TRUE AKIDAH IN ISLAM, A Path Of Paradise ( Jannah )

In the name of Allah Subhanahu, the most merciful and generous for whom all the praises belong.

In the holy book quraan, at the starting verses after first chapter Surah Fateha, i.e. the starting few verses in surah Bakarah, there is a mentioning of the definition to identify the people of the faith and infidels. There is a mentioning in these verses about the people who declared themselves to have brought faith but Allah said that in fact, they had no faith at all and in their hearts there was a desease ! These are called as munaafiq. The munaafiq are hidden infidels or hidden disbelievers. So, these hidden disbelievers are required to be identified to save our faith or imaan. It is only the akidah, by which, these hidden infidals or munaafiq can be recognised.

Some of the Islam followers say that in quran in verse 3-103 it is written that “And hold fast all together to the rope of God and be not divided” so we must unite without referencing to differences whatever it may be. But does it mean that previous nations should also be included as the people of book (ahle book) also worship the same Allah (God) to whom we the Muslim worship? No, the unity here means unity among the righteous (true aqidah) people. In quran there is an ayat “the truth arrived and the falsehood went and the falsehood had to go” This ayat clearly says that true akida people and false akida people cannot unite. The false akida people have to go. So, the unity can be possible with true people at one side and the unity of false people at other side. Both, the true and false can never unite.

Only the true akidah in Islam is the right path towards Allah and the beloved prophet. The Imam of prayer, i.e. salaat or namaaz must follow true akidah. The salaat will be accepted only if one is offering prayer with true akidah.

The prophet of Islam had forecasted that there would be as many as 73 firqah or groups in Islam but only one would be on right path and that will go to jannah or paradise. Only one group will follow the traditions and actions followed by the companions or sahaabas of the holy prophet.

While it is very difficult to identify the right group on the basis of Kalamah, Salaat, Fastings ( Rosa ), Zakaat and Hajj as all groups perform these basic orders of Islam, it is only akidah by which the right group of jannah can be recognized. The properties of true akidah are mentioned below. If following properties are not adhered to by the imam of the prayer, one should not perform salaat behind such imaam. Because, in hadis, it has been narrated that ones deeds depend on ones intentions. Now if we perform salaat behind faulty imam by saying in our intention that we are following this imam of present prayer, then according to hadis, whatever akidah is followed by the imam will be automatically counted as the akidah of his followers.

(1)The first kalemah, the foundation or heart of Islam is Lailah illallah Mohammed rasulallah. Meaning is that, None but the Allah is one who must be worshiped and Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is the messenger of Allah.

Here, very important thing to note is that Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is a messenger of Allah. See, the present tense has been used. Past tense is not used. One cannot say that Mohammed ( Pbuh ) was a messenger. Hence, it is crystal clear that prophet Mohammed ( Pbuh ) is always alive.

(2)In holy book quraan, in surah Bakarah verse 154, it has been mentioned that those who are killed in the way of Allah are not to be called as dead, but they are alive but you (people)do not know. The ayat is “ la takulu le mayyuktalo fi sabilillahe amawaat bal ahayaa walakin la tashourun” Here, those who are killed for the sake of Allah are called Shahids (martyr) and they are always alive. Now in holy book , it is mentioned in ayat 69 of surah Al Nisa that the nabiyyin,siddiqin,Shohadas (martyrs) and saalehin are considered to be best friends of Allah upon whom he granted prizes (ne’amat) and at other place in quran further stated that they(these friends) are happy with Allah and Allah is happy with them. So, the true belief is that all friends of Allah are alive as martyrs are belonged to this group who are alive according to quraan.In surah Aley Imran in quran, in verse 169 it is written that “ wa laa tahsabanna allazin qotelu fi sabilillah……” do not imagine the martyrs who are killed in the way of Allah as dead, but they are alive and they are provided provisions(rizk) by their lord.

(3)It is the well known thing that the sahabas or companions of the prophet followed the prophet in the best way and the prophet was very pleased to see it. He told that his sahabas were like stars and following them or their guidance would lead you to the right path.Now one can see from the various hadis books and sahabas’ history that when they were in need, urgency or help, they used to rush to their beloved prophet and the prophet used to remove their woes. Though, Allah is there all times. The companions of prophet could have directly sought help from Allah rather than to go to prophet. But this is not the case. Hence it can be argued that a help from nabi ( rasul ) is a help from Allah. This can be generalized to all friends of Allah called as auliya allah. In Surah Al Nisa verse number 80 in quran it is written “Whoever obeys Rasool (Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) in fact he/she has obeyed Allâh. And whoever turns away, then anyhow we have not sent you on those people as a custodian” clearly implies that obeying of Prophet (Pbuh) is obeying Allah. The obeying itself includes any order which may include to seek help from him (person to whom an order is given). This is the reason why the companions of the Prophet(pbuh) used to go for help.This seeking help of companions of prophet from him clearly implies that to seek help from nabiyyin, siddiqin, salehin and shohada does not become shirq.Following two examples are enough to understand that the sahabas were going for help to beloved prophet. Examples of previous prophets are also given.(a)One sahaba came to prophet and told, “ oh my sins, oh my sins.” meaning that he had so much sins. The prophet asked him to utter couple of sentences of forgiveness what he told three times and then prophet replied to him, “ go, all of your sins are forgiven.”

Thus one can conclude that the prophet was even able to see the gaib ( unseen ) that his sins were forgiven. Ones sins are always a gaib or unseen. Nobody can see the sins forgiven but of course, our prophet was looking sins forgiven.(b)One another sahaba was eye-blind. He came to prophet and wanted that his eyes get the sight. The beloved prophet put his saliva to sahaba’s eyes taking on to his finger tip and the sahaba had immediately his blindness removed. There are so many such incidents where sahabas asked prophet to help them instead of going direct to Allah.(c)People sought help from Hajarat Issa (A.S.) to remove leprosy and blindness according to Quran and Quran has not stated this thing as a shirq. As Ulemah of Islam is like previous prophets, their help cannot be considered as a shirq.(d)Musa (A.S.) asked dua to Allah to strengthen him with the help of his brother Harun. This is written in holy quran. See, a prophet is requesting to Allah for his brother Harun’s help for supporting Allah’s deen/religion. This is in surah bakarah.(e)Hazarat Suleiman(A.S.) sought help of his court-member, hazarat Asif Barakhia, who brought the robust throne of queen Bilkis within twinkle of eye lashes of hazarat Suleiman(A.S.) This is according to quran in Surah Namal/an Ant.

The muslim believe that Allah is Khaliq- A creator, and all other thing except him is his creation, then there is no chance of any shirq as even though one is asking help from somebody, the original helper is almighty Allah and the party from which the help sought is just a mediator for help of Allah. When such intension or concept is created, there cannot be shirq. This is the reason our holy prophet forecasted that his ummah will not be doing a sin of shirq. Yes, he told that his ummah will be trapped in temptation of the rich.

(4) From the above when the friends of Allah are alive, their graves are considered as the signs of Allah. When they are alive, their divine help can reach everywhere. In surah Ambiya in verse 91, Hazarata Mayam(AS) and Hazarat Isa (AS) have been written as symbol for alamin(creation). So, the prophets, the siddiquin, the saalehin and the martyrs may be considered as symbols and so as their resting places(shrines) also. To respect these shrines is a good and noble thing.

The prophet of Islam has been admired by holy quran in surah ahjaab saying him as Siraaj- um-muniraa. ( Meaning very brightening sun ). Now see, if the sun of this world is seen around half of the globe at a time, and that it will last till qayaamat- a day of judgement, what may be the position of the sun of risaalat ( Siraj-um-muniraa ) told by Allah. Undoubtedly our beloved prophet can be present everywhere anytime he may wish. Ayat of surah tauba in quran “ lakad jaakum rasulum min anfosekum ………Raufurrahim” tells that prophet has been sent towards us from mankind for mankind and who gets woes when monenin(believers) are in trouble and he is well wishers and rahim for the believers. The properties of Arrauof and Arrahim have been assigned to him to help the momenin of all times and all places till qayaamat-a day of judgement. This clearly states that the prophet is alive and is helping to the believers of all times and at all corners of the earth.

(5)Our prophet is assigned a property of Rahamtal lil Alamin. ( Rehmat for all

Worlds ). In quran in surah ambiyaa it is stated “ wa maa arsalnaak illa rahamatal lil aalamin” The meaning is that “and you are sent for no other cause but rehmat-the blessings for all worlds.” It is said that there are 18000 worlds. Now to become rehmat for all 18000 worlds can only be possible if the prophet can see those worlds, can reach to those worlds and can help the creations of those worlds. So, indeed, he has been given immense power by Allah to help and guide the entire creation of the universe.Now prophet said that the Ulema ( Ulema-e-baatin ) of his nation are like the previous prophets. This hadis is directed towards auliya allah- the friends of allah, who are like previous prophets before hajarat Mohammed ( Pbuh ). So, their graves are considered as signs(symbols) of Allah. Safaa and Marwaa are two small hills but in quraan, these hills are shown as a sign(symbol) of Allah. This is, because, these hills have a relation with one lady friend of Allah called Bibi Hazaraa (A.S.)who was searching water around these hills in the desert for her son Ismail(A.S.). So building a relation with friends of Allah is always a beneficial and blessing act. While anything related with the friend of Allah is recognized as a symbol of Allah then definitely, the places where such friends of Allah are resting in their graves must be considered as the symbols of Allah. To express love towards such symbols of Allah, one can kiss such symbolic structure of grave. Saitan had worshiped Allah for 240 million years but when he refused to honour the prophet Adam(A.S), he was punished and made saitan, kicking at his previous worship. So, to disregard or to dishonour any friend of Allah by whatever way becomes a reason of great displeasure of Allah. We can obtain a divine help by visiting such holy places of graves of auliyas, the friends of Allah, just to please them. Due to this reason, hazarat Khwaza Moinuddin Chishtee Sanjari(R.A.), a great saint in India, had stayed for forty days and did his prayers at the grave of great saint hazarat Daata Ganj Bax Ali Hijaweri(R.A.) at Lahore in Pakistan and received immense spiritual blessings from his grave. His historic stay is commemorated by a symbolic room constructed at the grave vicinity of Daata Ganj Bax. After receiving blessings from his grave, Khwaza Moinuddin (R.A.) uttered praising sentences “Ganje baxe faize aalam majahare noore khuda, Naqisaara peere kamil kamilara rehnuma.” The meaning is- “From Ganj bax, whole of the world is getting blessings who is the divine light of Allah and who is a perfect master for the uneducated and who is a guide for the learned people like me.” One must follow the true path of such great scholar and saint of Islam who made nearly nine million muslims. Such building of relation with saints can be obtained by reciting their love songs and their praise songs called as naats. By reading the books of saints of Islam and their history, true faith can be sharpened. The building of relation of Allah’s friends can be achived by going to their graves much often. If the dog who accompanied the ‘ashaabe kahaf’ the cave-people of friends of Allah whose historical event is mentioned in holy book,quraan, is belonged to paradise, and the donkey of hazarat Ujjair(A.S.) and the camel of hazarat Saleh(A.S.) are belonged to paradise only due to their relation with friends of Allah, we will be definitely among the people of paradise if we attach ourselves with any friend of Allah by whatever good means.For this reason, the great tomb of our prophet is a center of pilgrimage after hajj. One must understand the basic thing of the holy quraan that while reading a true events of previous nabiyyin mentioned in holy book quraan is giving us rewards (sawaab ), and that reading of event in holy quraan can be treated as a prayer or zikr of Allah, we can conclude that reading of history of an Islamic saints and recitation of their names and

praise songs can be considered as a zikr of Allah. In this manner, on the contrary, to throw stones at the saitan, as is done during hajj, is also a zikr of Allah. Hence, to angry with saitan and their followers and to say harsh words to saitan and his followers is also a zikr of Allah. So, we can perform zikr of Allah by three different ways(a) by reciting holy attributed names of Allah by tongue or by heart(b) by reciting names of friends of Allah and reading their history guidance message and (c) abusive or harsh speaking and abusively reacting to saitan and their followers. Surah lahab in quraan comes under this “C” category.

Above faith is a true aqidah in Islam. If your beliefs are according to the beliefs mentioned above, you will be certainly on the right path of Islam. So, come to this right path and be the heirs of the jannah or paradise.

(6)And the solid argument in support of prophet’s ilm-e-gaib ( knowledge ofunseen ) is that prophet could see angels or malaaeka ( farirshta ) as he could see to jibrael and could talk to jibrael and that the prophet can see all malaaeka who bring durud and salaam from muslim ummah to the grave of the prophet. The common man or human being cannot see the angels whereas the prophet can see them. There are examples in the hadis that prophet could see malaaeka. The Malaaeka and Jinn are the creations of Allah who are gaib for common human being. Thus one can easily conclude that prophet knows the gaib- the unseen. A kind of ilm al gaib, known as ilm al ladunni, has been awarded to hazarat Khidar ( A.S.) as stated in quraan, and our beloved prophet Mohammed ( PBUH ) is a leader of him, so, confirmation of prophet’s ilm al gaib is thus proved by the holy book. In surah taqweer in quraan, it is clearly stated that this prophet is not a miser to show the gaib-the unseen ( wa maa howa alal gaibe bedaneen ). So, according to holy book, the prophet has not only acquired the knowledge of gaib-the unseen but he is generous to show it. One of the unseen creation, the jinn can even be seen by common human if one is possessed by the jinn or one who makes the jinn as his servant by some ilm or knowledge. So, it is possible that with the help of knowledge and divine strength, if common men can be able to see some gaib or unseen creations, there is every matter to believe without doubt that the highest learned prophet of Islam can see gaib and can control them too, for, he has been taught by the Allah.

(7)In holy book quraan, it has been mentioned several times that Allah has put so many signs for the clever persons to think and then questions why the persons are not going to think. It means that we must think the nature and glorify the Allah. Upon healthy and positive thinking for the sake of Allah, one will definitely get the true path. Upon thinking about Iron piece inserted into red hot oven, one will see the Iron piece becomes red hot. Before the Iron piece was inserted into oven, it was cold, its colour was grayish black. One can hold it by ones own naked hand. But see the effect of its contact and its relation with the oven fire that for just few minutes of its contact with oven fire, the Iron piece got the burning property of fire then think while our beloved prophet remains in contact with Allah all the times, how can the properties of Allah not be received? Certainly, the properties of Allah are received by the prophet. The Allah has assigned the prophet so many properties. One such property is AL Adlo ( Justful ). So, Mohammed ( Pbuh ) has also this Al Adlo property. Second property is Al Haqq.( Truth ) so the

prophet is also Al Haqq. In short, the Allah’s properties are assigned by Allah to his beloved prophet. In this way, when Allah is everywhere so as his prophet. Allah is al-alim so as his prophet is al-alim. When al-alim property is assigned by Allah, then the prophet has all knowledge including the gaib or unseen. In surah fatah in quran, the hand of the prophet has been called as a hand of Allah at the incident of bait-e-rizwaan for this reason. Such properties are assigned to all friends of Allah through prophet via spiritual guide. When the believer obtains properties of Allah in a perfect way, he is said to have reached to the state of fanaa-fi-allah. It must be noted that acquiring attributes from Allah cannot be said as association or partnership with Allah. Allah has delivered these attributes to his friends. So, supremacy of Allah is not challenged at all. The friends of Allah are the sources from where the light(noor) is emanating or revealed. It is for this reason that though Allah is speaking quraan but the voice is coming out from the holy mouth of the prophet. For the above reason, there is a hadis al qudsi that Allah says that when a true believer prays so much with zikr tremendously and continuously (voluntary prayers) then a time will come when his hands will be the hands of Allah, his eyes will be the eyes of Allah and his tongue will be the tongue of Allah. When the believer reaches this state, he will have properties of Allah assigned to him and he will be able to create miracles and he will be in the group of friends of Allah called as Auliya Allah.

It should be noted that in quran, in surah al Ahzaab in ayat number 45 it is written that “ Ya ayyohannabi inna arsalanak shahidaun wa mubashsheraun……………sirajam munira” “O prophet, we have sent you as witnessing, giving happy news, fear warning and calling towards Allah by the order of Allah and as a shining(brightening) sun(or lamp)” Everybody knows what should be the attributes(qualities) of a good witness. The witness must be physically present at the place of an event for which he/she is witnessing. Further, witness must have seen and recognized the characters of an event. So, all the doubts about attributes of the prophets and friends of Allah are now removed. From this, one can easily differentiate between the true akidah and bad akidah people. Some people argue that we must be unite and should not differentiate among muslims! But bad akidah people cannot be true muslims. Can we mix milk with a curd(yogurt)? If the milk say that the curd is from the milk so let us unite (the curd and the milk), then what will be the result? In stead of curd becoming milk, the milk itself becomes curd. This is the reason our beloved prophet warned us about various groups and told that only one group is on right path and that will go to jannah.

In verse 4-41 of Quran states “Then think what they will do at that time when WE will bring a witness from each nation and on those people WE will raise you (Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) as a witness” So, our Prophet is witness of all the people from beginning till qayamat.

(8) The important thing to note is that while the companions of the prophet best followed the prophet and they and their followers till eight centuries never spoke single sentence against prophet which might even smell to show our beloved prophet like a common human, the faulty or false groups can be easily identified. Call

them to show single incident of sahaba, tabein, tabe-tabein in which they-the false people would like to consider our prophet as without knowledge of gaib or not able to help or not able to go anywhere. In holy book quran, there are some ayats which were used to say in front of non- believers ( kafirs ) or in front of munafikin but those ayats(sentences) must not be taken as qualifications for the prophet. Those ayats are set for the examples to show kindness, nobleness, unproudiness, simplicity and non-arrogantness ( modesty ) in front of non-believers. And for this reason, the companions of the prophet demonstrated the way how to follow the prophet. They used to praise the prophet through out their lives after accepting Islam. This can be understood in this way that when the school teacher of 8th class teaches to the students of that class, he will demonstrate before them so simple but if the same teacher will teach the class of 12th , he will demonstrate higher things. In the same manner, our beloved prophet demonstrated his prophethood according to the learning capacities of the persons. Some verses (ayats) are descended in quran to show piety and purity of Ummul Mo’meneen Hazarata Ayesha Siddiqah (R.A.). These verses descended in connection with the event that during traveling in a caravan at one occasion, hazarata Ayesha (R.A.) missed the caravan as she was busy in finding a necklace which was broken in a tangle with a bush-branch while she was returning from a natural call in the early morning. The palanquin of Hazarata Ayesha(R.A.) was set on the camel without Ayasha (R.A.) entered in. Nobody knew this until, as usual, one man returned to the place of caravan stop-stand after the caravan left to see if anything left (utensils etc) by some one among the caravan people. This man was one of the companions, saw hazarata Ayesha (R.A.) there, and he brought hazarata Ayesha (R.A.) to the caravan. The rumours were spread by disbelievers and munafiqin to spoil image of hazarata Ayesha (R.A.) by this incident. So, Allah descended verses in favour of hazarata Ayesha (R.A.). By reciting this verses, the people will praise hazarata Ayesha (R.A.) for her piety till the day of judgement. Such events must not be taken to create suspicion about Ilm –al –gaib of the holy Prophet (Pbuh). The prophet is always happy with the will and intention of Allah. It was Allah’s intention that Ayesha (R.A.) be praised for her piety till qayamat. For this purpose, such type of test was necessary in which she was passed. For example, if a wealthy man has a locker to preserve money and gold. He has a key for that locker. He can open a locker at his will. Not that all the time at every minute he locks and unlocks the locker. In the same way, the Prophets and the saints use their power at their will. Further, the Prophets have to demonstrate the examples for future reference, and for that, sometimes they have to show patience by remaining silent from using power. If a cloud covers the sun causing weakening sun rays, in fact, it is cloud (the incident, the rumours) which is responsible to weaken sun rays but actual power of sun is not reduced! We feel that the sun has become weak but in fact it has not weakened at all. So, such verses can be regarded as a test of Prophet and ummul mo’meneen. And during Allah’s test, Prophet cannot use power given by Allah. So, it is a lesson taught by our prophet not to take decision influenced by any rumours in future if such incident occurred. Some bad aqidah people use these verses in an abusive way to spoil the qualification of ilm –al-gaib of our beloved Prophet. How can we pray salaat behind such people?

(9) The easiest way of identifying the true akidah is like this. As for example if Mr.Tariq has obtained Ph.D. degree, the highest degree of a university and there are four persons who are describing him. One calls him as a 9th grade passed, second says him first university degree passed, third person says him as master’s degree holder and fourth person calls him as a doctorate or Ph.D. degree holder. From these persons who has correctly recognized Mr. Tariq ? Definitely, the fourth person has correctly recognized Mr. Tariq. Of course, other three are correct but ultimate correct is the fourth person who could recognize the ultimate degree. Exactly in the same manner, only the right path is that true akidah in which our prophet is recognized with the highest degrees. If other three persons deny Ph.D. degree for Mr.Tariq then they are considered as false or wrong persons due to their not recognizing the degree. The smallest degree of our Prophet is, according to hadis, “Allah ya’ati wa ana kasimun” meaning “Allah is giving to me(to Prophet) and I am the distributor” The treasures of almighty Allah are with the Prophet and those are being distributed by the holy prophet to whom he may wish. This thing is worth noting! All other degrees of our Prophet are greater than this. This shows the greatness of our Prophet. It is the customs in the world that a person who holds the office of a mayor of a city is recognized as a mayor. If somebody identifies him as a human being, that person will be considered as a mad or a sick person! The bad akidah people are doing the same job like a mad man by not recognizing degrees (attributes) of our prophet. What a foolishness bad akidah people has, they recognize the degree of president of a country but they cannot recognize degrees of our holy prophet !

(10)In salaat (namaaz), there is “attahiyaat” ( attahiyaato wassalawato ) which is compulsory to recite, and which contains in it the words- assalamo alayka ayyohannabiyyo, meaning salam to you o nabi, clearly states that nabi-the prophet is in front of you. In Arabic, the root word is alaa. Alaa means at or upon. Alaa is made of arabic letters ain, laam, ya. If you join small kaaf after the last letter “ya” of alaa, it will make alayka-at you(upon you or to you ). If “ha’” is joined after “ya” the word alaa will become alayhe-upon him. Ha and Mim if joined after ya will make alaa as alayhim (upon them), if nun and alef are joined, alayna(upon us) will be made. If small kaaf and mim are joined, alaykum(upon you all) in plural form will be made. From this, one can easily conclude that prophet is present in front of you during salaat(namaaz).

(11)In holy book quran, in ayat two of surah Hujarat, “ ya ayyohallajina aamanu la tarfau aswaatakum……. Wa antum laa tashourun” states that “o believers, do not keep your voice louder than the voice of nabi(Pbuh) while talking to him as usually you talk loudly to each other while you talk to each other, lest your good deeds should be destroyed and you even cannot know” This ayat is alarming us that even to speak louder in front of nabi(pbuh) is treated as insult to him and becomes a reason to destroy our good deeds. Now think of those who speak displeasing words about our prophet by one or other way. What will happen to those people ? Their good deeds are vanished without their knowledge. They will know this thing at the time of day of judgement. Normally, if someone drinks wine, a sin will be written in his or her account as wine is prohibited in Islam but this sin will not erase his or her good deed like salaat(namaaz), fastings etc. This clearly implies that to insult or to displease nabi or any friend of Allah becomes so

great sin that cause all previous merits(sawaab) of good deeds destroyed. Further, in ayat number 104 in surah bakarah, holy quran teaches us “ya ayyohallajina aamanu la takulu raaenaa wa kulun zurranaa….azaban alim” do not say raaenaa(to his beloved prophet-pbuh) and say anzurnaa and listen to him(prophet) and there is tremendous woes(azaab) to disbelievers(infidels). The word raaenaa has good meaning in arabic language but it has abusive(mean) meaning in the dictionary of jews. So, Allah declared through quran that it will be considered as insult to his prophet if some word is used for his prophet which has abusive meaning in any language of the universe eventhough there is no intention to do any kind of insult. The history of descending this ayat was that the companions of prophet(pbuh) used to say the word raaenaa just to request the repetition of meaning what prophet talked of during holy speeches. Though, the intention of the companions was never to have any kind of bad meaning, the quran ordered not to say any word which can have bad meaning in any other language or dictionary. Thus clear indication is that Allah wants no smell of disrespect of his beloved prophet from near or far. Any kind of disrespect to prophet or friends of Allah will be considered as a sin of so high magnitude that it will erase all good deeds of a person. Only disbelief (kufr) can make the good deeds erased and this ayat relates the sin as good as that of kufr(disbelief). So, come to true akidah and make our prophet happy by whatever way you can. The akidah shown in this essay will definitely make our prophet happy. These beliefs are adopted by the saints and friends of Allah.

(12)In surah Mujadilah in ayat number 22 it is written “La tajidu qawman yuminoona biAllahi waalyawmi alakhiri yuwaddoona man hadda Allaha warasoolahu walaw kanoo abaahum aw abnaahum aw ikhwanahum aw AAasheeratahum olaika kataba fee quloobihimu aleemana waayyadahum biroohin minhu wayudkhiluhum jannatin tajree min tahtiha alanharu khalideena feeha radiya Allahu AAanhum waradoo AAanhu olaika hizbu Allahi ala inna hizba Allahi humu almuflihoona ”You will never see that those people who believe in Allâh and the Last Day they love those people who have opposed Allâh and HIS Rasool (Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), even if they are their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their family members. These are those people in whose hearts Allâh has imprinted Faith and has strengthened them with a spirit (Rûh) from HIMSELF. HE will admit them into such Gardens (Paradise) underneath which canals will be flowing. There they will live forever. Allâh is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allâh. They are the members of Party of Allâh. Be aware! Only the members of the Party of Allâh are going to be successful.” These verses of quran advise us to detach ourselves from those whosoever talks ill, abusive or displeasing words for our prophet.

(13) In surah Mudassir, verse 25 it states that “This is a word of a human” Word is meant here as quran and human is meant for prophet Mohammed(pbuh). These words were spoken by the non believers but in the immediate next verse Allah replies to non-believers that “Soon I shall throw them in hell fire” Now think about this. Some so called today’s muslims used to say our prophet as human being only. Such people must see the reply given by Allah. Hence the strong faith muslims today call such people as one kind

of present day munaafiq. And due to this they avoid to perform salat behind faulty akidah imam.

(14) When Allah made (His) covenant with the prophets, (He said): “Behold that which I have given you of the Scripture and knowledge. And afterward there will come unto you a messenger (Prophet Mohammed-Pbuh), confirming that which you possess; you shall believe in him and you shall help him.” He said: “Do you agree, and will you take up my burden (which I lay upon you) in this (matter)?” They(All the Prophets) answered: “We agree” He said: “Then bear witness each other and I will be a witness upon you.” – [Quran 3:81]

These verses are the dialogue of Allah with All prophets’ souls in the world of souls before the creation of physical humans on this earth. Allah made a covenant from the all the souls of the Prophets that they must obey and help Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) in whose time he would descend on the earth. This was the condition to obtain prophet-hood for all the Prophets ! From this one can understand the reality of Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh). If any Prophet had refused this covenant, his Prophet-hood would have lost ! Prophet Mohammed(Pbuh) became the leader of all the Prophets and he lead the prayers in Al Aqsa Mosque at the time during the me’raj, the ascention towards heaven and above to meet Allah. As Prophet was descended as a final Prophet, all the Prophets asked Allah about how they could obey Prophet Mohammed(Pbuh) according to covenant as he was descended last, Allah ordered them to meet him and follow him in the prayers during night journey of me’raj. This was the reason why All the Prophets were gathered to meet Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) in Al Aqsa mosque.

(15)In Surah Al Ahzaab, verse -6(quran) it is written “Annabiyyo awla bilmu’menin min anfosehim wa azwazohu ummahatohum” meaning that the Prophet (Mohammed-Pbuh) is nearer to mo’menin than their lives/souls and his wives are mothers of mo’menin. So, the prophet is near to all believers till qayamat(judgment day) in such a way that he is more nearer than believers’ souls. It must be noted that word “mo’min” is used. It means that he is near to only true believers and not to all humans. So, the qafirs and munafiqs are avoided from nearness. So, one can easily recognize the bad aqidah people who say that prophet is not near and “Ya Rasulallah” cannot be said! True aqidah people say “Ya Rasulallah” because they know that prophet is very near, near than their souls and listen to them.

(16) In Surah Al-Nisa, in verse number 174 it is written in quran “Ya ayyohannaso qad jaa’kum burhanum min rabbekum…….Nuram mubinaa” meaning “O people, came to you from your lord an argument and descended towards you shining light” Here, “argument” is called for beloved Prophet (Pbuh) and “light” is called for quran. So, our beloved Prophet is a clear argument in favor of Allah. Our claim is “No other but Allah is a lord to be worshiped” and its argument is Prophet Mohammed(Pbuh). If an argument is imperfect, the claim will be definitely lost. Some bad akidah people sees imperfectness in our Prophet (Pbuh). Allah and his Prophet (Pbuh) protect us from such people.

