Syednas Promise to Paradise
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa
Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
one of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:
Brother, I have read several of your q&as, and I feel almost all of what you see if
from the guidance of the Quran.
Now, I have a question which I
am really confused about and hope you will be able to address it for me, giving me evidence from the Holy Quran. I have been to several ‘waaz’ of
Syedna, and he has sworn in public in
the name of Allah that he will do shafaa for the Bohras on the Day of Judgement
and that he will lead all Bohras to Paradise. I was wondering what is your opinion, and what does the Quran
say, about that statement of Syedna Mohamed
Burhanudeen (TUS).
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Answer:
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.
The decision of who deserves the Mercy of Allah and thus
Paradise, and who is to be thrown into the everlasting punishment of the Hell
Fire, lies in the Hands of Allah
Subhanah Alone! And the criteria
described by Allah in the Holy Quran to make this decision is to be the deeds
of each individual. Whoever believed
and did righteous good deeds according to the guidance sent by Allah, will
deserve His Mercy and Forgiveness; and whoever rejected the guidance and
followed another way, will be taken to
a severe account. Allah declares in the
Holy Quran that no one has any special claim to Paradise. No one!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Al
Baqarah verse 111-112: The (Jews and Christians) say: “None shall enter
Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian.”
These are their wishful fancies!
Say to them, “Bring your evidence if you are right in your claim!”. The fact is that no one has any special
claim to Paradise! Whoever
surrenders himself to Allah in obedience, and is a doer of good deeds, shall
have his reward with His Lord. There
shall be neither fear nor grief for such people.
There is no human being on this planet earth, who can
vouch that he will go to Paradise;
leave alone making promises to take someone else with him! Anyone who really fears Allah and the Last
Day, would never make such a ridiculous claim.
If he really feared Allah and the Last Day, he would fear about what
will happen to himself on that Tumultuous Day,
as even the Prophets of Allah feared!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 46 Surah
Ahqaaf verses 8-9:Do they(the disbelievers) mean to say that the Messenger has
himself fabricated it (the Quran)? Say
to them: “If I have fabricated this myself,
you will not be able to save me from Allah’s punishment! Allah knows full well whatever you
utter. He is enough as a witness
between me and you, and He is the All Forgiving, All Merciful.” Also say
to them: “I am not a novel Messenger. I
do not know what shall befall you tomorrow, nor what shall befall me! I only follow that which is revealed to me,
and I am no more than a plain warner.”
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 15-16:Say (O Mohamed), “I do fear the torment of a (dreadful) Day,
if I should disobey my Lord.” He who
will be delivered from the torment of that Day, will have received Allah’s
Mercy, and this is a supreme success.
If even a Prophet of Allah of the stature and position of
Mohamed ar-Rasool Allah (saws) feared the torment of that Dreadful Day and does
not know what exactly will befall him, can you imagine a mere, normal, weak, human
being of this day and age, making such ludicrous and preposterous claims; that
he will take all his followers into Paradise with him, and make shafaa for
them? The person neither has the
authority to make such promises, nor has the power to fulfill any of his false
promises, nor will he be able to respond when his followers who trusted his
promises, look for him on that Inevitable Day!
All Power and Strength rests with Allah Subhanah
Alone! There is no Power and no
Strength except with Allah Alone, the Lord of the Worlds!
Ref:
Shafaa
There are several aayahs concerning ‘shafaa’ in the Holy
Quran, and due to brevity, we will relate only a few of them.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anam verse 94: (And Allah will say), “So, you have come before Us all alone, as
We created you at first. Now, you have
left behind all that We gave you in the world. Now We do not see with you those ‘shufa’a’(intercessors), who,
you believed, had a share in molding your destinies! All the relations between you and them have been cut off, and all
those, in whom you trusted, have left
you in the lurch.”
A leader promises his followers that he will do shafaa for
them in the Court of Allah. And Allah
declares in the above aayah to these followers that they will be brought to the
Court of Allah alone, and all those ‘shufaas’ in whom they had trusted their
destinies, will be nowhere to be seen!
That is because Allah Himself has cut off their relationships, and all
those ‘shufaas’, whom the followers served all their lives, have left them in
the lurch when they needed them most!
Whose words and promises are going to come true? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah
verse 48: And guard yourselves against the Day when no one
shall avail anyone else; nor shall ‘shafa’a’
(intercession) be accepted from anyone; nor shall anyone be acquitted
for any amount of ransom; nor shall the guilty ones be helped from any quarter.
The leader promises that he will do intercession with
Allah. And Allah guides the people to
guard and fear the advent of a Day when no one shall help anyone else, nor
shall any ‘shafaa’ be accepted from anyone, nor shall the one who is guilty be
acquitted for any amount of ransom!
Whose words and promises are going to come true? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah
Yunus verse 18: These people worship
beside Allah those which can neither harm nor benefit them, and say, “These are
our ‘shofa’a’ (intercessors) with Allah!”
O Mohammed, tell them, “Do you wish to inform Allah of that thing which
He knows to be neither in the heavens nor in the earth?” He is absolutely free from, and exalted
above the shirk that they commit.
The leader promises intercession and the followers believe
him whole-heartedly. Allah ridicules
such notions and commands His Prophet (saws) to tell such blind followers… that
do they wish to inform Allah of something of which He, the All Knowing, All
Wise, is unaware of? Those who use the
modem of intercession to invoke Allah are indeed the ones who commit the
heinous crime of ‘shirk’! And Allah is
absolutely free and far exalted above the shirk that these people commit!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 40 Surah Mumin verse 18: O Prophet, warn them
of the Day that has approached near, when the hearts will leap up to the
throats and the people will be standing mute, grief-stricken; and the
wrong-doers will neither have any kindly friend nor any ‘shafaa’ (intercessor)
who may be listened to.
A leader promises ‘shafaa’ to his followers in the name of
Allah! The same Allah commands His
Prophet (saws) to warn the people of the Day so dreadful and so terrible, that
at the sight of that Day, the hearts of the people will leap upto their throats
and everyone will be gathered and standing in pin-drop silence in the Awe and
Majesty of the All Mighty Lord! And
on this eventful Day, the wrong-doers will not have any kind friend, nor any
intercessor who may intercede for them.
This will be the condition of
the people on the Day of Qiyaamah; and there are some people who make promises
that they will intercede!!!!
Whose words and promises are going to come true? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 40 Surah
Mumin verse 47-48:Then imagine the time when these people will be disputing
with one another in Hell. The weak
ones will say to the haughty ones, “We were your followers! Now, can you save us from some part of our
punishment in Hell?” The haughty ones
will say, “We are all in the same state here, and Allah has already passed
judgment between His servants.”
Allah draws a picture of the times that are going to
come…. When the leaders who promised, and
the followers who believed their promises and served them all their lives, will
be disputing and blaming each other for their state in the Fire of Hell! Allah says the followers will remind their
leaders that they followed them and served them all their lives in hope for
their help and intercession, which they did not deliver! The leaders will declare their
helplessness, and can do nothing but ask them to bear the everlasting
punishment with them in Hell with them!
Whose words and promises are going to come true? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 116-118: Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, did you ever say
to the people, “Make me and my mother deities besides Allah?” Jesus will say, “Glory be to You! It did not behove me to say that thing which
I had no right to say. Had I ever said
such a thing, You would most surely have known it, for You know all that is in my mind, but I do not know what is in Your mind. Indeed, You have full knowledge even of all the hidden
things. I never told them anything
other than what You bade me. I said,
‘Worship Allah, Who is my Lord as well as your Lord.’ I was a witness to their conduct as long as I
remained among them, but when You recalled me, You watched over them: for You keep over everything. Now, if You punish them, they are Your own
servants, and if You forgive them, You are the All Powerful and All Wise.”
There are billions and billions of Christians who believe
that Prophet Jesus was crucified as an atonement of their sins! Here Allah relates the scene that will
happen on the Day of Judgment, where Jesus will deny all the false hopes and
inventions his supposed followers did in his name after him. Jesus will humbly declare his submission to
Allah.
Some muslims have chosen their own ‘shufaas’ from among
the Prophet (saws), and his noble ‘ahle-bayt’ and his noble companions! Do you seriously think that they will say
anything other than what Jesus has replied in his above statement? And Jesus (a.s.) is indeed one of the
mightiest Prophets of Allah. The
shufaas that some muslims have served all their lives and in their graves, are
not even close to the stature and position of Prophet Jesus! Do you honestly believe that this Syedna can
deliver what a Prophet like Jesus could not deliver in the Supreme Court of
Allah?
Whose words and promises are going to come true? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumar verses 44:What! Have they taken
besides Allah others as ‘shofa’a’ (intercessors)? Say to them, “Will they intercede even if they have no power
whatever nor understanding?” Say,
“Shafa’a is wholly in the Power of Allah Alone!”. His is the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned.
This leader promises his followers that he has the power
to make ‘shafaa’! In the above aayah, Allah
solemnly declares that Shafaa is wholly in the Power of Allah Alone!
