interpretations of Islam, even with this, they [i.e. the enemies] could not harm the Muslims. Over time, they found that these divisions are actually very good for them [i.e. it was in favour of their plan – to separate Muslims, applying the divide and rule strategy]. So their strategy is to keep Muslims divided and to direct them to worldly attractions and to change their mental concepts of what a successful modern life should be. For them, success is linked to the world, while for a true Muslim, success is tied to Allah [God Almighty].
And this strategy was successfully implemented
twenty-two years ago, with the new century – the 21st century of the
Christian era [Common Era] – the new millennium as we call it, and for the
Islamic calendar, the 15th century [since November 1980].
And during that same period Allah, our Creator was
preparing this humble servant to appear in the world as His servant, to
officially proclaim the mission which I have received from Him, my Rab (Lord)
the Almighty.
When I reached 40 years in the way the world counts,
Allah raised His servant in a new century when the power of the anti-Islamic
states had reached its peak and when the Muslims and Islamic states fell into
the traps of satanic attractions and abandoned the unity of Islam and the
oneness of Allah. They abandoned the Islamic practice. Faith is only on the
lips. They say “I am Muslim” but their deed speaks otherwise.
This is what we call slavery. A hidden slavery!
The world is so deviated that most people fall into the trap of this world. They
have lost the divine essence that was in them. And that’s what makes the
Western world happy because the world is under their control. The goal is to
deviate [drive] people [away] from Allah and to make them attached to
materialism. But their most precise target is the Muslims because of the
capacity of the Muslims and the power that Tawheed and union can give to
the Muslims. It is when Muslims unite and put their trust in Allah alone, and when
they firmly establish themselves on Tawheed that the great victory can
be achieved. And that’s what the anti-Islam fear. They fear the strength of
Muslims; they fear the unity of Muslims.
So, when they succeeded to a great extent to
separate Muslims, to divide our hearts and place therein hatred and thirst for
the world, then they started their plan to persecute Muslims and to exterminate
Islam.
Today, in the name of freedom of expression, they
are allowing the burning of the Sacred Book of Almighty God. They are burning
the Qur'an. They know that a true Muslim will never go about burning the Bible
or the other Sacred Books because we, Muslims, believe in all the Sacred Books
of God, and despite knowing that the previous Revealed Books of God have been falsified
by the hand of man, yet even then, no [true] Muslim will burn those Sacred
Books. So, they took advantage of this and exploited the weakness of the Muslims.
So, the time has come when all those
super-powerful countries who took themselves as God on earth stop their satanic
plans to destroy the dignity of Islam. Despite the mud thrown on Islam – in
whatever large amount they throw, Islam will flourish [i.e. whatever plans
they hatch to humiliate and persecute Islam, they will not succeed in their
plans – Islam will flourish!]. They are hatching plans over plans to ban
the wearing of the Hijab and other Islamic clothing in general. What do they
want? That the Muslims who have the fear of Allah come to dress in Western
style like them? Is that what they want? When they do this, they are themselves
humiliating the mother of Jesus! They say that they believe in the Mother of
Jesus and have respect for her, but alas it is not so! When the disrespect the
Muslim women, they are disrespecting Mary (ra). The latter (Hazrat Maryam (ra))
was a chaste, pious woman and her clothing was exactly like the Islamic
clothing: a large dress that covers the woman’s body and a thick veil to cover
her head and the chest.
If there is anyone who follows Mary’s example,
it is the pious Muslim women, who maintain modesty, and reject the indecency of
the Pagans. And today the people who say that they are Christians; they are actually
Pagans in the garb of [disguise as] Christians because Christ never taught
indecency. We find indecency in Pagan practices, in the adoration of idols
whereby the people remove their clothes and stay naked, without any modesty and
do their idol-worship in this way.
This Pagan concept is now taking over the
world, and it is a thirst for power that make people, communities, and
governments as well as kingdoms accept to lose their honour – the honour of
dignity, of truth, and of the adoration of the one True God – whereby they sell
their conscience for a few cents, and they don’t reflect on the fact that they
will leave all this one day and will die and leave the world.
They don’t reflect on the fact that life on
earth is temporary. Therefore, lust for power and fear that Islam could
flourish one day and that the days of the glory of Islam like in the first era
of Islam – in the times of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) – will come back.
They are very afraid of this!
Nowadays, in the Western [Occidental] and even
Eastern [Oriental] world, like in India, we find some Hindu sects who have
plans to trap Muslim girls and women so that they can convert the maximum of them
to Hinduism.
And on the other hand, we find how Israel is
persecuting the Palestinian Muslims, how the Buddhists from Burma are
persecuting Muslim minorities, how the Chinese are persecuting Muslims in their
territories – So we find that this is a well-thought plan, one after the other,
to exterminate Islam.
Islam is indeed the target of those
troublemakers. Why? Because they fear Islam! They know that Islam has the power
to motivate Muslims into unity and to march towards victory. If Muslims come
together, then all their plans will fall apart. So, it is for this reason that they
learnt an important lesson from Islam. What is this lesson? It is unity. They
know: Unity is Strength!
So, now it’s them who are using that strategy
to rule the world. What do they say? That Islam was spread through be the
sword? What are they doing now? They invent laws, supposedly legal [they
legalized such laws to render an illegal thing legal] – worldly speaking but
religiously reprehensible – and they flout human and religious rights in the
name of terrorism. In their estimation, they are doing a good job when they are
forbidding modesty and encouraging immodesty!
For them, burning the Qur'an is equivalent to
burning the very foundation of Islam.
Whether in America and European countries such
as France, Denmark and Sweden, everybody has come together in the name of
freedom of expression to sully the name of Islam, the Qur'an and the Holy
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). We do not forget the attacks in the past upon our
beloved Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) with the Charlie Hebdo scandal/
publications. They were such horrendous publications which were re-published by
other press agencies in the name of freedom of expression.
While the acts of Qur'an burning in Denmark and
Sweden caused the Muslim world to revolt, it is my prayer to Allah that He awakens
the conscience of Muslims so that the union of Muslims becomes possible, and
that all the differences which Satan created among the Muslims dissipate, so
that Islam can regain its glory. (Insha-Allah).
Now, because of the fear of revolt and economic
consequences, countries like Denmark and even now Sweden presents its “apologies”
and then reassures the Muslim world that it will set up laws where it would be
forbidden to burn Qur'an in public; they would ban such demonstrations which
promote hatred. But it is in fact the economic repercussions and the union of
Muslims that they fear.
So, the time has come for Muslims to take
action again to bring Islam to its summit. It is not the fear of these
creatures that can bring about this glory; it is the fear for the Creator, the Taqwah,
and whereby that Taqwah is such fear that is filled with love for Allah,
the Creator of Universe.
All over the world, we find attacks targeting
Islam and the Muslims and labelling us as terrorists. These are anti-Islam
plans of the haters, whether in the West or even in Asia, such as India and
China. The time has come for Muslims to become aware of the situation that we are
facing today in this century.
By His immense grace, Allah has sent to you and
for you one of His Chosen Servants as a Bringer of good news and a Warner. His
Servant is here among you, and the greatest weapon is duah and unity:
the unity of Muslims. The time has come to turn the plans of the unfaithful
people upside down and verily the provisions of the Creator for this spiritual
warfare are within reach. But it will only be possible when the Muslims become
aware of what is happening to us, and we unite, and put aside all our
differences and concentrate on the common good of Islam, of all Muslims.
It is not the time to judge the faith of our Muslim brothers and sisters. The time has come to unite and watch over the common good of Islam. Allah has sent me in this century to put all those who are doing wrong to Islam and Muslims, to warn them: Beware! When the waves of divine punishments will strike, they will not have the time to save themselves from them. All those who are at the head of those satanic strategies shall face a terrible end.
In the past we found how great personalities in
the world were destroyed when they tried to harm Islam. The more they [such
people like them in our present era] try to deviate and divide the Muslims, the
more Allah is raising other people from among themselves and chooses them and gives
them Hidaayat (Guidance) to recognize the truth of Islam and Muslims. Insha-Allah,
the time is not far away when this wave will rise and the anti-Islam powers will
perish. Allah cannot let His true teachings and His true servants lose the
battle. These are moments of intense trials for Muslims to realize that it is
due to our own fault that we are suffering such consequences. Had we been united
and followed divine commandments in the right way, then nobody would have ever been
able to defeat us.
Today, the Khalifatullah (Caliph of Allah) is among
you people, and plans of all sorts have been hatched in all corners of the
world against Islam. Why? Because they know the capacity/ strength of Islam and
the Muslims! So, the time has come for (Muslim) parents take up their
responsibilities [become conscious of the situation] and give the right
education and training to their children in Islam, and discourage them from
worldly attractions which can attract them [i.e. the children] to comply with
the satanic plans of Dajjal. True believers are those who do not lose
courage in the face of the battle between good and evil. If we put our trust in
Allah alone and wage war for Allah alone, then we will win half the battle. So,
you should reform yourselves and your children and teach them and show them the
value of Islam. Satan is there to deviate you from your goal, but with the help
of Allah, all satanic plans can be nullified, and “where is a will, there is
a way” (where is a will, then you will see your path – you will get the
solution).
Bear in mind that Allah sees all and hears all.
He is ever present and puts His servants to the test. If His servants do not
make an effort towards unity, then how can He bless the Muslims if they are
lazy, and fall into the trap of Satans?
Thus, it is very important that the Muslims
come out from this trap. They have to turn to Allah and supplicate Him alone
and beseech His help. Only the divine help will bring about a change in the
situation. Always bear this in mind that it is DUAH which is the best WEAPON
– Not the sword, rifle, submachine gun, bombs, etc. Allah allows you to take up
arms only when people go beyond all limits against you, and that too also only
under the divine instructions through the revelations given to them by the
prophets, otherwise everyone should seek to establish peace through these means
and do not take up weapon.
But Allah also allows “self-defence”. Islam,
and the Muslims should not remain idle or be silent while the others are trying
to exterminate them. And one of the best
strategies is trusting in Allah, and turning to Him alone, as well as uniting
for the pleasure of Allah and working for the propagation of Islam in the
world.
May Allah have mercy on all sincere Muslims,
and enable the sincere ones to remain firm in their sincerity and redirect
those who stray from Islam to Islam again. And may Allah continue to inspire
others’ hearts towards the eternal beauties of Islam. It is Islam that can
bring peace and stability to the world, because it is the only religion that is
acceptable to Allah. Let us submit to Allah; unite altogether and follow His
Messenger whom He has sent in this century – this humble servant. Insha-Allah,
all anti-Islamic plots will fall apart and Islam will regain its breath and
power in the world. Insha-Allah, Ameen.
As for those who harbour evil plots upon evil
plots against Islam, their appointed time is arrived, one by one, and their
consequences – their destruction – will happen before the world [for all to
see]. Insha-Allah.
--- Friday Sermon of 01 September 2023~15 Safar 1445 AH delivered by Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir A. Azim (aba) of Mauritius.