Angels
and Divine Revelations
Divine Revelations are words and instructions from
Allah and Allah speaks to His chosen servants and reveals to them His purpose.
The recipient provides neither the meaning nor the words of revelation. Both
come from Allah. Revelation provides real sustenance for man. Man lives by it
and through it, man comes to have contact with Allah. The words, which embody a
revelation of God, are unique in their power and majesty. No man can coin such
words. They carry treasures of knowledge and wisdom, and they are very deep in
meaning. They are like a mine the stone of which is the more valuable the
deeper you dig. Indeed, a mine is nothing compared with divine revelation. A
mine can be exhausted, but not the wisdom of divine revelation.
Divine Revelation is like a sea with a scented surface
and a bed strewn with the most precious pearls. Those, who turn to the surface,
enjoy the fragrance of the surface, and those, who dive deep, find the pearls
below. Revelation is of many kinds, sometimes it consists of ordinances and
laws, sometimes of exhortations. Sometimes it brings knowledge of the unseen,
sometimes knowledge of spiritual truths. Sometimes it conveys the goodwill and
approval of Allah, sometimes His disapproval and displeasure, sometimes His
love and regard, sometimes warnings and rebukes. Sometimes it teaches points in
morals, sometimes His insight into secret evils. In short, our belief is that
God communicates His will to His servants. These communications vary with
circumstance and the spiritual status of the recipient.
Spiritual Darkness and the Mahdis (the Guided Ones)
When darkness prevails in the world and human beings
sink deep in sin and evil, when without the help of God it becomes difficult
for them to release themselves from the hold of Satan, then out of His mercy
and beneficence, Allah chooses from out of His own loving and loyal servants,
those whom He charges with the duty to guide the world.
With the coming of a divine messenger, in every part
of the world his followers can be seen who bow and prostrate themselves before
the one God, the God without an equal, Allah (twa). Bear in mind that it is
with the coming of a divine messenger that justice begins to reign instead of
injustice, kindness instead of cruelty. Through a divine messenger Allah
reveals His will and purpose. Those who turn away from them degrade themselves.
Those who turn to them earn the love of God. The doors of His blessings are
opened to them. His grace and mercy descend on them, they become spiritual
preceptors for generations to come and attain greatness in this world and the
next.
Twisted
Perceptions in the Jamaat-e-Ahmadyya
Islam today is not the Islam which the Holy Prophet
(pbuh) taught to his companions. The only people who disagree with the original
teachings are the so-called Maulvis and in Jamaat Ahmadiyya the so-called
Mullahs, so-called Amirs who do not hesitate to twist the divine teachings to
make it in accord with their perception of religion and to hold the masses
under their firm grasp. For this purpose they do not hesitate to put boycott on
us because of divine revelations.
They believe that only the Khalifatul-Massih has the
right to be bestowed divine revelation and they have become insensitive to
facts owing to incessant religious discussions. There seems little doubt that
something is wanting in the Islam of today. We must admit that the Islam, that
the today’s Muslims practice is not the true Islam, because of which, Islam no
longer produces the results which it should.
The Holy Prophet (pbuh) said: “A
time will come when nothing will be left of Islam except it name”.
Definitely the time has come. Nothing is left of Islam except its name, that
is, its superficial and external observances; the substance, the inner
significance is gone. The sort of Islam which is believed and practiced today
cannot produce the results which it produced at one time. This sort of Islam
impresses the followers of other religions who are attracted even today by its
faded glory, but unfortunately, upon entering the fold of Islam they cannot
grasp its true teachings because of dearth of true explanations and observances
by the scholars professing to be the defenders and preservers of the final
religion of Allah.
Divine
Guidance and the metaphor of "RAIN"
Another Hadith which I need to cite here is where the
Holy Prophet (pbuh) said: “My Ummah is
like the rain. I do not know whether the better part of it is the earlier one
or the latter”. (Musnad Ahmad, Tirmidhi). This means that Islam as the
final religion of Allah has the infinite scope to regenerate itself from time
to time, and that promise as well as elaborated in the Holy Quran was confirmed
by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who promised reformers and non-law-giving
prophets and vicegerents of Allah who shall come as his confirmers and the
preservers of the divine teachings up till the Day of Judgement. When Allah
stated firmly in the Holy Quran that He shall be the Guardian of the Holy
Quran, like mentioned in Surah Al-Hijr:
“Indeed, it is We who sent down the Quran and
indeed, We will be its guardian.” (15: 10)
How shall Allah preserve the Quran to make it remain
alive in both the mind and practice of man, and not just as “mere
inscription” as the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) described for those
people of the latter days who shall proclaim to be Muslims when in fact they
shall be devoid of any Islamic fibre in them?
The Holy Prophet (pbuh) referred the last days also as
being somewhat similar to those companions of his time, the first ray of light
in the glory of Islam. He cites the parable of the rain, the rain of blessings
which shall be a continuous source of guidance for His Ummah after his time
period.
What it means is that among those who shall come
later, there shall be among these people true Muslims who shall be similar to
those who came before, and they will be so close to the first believers, that
it will be difficult to compare them. We all know that the glory of the first
era of Islam is truly incomparable to any other era in our humble estimation,
but Allah and His Messenger (pbuh) has opened the scope of such rain being
manifested in the last days, just like promised in the Holy Quran:
“And the forerunners, the forerunners – Those are they
who shall be brought near (to Allah); In the Gardens of Pleasure, A (large)
company of the former peoples; And a few of the later peoples…” (56: 11-15)
“And (Allah shall send him – the Prophet – to) others
of them who have not yet joined them. And He is the Exalted in Might, the
Wise.” (62: 4)
Divine Servants in the Later Days
Moreover, the Holy Prophet (pbuh) is narrated to have
said:
“The best of my Ummah are the first and the
last, and between them there will be some crookedness. Would that I could see
my brothers.”
They (the companions) said, “Are we not your brothers?”
He said, “You are my companions.”
In the version of Muslim concerning “brothers”, the
precision is that of those people whom the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had
never seen, and who shall come after his demise, much later on. Therefore,
among the many interpretations of brothers, especially concerning the people of
the latter days, Elects or Prophets of Allah are all brothers. They come to confirm
each other and to hold fast the same allegiance they took with Allah to true
guidance. The Holy Prophet (pbuh) said: “... The prophets are paternal brothers, their mothers are different but
their religion is one.” (Bukhari, Muslim)
Therefore, the Quran and the words of the Holy Prophet
(pbuh) point to the advent of divine messengers coming in future, such divine
elects who shall mould themselves in the image of the last law-bearing prophet
(pbuh) to revive the true teachings he received from Allah, such teachings and
codes of life which Allah promised to preserve till the Day of Resurrection.
On these Hadiths, there are many disagreements from
among the Muslims themselves. No Muslim group can imitate the example of the
companions of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) and the brothers which the Holy Prophet
(pbuh) wanted to meet with all his heart, unless they have seen a Messenger of
Allah in the flesh, unless they have come under his spiritual influence.
The Restatement of Islam under Divine Guidance
Before I end my Khutba, a point I wish to make quite
clear at the outset is that the name Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam does not point to
a new religion. Bear this well in mind. We have not come to divide Islam
further, but to identify ourselves as Allah wants as His instruments to bring
back the glory of Islam.
Therefore, the name of this Jamaat is not the adoption
of a new religion. The name of Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam is the name of a
reinterpretation or a restatement of the religion of the Holy Quran. It is a
restatement presented under divine guidance to this humble one, chosen by Allah
(twa) in this era. By the grace of Allah (twa), the name of Jamaat Ul Sahih Al
Islam is the name which Allah (twa) Himself gave to His chosen servant of this
era, that is, the Khalifatullah of this era.
No name can be more blessed than the name which Allah
(twa) Himself chose for His servant and which He invested with importance to
bring about the regeneration of His Deen, ISLAM. Different groups
of Muslims, out of regard for their special beliefs and outlook, have adopted
different names, and thus it becomes necessary for us in the Divine
Manifestation, where Allah (twa) raised this humble self, His Khalifatullah and
sends His divine revelation to have a divine Jamaat so as to distinguish
ourselves from others. So I hope every one of you has understood my message in
this Khutba Jummah.
I pray that Allah endow the Muslims with illuminating
perception to distinguish the truth of our honourable cause, so that as one we
can be what Allah wants foremost from us, that we may be completely submitted
to Him and abandon all forms of satanic attractions, that we recognise the
essence of His existence, and the role He has played in bringing all His elects
for a common cause for the safeguard of the humanity and spirituality of man,
in both the worlds. Insha-Allah, Ameen.
Insha-Allah, may Allah (twa) bless you
all. Ameen.
- Extracts from the Friday Sermon of April 18, 2014 by Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim (aba) of Mauritius.