(17) In Surah Al Maidah in verse 35 it is written “Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha waibtaghoo ilayhi alwaseelata wajahidoo fee sabeelihi laAAallakum tuflihoona””O people, who have brought Faith, Fear Allâh and seek the means to be closer to HIM and do strive hard (do Jihad) in HIS Path, perhaps you may attain success”

This clearly implies to seek wasilaa-the mediation or means to get closer to Allah. The means may a good deed. And to take allegiance of a friend of Allah to take his guidance to get closer to Allah is undoubtedly a good deed. This verse supports the act of taking bait (peer-Muridi). Further in Surah Al Fatah there is a mentioning of event of bait-al-ridwan, when companions of Prophet (Pbuh) take bait (allegiance) on the blessed hand of Prophet (Pbuh) and quran further states that on their hand rests the hand of Allah. Subhanallah, what a pious and great deed the deed of taking bait is! Now a day bad akidah people deprive the people from such a virtuous deed in the name of innovation (bida’ah). In fact the bad akidah peoples’ groups are new, only 50-100 years old, their books are new, they derived innovated things and their ideology and philosophy are innovated. The groups of bad akidah themselves are innovation in Islam. We must detach ourselves from such innovated group as hadis tells “every innovation is bad”

(18)In quran in Surah Al-Nisa verse 64 (4-64) it is mentioned like this “Wama arsalna min rasoolin illa liyutaAAa biithni Allahi walaw annahum ith thalamoo anfusahum jaooka faistaghfaroo Allaha waistaghfara lahumu alrrasoolu lawajadoo Allaha tawwaban raheeman” meaning “And we have sent messengers so that by the command of Allah they must be obeyed and if from them (believers) anybody commits sin (mistake) he/she must go near to you (to prophet-pbuh) and ask for forgiveness from Allah and Prophet (pbuh) also ask for his/her forgiveness, then Allah will be found most merciful to remove sins”

This verse guides us to go to the Prophet to ask his help to remove sins. Allah is sufficient and yet he advised the believers to seek help of his Prophet (sav) indicates that help of Prophet (sav) and help of any friend of Allah is a help of Allah. As shown previously, the friends of Allah (nabiyyin, siddiqin,shohadas and saalehin) are the party of Allah. Bad akidah people are easily exposed by this verse. In hadis book an incident has been recorded that a companion of the Prophet (sav)came near the grave of Prophet (sav) and recited this verse and asked for his forgiveness and he heard the voice from the holy grave that he was blessed by the Prophet (sav) and forgiven and obtained jannah. This incident had occurred few years after Prophet (sav) took veil from this physical world.

(19) In holy Quran verse( 5-15)"There has come to you a light from Allah and a clear Book” shows that the Prophet is Noor(light). In hadis book there is a hadis of Prophet revealed by hazarat Jabir bin Abdullah (RA) who narrated that Prophet (sav) told him “First of all Allah created the noor (light) of your nabi (Prophet) and from that light he created everything of his creations” The well-known scholar al-Alusi says that the light in question is no other than the Prophet, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him. He quotes the follower, Qatada, as an authoritative source for this opinion, as well as other

well known scholars, pointing out that this is the most logical interpretation of the construction of the verse.

“Although the Prophet’s light is most powerful in the universe since he is the nearest created being to Allah, it is not only the one. Angels are made of light, the quranis light, the spirits of human beings are light, faith is light, knowledge is light, the sun, the moon, and the stars are also lights. The light of each human being depends upon his faith, knowledge, and virtue. Thus the most powerful lights are those of Divine Messengers, then those of Prophets, saints, virtuous believers, and finally those of sinful believers. This is the hierarchy of human beings. Both the first and the last are human, all have lights, and all are slaves of Allah, but the distance between the top of the pyramid and its bottom is so great that those at the bottom, in Paradise, will see those at the top as distant as, in this world, we see the stars at night.(Tirmidhi)”

Some bad akidah people try to diminish the rank of our beloved Prophet by saying that he is made of clay (Allah protect us from such belief) and noor is hidayat only as regards to quran verse (5-15) in which noor is quoted for the Prophet! If one is going to translate the quranic verse (5-15) according to bad akidah theory, it will be like this “ came to you hidayat from Allah and hidayat” As kitab (quran) is hidayat itself. The true translation is “Came to you from Allah the light and the clear kitab(book)” Here light is obviously meant Prophet Mohammed (sav). To such people quran gives guidance in the verses in which Prophet Musa (AS) requested Allah to see him. But Allah told Musa (AS) that he would not bear Allah’s noor. But Musa (AS) insisted further and Allah replied him to see on the mount Toor where Allah descended his light ( high intensity light-tajalli). Musa (AS) saw the reflected light from mount Toor and his eye sight was lost. The accompanied companions of Musa (AS) could not bear even that reflected light and died. So, the Noor is one attribute and the Hadiyy (Hidayat) is another different attribute. The Noor al Hadiyy is the combination of two different attributes. The combined attributes do mean that “light giving hidayat” is noor al hadiyy.

So, the noor of Prophet Mohammed (sav) is created from the noor of Allah is the true akidah in Islam. Imam Busairi (RA) in his qasidaa Burida Shareef states about Prophet Mohammed (sav) that his status in humans is that the ruby has in stones. Though Ruby is among the stones, there is a big difference between stones and ruby. Similarly, Our Prophet (sav) is among the human but he is noori basher (human dressed in the light).

(20) The Prophets, The Siddiqeen , shohada (martyrs) and Shaleheen (friends of Allah) can go anywhere they wish from their graves. During me’raj (journey to heavens and further) our Prophet (sav) lead the prayer(salaat) in Al-Aqsa mosque where all the previous Prophets came to Al-Aqsa mosque from their graves and performed salaat under the leadership of Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh). This is very clear evidence that the Prophets (and friends of Allah) can help the needy people coming out of their graves if they so wish. They may help spiritually as well as physically if required.

IMPORTANT:

In holy quraan, it is written in surah Hasr that if quraanic verses descended on the mountains, the mountains would break up into particles like sand! Now such heavy verses were taken by our Prophet through angel jibrael(A.S.) but think of those verses which were taken directly from Allah by our Prophet without any assistance from jibrael(A.S.) which are known as hadis-e-qudsi. Hadis-e-qudsi were those talks which were spoken by Allah through the heart of our Prophet. In narrating such hadis, our Prophet used to say that “Allah says that…..” In such hadis, actually the talk was said by Allah and Prophet himself was the narrater. The weight of such hadis-e-qudsi could not be taken up by even jibrael and hence such talks of Allah had to be directly put in the heart of the holy Prophet. The Significance of hadis-e-qudsi is so great. One such hadis is “Allah says that he cannot be contained in the earth or skies but he can be contained in the heart of the mo’min(believer)” This hadis explains who the perfect believer is. For this reason, the hearts of the spiritual Islamic saints are reckoned as qibla. For this reason, holy house of Mecca is said as house of Allah as it is built by hazarat Ibrahim(A.S.) and hazarat Ismail(A.S.). For this reason, Prophets hands are said as hands of Allah. Due to this reason, sajad-e taazim is allowed for pious saints(friends of Allah) and prophets, though it is not compulsory like previous nations’ laws(shariat). The fastings of month of muharram,that is, fastings of aashura, 9 &10 were compulsory in previous shariat but not compulsory in Islam but are allowed to keep if a person so wish. In the same way sajad-e-taazim is allowed but not compulsory in Islam. In hadis books, the incident of hazarat Akramaa has been mentioned. Hazarat Akramaa performed sajada-e-taazim, prostration of respect at the holy feet of Prophet Mohammed(Pbuh) at the time of accepting islam. Beloved Prophet did not advise to hazarat Akramaa or other companions gathered near holy Prophet not to perform such sajada. This clearly implies that such sajada is allowed. Compulsion of such sajada is removed due to the fact that it is difficult for common muslim person to recognize the pious person or the friend of Allah. Only the person of wisdom and knowledge can recognize the real personalities who may be respected by sajada-e-taazim.

On one another incident mentioned in hadis books, quoting that incident, some scholars of islam declared sajad-e-taazim as haraam(denied work). This happened due to mis-interpretation. One villager was arriving with his camel to Prophet. The camel made sajada in front of our beloved Prophet. Looking to this, the companions asked holy Prophet whether they should perform sajada as camel had done. In reply Prophet replied “If I order you to perform sajada, I would order the wife to perform sajada at the feet of her husband” In this hadis, it has been clearly mentioned “I would order” means if he ordered then there would be compulsion. So, Prophet removed compulsion of sajada-e-taazim, but still, its allowance is remained. Taazimi sajada depends on love and knowledge of the performer. This is the reason why such act is common in the way of tariqat, the more advanced sufi path, the path of friends of Allah. The great saint, hazarat saiyed Nizamuddin Auliya (R.A.)had explained in details about such sajada and wrote that sajada-e-taazim was allowed in Islam.

This short essay will be definitely useful to acquire true belief and akidah. Such akidah will lead you towards jannah. The sins are forgivable but bad akidah or faulty akidah cannot be forgivable. If Allah wants to take any one to jannah, he first guides to that

person towards true akidah. So, one must seriously think for the above essay.

SUMMARY:(1) Covenant from all the prophets were taken to obey Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh)and help him to retain the Prophet-hood. This covenant was taken in the world of souls before creating and sending humans on the earth. If any Prophet refused to make this covenant, he would lose his Prophet-hood.(2) In physical world in the time of Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh), the beloved companions (the believers) were instructed by Allah that they must not talk loudly while talking in the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) and warned that whoever talked loudly, his all earned virtues for his good deeds would be erased!(3) The third question in the grave will be asked about Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh). The question is “What do you say about this man?” Remember, this is test in the grave. Hence our Prophet is shown to the person going to die. The true akidah people will recognize the Prophet but faulty akidah people will not recognize and will simply say that he is a man ! This is, because, they used to speak the prophet as a “man” as his degree !

From this essay, the faulty akidah people can be easily recognized who used to talk unpleasant and disrespectful words. The curd (yogurt) is a corrupted Milk. If the Milk say that we (Curd and Milk) must unite, the result will that the milk will become curd ! The Curd will not become Milk ! This is the reason our Prophet warned us about faulty akidah (bad akidah) people.