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May 2017 The
Light 5
heaven so that you are tried in every possible
way.
“For you the road to victory does not lie in dry
logic or in returning abuse with abuse . . . God Almighty
looks down and loathes upon this behaviour
. . .” (Izala Auham, p546-547)
This Jamaat (the AAIIL UK) is one of the
smallest in numbers, we are rejected every day
because of our stance — to hold religion above
the world, but we remain a thorn in the side of
those who pretend that religion is first in their
life. Those who reject us are the ones who cast
doubts into the minds of men but they could not
do this to the elders of our Jamaat as they possessed
a different kind of steadfastness and conviction.
They were not easily swayed by the
promise of worldly gains and they worked with
zealousness for the emancipation of the truth
and the elimination of falsehood.
Why don’t we have the same success, we are
small in numbers but great in means, where is
our success? None of us is hard up for a “few
bob”. The stories I have read about the friends
of the Promised Messiah was that sometimes
they did not have food in their house.
Our numbers are small, our doctrine is the
same, our rejection is greater, so what is lacking
is our steadfastness. We are too easily swayed
by those in authority and even family and thus
our power to love and stand by each other depreciates
and weakens us.
This is what the verse of the Quran means
when it states: “do not dispute with each other
least you lose courage and your strength departs”
When this happens then communities
fall apart, jamaats split and battles are lost.
Central to the avoidance of this sort of
breakdown is love for each other and love for
the Quran. This is the unique characteristic of
the Promised Messiah, i.e. his love for the
Quran. This led him to write a couplet which we
all know امجل و ‏ِنسُح رقآن ونر اجنِ‏ رہ املسمن ےہ which means:
the elegance and beauty of the Quran is the life
of every Muslim. And,
ےتہک ںیہ ‏ِنسُحویفس دشکل تہب اھت نکیل
which means: “it is said that Joseph's beauty
had exceptional charm but the Quran has surpassed
everyone else in elegance and attractiveness.”
We need to hold fast to the rope of Allah and
be not disunited, as a Jamaat we need to have
the same goals and focus. We are admonished
elsewhere in the Quran about another aspect of
our being and that causes the loss of love
amongst us and that is fault finding-
“O, you who believe, let not people laugh at
people, perchance they may be better than they;
nor let women laugh at women per chance they
may be better than they. Neither find fault with
your own people nor call one another by nick
names. Evil is a bad name after faith and whoso
turns not these it is that are the iniquitous.” (Ch
49 v 11)
Finding fault with each other is the cornerstone
of a weak hearted person who does not
have the courage to correct themselves but sees
it fit to spot the weakness or fault in someone
else.
The Bible beautifully elucidates this in:
“Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of
thine own eye and then shall thou see clearly to
cast out the mote of thy brother’s eye” (Matthew
7 v 5)
In the Hadith of Adu Dawood and Tirmidhi
our Prophet says: -"Each of you is the mirror of
his brother, so if he sees any fault in him he should
wipe it away." (Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1286)
Narrated Abu Barzah al-Aslami: The
Prophet (s) said: O community of people, who believed
by their tongue, and belief did not enter
their hearts, do not back-bite Muslims, and do not
search for their faults, for if anyone searches for
those who inflict misery upon you with his
tongue or with his hands will do it in the belief
that he is doing it in the service of Islam.
their faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if
وخیب و دِ‏ ربلی ںیم بس ےس وسا ء یہیےہ
I Shall Love All Mankind.