Today
Friday 06 June 2014, a historical Jummah by the grace
of Allah (swt). After the registration of our Jamaat (Jamaat
Ul Sahih Al Islam, Seychelles) here and by this divine blessing many
Christians in Seychelles like (in Mahe, Praslin, La Digue and the other small
Islands etc.) took Baï’ats in the hand of this humble self,
the Khalifatullah, and I hope that after my departure, all of you will
continue this noble work and to spread this divine message which you have
received during the one week’s work I am here. Insha-Allah.
Here in
Seychelles most of the population is Christian, so
before coming on my sermon of today, first of all I must thank all of you for
welcoming me and my delegation here and all of you work have worked hard
together with me and Allah has put His blessing in this noble work and now by
grace of Allah the Jamaat (Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam) is registered
officially in all islands of the Seychelles. And now we have our Managing
Committee and a national president and we rented a house for all the activities
of our Jamaat and Jummah Prayer and Tarbiyyat class, Alhamdulillah.
(For a related Report on the visit, click here).
So
my dear brothers and sisters, that if a perfect religion exists in the world –
as the followers of all religions believe that it does – at the same time we
find that all religions fail to produce men as perfect as they produced in ages
past, and that they are now incapable of establishing that relation between man
and God which used to exist between them in earlier days. Why
does not God present the true religion to the world in a manner calculated to
demonstrate His power and bring about that change in the hearts of men, the
working of which alone is the object of religion?
I ask all of you a question: Does man build a fine house and
furnish it richly and then neglect its repair and let it fall to ruin? Or, does a man plant a beautiful
garden and then let it dry up for want of means to conduct water into it? If this does not happen, how is it possible to imagine that
God revealed a perfect religion for the guidance of mankind, but failed to take
measures for its protection? Do we not find that after Moses God sent
prophet after prophet to keep alive the Jewish religion and to fulfill the
object for which that religion had been revealed; and that after Jesus He
appointed those who kept the spirit of Christianity alive. So it happened
towards the end of Mosaic Dispensation. Despite the appearance of numerous
prophets during the course of thirteen centuries after Moses, a great reformer
had to be raised in the person of Jesus whose mission was greater and far more
comprehensive than that of other Jewish prophets.
It
was given out beforehand in a prophecy that sometime later the rising tide of
Islam would not only receive a check, but would also lose its spiritual hold on
the hearts of Muslims themselves and wrong and varied interpretations would
take the place of its pure teachings. It was also promised that at such
a juncture God would raise a Messiah from among the Muslims to do the same work
as did Jesus for the mosaic dispensation. The Promised Messiah Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) the founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim
Association, has, therefore, appeared thirteen hundred years after the Holy
Prophet (saw) in the same manner as Jesus of Nazareth appeared
thirteen hundred years after Moses (on both of whom be peace) and on the
appearance of the Promised Messiah men have fallen into the same error into
which they had fallen on the appearance of Jesus.
At
that time men awaited the coming from the heaven of the prophet Elijah, but in
place of the latter, John the Baptist was sent to them, who had been born of a
woman, in the same manner as other men are born. In
the present age, men await the coming down from the heavens of Jesus himself,
but a messiah is sent to them who, in the eyes of those who have no spiritual
vision, was from the heavens and had nothing in common with the earth, for, had
it not been so, he would not have been able to lead thousands of men to the
heavens. How inconsistent is the memory of these men!
They
await the coming down of Jesus from the heavens, but they have forgotten his
words that are present on earth, for Jesus said, “And
no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heavens.”
Now, is it not strange that, that knowing that Jesus was born on
the earth and did not descend from the heavens, these people believe that in
his second advent he would descend from the heavens? He himself said that only that person ascends up to heavens
who has come down from heaven, so that if he was born on the earth he could not
ascend up to heaven, and consequently could not descend from it. And if his
being born of Virgin Mary be described as descending from heaven, why should we
not ascribe a similar meaning to his ascending up to heaven? Again, if Jesus,
being born of the Virgin Mary, could be described as having descended from
heaven, why should we not describe the birth of the Promised Messiah from a
woman as a coming from heaven?
So
my dear brothers and sisters and children, to end my sermon I would like to
mention what Allah (swt) has said in the Holy Quran: There
is no nation but has had its Warner. God has sent me as His reviver of
faith after the Holy Prophet (saw) and the Promised Messiah (as) among all
nations in this era, and as the sun lights up the whole world, the light of
revelation has ever lit up the darkest corners of the earth. If today
you people cannot discover the light of revelation in this humble self, it does
not mean that no prophets have appeared among them, but that they have allowed
their national tradition to die out.
The
doors of revelation and spiritual advancement are, however, still open and will
continue to remain open forever. No new law shall henceforth be
revealed. The commandments contained in the Quran are the last commandments and
it is through its blessings that Allah shall continue to pour revelations
down on His chosen servants to enable His elects to explain His book and
make it open to mankind, opening the doors of divine realization and thus these
revelations shall continue to arise, for no new law is required in the presence
of a perfect code, and yet man is always in need of attaining to the
realization of God. There can, therefore, be no new law, but the door of such
prophethood as its attained by spiritual perfection is open and should remain
open for all time.
God
is as much our providence as He was of our ancestors. So think not that I have
come to destroy, but to fulfill, for verily I tell you, till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled. Insha-Allah. May Allah bless all of you and make
your faith stronger day by day. Ameen.
----Friday
Sermon of 06 June 2014 delivered by Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International Hazrat Muhyiuddin Al Khalifatullah Al Mahdi Munir Ahmad Azim (aba) of Mauritius at the Mahe Island, Seychelles.
