Alhamdulillah Summa Alhamdulillah, Allah (twt) has given me this opportunity to
continue the subject matter of last week’s Sermon on the need of the advent of
a prophet of God, and the reality of the miracles and faith which are joined
together for the realization of the designs of Allah.
Indeed God Almighty talked in the past, is talking
even today to His humble servants and messengers. It is unbelievable that a
Merciful and Loving God would remain unmoved at the sight of mankind
floundering in error and worldliness and yet He would take no measures for
their guidance and direction. So my dear brothers and sisters, if there is a
God, He cannot permit this!
If He feels for His servants in their trials and yet
makes no provision, we must conclude either that He has no power to guide
mankind to the truth, or that to attain communion with God is not the object of
man’s existence, and that man was created merely to eat, drink, and to lead a
purely worldly and animal existence. But each of the alternatives previously
mentioned is insupportable.
To imagine that He who created the universe has no
power to provide means for the spiritual guidance of mankind is absurd. The
Creator of the whole must have power to create a part. If we admit the
existence of a Creator, we must admit that He has absolute power and that
nothing is impossible unto him, and He can accomplish everything except
whatever is incompatible with His holiness and perfection, nor can we imagine
that man has been created merely for the purpose of a worldly existence for, in
that case, we would be compelled to admit that an All-Wise and All-Knowing
Creator has brought this huge universe into being to no purpose.
No machine is ever made for the purpose merely of
keeping itself working; every machine is created for some definite purpose and
object. If the purpose of man’s existence is merely to eat, drink and sleep, it
would mean that man has been created in order simply to maintain himself in
comfort. If the individual has no purpose in his creation, then mutual help
cannot be considered as the purpose of life.
Besides, we would have to suppose that all righteous
men (especially the divine prophets and reformers) whatever country they may
have appeared in – Syria, Arabia, India, Israel or other country were, God
forbid the thought, liars and imposters. All of them taught that they had been
entrusted by God with the spiritual guidance of mankind, and yet (if we go on
the same wavelength of thoughts like the others that God stopped talking and
sending His prophets) they could not have been so entrusted, either because God
has no power to provide for the guidance of mankind, or because man has not
been created with the object of attaining communion with Him. But, does our
reason permit us to entertain the idea that those who were the originators of
all that is good and righteous and pure, who were perfect specimens of truth
and holiness, who effected moral revolutions in the world and implanted the
love of righteousness and purity in the hearts of man, were the greatest liars
and impostors that the world has produced, and that they called men to their
own impostures?
Or, can we believe that men to whom credit is due for
the whole intellectual, moral and spiritual advancement of mankind, and who
have left an impression on the minds of men, which the passage of centuries has
failed to obliterate, were out of their minds and believed in the creation of
their own fancies as things that had life and being in the universe?
If this is not so – and, most certainly, it is not so
– there is no escape from the conclusion that there must exist in the world
some religion which can lead man to God. If all the existing religions have
become corrupt, a new religion must be revealed for the guidance of mankind,
and if there still exists in the world a religion which can lead man to God,
but which cannot fulfill its purpose, as man would not pay heed to it, a
Reformer must be raised to direct man’s attention to it and bring mankind to
him. I conceive and, I am sure this must be the view of all sensible men that
there is no difference between the total disappearance of truth and its being
so enveloped in doubt as to be unfit to serve as guidance for mankind. The
latter contingency is as disastrous for the spiritual welfare of man as the
former.
This special religion my dear brothers, sisters and
children which exists for the sole purpose of the reform of the people’s
physical, moral and spiritual life is Islam. Indeed Islam was, is and will be
the religion of all prophets and pious and spiritually insightful people, those
endowed with true knowledge. When Islam existed since the creation of time, but
then it should be the last religion till the end of time. Only, this time God
Almighty has chosen with the advent of the Seal of all prophets to officialise this religion and keep it in its pure unaltered state of being as remaining Islam (a definite name and way of life) till the end of
times. This is to indicate that the followers of the Seal of all prophets, our
beloved prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) are to convey the same message and keep
firm to the noble Quran to guide mankind to Allah, for the Quran and Islam, as
well as its perfect prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) represent the beauty of
religion, the beauty of mankind and the beauty of the divine essence. God
Almighty, Allah, the King of Kings therefore will continue to send His envoys,
Islamic reformers and prophets from within His anointed religion and from the
spiritual progeny of the perfect human King of His choice (the Holy Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh)) to govern over His subjects and guide them on the right path.
Verily, as God Almighty says in the Holy Quran:
“We have not sent you but as a
messenger to all humanity, giving them glad tidings and warning them.” (Saba 34: 29)
As God Almighty has established free will for His
human servants, therefore His ambassadors the prophets cannot force anyone to
integrate the religion of God and purify them. That is why in the Quran God
says that the prophet is only a giver of glad tidings (what Glad tidings?),
that is, the call from Allah to return back to Allah in submission and sincere
worship, and also as a Warner and Allah, the Creator becomes the Punisher if
ever the people choose the deviating path of the Satans and their passions
which render them blind both in this world and the next.
As the world and humans cannot remain pure and
rightly-guided for long without proper guidance, therefore the Good Lord, Allah
(twt) shall always send His representatives the prophets to teach the beauty of
His existence to all and sundry so that they may receive the divine guidance
and be admitted into the mercy of the Almighty, be it in this world and the
hereafter. Undoubtedly, there is no compulsion in religion. (Al-Baqara 2: 257)
Fortunate are those who ultimately join the ranks of
the divinely-elected Messenger, the Prophet of Allah of their times and devote
themselves completely to the cause of Allah under the guardianship of Allah,
their Protector, Saviour and Source of all delights: physical, moral and spiritual,
in both the worlds, and under the obedience of the Prophet of Allah, with the
trust of divine guidance throughout their lives. Insha-Allah.
May Allah bless each of you in the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al
Islam who day and night under this humble self leadership make extraordinary
efforts to make the religion of Allah, Islam triumph in all four corners of the
world. May Allah be your reward. Ameen. And may Allah guide all pure
hearts desirous of reform to His realm in this era – the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al
Islam – for the ultimate victory of Islam, Insha-Allah. May Allah have
mercy on us all. Ameen.
- Friday Sermon of 12 September 2014 (16 Dhul-Qaddah 1435 Hijri) delivered by the Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius.