Why did Allah send us the last prophet saws in Arabia & was there any mission of the prophet which he had to complete ?.
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In the name of Allah, We
praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah
guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide
them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship
but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant
and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Question-1: Why did Allah send us the last prophet
saws in Arabia
Allah Say sin
the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verses 74-78:
74 No just estimate have they made of Allah: for Allah is He Who is Strong
and able to carry out His Will.
75 Allah chooses Messengers from amongst Angels and from amongst men (whom He Wills): for Allah is He Who hears and sees (all things).
76 He knows what is before them, and what is behind them: and to Allah
go back all questions (for decision).
77 O ye who believe! Bow down,
prostrate yourselves, and adore your Lord; and do good; that ye may prosper.
78 And strive in His Cause as ye ought to strive (with sincerity and
under discipline): He has chosen you and has imposed no difficulties on you in
religion; it is the cult of your father Abraham. It is He (Allah) Who has named you Muslims
both before and in this (Revelation); that the Messenger may be a witness for
you and ye be witnesses for mankind! So establish regular Prayer, give regular
Charity, and hold fast to Allah! He is your Protector; The Best to protect and The
Best to help!
My dear and beloved
brother in Islam, The Lord Most Majestic Most High Declares in His Glorious
Book of Guidance that He chooses and appoints His Messengers from amongst
Angels and from amongst men whomsoever He Wills and Pleases.
The truth is brother, it
is truly beyond our comprehension and capacity to understand the full and
complete wisdom behind each Decision, Decree or Command of Allah Subhanah; for
the complete and absolute Knowledge of all things are with none, except the
All-Knowing, All-Wise Lord Creator of the Universe.
Having said that it is
beyond our comprehension and capacity to understand the full wisdom behind each
Decision of Allah Subhanah, there is absolutely no harm, in fact the believers
are encouraged to strive and seek and study and ponder over each and every Sign
of Allah Subhanah….for if their intention behind their striving is seeking
knowledge and raise the contentment of their hearts, then their search will
bring them closer to their Lord Most Gracious and give them more conviction to
follow the deen.
Question again: Why
The truth is brother,
regardless of where Allah Chose to send His Last and Final Messenger with His
Last and Final Message, someone would have asked why there? Why not here?
My simple question to such questions would be: why not
Beloved Brother, in the
Total and Absolute Wisdom that none possesses except the Lord Creator, the
believers are content with His Decision based on His Wisdom that the absolute
best place that would take forward His Message to all of mankind in the times
to come until the end of time would be from the land of Arabia; and based on
His Wisdom and His Knowledge, He Decreed, Decided and Appointed the absolute
best human being who would be able to shoulder this Magnificent burden to
deliver His Message to all of mankind, and that person based on the Wisdom of
the All-Knowing Lord was the Last and Final Messenger, Mohamed ibn Abdullah
(saws). To all who think they knew him,
he was no more than an orphan, an illiterate who could not read and write, a
simple shepherd, etc.! Little did this
poor, illiterate, orphan and desert Arab shepherd himself know that the Lord
had chosen him and one day he (saws) would be appointed to the absolute highest
status and honor any man in the annuls of the history of the children of Adam
has ever been raised to!!!
But in the Perfect and
Absolute Wisdom of the Lord Most High, Most Wise there was no place better on
the back of this earth than Arabia to reveal His Message, there was no language
spoken on the back of this earth better than the Arabic language, and there was
no better human being that was, is, or will ever be born who could be entrusted
with this heaviest of burdens to Declare and Propagate the Lord’s Message to
all of mankind!
If one amongst mankind
believes that there was or is a better place than Arabia where the Lord chose
to reveal His Last Message, or believes that there was or is a better time,
place, or person this Magnificent responsibility should have been entrusted
to…..then they would but follow the tradition of the Pharaohs, the Qaroons, the
Haamaans, and the leaders of the disbelieving Quraysh Arabs of the likes of the
Abu Jahls, the Al-Mugairahs, the Shaybas, and the Abu Lahabs, etc. who in their
arrogance raised precisely the exact same questions, and challenged, and
disobeyed, and disbelieved in the Decisions and Decrees of their All-Wise Lord
Creator.
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 25 Surah Furqaan verses 6-9:
6 Say: "The (Qur'an) was sent down by Him Who knows the Mystery
(that is) in the heavens and the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful."
7 And they (the disbelievers) say: "What sort of a Messenger is
this (Mohamed (saws)) who eats food and walks through the streets? Why has not
an Angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?
8 Or (why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him or why has he (not)
a garden for enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye follow none other than a
man bewitched!"
9 See what kinds of companions they make for thee (O Mohamed (saws))!
But they have gone astray and never a way will they be able to find!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verses 89-93
89 And We have explained to man in this Qur'an every kind of
similitude: yet the grater part of men refuse (to receive it) except with
ingratitude!
90 They (the disbelievers) say: "We shall not believe in thee
until thou (O Mohamed (saws)) cause a spring to gush forth for us from the
earth!
91 Or (until) thou have a garden of date trees, and vines, and cause
rivers to gush forth in their midst carrying abundant water!
92 Or thou cause the sky to fall in pieces as thou sayest (will happen)
against us; or thou bring Allah and the Angels before (us) face to face!
93 Or thou have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right
into the skies! No we shall not even
then believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a Book that we could
read." Say (O Mohamed (saws)): "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a
man, a Messenger?"
Beloved brother in
Islam, it was never that the Message was revealed in Arabia that instigated the
disbelievers not to believe, nor was it the time, OR the place, or the person
the Message was revealed to; but Allah Subhanah reveals the real intentions of
persistent disbelievers, for no matter what, where, how and to whom the
Guidance from the Lord has arrived, the obstinate disbelievers would not have
believed in it!!!
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verse 7: (O Prophet) even if We had sent
down to you a Book written on paper, and even if they had touched it with their
own hands, the disbelievers would have said, “This is nothing but manifest
sorcery!”.
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verse 157-158: Now that a clear
proof, a Guidance and Blessing, has come
to you from your Lord, who can be more
unjust than the one who treats Our Revelations as false and turns away from
them? We will inflict the severest
torment on those who turn away from Our Revelations because of their
aversion. Do the people now await that
the Angels should come down before them?
Or that your Lord may Himself come down?
Or that the manifest Signs of your Lord should appear?
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah Ha Meem As Sajdah verse 44: Had We sent this
Quran in a foreign language, the people
would have said, “Why have not its verses been well expounded? What!
The Scripture in a foreign language,
an the listeners are Arabs?” Say
to them, “This Quran is a guidance and a
healing for the believers, but to those
who do not believe, it is a plug in
their ears and a covering over their eyes!
It is as though they are being summoned from afar!
Your Question-2: was there any mission of the prophet
which he had to complete ?
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 13 Surah Raad verse 40: Whether We
shall show thee (within thy lifetime O Prophet (saws)) part of what We promised
them, or take to Ourselves thy soul (before it is all accomplished): thy
duty (O Prophet (saws)) is to (only make the Message) reach them: it is
Our part to call them to account.
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 46 Surah Ahqaaf verse 35: Therefore
patiently persevere (O Mohamed (saws)) as did (all) the Messengers of
inflexible purpose; and be in no haste about the (unbelievers). On the Day that they see the (Punishment)
promised them (it will be ) as if they had not tarried more than an hour in a
single day! (Thine O Prophet
(saws) is but) to proclaim the Message: but shall any be destroyed
except those who transgress?
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 42 Surah As-Shura verse 48: If then they turn away We have not sent thee (O Mohamed (saws)) as a
guard over them. Thy duty is but to convey (the Message).
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankabut verse 18: And if ye reject (the Message) so did generations before you: and
the duty of the Messenger is only to preach publicly (and clearly).
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 20: So if they dispute with thee (O Mohamed (saws)) say: "I have
submitted my whole self to Allah and so have those who follow me." And say to the people of the Book and to
those who are unlearned: "Do ye (also) submit yourselves?" If they do
they are in right guidance but if they turn back thy duty is to convey
the Message; and in Allah's sight are (all) His servants.
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 64 Surah Taghabun verse 12: So obey Allah and obey His Messenger; but if ye turn back the
duty of Our Messenger is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly.
The very term
‘messenger’ means that one takes or is given a message from one and delivers it
to those he is supposed to deliver it to!
The mission of all of
Allah’s Messengers is no more than to deliver the Message of their Lord that
they receive by inspiration to mankind in the clearest and best possible
manner; to accept or reject the Message is the responsibility of the people
themselves. But being chosen and
appointed as the Noble Messengers, these noble souls go a step further, and
they bring it upon themselves to implement the Dictates of the Message of their
Lord upon themselves and upon those who believe in their mission.
Your Question-3: if there was a mission was he able to
complete to the satisfaction of Allah or he failed.
On the Ninth Day of Dhul
Hijjah 10 A.H in the
The
Messenger of Allah (saws) said: All those who listen to me shall pass on my
words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my
words better than those who listen to me direcly. Be my witness O Allah
that I have conveyed Your Message to Your people."
The scholars and jurists
in Islam are almost unanimous in their opinion that the last verse that was
revealed upon the Noble Prophet (saws) was this verse of Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 3:
This day have I (Allah) perfected your religion for you,
completed my favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.
In light of the above
guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah, without an iota of a doubt, the beloved
Messenger of Allah, Mohamed ar-Rasool Allah (saws) completed the
Your Statement-4: As i see that the world of islam is in
shatters and the religion of islam is itself in danger with the western power
trying their best to subjuate islam.
Dear and Beloved brother
in Islam, if one puts the matter in perspective of history, one will realize
the Mercy and Grace of Allah Subhanah upon the Ummah of Prophet Mohamed
(saws). For almost 1000 of the 1400+
years since the Revelation of the deen of Islam, the muslims have been the only
major super-power of the known world! Its only been 300-400 odd years since the
pagans have taken the upper-hand in world affairs, and that too not because
Allah Subhanah has diminished His Mercy and His Grace, but because of the
disunity, divisions, and schisms within the believers themselves!
Because man is involved
in a test in the life of this short and transitory world, it is only natural
that Allah Subhanah will change the condition of a people or a nation, give
power to one over another and vice versa, to see who amongst them are Truthful
in the covenant with their Lord and who amongst them have hypocrisy in their
hearts and are liars! Beloved brother,
it is indeed true that the Ummah is indeed in the midst of a trial from their
Lord, but Allah is our witness, people who believed before us were at times put
to an even bigger trial by our Lord…..and it may be that believers who come
after us might face even bigger trials simply for being believers! Allah puts these conditions on His slaves to
see who are true on their faith, and who believe only when it is convenient for
them!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankabut verses 2-7:
2 Do men think that they will be left alone on saying "We
believe" and that they will not be tested?
3 We did test those before them and Allah will certainly know those
who are True from those who are false.
4 Do those who practice evil think that they will get the better of
us? Evil is their judgment!
5 For those whose hopes are in the meeting with Allah (in the
Hereafter let them strive); for the term (appointed) by Allah is surely coming:
and He hears and knows (all things).
6 And if any strive (with might and main) they do so for their own
souls: for Allah is free of all needs from all creation.
7 Those who believe and work righteous deeds from them shall We blot
out all evil (that may be) in them, and We shall reward them according to the
best of their deeds.
Sahih
Al-Bukhari Hadith 4.809 Narrated
by Khabbab bin Al Arat
We
complained to Allah's Messenger (saws) (of the persecution inflicted on us by
the pagans in Makkah) while he (saws) was sitting in the shade of the Ka'ba,
leaning over his Burd (i.e. covering sheet). We said to him, "O Messenger
of Allah (saws), would you seek help for us? Would you pray to Allah for
us?" He (saws) said, "Among the nations before you a (believing) man
would be put in a ditch that was dug for him, and a saw would be put over his
head and he would be cut into two pieces; yet that (torture) would not make him
give up his religion! His body would be combed with iron combs that would
remove his flesh from the bones and nerves, yet that would not make him abandon
his religion! By Allah, this religion (i.e. Islam) will prevail till a traveler
from Sana (in Yemen) to Hadrarmaut will fear none but Allah, or a wolf as
regards his sheep, but you (people) are hasty.’
The honest truth is
brother, the trials that are being faced by the Ummah because of their own
shortcomings is not a surprise, but something the Messenger of Allah (saws)
prophesized and warned us 1400+ years ago!
Sunan of
Abu-Dawood Hadith 4284 Narrated by
Thawban
The Prophet
(saws) said: ‘The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people
when eating invite others to share their dish.’
Someone asked: ‘Will that be because of our small numbers at that time,
O Messenger of Allah (saws)?’ He (saws)
replied: ‘No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be scum and
rubbish like that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you
from the breasts of your enemy and cast ‘wahn’ (enervation) into your
hearts.’ Someone asked: ‘What is wahn
(enervation) O Messenger of Allah (saws)?’
He (saws) replied: ‘Love of the world and the dislike of death!’
Al-Tirmidhi
Hadith 5367 Narrated by Anas ibn
Malik
Allah's
Messenger (SAWS) said, "A time is coming to men when he who adheres to his
religion will be like one who seizes live coals."
Thus my beloved brother,
that the Ummah is in the midst of these trying times should not come as a
surprise to those who truly believe and have faith; for this is exactly what
Allah and His Messenger (saws) had promised!
It is only those who have the disease of hypocrisy in their hearts or
are weak of faith who lose hope in such conditions and start having doubts
about their faith.
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 11: There are
among men some who serve Allah as it were on the verge (borderline): if good
befalls them they are therewith well content; but if a trial comes to them
(because of their belief) they turn on their faces: they lose both this world
and the Hereafter: that is loss for all to see!
Allah Subhanah in His
Glorious Quran relates the example and condition of the believers and the
hypocrites during the time of the Prophet (saws) in the Battle of the Ahzaab or
Confedrates, when the whole of pagan Arabia combined their forces and laid
siege on the city of Madinah with the intention to wipe out Islam and its
mission once and for all!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzaab verses 9-24:
9 O ye who believe! Remember the Grace of Allah (bestowed) on you when
there came down on you hosts (to overwhelm you): but We sent against them a
hurricane and force that ye saw not. But
Allah sees (clearly) all that ye do.
10 Behold! They came on you from above you and from below you and
behold the eyes became dim and the hearts gaped up to the throats, and ye
imagined various (vain) thoughts about Allah!
11 In that situation were the Believers tried: they were shaken as by a
tremendous shaking.
12 And behold! The hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease
said: "Allah and His Messenger promised us nothing but
delusion!"
13 Behold! a party among them (the hypocrites) said: "Ye men of
Yathrib! Ye cannot stand (the power of the enemy)! Therefore go back!" and
a band of them ask for leave of the Prophet saying "Truly our houses are
bare and exposed" though they were not exposed: they intended nothing but
to run away.
14 And if an entry had been effected to them from the sides of the
(city) and they had been incited to sedition they would certainly have brought
it to pass with none but a brief delay!
15 And yet they had already covenanted with Allah not to turn their
backs, and a covenant with Allah must (surely) be answered for.
16 Say: "Running away will not profit you if ye are running away
from death or slaughter; and even if (ye do escape) no more than a brief
(respite) will ye be allowed to enjoy!"
17 Say: "Who is it that can screen you from Allah if it be His
wish to give you Punishment or to give you Mercy?" Nor will they find for themselves besides
Allah any Protector or Helper.
18 Verily Allah knows those among you who keep back (men) and those who
say to their brethren "Come along to us" but come not to the fight
except for just a little while.
19 Covetous over you! Then when
fear comes thou wilt see them looking to thee their eyes revolving like (those
of) one over whom hovers death: but when the fear is past they will smite you
with sharp tongues covetous of goods.
Such men have no faith and so Allah has made their deeds of none effect:
and that is easy for Allah.
20 They think that the confederates (enemy forces) have not withdrawn;
and if the confederates should come (again) they would wish they were in the
deserts (wandering) among the Bedouins and seeking news about you (from a safe
distance); and if they were in your midst they would fight but little.
21 Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern of
(conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day and who engages
much in the praise of Allah.
22 When the believers saw the confederate forces they said: "This
is what Allah and His Messenger had promised us and Allah and His Messenger
told us what was true." And it only added to their faith and their zeal in
obedience.
23 Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant
with Allah: of them some have completed their vow to (and laid their life in
His Cause), and some (still) wait: but they have never changed (their
determination) in the least:
24 That Allah may reward the men of Truth for their Truth and punish
the hypocrites if that be His Will, or turn to them in Mercy: for Allah is
Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.
The truth is that the
condition the Ummah finds itself in today when all the powers of the world seem
intent of hurting the Cause and the Mission, the one who truly have faith know
that this condition is no more than a trial from their Lord and an opportunity
to serve in the Cause and earn rewards from their Lord. Amidst
these trials, they realize that this condition is exactly what Allah and His
Messenger (saws) had promised, and in spite of the trials and tribulations they
face at the hands of the disbelievers, they know with conviction that their
Lord All-Mighty, All-Powerful Alone suffices to deal with the disbelievers and
bring the
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 47 Surah Muhammad verse 4 (part): …If it had been Allah's Will He Himself could certainly have exacted
retribution from them (the disbelievers); but (He lets you strive) in order to
test you some with others. But those who
are slain in the way of Allah He will never let their deeds be lost.
My dear and beloved
brother, as much as it may seem to one that the deen of Islam is in shatters
today, and the deen of Islam is in danger with the pagan super powers intent of
subjugating this deen and this Ummah, rest assured with total and absolute
conviction that All Power and All Strength is vested in none save the Lord Most
Gracious, and no matter what the enemies do, no matter what forces they unleash
upon the believers, no matter how hard they try, no matter if all them without
exception combine together to distinguish the Noor of Al-Islam, they will never
ever be successful! Never! Never!
Ever! For Allah Subhanah, our Lord, is
Able and Capable and will complete His Light and elevate His deen to be
proclaimed over all the deens of the world!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 61 Surah Saff verses 8-9:
8 Their (the disbelievers’) intention is to extinguish Allah's Light
(by the saying) with their mouths: but Allah will complete His Light
even though the unbelievers may detest (it).
9 It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion
of Truth that He may proclaim it over all religions even though
the Pagans may detest (it)!
Al-Tirmidhi
Hadith 6278 Narrated by Ja'far as-Sadiq
Allah's
Messenger (SAWS) said, " How can An Ummah perish of which I (Mohamed
(saws)) am the first, the Mahdi the middle and the Messiah (Prophet Isa (a.s.))
the last? But in the course of that there will be a crooked party which does
not belong to me and to which I do not belong."
My beloved brother in
Islam, we do not know whether these are the worst times the believing Ummah
will face, or the Lord All-Wise has Willed and is Pleased to put the Ummah in
bigger trials than what is currently faced by the believers! Allah is our witness brother, these conditions
are no more than trials from our Lord to see who amongst us are true to our
covenant of faith, and who amongst us (Allah forbid) have a disease of
hypocrisy in our hearts and at the sight of the slightest trouble we turn away
from faith and start having delusions and doubts about our Lord!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verses 54-57:
54 O ye who believe! If any from among you turn back from his
faith soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him;
humble with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the way of
Allah and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault! That is the Grace of Allah which He will
bestow on whom He Pleaseth: and Allah Encompasseth all and He Knoweth all
things.
55 Your (real) friends are (no less than) Allah, His Messenger, and the
(fellowship of) believers, those who establish regular prayers and regular
charity and they bow down humbly (in worship).
56 As to those who turn (for friendship) to Allah, His Messenger, and
the (fellowship of) believers: it is the fellowship of Allah that must
certainly triumph.
57 O ye who believe! Take not for friends and protectors those who take
your religion for a mockery or sport whether among those who received the
Scripture before you, or among those who reject faith; but fear ye Allah if ye
have Faith (indeed).
Beloved Brother, it is
not as if Allah Subhanah, the Lord and Master of everything in existence needs
us to help in proclaiming His deen over all the deens of the world; but is it
we who desperately need Allah and His Deen!
If we stay in our current state of divisions, disunity, schisms, and
distrust amongst ourselves and strive not in the Cause of Allah, The Lord Most
High Most Supreme can very well destroy us all and bring about a new generation
in our place who will love Him and His Deen and strive the necessary striving
in His Cause!
We beg, beseech and
implore our Lord Most Gracious in absolute awe, humility, hope and fear to have
Mercy on this Ummah, and allow us to strive in His Cause with the required
striving. We have indeed failed in our
duty as a nation of believers, and if our Lord Most Merciful does not have
Mercy on us, does not forgive us, Allah is our witness, we would indeed be
ruined.
It is a foregone
conclusion of The Decree and Destiny that The Lord Most Supreme has drafted
that the deen of Islam will survive and flourish as long as life exists on this
world….the decision you and I and the believers have to make is whose side are
we on: Allah Subhanah’s or the pagan Confederates!
Whatever written of
Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever
of error is of me alone. Allah Alone
Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Wister