...than please answer why has Allah let the Bohra Community and its leadership to practise what you term as shirk & bidaa to go on for centuries and centuries
Mu' meneen
Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi
wa Barakatuh. (May
Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
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Dear Burhan, it is indeed a pleasure to read each & every
article listed on this site. some are interesting, some are unique, some are
informative and some are enlightening. all in all i
can say that all muslims today needed this site to
get back to the striaght path of what Islam is all
about and to bow before only one Allah and none else. Now by question is simple
& straight. as per my general knowledge and your sabaks.......every
shirk or bidaa or evil or a wrong doing has a definate end and does not survive for long.........than
please answer why has Allah let the Bohra Community
and its leadership to practise what you term as shirk
& bidaa to go on for centuries and centuries. why
is there no end...Does this mean that there is some meaning of truth or
blessing in what the Bohras believe and do in the
name of Islam. please give me a straight forward reply and do not go too deep
in the Quranic Verses or other Hadis
as i get totally confused with them.
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Answer:
Bohra prosperity
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: Now by question is simple & straight. as
per my general knowledge and your sabaks.......every
shirk or bidaa or evil or a wrong doing has a definate end and does not survive for long.........than
please answer why has Allah let the Bohra Community
and its leadership to practise what you term as shirk
& bidaa to go on for centuries and centuries. why
is there no end...Does this mean that there is some meaning of truth or
blessing in what the Bohras believe and do in the
name of Islam.
Dear Brother in Islam, it is
indeed incorrect to believe that every evil and wrong must come to a definite
end in this world! Allah has put the
human beings to a test in the short life of this transitory world; and allowed
both the good and the evil to co-exist until the end of time. The doers of good will continue to do good,
and the propagators of evil will continue to propagate their evil until The Day
of Judgement!
Allah Subhanah
has bestowed each individual with intelligence and the faculty of reasoning,
and a free will to choose between the good and the evil. That is precisely the test ordained by the
Merciful for mankind.
Allah does not force anyone to
do good, nor does he hold the hand of one doing evil; He, in His Divine Wisdom,
has allowed each to choose the path one wishes to follow; and on the Day of Judgment
He will declare the results for all to see!
The time declared for the test is the life of this transitory world; and
each individual is allowed to do whatever he chooses for himself! If he, with the intelligence and power or
reasoning bestowed upon him, chooses to follow the Path ordained by Allah, he
will pass the test and will deserve the Mercy and Forgiveness of Allah Subhanah, and a generous reward. And if one, of his own free will, chooses to
follow any other path other than the one approved by Allah Subhanah,
he will fail the test, and will deserve the Wrath and Anger of Allah, and a
grievous punishment.
To say that just because some
sects performing shirk and bida and disbelief have
survived several centuries is a proof of their truthfulness, is obviously
incorrect! Allah has allowed Shaitaan to work his evil since the beginning of man; but
that does not prove Shaitaan is good and
righteous!!!! Allah has allowed the Jews to disbelieve and commit shirk, and
even kill some of Allah’s Prophets that came to them; but that does not mean
that they are righteous!!!! Allah have allowed hundreds of millions of Hindus
to commit manifest shirk and idol-worship for thousands of years; but that does
not mean they are right!!!! Allah has
allowed the Christians to claim that Prophet Jesus (a.s.)
is Allah’s begotten son, and commit the most heinous crime of shirk; but that does not make them right!!!!
The criteria for good and evil
is not in the longevity of the sect, tribe, cult, or group! The criteria for being right and wrong is
in the Guidance of Allah Subhanah. If one follows the Guidance revealed by Allah
Subhanah, he is on the right path; and if one follows
any other guidance or path other than the Guidance of Allah, he is definitely and positively astray!
Allah says in Chapter
2, Surah Baqarah aayat 185:"Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was sent down: this Book is a perfect guidance for
mankind and consists of CLEAR teachings which show the
A Criterion is something that
differentiates between two things; and
Allah Subhanah has declared His Quran
the Criterion between Truth and falsehood.
Truth is the path shown by the Quran, and
falsehood is any path, other than the one shown by the Quran!
The ones who use this Divine
Criterion to form their judgment of Truth and falsehood are guided aright; and
the ones who use any other barometer like time,
population, wealth, color,
language, etc. will never ever be able to determine the Truth from the
falsehood.
Your Statement: please give me a straight forward reply and
do not go too deep in the Quranic Verses or other Hadis as i get totally confused
with them.
Beloved brother in Islam, we
have tried to give as straight forward a reply as we possibly can; and we do
apologize for inserting the one aayah from the Quran as evidence for our belief. The aayah
is so powerful and so perfectly fits into our discussion, that we could find no
better words to describe the situation than the very Words of the
Merciful.
Allah Subhanah
is a witness, that the Quran was not revealed to
confuse mankind; but rather it was revealed to take mankind out of confusion
and darkness, and bring them into the light of knowledge and guidance! Beloved brother, read the Holy Quran with understanding from cover to cover even only
once, and it will wipe away all the confusion that our ardent enemy, the Shaitaan
creates in the minds of man! It is in
the nature of Shaitaan to whisper doubts and
confusion into the hearts of mankind, and lead them away from the Path of
Truth. Only the ones upon whom Allah has
had Mercy, and bestowed upon them His Guidance, can recognize these evil plots
of Shaitaan and how to abstain from them! If the Merciful had not had Mercy upon
mankind, and had not sent His Guidance, not even one human being could have
escaped the evil clutches and designs of the accursed enemy of Allah and of
mankind; the Shaitaan!
If the Revelations of the Quran and the authentic narration of the Messenger of Allah
(saws) that we have given as
evidence, have confused you; brother,
the blame is on us, for the
short-coming is in our writings and our explanations, not in the Divine
Guidance! May Allah Subhanah
have mercy upon us, guide us, forgive us our short-comings, and save all the
believers from the torment of the Hell Fire.
Ameen.
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 in
Islam,
Burhan