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In his commentary on this verse, he wrote: “The Jews received courage for their disbelief
and for killing the Prophets through continuous disobedience.”
“It was only after continuous disobedience of the Prophets that the Jews finally scraped
together enough courage for actual rejection of the Prophets. This disobedience grew
within them step by step, gradually becoming a fixed habit and so they began to exceed
the limits in all sins. Finally it reached the stage where sinful acts began to look good in
their eyes with the result that those who came to preach to them against such sins were
considered as their enemies. The Prophets continued to urge them against evil and
earnestly sought that they change their ways. These Prophets were considered
archenemies and thus the Jews killed them. Such is the consequences of sin. It changes
one’s outlook and one’s very nature and belief. For this reason the Ulema of Tariqat laid
great stress on the avoidance of sin because as one malces a habit thereof, it gradually
becomes such that one looks upon it as something praiseworthy, enjoyable, and nice, so
much so that anyone or anything which seeks to stop it. is looked upon with scorn,
resentment and hatred. The result may even be that it leads one right into kufr (disbelief-
rejection of faith).”
For this reason there is a famous saying of the sufis:
‘Whosoever purposely and scornfully underestimates any Islamic ethics, is deprived of
hidayat to follow the Sunnat. And whosoever looks lightly at the Sunnat is deprived of the
hidayat of performing the obligatory duties. And whosoever looks lightly upon the
obligatory duties is deprived of Knowledge of Allah.”
This goes to show the danger of undermining any of the minor details of Shariat. One
should never scornfully consider anything of Shariat to be of no consequence or of no
importance. Now, the respect and honour that is due to the sainly elders is one of the
major etiquettes of Islam. How can one consider it as being unimportant? And when it is
such a thing that can lead to being deprived of the obligatory duties of the Shariat and
even to kufr, you can well imagine how dangerous this affair is.
People often look upon sin lightly and treat it as if it is completely unimportant. They to
not understand that each part of the deen is so closely connected and inter-related to the
rest of the deen that one part supports and relies upon the other. Hence Rasulullah
(Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) is reported to have said: “When people adopt any bida’t
(innovation) Allah removes one Sunnat from among them which never ever returns to
them till the day of Qiyamat.” (Mishkat).
Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) also said: “When Allah decides to destroy any
people, he first of all removes from their hearts all shame. And when they become
shameless, you will see them become hateful and disliked in the eyes of people. When
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