Tuesday, July 6, 2021

'Khalifatullah' and Revolution


Man's duty on earth is to recognize the station of our Unique Lord and worship Him through righteous living. We are Divinely-ordained to serve fellow beings like family, and also the other creatures on the face of earth, and not to indulge in excesses, nor seek to domineer over other peoples- as all are the children of the same Creator, with similar freedoms and rights like us. This is the message of the Prophets and other Elects of God who appear among the people from time to time and they speak with the help of Roohil Quddus (Holy Spirit),  sharing Divine revelations containing glad tidings for good deeds in service of fellow beings, and also warnings against evil, or the Satanic impulses. Put differently, the men of God appear with the purpose of teaching the Law of true life and the Way of Divine favours. 


Yet, the treacherous terrain of Satanic impulses divert man to the aggressive pursuit of material glory and honour, of  pride and riches, of power and pelf. When a people or a nation is drunk on the evil and injustice of dominance and of total control, enslavement and oppression of another people inevitably follows. Such a vicious and decadent socio-political-religious order is bound to bite the dust through its internal contradictions when a new, superior order emerges to replace it. This is the law of the rise and fall of nations in the world.  


The coming of a Khalifatullah in this context represents a transformative moment when an old order crumples to dust and a new spiritual order takes its place in the world. In the spiritual history of human kind, High representatives of Allah have always been raised amongst almost all nations and peoples. Indeed,  It is the pierce light of Divine commandments that help the messengers to guide their people with wisdom and prudence against all odds. It is by obeying Allah and following in the footsteps of the messenger of God that small bands of Divinely-inspired groups outsmart their much larger opponent groups, relying completely upon the Exalted Might of the Lord, and in their own readiness to sacrifice everything in His way. The revolutionary transformation in the spiritual outlook of such wo/men comes about due to the sublime teachings and noble example of the Divine savant in their midst. The larger purpose of the establishment of the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam in this era, with the advent of the Khalifatullah Hazrat Munir Ahmad Azim Saheb (aba) of Mauritius, is indicative of the continued vitality and application of the time-tested Divine Law of spiritual revolution, Alhamdulillah, Summa Alhamdulillah. 


Reproduced Below are extracts from the Friday Sermon of 28 May 2021 ~15 Shawwal 1442 AH delivered by Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir A. Azim (aba) of Mauritius.


The Objectives of the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam- 1


The goal of Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam in this world is revolution in governance (This is - one of the meanings of: Arise and Create a New World’)


Today we see governance which has rebelled against the commandments of Allah (swt) and the guidance of His Messenger (pbuh), and which is responsible for the suffering of mankind. So all this bad governance must be replaced by a Man of God Almighty, where he comes to rule [this world] under divine instruction [Allah (swt)], with righteousness and who is himself elected [raised/ chosen] by God alone and where he will follow only divine guidance [and nothing else] and especially in this time in which we live, where man has become too attached to [temporal] power. Those in power do not want to let go of that power, while others have become attached to the pleasures of this temporary world. They trampled on and reduced the divine teachings to dust to give more time to things that Satan made attractive to them. 


So this implies a change of leadership at all levels of life - intellectual, moral, technological, social, economic, political, spiritual and the reorganization of human life so that it is in accordance with the ideals and values ​​revealed by Allah (swt) for the guidance of mankind. We must strive to achieve such a noble goal of attracting the favour of Allah (swt). [Divine favour, not worldly favour such as electric appliances: Cookers, Refrigerators - or 5 to 6 cars, etc.] No, it is not these worldly favours that I want you to understand here. 

You will have divine favours [of Allah (swt)] in this world and in the Hereafter; such favours which are so powerful that they will kill the virus called Satan, which is circulating in your veins and your blood, and at that time, another blood which is pure, clean will be circulating in your veins and then your hearts will change in such ways that all the holes filled by Satan will be opened. It was certainly Satan who had blackened your hearts and made them beat with jealousy, hatred, gluttony to acquire more goods and money. And so that’s when your hearts pumped that kind of blood which is dirty and that blood circulates through your brains and you begin to fight for worldly power, and where then fraud, corruption, dirty money, drug dealing - killing innocent young people with this drug to make you rich - became commonplace. 

