Suratul Fatiha - Hujjat Workshop

• This personality preached a religion – founded a state,built a nation, laid down a moral code, initiatednumberless social and political reforms, established adynamic and powerful society to practise andrepresent his teachings, revolutionalised the worlds ofhuman thought and action for all time.The human being is faced with hundreds of roads that areplaced before him but there is only one siratul mustaqeem.This is the meaning of the hadith where one day Rasulullah(S.A.W.) was sitting with his companions when he took a twigand began to scratch some lines on the earth. One of the lineswas straight whilst the others were twisted and crooked. Hethem pointed to the straight line and said “This is my path; allthe others are not my path.”This is also the reason why the Qur’an mentions darknesses(zhulumat) in the plural as opposed to light (nur) which isalwys in the singular. The paths of going astray are many andvarious. The path of truth is one.It is here that the need for a guide (Prophets) becomes clearbecause without ther guidance the human being is unable todiscern the straight road which will lead to his full potential.The Qur’an has another word for path which is sabeel whichhas a similar meaning to that of siraat or road. Yet in essencethey are not quite the same as sabeel is used in the pluralform as subul whereas siraat is always used in the singular.Thus the meaning of sabeel is the tributary path that ends atthe main fundamental road which is the siraat.We as human beings are like a caravan on the road toperfection. In order to arrive at ultimate perfection we musttravel along the main road. Yet in coming to it each one of uswww.qfatima.com Page 84