فَارْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا إِنَّا مُوْقِنُوْنَ
So send us back in order
that we do good deeds; we are (now) convinced.¹
Then
you will be told, 'O ignoramus! You are coming from that very place.' Cultivate
aspiration in your soul, strive against your nafs and consider death very close
to yourself, because your destination is the grave and the people of the
graveYard are awaiting your arrival in every moment asking when you will arrive
to them. Be warned! Fear, lest you reach them without any provision for the
path!"²
The
end of an idle preacher
Take
lesson from another noble hadith describing the end of an idle preacher that
causes one to tremble. The Prophet ﷺ mentions that on the Day of Judgement, a
person will be brought and placed into hell as a result of which his intestines
will come out. He will go around them the way a donkey travels around a
millstone. The dwellers of hell will come around him and will ask, "O such
and such! What happened to you? Did you not invite the people to good and forbid
them from evil?" He will reply, "Yes indeed! I used to command people
with good but did not act upon it myself. I used to forbid people from evil but
I used to do it myself."³
There
is no effect in the invitation of preachers who do not make themselves an
example for encouraging others and do not bring themselves out of the dark
closet of idleness whilst trying to make others active in good action. In
contrast to this, the word which issues from the mouth of a preacher who is
active in good becomes an effective arrow that embeds in the heart of the one
he is calling and compels him to become a living embodiment of the Sunnah. Let
us learn about a faith reviving statement of a preacher who is active in good
whilst calling towards righteousness and let us manifest the desire to do good
actions within ourselves.
¹
[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 21, Surah Al-Sajdah, verse 12)
² Ayyuha Al-Walad, p. 12
³ Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: 2989
The
Repentance of a Qādiyānī Professor
It
is mentioned on page 10 of the 49-page pamphlet, "Tazkirah-e-Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat,"
published by Dawat-e-Islami's publishing department, Maktaba-tul-Madinah,
"In around 2003, a letter reached Ameer of Ahl al-Sunnah دَامَتْ
بَرَكَاتُهُمُ
الْعَالِيَة
in which a professor had written words to the effect that, "I am
associated with the Qādiyānī
religion and hold a high position amongst them. Up until now, I have misguided
70 Muslims and made them become Qādiyānī.
I took part in the (Dawat e Islami) ijtimaʿ
in Sardarabad (Faisalabad) with a skeptical mind but after listening to your
sermon, my world was turned upside down. After this, a preacher gave me some
cassettes of your speeches. The state of my heart had changed after listening
just one speech but after listening to the other cassettes, I began to shudder
and wept all night. What shall I do now?"
Without
delay, exerting individual effort, the Ameer of Ahl al-Sunnah penned a reply
and sent it off telling the man to repent immediately and enter Islam and also
to find a way of returning however many Muslims he had مَعَاذَاللّٰه led into apostasy back to Islam.
Upon
this letter reaching that professor, he answered the call of the Ameer of Ahl
al-Sunnah دَامَتْ
بَرَكَاتُهُمُ
الْعَالِيَة
and immediately repented and became a Muslim. The father and family members of
this brother then treated him with intense severity, but he remained firm. اَلْحَمْدُلِلّٰه through the blessings of listening to
the speech of the Amer of Ahl al-Sunnah دَامَتْ
بَرَكَاتُهُمُ
الْعَالِيَة,
his entire family was eventually saved from the Qādiyānī
religion and entered into Islam.¹
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْب صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّد
People
Hanging from Branches of Fire
On
the night of Miʿrāj, the Prophet ﷺ saw some people in hell hanging from branches
of fire. The Prophet ﷺ
asked, "O Jibril! Who are these people?" He replied, "These are
those people who swore at their parents in the world."²
Remember!
Annoying one's parents and harming them is an action that leads a person to the
hellfire. In the Quran, Allah Almighty has forbidden chiding and even saying
'Uff' to one's parents:
فَلَا تَقُلْ لَهُمَآ أُفٍّ وَلَا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَقُلْ لَّهُمَا
قَوْلًا كَرِيْمًا
So, do not say (even)
'Ugh' to them and do not scold them, and speak to them words of respect.³
¹
Tazkirah e Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, vol. 1, p. 10
² Al-Zawajir, vol. 2, p. 125
³ [Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 15, Surah Bani Isra'il, verse 23)
There
is other worldly punishment for disobedience and causing harm to parents.
However, one has to face dreadful punishment in this world also. It is seen
repeatedly that those who annoy and harm their parents spend their lives
humiliated and disgraced by their own children in turn. Sayyidunā Abū
Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
رضی
اللّٰہ
عنہ
narrates that our beloved Prophet ﷺ stated, "Allah Almighty forgives
whichever sin He wills for whichever person, but He does not forgive disobedience
and causing of harm to parents, rather he punishes such a person in this
worldly life before his death."¹
Dil duKhāna chor day maan
baap ka
Warna hai is mayn khasara aap ka
Kar lay toba Rabb ki
rahmat hai bari
Qabr mayn warna saza ho gi kari
Give up ḥurting your mother
and father
Otherwise, there is great loss for you
Repent! For vast is the mercy of your
Lord, most dear
Otherwise, the punishment in the grave will be severe
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْب صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّد
Three
Punishments of Adulterers and Fornicators
Adultery
is an extremely sinful and degraded sin. There are many emphases on avoiding
adultery in the noble Quran and hadith and they mention intense punishments for
those that commit such an act. It is stated in the noble Quran:
وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الزِّنَىٰ ۖ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَسَاءَ
سَبِيْلًا
And do not even go near
Zina (fornication/adultery i.e. unlawful intercourse); it is indeed
shamelessness, and a very evil way.⁴
¹
Shuʿab al-Īmān: 7890
² Wasaʾil-e-Bakhshish, p. 228
³ Wasaʾil-e-Bakhshish, p. 227
⁴ [Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 15, Surah Bani Isra'il, verse 32)
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