Post by maruf on Oct 21, 2004 3:47:45 GMT -5
Perfecting Oneself through Working to Change Society
Muhammad (saw) was revealed the deen of Islam which he conveyed to the society where he lived. He (saw) did not have in him even a tiny amount of selfishness as he sacrificed all to carry the da’awa to the people. For none of us would even have smelt the sweetness of Islam had it not been for the da’awa that came before us. The Sahaba (ra) had the best teacher who cultured them with the correct understanding of Islam. They likewise carried Islam to people through their sacrifice in the da’awa, the fruits of which we witness today.
Since the kuffar, who hate Islam, launched their intellectual attack against the ummah, they managed to distort some of the Islamic concepts so that Muslims started to carry these false misunderstandings instead of the pure Islamic concepts. Among the most dangerous ideas which affected the Muslims made them shun the da’awa for Islam, look down upon those who work to keep the munkar out of society and hold in high esteem those who do not concern themselves with other than the perfection of their own iman.
Yet how could a person’s Iman be perfected if he only had Iman in part of what Allah revealed. Whose Iman is perfected who believes in the prayer and is motivated by it but disbelieves in the zakat and so does not pay it? Allah condemns the ‘picking and choosing’ from his deen. He (swt) says:
“Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in and do ye reject the rest? But what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life? and on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.” [TMQ 2:85]
And so many other times He (swt) condemns the following of one’s own desires.
So how can it be that some Muslims today can emphasise only some aspects of the Islamic Shar’iah and bring excuses to neglect the rest of Allah’s deen, particularly anything which is more than just individual ibadah.
It is the kuffar from the West and East who propagated the notion that individual actions which involve chanting, seclusion and asceticism are better and more ‘religious’ than other actions which were concerned with the affairs of the life. How could Muslims allow themselves to be drawn by such false claims when there exists no Islamic evidence to suggest such a thing. And Allah revealed Islam to define to the people what is pleasing to Him so that they would reject the shirk of following their own whims to define what is better for Allah.
On the contrary Muslims who were influenced by this devious philosophising of the Kuffar started to adopt that as the truth and interpret Islam with this filthy misunderstanding. They would emphasise the individual aspects of Ayat and Hadith, claiming that these were all that is important and others were just circumstantial and not important evidences for Muslims to follow. They invented a lie called the ‘Spirit of Islam’ which contradicted the Shar’iah wholly but they still followed this instead of the text. They ignored ayat and hadith which clearly contradicted their misunderstanding such that many people soon did not know such daleel existed. Further they made wild claims about the Sahaba (ra) such that Muslims felt that it was impossible to be as good as them so we should not try to be as obedient to Allah as they were, but just to concentrate our whole life on a few individual actions, ignoring most of the revelation revealed to Muhammad (saw) and most of what the Sahaba (ra) acted upon.
To claim that Muslims can improve their situation by isolating themselves from the affairs of society is false. Equally false is the notion that Muslims should just encourage each other to improve the individual personal actions to perfection before starting to discuss the affairs of society. These claims help the kuffar to control the Muslims as we remain weak, never able to control our own affairs as we remain ignorant of how to manage them and defeat the Kuffar’s conspiracies against us.
“And fear the Fitna (affliction, trial) which affects not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong, and know that Allah is Severe in punishment.” [TMQ 8:25]
The idea that Muslims should neglect calling the society to implement the Islamic rules in favour of performing individual ibadah is warned of in this Hadith, as the selfish individualistic people do nothing to prevent the evil, but vainly concentrate on their own piety instead.
The Messenger of Allah (swt) was asked: “will we be destroyed while there are righteous people amongst us?” He replied: “Yes, when the evil becomes great.”
The Prophet (saw) said “Any people amongst whom disobedience occurs, and they do not change it, are not more honoured and more secure than the sinners from the punishment of Allah sweeping them.”
Ahmad and Tabarani narrated on the authority of Udai Ibn Umairah that he (saw) said “Allah (swt) would not punish a people because of the deeds of a few of them, until the people see the evil amongst them and they are able to prevent it, but they do not do that. If they do not, Allah I would punish them and the few”.
After hearing this, how could people listen to those who tell them not to speak about the evil in society? Our Master Muhammad (saw) has spoken, won’t we then take heed?
