26th
Rabee-al-Thani 1429H
2nd
May
2008AC
In the
name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
All thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the
worlds. Peace and prayers be upon the most honored of all prophets and
messengers, and upon all his family and companions, and those that follow him.
We are
still discussing the topic of understanding Allah’s religion through the that
incident when Gabriel came asking the messenger (PPBU) about Islam, about
faith and perfection. As a result we talked about the testimony of “No God but
Allah”. We explained what it meant, its reality, its benefits and its
conditions. Now we enter the second dimension of Islam, that is: the testimony
that “Mohammad is the messenger of Allah”. Before talking about this testimony
today’s talk is given as an introduction. Today talk is about the task of
prophets and messengers. Today’s talk can be summarized into the following
three points:
First: The origin of enmity between Adam
and Satan.
Second: The beginnings of polytheism or
associating others with Allah (Sherk).
Third: The task of prophets and
messenger.
First: The origin of enmity between Adam
and Satan.
When
Allah created Adam and blew the spirit into him. Allah ordered His angels to
kneel before Adam. Ibleese, was one of the Jinn and it was not one of the
angels. He did not kneel before Adam. He refused due to vanity, envy and
tyranny. His punishment was the exclusion from Allah’s mercy. He became the
target of Allah’s curse. He became even more tyrant and more hateful towards
Adam and Adam’s offspring (or Mankind). He asked Allah to be given a chance
until the day of resurrection and he swore or took an oath to misguide all
Allah’s slaves of mankind, or Adam’s offspring. He would do that through
misguiding them from the truth, and from the path of deliverance and
salvation, so they would not worship Allah and they would not believe in Allah
as the sole and only God. He pledged to use all possible methods to block them
from good and make them to love evil. Allah putting an end to the powers of
the Jinn over the faithful said: {He said: My Lord, because You have put me in
error, I will surely make attractive to them (meaning mankind) on earth, and I
will mislead them all. Except, among them, Your chosen servants.} Al-Hijr
15:39-40.
The second point: The beginnings of
polytheism or associating others with Allah (Sherk).
Satan was
continuously at Adam (PBU) and his offspring, with whispering, temptation and
misguidance, until he became the reason for bringing down Adam from paradise.
He was also the reason for the son of Adam to kill his brother. As if that
wasn’t enough, as time passed with Adam’s offspring, and as prophecies became
distanced, he started making polytheism be attractive to people. He was
tempting them; and he achieved what he wanted. Waddan (æóÏøÇð),
Suwa’an (ÓõæóÇÚÇð),
Yagoothan (íóÛõæËó), Yao’ookan (íóÚõæÞó)
and Nasran (äóÓúÑósÇ),
all these were names of good God fearing men from the people of Noah (PBU).
But, after they died Satan inspired their people to build statues in their
memories. And time went by, they started worshipping them and offering
sacrifices to them instead of to Allah alone.
The third point: The task of prophets and
messengers.
No one deservingly likes being praised as
Allah does. He praises Himself as the messenger said: {it is for that He sent
down the book and sent the messengers.}
Allah
sent the messengers to emphasize the argument and the evidence upon his slaves
of mankind; so they would have no excuses. All these sent messages are
blessings and mercies from Allah to all His creations. The need of the slaves
for such messages is above all needs. In fact mankind need those messages from
Allah; is more necessary to them than food, drink and medicine. For the worst
that could happen if there is a lack of food or drink or medicine is the harm
of the body, while these messages have life for the hearts and faith. These
messages are necessary for the wellbeing of the slave in his worldly life and
the life after. As there is no wellbeing for mankind in the life after except
by following and adhering to those messages, it is also the case that the
message is also necessary for the wellbeing of mankind in his worldly life
living.
To each
nation Allah; sent a messenger. They were all sent with the same religion, and
that is Islam. The entire religion is to be purely and sincerely for Allah.
Dedicating the singularity to Him alone (May He be praised). Never to worship
anyone or anything else other than Him. Allah says: {And We sent not before
you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, there is no God by I,
so worship Me} Al-Anbiaa 21:25. The messenger said: {Prophets are brethrens,
they have many different mothers, but their religion is the one and the same}.
Messengers kept on coming to their people calling upon them to hold on to the
one god; and to give up polytheism. This continued up to Moses and Jesus. In
their scriptures there was the glad tiding of the coming of the prophet
Muhammad (PPBU).
And after
Jesus (PBU) was lifted up, and as time lingered on for mankind before the
revelation and sending of the messenger Mohammad (PPBU); Ebleese worked hard
on people. He misguided people far off the righteous path. He had them trapped
into disbelief, polytheism, and becoming astray and misguided in so many ways,
with the exception of the few and far between.
After this introduction, next Friday, God
welling, we shall talk about the prophet of mercy Mohammad (PPBU) and the
testimonies we should bear towards him or on his behalf.
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