HOW THE DEVIL SYAITAN DECEIVE MEN AND HOW MEN CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE DEVIL SYAITAN

Both syaitan and Jemaah Tabligh hate the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to invite the Muslims to do the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. What Jemaah Tabligh does is not the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. Jemaah Tabligh claims to the Muslims in all over the world that they are doing the work of Prophet Muhammad saw which in reality they are not. Jemaah Tabligh is deceiving the Muslims in the whole world by saying they are doing the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. In reality Jemaah Tabligh does not do the work of Prophet Muhammad saw because Jemaah Tabligh neither invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah nor does Jemaah Tabligh invite Muslims to do the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. Members of Jemaah Tabligh who spend times for 3 days in a month,  40 days in a year or 4 months once in the whole lifetime and they move around the globe only to invite those potential Muslims to join their movement. Jemaah Tabligh does not want their members to remind each other about the Great Kalimah and what more to allow their members to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah.

Sheikh Abdul Wahab of Pakistan had been trying to persuade or to encourage the members of Jemaah Tabligh to remind each other and also to remind other Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah but the elders of Jemaah Tabligh in Nizammuddin did not complement or in favour of such actions. When there are some from among the elders or the workers of Jemaah Tabligh who disagree with certain ways or methods of doing work, those methods which cause some disagreement among the workers or among the elders of Jemaah Tabligh must be abandoned by Jemaah Tabligh. In Jemaah Tabligh, the greatest usul or rule of the work is to maintain unity among them even to the extent they have to break the orders of Allah.  In order to maintain the so call unity among the elders and among the workers of Jemaah Tabligh, such activities of reminding Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah among the members of Jemaah Tabligh and other Muslims had to be discontinued. Why do the elders of Jemaah Tabligh in Nizammuddin do not like the activities of reminding among Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah as proposed by Sheikh Abdul Wahab to be continued in Jemaah Tabligh?

It is because the activities of reminding Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah do not come from the elders of Jemaah Tabligh in Nizammuddin but it comes from Sheikh Abdul Wahab who is not from Nizammuddin? Judging from their actions, it appears to me as if the elders of Jemaah Tabligh in Nizammuddinare following the desire of the devil syaitan and not the desire of Allah. It is only syaitan and Iblis who dislike Muslims from reminding each other about the Great Kalimah and to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. What I do not understand until now is that Maulana Saad of Nizammuddin often in his morning lecture or bayan is speaking about the importance of Muslims to remind each other about the meaning of the Great Kalimah, but their actions are contradictory to what Maulana Saad is preaching in his lectures. Although on the mimbar, the elders of Nizammuddin particularly Maulana Saad are preaching to Muslims similar to the Prophet saw but the actions of Maulana Saad on the other hand are contradictory to the actions of Prophet Muhammad saw.

There are many ways on how the syaitan deceive the whole mankind but the most important way syaitan use to deceive mankind is to prevent them from reciting the Great Kalimah and to prevent those who have recited the Great Kalimah from doing the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. When Muslims who have recited the Great Kalimah do the work of inviting those who have not recited the Great Kalimah to recite the Great Kalimah, Allah will be pleased with the Muslims and to the non-Muslims who have recited the Great Kalimah. All of the previous sins of both the Muslims and the new Muslims are forgiven by Allah. When Allah is pleased with the Muslims, Allah will give to the Muslims, iman. In the eyes of Allah iman is the most valuable thing that men can have in this world and in the hereafter. When Muslims have acquired the level of iman which Allah wants, Muslims will become believers. When Muslims have become believers, Muslims will have sincerity or ikhlas in all of their actions. When Muslims have sincerity in all of their actions, Muslims will be saved from the attacks and clutches of the devil syaitan. Syaitan do not want the non-Muslims to become Muslims and syaitan do not want the Muslims to become believers and to have sincerity in all of their actions. Syaitan know that Allah has promised to protect those who are sincere in obeying the orders of Allah from the attack and clutches of the devil syaitan