Abu Dawud has narrated on the authority of Qays b. Abi Hazm: “That Abu Bakr (ra) after he had glorified and praised Allah he said: O people! You read this ayah but you do not understand it:
“O you who believe! Guard your own souls: If you follow the right guidance none can hurt you from those who have gone astray” [TMQ Al-Maida: 105]
Muhammad (saw) was revealed the deen of Islam which he conveyed to the society where he lived. He (saw) did not have in him even a tiny amount of selfishness as he sacrificed all to carry the da’awa to the people. For none of us would even have smelt the sweetness of Islam had it not been for the da’awa that came before us. The Sahaba (ra) had the best teacher who cultured them with the correct understanding of Islam. They likewise carried Islam to people through their sacrifice in the da’awa, the fruits of which we witness today.
Since the kuffar, who hate Islam, launched their intellectual attack against the ummah, they managed to distort some of the Islamic concepts so that Muslims started to carry these false misunderstandings instead of the pure Islamic concepts. Among the most dangerous ideas which affected the Muslims made them shun the da’awa for Islam, look down upon those who work to keep the munkar out of society and hold in high esteem those who do not concern themselves with other than the perfection of their own iman.
Yet how could a person’s Iman be perfected if he only had Iman in part of what Allah revealed. Whose Iman is perfected who believes in the prayer and is motivated by it but disbelieves in the zakat and so does not pay it? Allah condemns the ‘picking and choosing’ from his deen. He (swt) says:
“Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in and do ye reject the rest? But what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life? and on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.” [TMQ 2:85]
And so many other times He (swt) condemns the following of one’s own desires.
So how can it be that some Muslims today can emphasise only some aspects of the Islamic Shar’iah and bring excuses to neglect the rest of Allah’s deen, particularly anything which is more than just individual ibadah.
It is the kuffar from the West and East who propagated the notion that individual actions which involve chanting, seclusion and asceticism are better and more ‘religious’ than other actions which were concerned with the affairs of the life. How could Muslims allow themselves to be drawn by such false claims when there exists no Islamic evidence to suggest such a thing. And Allah revealed Islam to define to the people what is pleasing to Him so that they would reject the shirk of following their own whims to define what is better for Allah.
On the contrary Muslims who were influenced by this devious philosophising of the Kuffar started to adopt that as the truth and interpret Islam with this filthy misunderstanding. They would emphasise the individual aspects of Ayat and Hadith, claiming that these were all that is important and others were just circumstantial and not important evidences for Muslims to follow. They invented a lie called the ‘Spirit of Islam’ which contradicted the Shar’iah wholly but they still followed this instead of the text. They ignored ayat and hadith which clearly contradicted their misunderstanding such that many people soon did not know such daleel existed. Further they made wild claims about the Sahaba (ra) such that Muslims felt that it was impossible to be as good as them so we should not try to be as obedient to Allah as they were, but just to concentrate our whole life on a few individual actions, ignoring most of the revelation revealed to Muhammad (saw) and most of what the Sahaba (ra) acted upon.
To claim that Muslims can improve their situation by isolating themselves from the affairs of society is false. Equally false is the notion that Muslims should just encourage each other to improve the individual personal actions to perfection before starting to discuss the affairs of society. These claims help the kuffar to control the Muslims as we remain weak, never able to control our own affairs as we remain ignorant of how to manage them and defeat the Kuffar’s conspiracies against us.
“And fear the Fitna (affliction, trial) which affects not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong, and know that Allah is Severe in punishment.” [TMQ 8:25]
The idea that Muslims should neglect calling the society to implement the Islamic rules in favour of performing individual ibadah is warned of in this Hadith, as the selfish individualistic people do nothing to prevent the evil, but vainly concentrate on their own piety instead.
The Messenger of Allah (swt) was asked: “will we be destroyed while there are righteous people amongst us?” He replied: “Yes, when the evil becomes great.”
The Prophet (saw) said “Any people amongst whom disobedience occurs, and they do not change it, are not more honoured and more secure than the sinners from the punishment of Allah sweeping them.”
Ahmad and Tabarani narrated on the authority of Udai Ibn Umairah that he (saw) said “Allah (swt) would not punish a people because of the deeds of a few of them, until the people see the evil amongst them and they are able to prevent it, but they do not do that. If they do not, Allah I would punish them and the few”.
After hearing this, how could people listen to those who tell them not to speak about the evil in society? Our Master Muhammad (saw) has spoken, won’t we then take heed?
Abu Dawud has narrated on the authority of Qays b. Abi Hazm: “That Abu Bakr (ra) after he had glorified and praised Allah he said: O people! You read this ayah but you do not understand it:
“O you who believe! Guard your own souls: If you follow the right guidance none can hurt you from those who have gone astray” [TMQ Al-Maida: 105]