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

I started doing the work of Jemaah Tabligh in the year of 1976. I went to India and Pakistan for the 4 months outing in 1979. My aim was to find out whether the work of Jemaah Tabligh is the work of Prophet Muhammad saw or the work of the Indian Muslims. After completing the 4 months outing I have concluded that the work of Jemaah Tabligh is not the work of Prophet Muhammad saw but when compared to all other Islamic works available in the world during that time, the work of Jemaah Tabligh is the closest to the work of Prophet Muhammad saw especially meeting people to talk about islam. In 1996, I started to review the work of Jemaah Tabligh. I think it was about time I should review the outcome of the work after twenty years with Jemaah Tabligh. I was astonished to find out that I do not have a significant increase in my iman and amals after I have done the work for nearly twenty years. At that time I was already the members of the Syura or the highest committee of Jemaah Tabligh Malaysia. Everyday during the evening, I will spend time ether in the mosques or visiting the workers of Jemaah Tabligh in various localities in Kuala Lumpur or in Malaysia without fail. I have spent without fail the yearly 40 days and the monthly 3 days outing. I have spent many time 4 months outing either within or outside the country. I was able to give fiery bayan but I did not have the quality of iman or believe and amals expected in a worker who have done the Tabligh work, also known as the work of iman for twenty years.

When I started to assess my own quality of amals, I sincerely believe at that time that I did not have the quality of amals expected in a worker and a Syura member who has done the work with steadfastness and sacrifices for nearly twenty years. I was worried and I was restless. I cried and prayed to Allah to show me the correct work of Prophet Muhammad saw. I strongly believe that the quality of iman and actions can only be achieved with the true work of Prophet Muhammad saw. With restlessness I was telling myself that I cannot continue doing the work like the way I was doing. I believe that there is something wrong with the work. What is wrong with the work I did not know? In my opinion in case I continue doing the work the way I  have done it for the past twenty years I would end up in the next twenty years with the same level of iman and amals as I have started.  I was worried and the question, why my iman and amals did not increase even after doing the work for twenty years continue to ring in my ears. I was so worried and I was determined to find the solution for the question. I knew I have not achieved the outcome of the work which is the increase in the quality of iman and amals.

When I do not have the outcome of the work which suppose to be an increase of iman and amals it means that the work which I have done in the past twenty years was not right. If the work which I have done in the past twenty years was correct, certainly my iman and amals should have increased to a level expected of a worker who had done the work for nearly twenty years. During that time I had spent many nights in Masjid Seri Petaling and I used to wake up during the night to pray the tahajud solat and to make prayer to Allah. I used to pray to Allah to show me the correct way of doing the work of the prophet. While praying I forced myself to cry so that Allah will have pity on me and show me the correct work. During that time I started to think very seriously about the way on how to do the work correctly. Once, the elders of Jemaah Tabligh by the name of Meiji Mehrab who was a close disciple of Maulana Ilyas, said in one of his lectures in November 1996 at Raiwind, Pakistan that iman increases by speaking more to each other about the Greatness of Allah. I practiced what had been said by him among the Muslims who came to Masjid Seri Petaling but I found my iman did not increase as what had been told by him in his lecture.

I was puzzled. However, with the permission of Allah, one day I was given by Allah the opportunity to read one Hadis written in Fadhail Amal which said with approximate meaning that iman is renewed or increased by speaking more to each other about the meaning of the Kalimah Laailahaillallah. When I practiced as what has been said in the Hadis among the Tabligh workers who came to Masjid Seri Petaling, I still found that my iman did not increase. I became more puzzled with the outcome but I knew what had been said by Prophet Muhammad saw can never be wrong. With the grace of Allah, it came to my understanding that I did not probably obtain the outcome mention in the Hadis because the way I remind other Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah is not the way done by Prophet Muhammad saw. I was talking about the meaning of the Great Kalimah only to the Muslims who came to the mosque and who are respecting me as a Syura members and I did not talk about the meaning of the Great Kalimah to Muslims who are outside the mosques who do not know me and who do not respect me as a Syura.

I knew, Prophet Muhammad saw was reminding others about Allah by going to the people. Prophet Muhammad saw did not remind others about Allah by giving lectures in the mosques. When I started reminding other Muslims about the meaning of the Kalimah the way done by Prophet Muhammad saw then only I experienced an increase of my iman as said by Prophet Muhammad saw in the Hadis. After praying the fajar solat in the mosque, I will go with one or two Muslim brothers to the houses of the Muslims in my locality to remind them about the meaning of the Kalimah. I went to every house of the Muslims in every lane in my locality. And, I was convinced that the choice of words that we use while reminding others must be correct and the way we remind others must also be correct.

What are the correct words? At that time I understand the correct words are the words that we use to call others to Allah. At that time I understand the word to call others to Allah means to call them to Laailahaillallah. In order to make sure the choice of words that we use to remind other Muslims about Allah is correct I used to write a script. In my opinion, if actors and actresses in a movie have scripts to remember so that the roles that they play in the movie will look real and alive, similarly Muslim who are doing the work of reminding other Muslims about Allah are also actors. In this case they are trying to play the role of Prophet Muhammad saw in reminding other Muslims about Allah. In my opinion, without scripts and guide, the work to remind other Muslims about Allah would be very difficult to many Muslims.

I started to develop scripts to help Muslims to remind other Muslims about the meaning of the Kalimah. They were very small number of the workers of Jemaah Tabligh who agreed with the idea to use scripts while the majority of them disagreed with the idea. Why did they disagree with the use of scripts when reminding other Muslims? They disagree with the use of the scripts in reminding Muslims because the scripts were formulated by me and not by their elders in Nizammuddin, India. All rules and regulations about the workof Jemaah Tabligh must come from the elders in Nizammuddin India and not from any others in the world. They believe only their elders in Nizammuddin and nobody else in the world understands the meaning of Quran and Hadis correctly. According to them all Muslims in this whole world must follow their elder in Nizammuddin blindly. In order to ensure the work of Jemaah Tabligh does not follow the Quran and Hadis, Iblis teaches them one very important rule; all members of Jemaah Tabligh must remain united even if they had to break the usuls or tertib of the work. Even if the new tertib which is being introduced into Jemaah Tabligh follow Quran and Hadis, but if that new tertib causes disunity among the workers of Jemaah Tabligh, then the new tertib must be discarded from Jemaah Tabligh. Iblis teaches Jemaah Tabligh to remain united even if they have to disobey the order of Allah. Iblis has deceived them into the belief that unity is far more important than to uphold the orders of Allah.

During that time, many criticized me for trying to do the work using my own brain and not following the elders in India. When I tried to introduce the work with script which I had developed to the members of Jemaah Tabligh in Kuantan, Malaysia, I was heavily attacked and criticized by some of the members of Jemaah Tabligh. It causes commotion and uproar among the workers of Jemaah Tabligh in Malaysia and the matters had to be brought to the attention of their elders in January 1998 at Dacca, Bangladesh. The elders of Jemaah Tabligh decided that such method of work can only be introduced into the work of Jemaah Tabligh in Malaysia if all the Syura of Malaysia unanimously agreed with the method. Since I knew that all other members of the Syura of Malaysia certainly will not agree with the new method I introduced, as such I did not bring the matters to be discussed with other Syura of Malaysia. I have decided to do the work with the new method which I strongly believe will increase my iman and amals regardless of the decision of the elders of Jemaah Tabligh and the opinion of the other Syura of Malaysia.

Since September 1997, I was spending about one to two hours in the early morning before I went to my office for visiting every house of the Muslims in my locality and remind them about the meaning of the Kalimah. I was doing the work only in my locality, which is in Taman Greenwood, Gombak, Malaysia.  I told to the workers of Jemaah Tabligh who wanted to learn about the new method of work which will increase their iman to come to my locality. I told them that I will not teach the new method of work which will increase their iman at Masjid Seri Petaling. I did not want to teach the new method of work at Masjid Seri Petaling which is the markas of Jemaah Tabligh in Malaysia because all the other Syura members did not agree with the new method of work. Those members of Jemaah Tabligh who are interested to learn the new method of work which increase iman will come to my locality to learn the work. Until July 2009 there were about three hundred or more peoples who have learned and did the work with me which I believe with the permission of Allah will increase our iman.

What is the main content of the scripts? The main content of the scripts is about the meaning of the Kalimah, the work of the Prophet and the adherence to the performance of five time’s daily prayers. We invite Muslims to do the work of Prophet Muhammad saw and to perform five times daily prayers but others in Jemaah Tabligh invite Muslims to spend times either for 3 days or 40 days or 4 months with their movement.  In Jemaah Tabligh, everyone is allowed to talk on whatever topic they like because the main outcome of their work is not to increase their iman but to prepare Muslims to join their Jemaah. In reality, increase of iman is not the outcome of the work of Jemaah Tabligh. The outcome of their work is to prepare new Muslims to join their Jemaah. When they are able to prepare new Muslims to join their Jemaah either for 3 days or 40 days or 4 months, they believe they have achieved the outcome of their work and they become very proud of their achievement. When their elders give lecture or bayan, their elders will say to the Muslims that the outcome of their work is to increase their iman but in practical the outcome of their work is not to increase iman but to recruit new members. The more new members they can obtain to join the Jemaah the more successful they think they become.

The first question that their elders will ask to any Jemaah that come back to their centers is whether the Jemaah is able or not to obtain new recruits to join the Jemaah. Iblis has turned the outcome of Tabligh work to follow the outcome of any organization in this world and not to follow the outcome as Allah wishes, which is the increase of iman and amals. Iblis deceived them into believing that they are doing Tabligh or Dakwah but in reality they are only a Tarikat group who works very hard to increase the number of Muslims in all over the world to join their Tarikat movement. As other Tarikat, Jemaah Tabligh is also a misleading Tarikat because it is not the Tarikat of Prophet Muhammad saw. Iblis and syaitan deceived them from making iman and amals as the outcome of their work and they make the increase in numbers of Muslims who join their movement as the outcome of their work. When they have many followers, Iblis and syaitan will make them proud of their numbers and will tell them that they are in the correct path because they have many followers all over the world.

Whenever any non-Muslim embraces Islam, Iblis and syaitan will tell them that it is due to their Tabligh works which make Allah to give guidance to those non-Muslims who embrace Islam. Iblis will tell them not to invite the non-Muslims to Islam directly as done by Prophet Muhammad saw but to show only good behaviours or akhlak to the non-Muslims. Iblis and syaitan whisper to their ears by saying to them that it is not the time yet for Muslims to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah but we only need to show to the non-Muslims good behaviours. Iblis tell them to rectify the Muslims first by asking them to join the work of Jemaah Tabligh for 3 days or 40 days or 4 months. Iblis advises Jemaah Tabligh to tell other Muslims not to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah unless the non-Muslims themselves want to become Muslims. Is this order of Jemaah Tabligh come from the Quran and Hadis? Or does this order come from Iblis the imposter? I think it comes from the imposter Iblis. There are members of Jemaah Tabligh who call me an imposter when I am spending time everyday to invite Muslims and the non-Muslims to the truth. In my opinion, the real imposters are Iblis and Jemaah Tabligh who follows Iblis, because the work of imposters is to prevent men from reciting or reminding each other about the Great Kalimah.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
November 2012
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre