Raza
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:
Why should somebody
ask you the question instead he/she can go to amil saheb or raza saheb and ask him? or possible Ask Dai Zamaan
TUS thru amil saheb
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Answer:
Raza
My dear brother, Jazak Allah Kheir for asking the
question. By all means, you could go to the ‘amil saheb’ or any
other scholar you think will guide you to Islam from the Quran. You are by no means forced to ask
any questions on this forum … Brother,
we ask for no reward and no thanks for this service. We do it only, I repeat, ONLY, for the Pleasure of Allah Subhanah, and a service in the name of
Allah, to our mu’meneen brothers and sisters who have questions but are not satisfied
with the answers they get from the amils,
or their questions are put through the grind of bureaucracy when
asked. This forum is only a means to get a second
opinion. The brothers who
ask us a question are welcome and encouraged to ask the same question to any
scholar they like, and compare the answers. If our answer satisfies their query, and the other scholars who guide from
the Quran come up with the same answer,
they are welcome to accept it. If our answer does not satisfy them, and (Allah forbid) is against the guidance of the
Quran, they are welcome to reject
it. But at least, they have taken another opinion to
satisfy their query.
Brothers, I should also share the experience with
you that inspired us to start this helpline service. I visited a Bohra site on the web, where a poor brother, who is studying in the
The poor brother replied, that he was just inquiring if he could
ask a question, and he did not deserve this kind of reply. He pleaded, that since he did not have an
alternative, he would kill his
question and follow the herd, even
if it made no sense to him.
This is what inspired us to give
our mu’meneen brothers and sisters an alternative to ask any question they
would like on Islam on our helpline forum. We would try to give evidence for every answer, first from the Quran, and if not directly available, then the authentic traditions of the
Holy Prophet (saws). They
are encouraged to take a second and third
or any number of opinions from any Islamic scholar, who, if guiding from the Quran, will Insha Allah, come to the same conclusions.
Islam is a religion based on
“fitrah” as mentioned in the Quran.
The Arabic word “fitrah”
means logical and natural.
There is nothing in Islam which is not logical! Everything Allah has commanded in
the Quran makes 100% sense … be it science, be it astronomy,
be it medicine, be it
ethical, or be it
theological. There is
nothing that Allah has commanded in the Quran that is illogical. And why should it be? These are the very words of the Lord of the Worlds. He in His divine Wisdom, revealed the Quran, to guide mankind to the Siraat al
Mustaqeem.
I would like you brothers to
judge for yourself. Just
imagine, that a doctor diagnosed
someone as having cancer.
His first reaction would be,
that he should take a second or third opinion, to make sure that the diagnosis by his doctor is
correct. That would be the
logical thing to do. But
just imagine if the doctor told him that he should not take a second or third
opinion under any circumstances,
because he might get
confused. He would definitely
develop a mis-trust for this doctor! Why does he not allow me to take another opinion? If he is right, he should
not be worried as all the doctors would come to the same conclusion.
Similarly, when one buys a house, he would not go to the first house he
came upon and buy it. And
especially not, if the broker told
him not to look around for any other property or ask any questions, as he might get completely
confused!!! He would immediately
develop a mis-trust for the broker.
Am I getting the best deal here?
Am I being over-charged for the house? Is there a problem with this house? These are logical questions which would arise in one’s mind.
And similarly if one went to buy
a car, he would not buy the
first car he came upon. He
would definitely do some research.
Read material on the brand and make of the car. And especially, his suspicion would arise, if the dealer told him not to check out
any other car in the world!
Brother, just think for a moment. For a simple purchase of a
house, or a car, or even our health, we take multiple opinions and
options, but for our deen, on which depends our whole hereafter, we just take one opinion! Even if that opinion is against
all reasoning, and we know in our
hearts that something is not right,
we just close our minds and
hearts and follow it blindly.
The fact that the doctor, or the real estate-broker, or the car-dealer
told us not to ask questions and not to take a second opinion is a proof in
itself, that he is trying to hide something. Similarly, the fact that these religious priests, who constantly tell
us not to understand the
Quran, and thus try to conceal the
guidance that Allah has revealed for all mankind, is a definite proof in itself, that they are trying to hide
something. Islam is a religion based
on knowledge and not blind faith.
It is only through knowledge that a person can become a true
muslim. And it is only through
reasoning that he is able to recognize that there is Only One God, Who Created everything in creation, and therefore, only He deserves to be worshipped. There are millions of
people who convert to Islam every year based on intellectual and logical
reasoning. When is the last
time a person converted to the sect of Bohrism through reasoning?
Allah has created us free beings
and has honored only us, humans, with the faculty of reasoning, therefore it becomes our duty to reason
and search and find the Right Path that leads to the Mercy of Allah. Reasoning becomes incumbent upon
us, especially, if the one who
gives the opinion, constantly
warns us not to take any other opinion from anybody! Just follow what we give you, whether it makes sense or not! You do not need to think here …
your duty is to just follow us,
and we will guide you to the hereafter! Have you even imagined for one-second, what if the opinion is not
correct? Our whole life in the
hereafter depends on this one opinion. For our worldly life of 50-70-100-130 years, we think tens of times before making an
investment! But for our
eternal afterlife, we just close
our eyes, our ears, our minds and our hearts and follow the
priests like cattle!! This
system of following blindly without reasoning, is against the principles of Islam, as is
evident from the following aayats of
the Holy Quran!!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 25 Surah Furqan verse 43-44:Have you
ever considered the case of the one who has made his whims his god? Can you take the responsibility
of guiding such a one aright?
Do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like the
cattle, nay, even worse than cattle!
Allah has sent us the Quran for
our guidance, and we have neglected to understand what is the
message from our Lord and Master. When is the last time you received an answer
from the ‘aamil’ and he gave you
evidence from the Quran? Did
we even bother to check whether the answer he gives is from the Quran? How could we? They have simply taken out the
understanding of the Quran from our system! They tell us that the Quran is so complicated, that
fools like us cannot understand it.
They tell us that the Quran has many meanings, and if we try to
understand it, we might get
confused and thus mis-guided.
They tell us that the Quran is meant to be understood only by them, and if fools like us tried to
understand the message of the Lord of the Worlds, we will get mis-guided!
Brothers, how is it possible for the Quran to
mis-guide, if one is indeed
searching for the truth?
These are the very words of our Lord and Creator of the heavens and the
earth and everything in between!
Why would Allah send mankind a message nobody, except a few, could understand? And then judge us on the Day of
Resurrection on whether we followed the commandments of the Quran or not? The people who claim that it is
not for us fools to understand the Quran,
have conveniently taken us out of the submission of Allah, and made us subservient to themselves,
their families and their forefathers? Where is
the evidence from the Quran that these priests and their families and their
forefathers are the ‘raza na sahebs’? The Quran today is understood by millions of muslims
worldwide! But we fools are not allowed to understand it! And it is this mis-conception
that has brought us into the servitude of man and graves, rather than the servitude of Allah, the
Merciful. It is this
mis-conception that has made us Abde-Syedna(slave of Syedna) rather than
Abd-Allah (slave of Allah).
Allah Himself says that the
Quranic aayats are easy to understand and
deserve to be pondered over and over. Allah Himself says that the Quran has been revealed to
take mankind out of the ignorance of ‘shirk’ and bring them to the light of
guidance!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 44 Surah Dukhan verse 58:We have
made this Book easy in your own tongue so that they may ponder and take good
counsel.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 43 Surah Zukhruf verses 1-3:Haa
Meem. By this lucid (clear or
open) Book. We have made it
an Arabic Quran, so that you may
understand it.
Brothers, I urge all of you to
understand the Quran once. Take
Allah’s word for once in your life … He Himself says in the above aayahs that
the Quran is easy to understand.
The shepherds and nomads of the deserts of
Brothers, I urge all of you to
understand the Quran once.
And then decide for yourself,
who is guiding from the Quran and to the Submission of Allah, and who is guiding man to the
submission of man! You
decide from the Quran who deserves our invocation and worship? You decide from the Quran who
deserves our rites of prostration (sajda)? You decide whose Will you want to submit to? Allah’s or some being who is
Created by Allah Himself!
Whatever you decide for
yourself, please remember that we
will not be accountable for your deeds,
and you will not be accountable for our deeds. No one will carry the burden of the other. Our appointment on the Day of
Resurrection, is with Allah, the Lord of the Worlds,. On that Day, there will be no helper, no protector and no intercessor between man and
Allah. All the fancy
stories and promises made by
man, without any authority from
the Quran, will disappear. Please give a deep thought
to the following aayahs of the Quran.
If one reads the Quran, he
will realize that there are literally hundreds of similar aayahs saying the
same thing over and over again.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Al-Hajj verses 71-72:They invoke
besides Allah, those, for whom Allah has sent down no authority, nor do they themselves have any
knowledge about them. Such
transgressors have no helper.
And when our clear Revelations are recited to them, you will perceive signs of disdain in
the faces of the disbelivers, as though they were going to assault those who
recite our Revelations to them.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anam verse 70:And leave alone those who have taken their ‘deen’ as a sport and
past-time, and have been deluded
by the life of this world.
Nevertheless, you go on
admonishing them by reciting the Quran to them, lest any person should be seized because of his own deeds; and that too, at a time, when there
would be no protector, no helper
and no intercessor to rescue him from Allah; when no conceivable
amount of ransom would be accepted from him. This is because such people shall be seized, in
consequence of what they themselves had earned.
The fundamental concept of Islam
is that there is only One God, Who
Created us and everything else in the heavens and the earth, and thus He Alone deserves to be
worshipped, without invoking
anybody else in between. This
concept is called the concept of “Tauheed” in the Quran, and is the central theme of the whole Divine Book. This concept of ‘Tauheed’ closes
all the shops opened by all those who claim to be the ‘raza na sahebs’! No wonder they work day and night
to keep the clear guidance of the Quran away from our understanding. They decorate their shops with
fancy promises and false stories to attract their customers. They sell the words of Allah for
worldly gains. Please read
what Allah has to say about these people who hide the guidance of the Quran
from the people, for their own personal gain.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Al-Baqarah verse 174:Indeed those, who
conceal the commands that Allah has sent down in His Book and barter them away
for paltry worldly gains, fill
their bellies with fire.
Allah will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He regard them as pure and
there is a painful torment for them!
May Allah make us of those who
use our faculty of reasoning and determining for ourselves what is right and
what is wrong, using the Holy
Quran as our only Criterion. May
Allah give us the wisdom and courage to distinguish between the guidance of
man, and the guidance of Allah’s
words in the Quran! May
Allah take us out of the servitude of man, and bring us to be His obedient slaves and servants. 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
Wister