When Muslims have become believers Muslims will have sincerity in all of their actions. Syaitan are not able to drive Muslims away from the correct path when Muslims are sincere in all of their actions. Syaitan know this very well and because of this syaitan are working very hard to prevent Muslims from doing the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, reminding other Muslims about the Great Kalimah and inviting other Muslims to do the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. Syaitan are deceiving Muslims into making only zikir or remembrance of the Great Kalimah but not to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, not to remind other Muslims about the Great Kalimah and to invite other Muslims to do the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. Iblis made the Muslims to understand that by remembering the Great Kalimah or zikir of the Great Kalimah abundantly, the iman of Muslims will become strong. This is from the syaitan and this is entirely not correct because there is not even a verse of the Quran or Hadis that says iman will increase with zikir or remembrance of Allah. There is none from the Quran and Hadis that can verify this claim. Prophet Muhammad saw in a Hadis did say to the Muslims to renew their iman by talking more of the Great Kalimah but not by zikir or remembering more of the Great Kalimah. Currently in the Islamic world there are many groups who practice zikir or remembrance of Allah, known as Tarikat.

These Tarikat groups have many different names and each group is led by one leader or Sheikh. All of these Tarikat groups claim to have connection with the Prophet Muhammad saw and they claim similar practices were done by our Prophet Muhammad saw. Allah orders Muslims to remember Allah but the Muslims must remember Allah the way shown by the Prophet Muhammad saw. There is not even a single Hadis which shows that the Prophet Muhammad saw had practice zikir or remembrance of Allah in the way done by these Tarikat groups. Similar to Jemaah Tabligh, these Tarikat groups also have many followers but their followers are not as many as the followers of Jemaah Tabligh. The members of Tarikat group also have to spend time for the purpose of practicing zikir or remembrance of Allah with their leaders or Sheikh. Unlike Jemaah Tabligh all of these Tarikat groups do not move, all over the world to invite other Muslims to join their Tarikat group. The members of Tarikat groups also spend time, from several days to several months call suluk with their sheikh or leaders and during that time they are doing nothing else other than doing zikir and solat with their sheikh.

Almost all the followers of Tarikat groups regard their sheikh or leaders as pious and who have special connection with the Prophet Muhammad saw and with Allah. Muslims who participate in the activities of these Tarikat groups are only doing zikir and solat and they are neither inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah nor do they remind the Muslims about the work which fulfill the right of the Great Kalimah. Tarikat groups also claim that they are doing the work of Prophet Muhammad saw which in reality they are not doing the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. Allah has not ordered the Prophet Muhammad saw and the Muslims to do zikir or remembrance of Allah the way in which these Sheikhs of Tarikat groups have ordered their followers to do zikir. Allah orders Muslims to remember Allah at all time which actually means to obey all the orders of Allah at all time. What it means by zikir in the Quran is to obey the order of Allah at all time. To know which order of Allah that Allah loves most at a particular time is known as ilmu and to do the order of Allah which Allah loves most at a particular time is known as zikir or Hikmah. Syaitan deceive Muslims into the understanding that zikir is the exercise of counting the number of beads or tasbih in which they remember Allah.

Syaitan deceive Muslims into the understanding that counting the number of beads is an act of zikir. Counting beads is only helping Muslims to remember Allah but it is not what it means by zikir as mention in the Quran and Hadis. Syaitan do not make them to understand that to obey the orders of Allah at all time is actually the meaning of zikir. Some of those Muslims, who follow the Tarikat group even, have the understanding that they are not required to perform solat any longer because they are constantly in zikir. They come to this understanding because according to them, solat is ordered by Allah in order for men to remember Allah and since they are constantly in the state of the remembrance of Allah, they are in the opinion that they are not required to perform solat anymore. In this way the syaitan deceive them from obeying the order of Allah. In my opinion all the Muslims who participate with the activities of Tarikat group are not gaining any increase in iman but they are gaining an increase in pride or kibir. Syaitan can deceive non-Muslims and those Muslims with no iman or Muslims with weak iman but syaitan cannot deceive the believers. Those who have becomes believers are protected by Allah from the devil syaitan. After doing any action Muslims who are believers will have the taufik to recite the Kalimah “I have no power to execute this action except with the permission of Allah”. With this Kalimah, a person, with the permission of Allah will be protected from having kibir or riak. Iman does not increase with solat or zikir or reading of the Quran or charity or studying about Islam. With only ibadah, studying about Islam or memorizing the Quran and not doing the first order of Allah, instead of gaining iman a person may gains pride or kibir. When a person gains pride or kibir that person may become syaitan. The persons who have pride or kibir, in reality are gaining syirik in their heart because they have associated Allah with their own selves. Whoever has syirik with Allah, Allah will make syaitan to become their friends or advisers who will try to drive them away from the correct path. Many of those who often go to the mosques for five times daily solat with congregation are not gaining an increase of iman but they are gaining an increase of pride or kibir. When they gain pride or kibir, they will not have good manners or good behaviours toward other Muslims and the non-Muslims. What is the evidence to show that they have kibir and riak? When anyone of lower standard comes to their houses in order to remind them about Allah, they will refuse to listen and sometime they may even drive those peoples who want to remind them about Allah away from their homes.

Many Muslims are deceived by Iblis and syaitan into the belief that their children will become good Muslims if they send their children to study Islam or memorizing Quran in madrasah and become ustaz and ustazah. Many Muslims believe that a person who has knowledge about Quran will become a good Muslims. With this believe many Muslims parents sent their children even at a very young age to madrasah in order to memorize the Quran and to become the hafiz or the hafizah of Quran or to study about Quran and Hadis and to become ustaz or ustazah. Many Muslims believe that anyone with the knowledge of Quran and Hadis or anyone who is able to memorize the Quran has strong iman and good actions or amals and when they died will certainly enter paradise. Many Muslims believe when their children are able to become hafiz and hafizah, their children in the hereafter will be able to give syafaat to their parents. With this believe, many parents particularly from among Jemaah Tabligh send almost all of their children to study in madrasah in order to make their children to become hafiz and hafizah. With only studying Quran and Hadis or memorizing Quran and Hadis and without doing the work which fulfills the right of the Great Kalimah, the children will not have good iman and good amals or the children will not become believers.

When the children do not become believers, Iblis and syaitan can easily deceive them. Instead of using the Quran and Hadis to call peoples to good and prevent peoples from evils, the Quran and Hadis will be used by ustaz or ustazah as a mean to earn a living. How to make a living out of the Quran and Hadis? Iblis and syaitan will tell to the ustaz and hafiz to establish an Islamic schools or madrasah for the children of the Muslims or to teach Muslims about Islam in the various mosques of the Muslims. With the madrasah and Islamic schools or teaching in the various mosques the ustaz and hafiz are earning their living. In the name of teaching Islam and the Quran ustaz and hafiz are earning their living from their knowledge of the Quran and Hadis. Ustaz and Hafiz are opening new madrasah. With these madrasah more Ustaz and Hafiz are produced and these Ustaz and Hafiz will in turn open more madrasah and Islamic schools. In this way there are thousands of madrasah and Islamic schools are being established in the country. These madrasah and Islamic schools require students and only with having students these madrasah and Islamic schools will be able to survive and the ustaz and hafiz who teach in the madrasah will obtain their salary.

Iblis will deceive Muslims parents to send their children to madrasah and Islamic schools with the promise that their children will become good and pious Muslims. Is it true by sending our children to madrasah our children will become good and pious Muslims? It is true with the increasing number of madrasah there will be an increase number of pious and good Muslims in the Muslims communities. It is not true that our children will become good and pious by sending them to madrasah and it is also not true with the increase number of madrasah there will be an increase number of pious and good Muslims. Pious and good Muslims are not produce from madrasah and Islamic schools but good and pious Muslims are produce only from the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. What is the work of Prophet Muhammad saw? The work of Prophet Muhammad saw is to call peoples to Allah and to call peoples to Allah means is to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. With more madrasah we are only producing only more Ahli Kitab and not ulama or alim. Ulama or alim are Muslims who have become believers and who can only be produced through the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. Ahli Kitab are Muslims who are not believers because they do not do the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. What Ahli Kitab do is either learning or teaching a large collection of kitab in the madrasah.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
December 2012
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre