According to
Abu Dharr, the Prophet (may God give him blessings and peace) said, reporting the
words of God, ever praised and exalted is He:
“O My servants, I have
forbidden injustice to Myself and I have made it forbidden amongst you. So be
not unjust to one another.
“O My servants, all of you go astray except the one whom I
guide. Ask guidance of Me, and I shall guide you…”
[Part I, Hadith No. 1; Muhyi-ud-din
Ibn Arabi, Mishkåt al-Anwar: 101 Hadith Qudsi, written in 1202-03;
Oxford: Anqa Publishing (2008); p.18.
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Renewal of Faith is through Divine Revelations
You
must know that whenever a religious society became corrupted, then it was
without fail, that a person came from Allah who revived the message and started
a movement of great sacrifice for the sake of religion. Not taking other
people’s lives but offering their own lives. Not destroying other people’s
property but putting themselves in a precarious position where their property
were destroyed and looted by others. So following through this hard path of
sacrifice, religion was revived whereby you find these phenomena come one after
the other (after religion has been trampled by stupid high
priests/Mullahs who destroy the essence of religion). Our Holy
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is thus the most dependable source of light for us
(Muslims).
In
fact after every other prophet and his religion became a thing of the past,
Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) is the only source of light available to us. How did he revive religious values? It
is through walking in the streets of Mecca and being stoned and being abused
and being maltreated in the worst possible manner, by the sacrifices of his
followers when they being dragged in the hard stony streets of Mecca and them
being beaten almost to death and sometimes to death just for the sake of the
true faith upon which they held firm till they tasted death or till they
witnessed the victory of Islam.
The
atrocities committed against them are enormous and yet as they walked through
the path of blood and fears and toil, they were purified at the same time, they
were spreading instead of decreasing in number. They were not conquered in
reality but they were turning into victors because they were winning other
hearts, other souls, other people joined this procession of those who offered
sacrifices, and in that process they were purified.
Islam is designed like
this. There is no short-cut to glory and victory and that is done always
through the Messengers of Allah. If they came
in the past, is present in this era, likewise Messengers of Allah will always
come till the Day of Judgement in the light of perfection of the Holy Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh). When the religious
leadership becomes corrupt, Allah takes the leadership in His Own Hands, that
is the phenomena of “Nabuwwah”.