There
is no God except Allah
A glance at world history makes it
clear beyond doubt that, in every country of the world and in every age, all
the Prophets, reformers, guides and founders of religions had belief in one
God, and all of them made all-out efforts to convince their people of the
existence of one Elevated Creator. Although Adam, Nûh (Noah), Ibrahim
(Abraham), Mûsa (Moses) and Muhammad lived in ages hundreds and thousands of
years far from one another, but their teachings had Oneness of the Creator as
the common factor.
Krishnji, Ramchandraji, Gautama
Buddha and Guru Nanak happened to be in India; Kaiqbad and Zoroaster in Iran;
Confucius in China, Luqmân in Greece; Yûsuf (Joseph) in Egypt; Lût in Syria and
Palestine — but Oneness of God lies at the base of the teachings of all.
Almost all men and children, old and
young, male and female, Christians and Jews etc., believe in Allâh the
Almighty. May be, some people in very small number, refuse to utter the name of
God but within their hearts they too feel His Presence. They have to admit that
this process of cause and effect goes on created and supervised by some power
wise to the extreme. This Wise and Well-Intentioned One is known as Allâh the
Almighty.
None but the insane can reject the
unanimous belief of the men of intellect and the magnificent creation of Allâh
the Almighty.
Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allâh
The magnificent kingdom of Rome had
already been broken into pieces and its semi-brute laws and constitution had
become distorted enough to wipe out whatever good points happened to be
therein. Persian Empire had become the storehouse of corruption and atrocities;
China and Turkistan appeared to be the haven of bloodshed and ferocity; in
India, the administrations of Asoka and Kanishka were non-existent: none could
even think of the reign of Maharaja Vikarmajeet, nor was there any model of
Buddhism nor of Brahmanism.
Those paying respects to Buddha
would commit amply shameful acts for the sake of power and worldly comforts or
out of weakness in belief. Those reading the rosary of Shri Krishn had no
hesitation in making men the most honorable among the created things to
prostrate before the vegetables and the stones. If Europe was like a forest
with its men as bloodthirsty and ferocious as the beasts, the whole of Arabia
had been reduced to the state of animality. In short, nowhere in the world
human race appeared sticking to its pure quality of humanness and nobility. In
a situation when the entire world had turned dark and dismal, it was the duty
of the people of India to ponder over the fourth chapter of Gita where Shri
Krishn Maharaj says:
"O Arjun! Whenever faith falls
in jeopardy and faithlessness grows, I provide safety to the virtuous and
establish faith by wiping the evils out."
It was the sheer duty of the
Persians to come out in search of a guide as per the dictates of Zoroaster. It
was for the Jews to wait for the appearance of the light from the peaks of the
Faran range and held themselves back from stopper stone becoming the
cornerstone. It was the bounden duty of the Christians to make the prayer of
Ibrahim (Abraham) and the glad tidings of Jesus, center of their hope. But the
global corruption and disruption and all-round darkness had caused human eyes
to become so dark and blind that nobody was conscious enough to take himself to
be ailing and go ahead for any medicine.
In such an age and in a territory
like Arabia, Muhammad rose to remove the mischief of polytheism, darkness of
idolatry, pollution of corruption and disruption and defilement of vices and
shamelessness, and raising the voice of La ilâha illallâh, he performed his
singular and sacred duty of making men out of men-like people, and men to be
men of high morals, and such noble people to be men of God to change darkness
into light, righteousness, peace, uprightness and virtue; and carve pure
Muslims out of the deviated, idolaters and evil persons.
Nûh was forced by the circumstances
to do them away with the sword of "My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers
on the earth!" (71:26) after his relentless efforts of hundreds of years
to bring the deviated people of Iraq and Arabia back to the right path. Mûsa
tried hard to show the Egyptians and the arrogant king the right path but at
last, Mûsa (Moses) and Children of Israel saw the sight about which the noble Quran
then said:
"...and
drowned Pharaoh's people while you were looking (at them, when the sea-water
covered them)." (2:50)
It is for this that Maharaja
Ramchandraji invaded Lanka and fought with the demons, and Shri Krishn Maharaj
persuaded Arjun to fight in the battlefield of Krukshetra, and had to destroy
the defying Kurûs at the hands of the Pandûs. In Iran, Zoroaster made the
wrestling of Isphandiyar and the Empire of Kiyani the base of his preaching and
propagation of his faith.
But ancient scriptures and
sociological traditions reaching the erudite scholars are unanimous that all
the revered founders of religions and honorable guides in the way of
righteousness have no example to show that, in a short span of less than 25
years, the worst country and the ignorant and brute people became the teacher
and the most civilized and well-mannered people on the earth. In less than a
hundred years, i.e., in 80 years only the followers of the Faith brought by
Muhammad encompassed an area ranging from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean,
i.e., up to the eastern coast of China, and, to say, the whole of the civilized
world. This world of ours cannot present any other example of this miraculous
success. And if the teaching of Islam is superior to all other religious codes
and doctrines for its supreme qualities, who can then question the status of
Muhammad, being the best of all mankind, the Seal of the Prophets and the Mercy
for the world? And who can muster courage to challenge the Divine claim for the
Glorious Quran brought by the Prophet to be matchless and irrefutable? As the Quran
says:
"Verily,
We, it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (the Quran) and surely, We will guard
it (from corruption)." (15:9)
History stands as the most effective
and valuable source of putting nations on the course of progress and prosperity
and saving them from the path of disgrace and degradation. Whenever nations
have gone up to great heights, they have achieved inspiration from nothing but
history.
The Noble Quran has also told us
that the study of history was quite essential for human grace and success in
this world and the Hereafter. The events of the past nations remind us that
such and such nations bore the brunt of their evil deeds while some others
achieved grand success on account of their good deeds. Events of Adam, Nûh,
Ibrahim, Mûsa and others and the plights of Pharaoh, Nimrod, Ad, Thamûd etc.,
have not been mentioned in the Noble Quran for the sake of amusement and entertainment
and to bring about sleep, but for producing in us courage to perform good deeds
and keep away from misdeeds, and changing our present into bright future.
The Prophets who have happened to be
the greatest well-wishers and most affectionate of all for mankind, have always
reminded them of their past history to save them from destruction. None among
the great leaders and reformers of the world appears to have ignored the past
conditions and events in bringing about alertness and consciousness among the
unconscious and self-denying people of their times. It is because of this,
every sermonizer or speaker has recourse to interesting historical events to
encourage and activate their audience. Among the past heroes too, we refer
those who are closely related to us nationally and religiously, and they exert
more influence on our lives. The study of the lives and deeds of Rustam,
Isphandiyar and Gustap can arouse
sense of religious zeal, justice and equity more for the Iranians and Parsees
than the Jains or Indians. Similarly the stories of Bhim, Arjun, Vikarmajeet
and Prithivi Raj influence the Hindus far more than the Christians.
Today, when they have become aware
of the influences and consequences of the histories of nations and the fact has
come to light that this is the only way of bringing a nation back to life and
keep it alive, we see with our naked eyes that those nations which are bereft
of glorious histories, present concocted stories and fabricated fictions in the
name of their histories studded with sparkling events and scintillating
accounts to fill the minds and hearts of the individuals and youths of their
nations so that they come to believe them.
These shameless efforts of
transforming wrong into right go on just for the sake of convincing their
people of their past grandeur without which no nation could be aroused to
compete with others in the race of achieving excellence in various fields of
human life and development. This is the reason why the nation antagonistic and
hostile to another one tries to distort its history and render its men ignorant
of and careless about their history.
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