Whose words and promises are we to believe? Allah’s or this Syedna’s?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah
Aaraaf verses 52-53:We have brought to these people a Book which gives details
based on knowledge and which is a guidance and blessing for those who
believe. Now, are these people waiting for anything other than the
consequence of which they have been warned in the Book? When the consequence will come before them,
those very people who aforetime had disregarded it, will say, “Indeed, the
Messenger of our Lord had come with the Truth. Shall we have, then, any ‘shufaa’ who will intercede for
us? Or could we be sent back that we
might do deeds different from those we did before?” They have, indeed, incurred heavy loss upon themselves, and all
the false things they had invented have forsaken them today.
The people who are looking for short-cuts to Paradise are
the ones who have relied on these false promises made to them by some
unscrupulous leaders! But when the
consequences which Allah warns the believers in the Glorious Quran, ie. The Day of Judgement, will come,
the wrong doers will immediately realize the calamity which is about to
befall upon them! They will now
realize that indeed the Prophet Mohamed (saws) had come with the True Message. Everything that Allah and His Messenger
(saws) promised have come true on this tumultuous Day, and every promise made
by others have proven false! They
will immediately start praying in regret and remorse to go back to the world
and do deeds according to the guidance of Allah and His Messenger (saws)! They will look for those ‘shufaa’ who had
promised them intercession, but they will not be found! All the false things that they had invented
in this worldly life, all the false hopes they had put on some unscrupulous
leaders who promised them Paradise, all the deeds that they had done to please
these unscrupulous leaders in hope of their intercession, everything,
will have forsaken them on the Day when they needed it most! And they will not be able to blame anyone
except themselves, for the folly that they practiced in the name of Islam on
earth!
When they were asked to follow the guidance of the Holy
Quran in their life, they rejected it, because they had taken out an insurance
policy with their leaders who promised them intercession and direct access to
Paradise!!
When they were urged to read, understand, obey and follow
the teachings of the Glorious Quran, they scoffed and cursed the people who
invited them to the Truth. They
believed, served and followed their leaders blindly, in the hope that that was
the way to Paradise!!!
When they were told by the believers to turn to the Holy
Quran for guidance, they ridiculed them that they had no ‘shufaas’ like they
did, who have promised to help them on the Day of Judgement!
They persisted in their disbelief, until they saw the
events unfold exactly as were promised by Allah and His Messenger (saws). All the promises made by Allah and His
Messenger (saws) will come true to the last letter…. And all the promises made
by anyone else will be proven false and baseless….
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah
An-Nisa verse 122:The promise of Allah is true, and who can be truer in his
word than Allah?
Thus brother, the decision is yours! You either believe in what Allah says in
the Holy Quran, or you take the promises of a human being, who has no authority
to make such ridiculous claims in the first place!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verses 103-106:Tell them (O Mohamed), “Should We tell you who are the most
unsuccessful people and miserable failures in regard to their deeds? They are those, all whose endeavors in the
worldly life, had gone astray from the Right Way, but all along they were under the delusion that everything they
were doing, was rightly directed! Those are the people who rejected the
Revelations of their Lord and did not believe that they would ever go before
Him. Therefore all their deeds were
lost, for We shall assign no weight to them on the Day of Resurrection. Their recompense is Hell for the disbelief they
showed, and for the mockery they adopted in regard to My Aayahs and My
Messengers!”
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 29:Proclaim, “This (Quran) is the Truth from your Lord: now whosoever wills may accept it, and
whosoever wills may reject it.” (As for those who reject it) We have prepared
for such workers of iniquity a fire whose flames have encircled them. There, if they ask for water , they will be given a drink like the dregs of
oil, which will burn their mouths! What an evil drink, and what an evil abode!
Your
Question: I was wondering what is your opinion, and what does the Quran
say, about that statement of Syedna
Mohamed Burhanudeen (TUS).
My opinion is of no importance, unless it is based on the
Glorious Quran! I hope I have answered
your question to your satisfaction, giving you ample evidence of what the Holy
Quran says about the statements and promises made by Syedna Mohamed
Burhanudeen, and the likes of him!!!
Brother, you have heard the promises of the Syedna. Is it not time yet to read and understand the
promises that Allah has made for all mankind in His Revelation, the Al
Quran? Brother, we invite you to read
and understand this Supreme Guidance of Allah,
and then decide for yourself what path you want to take to the Lord of
the Worlds:
The Path shown by Allah and His Messenger (saws), or,
The path shown by someone, other than Allah and His Messenger
(saws).
From Allah we have all come, and to Him is our ultimate
return!
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister