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Guidance from Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih V ab
Divine Attribute of Al-Nur (The Light)
Summary of Friday Sermon delivered on January 15th, 2010
Summary of Friday Sermon delivered
on January 15, 2010. Nur (Light)
of God, bad rituals at weddings and
deaths, and raising standards of
modesty
Hudhur ab recited the following
verse at the start of today’s Friday
Sermon:
‘Believe, therefore, in Allah and His
Messenger, and in the Light which We
have sent down. And Allah is Well-
Aware of all that you do.’ (64:9).
Hudhur ab remarked at the
tremendous favour of God on
mankind for bestowing it with
brain-power which enables it to
traverse scientific and technological
inventions at an astonishing
speed. However, is this progress
of material nature the objective of
man’s life? Man of each age and
era has been assuming that his
wealth and power is everything.
In today’s age, younger people
who are not inclined to religion
consider the medium of TV and
internet a source of their progress
which of course is an extremely
erroneous concept. This concept
has gone on to give rise to many
a great oppressor; many Pharaohlike
individuals. God, Who is the
Lord of all the worlds has rejected
this concept in very strong terms.
This indeed is not the objective of
man’s life. For God states in the
Holy Qur’ān: ‘And I have not created
the Jinn and the men but that they may
worship Me.’ (51:57).
The Promised Messiah as wrote that
it is a great pity that upon entering
adulthood many people leave God
and are inclined to worldliness
in which some have only a small
portion for God, while others have
none, and they are wholly taken
in by the world. God has been
sending His Prophets in order
to guide people away from this
mistaken notion and to make them
understand the real objective of
their creation. When mankind had
reached a steady stage of spiritual
and temporal development, God
sent the perfect man, the Holy
Prophet sa with the final Shariah
and announced ‘ … This day have
I perfected your religion for you and
completed My favour upon you and
have chosen for you Islam as religion…’
(5:4).
The Holy Qur’ān, through which
this final Shariah was revealed
elucidates the ways to attain
nearness of God, ways of touching
higher standards of worship, ways
of fulfilling social commitments,
ways of treating one’s enemy, ways
of honouring rights of the underprivileged
in society, ways of rights
of women, ways of benefitting from
future inventions and guidance
for understanding all that there is
in the heavens and the earth. The
Qur’ān mentions everything; some
of which man did not understand
1400 years ago and some of which
man is still endeavouring to
understand. Although the Qur’ān
mentions matters that the believer of
1400 years ago did not understand,
however, the perception and insight
of the perfect man, the Prophet sa
understood it. He was endowed by
God with the perfect light (nur) and
in turn, his Companions had a share
of this light in accordance with
their capacities. The Companions
then went on to spread this light
in the world and thus the light was
transmitted. Regarding the matters
of which man of that age did not
have an insight, it was stated that
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