In the
light of these Qur'anic verses, I continue my sermon on the Remembrance of
Allah. These three verses which I have read before you show that Allah send
down His blessings and the angels pray for those types of people who engage
themselves in the Remembrance of Allah. The more we remember Allah and glorify
Him, the more Allah will remember us and will be with us.
I recommend all members of the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam in Mauritius, on the other islands, and this message of mine addresses all people from all countries, and also all my Muslim brothers, sisters and children around the world, that you all should make it a must to engage yourselves in the Remembrance of Allah as frequently as possible, even if possible at each moment of your lives. The more you will remember Allah, the more this Remembrance of Allah will become like a fortress-like protection for you, against all sorts of evils, sorrows, difficulties, illnesses, evil plots, satanic works etc. Remembrance of Allah will save you from all these and other problems which you may face; you will thus always be safeguarded under the Shadow of Allah.
You must
not let mundane anxieties and other obstacles prevent you from remembering
Allah. Like I told you, it is the Remembrance of Allah which will protect you
against all worries and all calamities.
I sincerely
pray that in the light of the sermons on the Remembrance of Allah which I have
done (on several consecutive weeks), if all of us as a whole we take the
initiative and have the firm intention to practice the Remembrance of Allah in
each and every moment we may get, then definitely you will see the great
positive change which will occur in your lives and believe me, when this will
happen, you will get so used to be engaged in the Remembrance of Allah that it
will become difficult for you to go without the Remembrance of Allah in your
lives, even for a single moment!
The
Remembrance of Allah in itself is a remedy for the heart, that is, it heals all
maladies which the heart holds like, arrogance, jealousy, rancour, etc. And
rest assured that the one, who is regular in engaging himself in the Remembrance
of Allah, will obtain protection from all kinds of calamities.
Remembrance
of Allah consolidates one’s faith if one sincerely loves Allah and His prophets
(May peace be upon them all). Also, when you engage yourselves in the
Remembrance of Allah, tranquillity – peace descends onto your hearts, whereby
you obtain the great rewards and blessings of Allah, be it in this world and
the next.
Remember
always that Allah is Light. The one who seeks His light, Allah the Almighty will project a
stream of His light upon him and through this beam of light he will be
completely immerged in the Light of Allah.
If you do
as I tell you, that is, engage yourselves in the Remembrance of Allah, you will
see that both you and your home will be brightened with the Light of Allah.
A house where the Remembrance of Allah is practiced, these people will be illuminated in the heavens and will shine just like stars in the sky. These houses are illuminated thanks to the light present in the Remembrance of Allah. There are people who receive from the grace of Allah the spiritual capacity needed where Allah the Almighty uncovers this light before them and make it shine in such houses where these kinds of people engage themselves night and day in His Remembrance. The houses where only mundane and business matters are discussed are devoid from such blessings. These types of people discuss about money, business, and government matters, whom to make a minister. Moreover the houses where such talks as to how to obtain such and such promotions and how to climb up the stairs of power to the detriment of others who are qualified to obtain these promotions for they have toiled day and night in a licit way to obtain these favours, but unfortunately others not at all qualified come to seize their opportunities of a better job. Thus, those people who do such ignoble deeds, the more they will climb up the “ladder of success” the easier they will fall down hard like a rotten pawpaw which will give out a nasty smell and will attract mosquitoes....
Let us now
return to the main subject of the sermon on the Remembrance of Allah.
Thus I was
telling you that it is Allah the Almighty Himself who gives those types of
people who turns towards Him night and day the spiritual capacity to witness
His light which shines both on this person and his household, especially if all
members engage themselves day and night in the Remembrance of Allah also.
So, who are
those who see that light reflect on that person and household who engage
themselves in the Remembrance of Allah? Who are those people? They are verily
the servants of Allah who see this light radiate from such a person and house.
This is a
great truth; that the house in which the Remembrance of Allah is practiced,
this house shines like a star in the night.
When do you
witness the beauty and the value of a star? It is only in the night! In
daylight, you will not witness its beauty. It is only at night that you will
come to see the beauty of that star, how it brightens in the night.
Likewise,
you will not know the value of the Remembrance of Allah, if you remain attached
to mundane things. Even when you are doing one or two acts of worship, still
then these become like a routine without a real and true love for Allah to do
these acts of worship. Because when you are praying, you are only doing
physical movements, but morally speaking, your minds are elsewhere; not on
Allah! When will you know the real value of these acts of worship and
Remembrance of Allah which you have performed for a lifetime? You will come to
know about its real value after your death, on the Day of Judgement when Allah
will elevate the status of those people attached to Allah and His Remembrance
day and night, whereby their faces will radiate with light and they will be
nearest to Allah.
Then, there
will be questions from the part of other people (souls) wanting to know who are
those people who are being illuminated and therefore they will come to know
that these people came from different families and places and that they used to
engage themselves a lot in the Remembrance of Allah.
Remembrance
of Allah is a sign of the solid faith of someone towards Allah. Remembrance of
Allah protects us from hypocrisy, evils and the harm of Satan. Remembrance of
Allah delivers us from the fires of hell and it is also efficient especially as
a protection against Satan.
Satan hangs
himself to the heart of people. When a person engage himself in the Remembrance
of Allah, Satan becomes powerless, humiliated and he goes far away from that
person.
But when
that person neglects to remember Allah, Satan contaminates his heart with all
sorts of evil thoughts.
That is why
we must practice Remembrance of Allah in abundance so that our heart may remain
protected against evil thoughts and so that the heart may develop an
exceptional spiritual force.
Thus, it is
not necessary for someone, who says that he is attached to “Laa Ilaaha
Illallah” to get himself contaminated with the meaningless affairs of this
world. If not, these mundane matters will become more important to him than
spirituality. The spiritual force to resist against Satan has diminished
completely. That is why we are witnessing the suffering in all its aspect of
the Muslim World.
Nowadays,
the heart has become so spiritually ill that despite all sorts of treatment
that we may undergo, and especially if that malady has spread inside out, and
took the form of an epidemic, then Satan takes possession of the heart of such
a person. He seeks to pierce into the heart like a sharp needle. If he sees
that the heart is attached to the Remembrance of Allah, he removes the needle
at once, but he sees that the heart is negligent of the Remembrance of Allah,
he introduces inside his poison and evil thoughts.
Therefore,
let us all seek the help of Allah the Almighty to remain attached with His
Remembrance and let us pray also to be protected from Satan and his plan to
poison our heart and deviate it from the right path. Insha-Allah. Ameen.
---Extracts from Friday Sermon of 03 April 2009 delivered by Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International Hazrat Muhyiuddin Al Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim (aba) of Mauritius.