And the more there is a so-called war on the drug mafias - a “bitter fight” against them - the more you see drugs coming in from all directions. And these power-hungry people can do anything to stay in power to have fun and abuse, and apply oppression on the unfortunate, and make false promises to them. So they do all this to stay in power and then [after being deceived by these false promises] a few days after you see the people forgetting their suffering, and the injustices and oppressions against them for five years and when these [people who are] thirsty for power come to them again with more false promises, then this kind of people [nation] puts these incompetent [people/ leaders] and thieves – like in the story of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves – in power. This is a bit of what is happening around the world [in all countries]. 

So, the time has come for the wave to rise and wash away all this filth that is polluting this whole world, without forgetting the Islamic countries too, and so that we finally breathe clean air, similar ... spiritually speaking … to the purity with which our Creator endowed us when He created us. So God created us pure, and sent us to this world, and Insha-Allah a day will come when we will all return to our Creator - and then we must return to Him in a pure state, where He will be pleased with us and we too will be pleased with Him, with the great eternal reward that we will obtain from Him - from our Creator.

 

So the purpose of Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam is the same as that of all messengers of Allah (swt): 


“He it is Who has sent His messenger with the guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religion, however much the idolaters may hate this. (At-Tauba, 9: 33) 


We verily sent Our messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance, that mankind may observe right measure; and He revealed iron, wherein is mighty power and (many) uses for mankind, and that Allah may know him who helps Him and His messengers, though unseen. Truly Allah is Powerful, Almighty. And We have already sent Noah and Abraham and placed in their descendants prophethood and scripture; and among them is he who is guided, but many of them are defiantly disobedient. (Al-Hadid, 57: 26-27) 


He has ordained for you that religion which He enjoined unto Noah, and that which We inspire in you (the prophet), and that which We enjoined unto Abraham and Moses and Jesus, saying: Establish the religion, and be not divided therein. Dreadful for the idolaters is that unto which you call them. Allah chooses for Himself whom He will, and guides unto Himself him who turns (toward Him). (Ash-Shura, 42: 14) 


“And remember We took from the prophets their covenant: As (We did) from you: from Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary: We took from them a solemn covenant.” (Al-Ahzab 33: 8)

 

In these verses, Allah makes us understand that He sends His messengers with the right direction and sound ideology which will enable people to know their Creator and take the path which will also enable them to remain pure for Allah. Thus, the Quran shows us that the fundamental mission of all messengers is to bring all people, each of the people of their time, to the submission of the sovereignty of One God, Allah (swt). And after Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) the Seal of all prophets and messengers, this mission must continue in his Ummah and through an Envoy of God who will come with the Holy Spirit to continue the great mission that this great prophet had made, where the Holy Prophet (pbuh) had brought a great spiritual revolution in Arabia with the help of Allah. And it was definitely not easy to do it but despite the great trials, the persecutions, the boycotts, as well as the plans to assassinate him (pbuh), the Holy Prophet (pbuh) had not given up and lost courage, even when these enemies had killed his relatives (his family) and as well as those who had believed in him (his disciples / companions); but, by the grace of Allah, he (pbuh) succeeded in transforming this Arabia, which contained therein a barbaric people who prayed to a different idol every day - for there were 365 idols within the confines of the Holy Ka’aba. Their lives were worse than those of animals. They killed their daughters [buried them alive], the ladies had no dignity and worth, alcohol was widespread and devastating; just as today the situation is with drugs as well as alcohol also and also games of chance. So all these vices turned them into animals [worse than animals]! They had lost all human dignity which they were supposed to have. But Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), with the help of Allah, transformed this barbaric Arabia, these barbarian people - most of them - and made them become human - with human feelings.

 

So, in our present day, the work is not easy; we have to accept these great trials that await us just as in the time of our master, Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) but with the help of Allah, patience, trust in our Rab, nothing is impossible. Insha-Allah, Ta’ala Al-Aziz, what is impossible will become possible. We must have this absolute trust in our Creator and turn only to Him - Allah (twt) alone; you will see another world and we will not be using a sword, weapon or nuclear bomb. Our own armament is sincere prayer and demonstrating total obedience to divine instruction which will come down like rain from heaven. We will only be an instrument for our Creator, for we [on our own] have no power. It is He [Allah] Who does everything, but on condition that we pray to Him a lot, and put our trust in Him and follow His commandments and as well as the instructions He will send down to the one He has chosen in this century to bring a spiritual revolution. 


So with this spiritual revolution, there is no doubt that everyone in power now will have to be dethroned - for they have misled a lot of people [into falsehoods] only so that they can sit in the chair of power. This kind of deceit - these liars / fraudsters - have no right to hold power at the expense of Allah’s creation (swt) - and the leadership of all mankind must rest with those who will rule by the guidance and way of life ordained by Allah (swt), Insha-Allah.

 

It is regrettable that Muslims and non-Muslims alike have forgotten the significance of such a revolution. Most of them put the teaching of God aside and give more importance to bad things and they say that they must enjoy their life and this enjoyment is found in fun, games of chance, alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc. And Muslims too have let themselves be trapped by Satan, where they too look at this world from a material point of view in order to derive their own benefit, whether on a personal and political level, but in fact all of this is not realistic. They don’t realize that Islam, Muslims, we are one body and that the central place of every Muslim is in his/ her Deen, and not in the pursuit of material things that are temporary. I’m not saying we don’t need material things. On the contrary, we need it to a certain extent which will suffice for our own survival on earth and which will also suffice to feed, and shelter our families and to contribute in the path of Allah, to strengthen Islam even more. 

But unfortunately, gradually, Muslims have either diluted or transformed their original purpose; an objective which is however clearly stated in the Quran and which has been followed without fail by Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) and where the Ummah has inherited the responsibility of continuing this work. Apart from the emigration of Muhammad (pbuh) to Medina and his battles against the leaders of Kufr in Arabia, there are many incidents, since the life of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) in Mecca which testify to the fact that from the start, no one had any doubt about the real aim - the real objective - of Muhammad (pbuh), whether it was Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) himself, his companions, and even his adversaries. About this, I tell you a little anecdote: 

On one occasion, when Utbah Ibn Rabiah, one of the infidel rulers of Mecca went to meet the Holy Prophet (pbuh) in order to convince him to abandon his mission, he heard Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) recite part of the Quran. This was enough to make him understand the nature of the mission of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and [although he never afterwards believed in Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) but at that time] he had an idea of ​​the consequences that there would be if the Quraish opposed Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh).

 

When Utbah Ibn Rabiah returned to the other Quraish chiefs, he tried to convince them not to become a barrier between Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) and his mission, because from what he heard from that recitation, he understood that his message would spread quickly - but despite this, he [Utba Ibn Rabiah] did not have faith in the Prophet of Allah [Hazrat Muhammad] (pbuh). But after that, what did he [Utba] do? He tried to prevent the Quraish from coming between him (pbuh) and his mission [restrict them from fighting him], but that if the other Arabs managed to kill him, then the Quraish leaders would not have the death of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) on their conscience! He also told them that if the mission of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) spread and he obtained superiority over the Arabs, then his sovereignty would also become that of the Arabs [Quraish] too. 

In other words, despite the fact that he did not have faith in Allah and Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) as the Messenger of Allah, but only deep down, he had already recognized that the preaching of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) was unique, and that soon all of Arabia would be influenced by his message, in other words, the message of Allah.

Likewise, today our opponents take us as inferior, but tomorrow when Allah sheds His light, the light of truth and the truthfulness of His Khalifatullah, it is not [ordinary] tears that will flow [from the eyes] of those who have ridiculed the Divine Manifestation, but tears of blood. May Allah open the hearts of the people before it is too late for them. May divine mercy fall on them and they repent and change their lives for the better, and may their faith [Iman] and Islam be strengthened. Insha-Allah, Ameen.