What is good? A person is said to do good when the person is willing to recite the Great Kalimah. What is the Great Kalimah? The Great Kalimah is “There is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah”. The words “There is no God except Allah” also means there is no one who is able to give good or bad to men except Allah and it also mean that there is no one who can gives honour or disgrace except Allah. What is an evil? A person is said to do evil when a person is not willing to recite the Great Kalimah. A person who is not willing to recite the Great Kalimah is a person who does evil and the evil must be prevented by inviting that person to do good or to invite the person to recite the Great Kalimah. What is the greatest evil committed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah? The greatest evil committed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is the person is not doing the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. The work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils is the first order of Allah to be performed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah. However our Muslim scholars believe that a person will automatically become a believer and the lover of Allah on reciting the Great Kalimah. According to our Muslim scholars, the first order of Allah to be performed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to do the work of inviting mankind to good and prevent mankind from evils.
In my opinion the understanding that after reciting the Great Kalimah the first order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers is wrong. This understanding is against the Quran. In the Quran, Allah tells to the Arab Badwi who claims to have become a believer when he recited the Great Kalimah that he is not a believer but he had only entered Islam. It is clear from the verse of the Quran that a person will not become a believer only by reciting the Great Kalimah. In order for a person to become a believer after reciting the Great Kalimah, the person must do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw. The work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils is the work which fulfills the right of reciting the Great Kalimah. It is the first order of Allah to be performed by everyone who has recited the Great Kalimah. The order to perform the five times daily prayers is not the first order of Allah but the second order of Allah. It is wrong to tell to the Muslims that after reciting the Great Kalimah the first order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers. However our Muslim scholars are telling to the Muslims that the first order of Allah after reciting the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayers. What a wrong understanding our Muslims scholars have! This wrong understanding causes the Muslims to do wrong actions since more than one thousand years ago. When the Muslims are doing wrong actions, they become deviated from the correct path. Since more than one thousand years ago, the Muslims in all over the world have become deviated from the correct path. Since a thousand years ago this wrong understanding has been perpetuating among the Muslims and it is now, Allah has guided Muslims the correct understanding of the Quran and Hadis.
The first order of Allah to be performed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. However, the Muslims have neglected the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way of Prophet Muhammad saw more than one thousand years. Muslims have not realized that it is obligatory on them to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding them from evils. The Muslims are not making repentance to Allah for neglecting the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. Since more than one thousand years ago this misunderstanding has existed among the Muslim scholars and the Muslims in all over the world. Since more than one thousand years ago, Muslims have not regarded the work of inviting men to good and forbidding mankind from evils as the first order of Allah or the most important order of Allah to the Muslims and because of that the Muslims are not doing the work of inviting men to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw. When all the Muslims are not doing the work of inviting men to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw, Allah does not give the Muslim scholars and the Muslims the understanding of the Quran and the Hadis.
When Muslims and the Muslim scholars are not given by Allah the understanding of the Quran and the Hadis they become deviated from the correct path. When Muslims have become deviated from the correct path, the non-Muslims think that Islam is the same as the deviated practices of the Muslims. When the non-Muslims look at the deviated practices of the Muslims they dislike Islam because they think Islam is synonymous with the deviated practices of the Muslims. Since more than one thousand years ago the Muslims have become deviated from the correct path; in my opinion, the Muslims will only be able to come to the correct path when the Muslims come to regard that to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils as the first and the most important order of Allah to the Muslims. The wrong actions of the Muslims have tarnished the good image of Prophet Muhammad saw and Islam. Many of the actions of the Muslims nowadays are not following the true teaching of Islam. Nowadays the Muslims are not following the true teaching of Islam because the Muslims scholars are not teaching the Muslims the true understanding of the Quran and Hadis.
Muslim scholars are not teaching the Muslims the true understanding of the Quran and Hadis because they are not given by Allah the true understanding of the Quran and Hadis. Our Muslim scholars are not given by Allah the true understanding of the Quran and Hadis because they do not do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by the Prophet Muhammad saw. Allah has not given the guidance or taufik to the Muslim scholars to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils, because the Muslim scholars have not made their purpose of their lives is to earn the pleasure of Allah. When the Muslims scholars are not making the purpose of their lives is to earn the pleasure of Allah, they will not be given by Allah the guidance or taufik to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw. When the Muslims scholars are not doing the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw, Allah does not give to the Muslim scholars the understanding of the Quran and Hadis. When the Muslim scholars do not understand the true meaning of the Quran and Hadis, the Muslim scholars become deviated from the correct path. When the Muslim scholars have become deviated from the correct path, the whole Muslims also become deviated from the correct path.
When the Muslims have become deviated from the correct path, the Muslims become divided into many groups. Our Prophet Muhammad saw had said in a Hadis with an approximate meaning that in the future the Muslims shall be divided into seventy three groups and all the groups are the deviated groups except one group and when the Prophet Muhammad saw was asked which is the group that is on the correct path, the Prophet Muhammad saw was reported to have answered that the group which is on the correct path is the group which follow the Prophet Muhammad saw and the Prophet’s companions. However, all the Muslims who follow the seventy two deviated groups claim that they are in the correct path and that they are following the Prophet Muhammad saw and the companions. When the Muslims have become deviated from the correct path the Muslims will start to quarrel and to curse among themselves. When the Muslims started to quarrel and to curse among themselves, Allah will not look at the Muslims and will not grant the doa or the prayers of the Muslims and Allah will not help the Muslims against their enemies. In my opinion this is the conditions of the Muslims in the world today. How to revive Islam and the Muslims in all over the world? In my opinion, the first thing that all the Muslims must do is to make repentance because they have neglected the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way of Prophet Muhammad saw and the second thing that all Muslims must do is to change their purpose of live from the purpose of fulfilling their own lusts to the purpose of fulfilling the wishes of Allah and to earn the love of Allah.
When the Muslims have make repentance to Allah because they have neglected the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and when the Muslims have started to make their purpose of lives is only to earn the pleasure of Allah then only Allah will give to the Muslims the taufik to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils as their main work. When the Muslims have made the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils as their main work, then only Allah will be pleased with the Muslims. When Allah is pleased with the Muslims, Allah will place the love of Allah inside the heart of the Muslims. When Allah has place the love of Allah inside the heart of the Muslims then only the Muslims will be able to love the Jews, the Americans, other races and all the other creations of Allah. In my opinion when the Muslims have started to love the Jews, Americans, other races and all the other creations of Allah then only there will be a true peace in this world. When the Muslims have started to become believers they will start to practice the true Islamic values and at that time, hatred in the heart of the Muslims will change to love and war or terrorism in this world will change to peace and friendliness.
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
July 2013
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre