Men are the creations of Allah. Allah has created men so that men will love Allah and become the lover of Allah. Allah wants men to become the lover of Allah. Allah wants men to obey all the orders of Allah with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with men. Allah is most merciful and compassionate. Allah introduces Himself in the Quran, as the most merciful and the most compassionate which is the meaning of the repeated verses in the Quran; Bismillah-hirrahman-nirrahim. Allah loves men, more than a mother loves her child seventy times. Allah had said in a Hadis Qudsi to ask men to make Allah as the purpose of men’s lives, to make Allah as the aims of men’s lives and to make Allah as men’s lover. Allah also said in the Hadis Qudsi, in case men are able to make Allah as the purpose of men’s lives, as the aims of men’s lives and as men’s lover, men will be able to obtain anything which men want to have in this world and the hereafter. As men, we should know, what is the purpose of our lives? In this Hadis Qudsi, it is clearly mentioned that the purpose of men’s lives is to become the lover of Allah. I still remember, when I was with Jemaah Tabligh, I was told by Sheikh Abdul Wahab who is one of the leaders of Jemaah Tabligh that the aim or purpose of lives of a Muslim is to do the work of Dakwah. He used to tell us and all other Muslims in the whole world that the work of Dakwah is the purpose of live of every Muslims. At that time, I used to think that he was correct and I also used to speak to others that dakwah is the purpose of our lives. At that time I used to follow the elders of Jemaah Tabligh almost blindly and it is only now I know that they are in the wrong path. What is understood by Sheikh Abdul Wahab who is one of the leaders of Jemaah Tabligh in my opinion does not come from the Quran and Hadis but it comes from the Iblis. The purpose of lives of a Muslims is to become the lover of Allah.
The aim of live of a Muslim as told by the leader of Jemaah Tabligh is completely different from the aim of live as told by the Quran and the Hadis. Dakwah is the order of Allah, same as to perform solat five times in a day is the order of Allah. So to achieve the purpose of lives of a Muslim which is to become the lover of Allah, Muslims need to obey all the orders of Allah in the ways of Prophet Muhammad saw with the intention to please Allah. Dakwah is not the purpose or the aim of live of a Muslims but it is the mean to achieve the purpose or the aim of lives. What is the work of dakwah as understood by the leaders and the members of Jemaah Tabligh? The work of dakwah as understood by the leaders and members of Jemaah Tabligh is to invite Muslims to spend time in the path of ibadah for 3 days in every month, 40 days in every year and 4 months, once in the whole lifetime. In My opinion, what is understood by the leaders and the members of Jemaah Tabligh as the work of dakwah is not the same as mention in the Quran and Hadis. In the Quran and Hadis, it is mention that the work of dakwah is to invite mankind to Allah and not to invite Muslims to spend time in the path of ibadah for 3 days in every month, 40 days in every year and 4 months, once in the whole lifetime as understood by the leaders and members of Jemaah Tabligh. And what is meant by the words ‘to invite mankind to Allah?’ It means to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to remind the Muslims who have recited the Great Kalimah about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and to invite the Muslims to obey all the orders of Allah.
In order to become the lover of Allah, a Muslim must obey all the orders of Allah particularly they must obey the first order of Allah. The first order of Allah is the most important order of Allah as compared with all the other orders of Allah. Nowadays, almost all the Muslims in the whole world are not doing the first order of Allah. Muslims are not doing the first order of Allah not because they do not want to obey the first order of Allah but because they do not understand what is the first order of Allah really is. After reciting the Great Kalimah, Muslims are not doing the first order of Allah, because since more than one thousand years ago Muslims were told by their Muslims scholars that the first order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to invite mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. A person only becomes Muslims and not believers when a person recites the Great Kalimah. In order to become a believer a Muslim after reciting the Great Kalimah need to obey the first order of Allah. What is the first order of Allah to be performed by a person who has just recited the Great Kalimah? The first order of Allah to be performed by a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. Since more than one thousand years ago, all the Muslims scholars and the Muslims in the whole world think and believe that the first order of Allah to be done by a person after reciting the Great Kalimah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. Because of this misunderstanding, more than one thousand years the Muslims as well as all Muslims scholars are not doing the work of inviting mankind to good and to forbidding mankind from evils the way done by our Prophet Muhammad saw.
A Muslim will not become the lover of Allah until the Muslim obey all the orders of Allah, with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with the Muslim. When Allah is pleased with a Muslim, the Muslim will become the lover of Allah. When a Muslim has become the lover of Allah, the Muslim has achieved the purpose of his or her lives. A person who has achieved the purpose of his or her lives is known as the believer. A person will become a believer when the Great Kalimah has entered into that person’s heart and a believer is known as the man of Allah or Ahlullah. Ahlullahs are the lover of Allah and whoever has become the lover of Allah, Allah will become his or her guardian. Ahlullah loves Allah and loves all other Ahlullah. Ahlullahs are the lover of Allah and whoever causes harm either physically or emotionally to Ahlullah, Allah will declare wars towards that person who had caused harm to Ahlullah. Since all Ahlullahs are the lover of Allah, the prayers of Ahlullah are accepted by Allah and Allah overlooks the shortcoming of all Ahlullah. Ahlullah is a person who follows the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. All Ahlullah are doing the main Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw which is the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. Many Muslims think that the main Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw are the ways on how the Prophet Muhammad saw eat and drink and wear turbans and not the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils.
I have read a book written by one Muslims scholar about the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. In the book it was mention that the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw are the activities which are done daily by our Prophet Muhammad saw such as the way the Prophet Muhammad saw sleep, eat and drink but the book does not even mention the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils as the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. All Ahlullahs must do the main Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw which is the work of calling men to Allah or the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. Without doing the main Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad saw it is impossible for a person to become Ahlullah. Ahlullah is also the person who performs the five times daily prayers with congregation and they perform their prayers with khusyuk and concentration. Since nowadays there is hardly anyone in this world, who is practicing the main Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw in the way done by our Prophet Muhammad saw, I, therefore, in the opinion that there is hardly any Ahlullah in this world today. A person will never become Ahlullah without practicing the main Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad saw. The main Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw is the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils done with the intention only to please Allah.
There is a Hadis in which it is mention that a person will become the lover of Allah by performing the non-obligatory prayers or nafil prayers profusely. This must be a false Hadis. This Hadis is written in the book of Fadail Amal which is used by the members of Jemaah Tabligh as the only book to be read in their taklim. Azazil used to perform the non-obligatory prayers or nafil prayers profusely but in the end of the day he becomes Iblis who is the great enemy of Allah. Muslims cannot become the lover of Allah by performing non-obligatory or nafil prayers profusely but a Muslims can become the lover of Allah only by doing the work which is loved most by Allah. What is the work which is loved most by Allah? The work which is loved most by Allah is the work of calling men to Allah or the work of inviting men to good and forbidding Mankind from evils. What are the words which are loved most by Allah? The words which are loved most by Allah are the words of calling peoples to Allah. What is the work which is loved most by Allah? The work which is loved most by Allah is the work of inviting men to Allah. The work of inviting men to Allah is the same as the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. It is not possible for a person to become the lover of Allah without doing the work of calling men to Allah or without doing the work of inviting men to good and forbidding Mankind from evils. The work of calling men to Allah or the work of inviting men to good and forbidding Mankind from evils must be done in the way of our Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention only to please Allah. When Allah is pleased with a person, it means Allah loved that person, and when Allah loved a person it means that the person has become Ahlullah.
How the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils is done in the way of our Prophet Muhammad saw? There are many Muslims who think that they are doing the work of inviting men to good and forbidding men from evils the way done by our Prophet Muhammad saw but in reality they are not doing the work of inviting men to good and forbidding men from evils the way done by our Prophet Muhammad saw. Many Muslims think that the word mungkar or evils in the Quran refer to all types of mungkar or evils and the word good or virtue in the Quran refer to all kind of good and virtues. Many Muslims think that to participate or to be involved in demonstration rallies is also the work to prevent evils or mungkar. What is the real meaning of the word mungkar and good as mention in the Quran? In order to understand the Quran we have to understand, what mungkar means to Allah and what good means to Allah and not what mungkar means to men and not what good means to men. We have to understand the Quran according to the desire of Allah and not according to our desire. When we interpret the Quran according to our desire, we will have a wrong understanding of the Quran. According to the Quran, the word good means, the action of reciting the Great Kalimah and the word mungkar in the Quran means the actions of not willing to recite the Great Kalimah.
What it means in the Quran by the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils is the work which is done by our Prophet Muhammad saw and all the Prophets in the past. It is the work of visiting the peoples in their houses and business premises with the intention of inviting the peoples to Allah. What it means by the word, to invite the peoples to Allah? It means, a person who is not Muslims must be invited to recite the Great Kalimah and become Muslim and a person who is a Muslims must be reminded about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and invited to obey all the orders of Allah. A Muslim who has just started to recite the Great Kalimah must be invited to obey the first order of Allah which is to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. Nowadays, unfortunately all the Muslims scholars and Muslims understand that the first order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers and not to invite mankind to good and to forbid mankind from evils. When a person recites the Great Kalimah that person only becomes a Muslims and not a believer. In order for that person to become a believer that person must obey the first order of Allah which is to the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with that person. When Allah is pleased with that person that person will become a believer and the lover of Allah or Ahlullah.
When the Great Kalimah has entered into a person’s heart, that person will become a believer or the lover of Allah or Ahlullah. But is there any Ahlullah in this world today? Since there is hardly anyone in this world who is doing the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils in the way done by our Prophet Muhammad saw with steadfastness, I am sure that there is hardly one Ahlullah nowadays. In my opinion, in case we even have only one Ahlullah in this world, we certainly will be able to live in this world with blessing and happiness. A world, in which there is no Ahlullah, is a world with full of calamities and the calamities will come to the world continuously as the rains fall continuously on the earth. In my opinion there are five (5) groups of men who live in this world and Ahlullah is one of the groups of peoples who live in this world. The other four groups of men are the Ahluliblis, Ahlulriak, Ahlulmaksiat and Ahlultawadhu.
All of us know that there are about seven billion peoples in this world. Out of the seven billion peoples who live in this world, in my opinion, the majority of them belong to the four groups of men. In my opinion and the majority among the four groups of men belong to the group known as Ahluliblis or Ahlulsyaitan. Who is Ahluliblis? In my opinion all the non-Muslims in this world belong to the group known as Ahluliblis and that include the Muslims whose recitations of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah. Muslims whose recitations of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah is in reality are non-Muslims and they also belongs to the group of Ahluliblis or syaitan. Muslims, whose recitation of the Great Kalimah is not accepted by Allah, outwardly will look like all the other Muslims but in reality they are non-Muslims. In the Quran they are known as the munafikin. Who are the Muslims whose recitation of the Great Kalimah is not accepted by Allah? Among the Muslims whose recitation of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah, are the Muslim who does not believe in any of the verses or even in one verse of the Quran. Muslim who does not believe in the Sunnah or even in one Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad saw is also Muslim whose recitation of the Great Kalimah is not accepted by Allah.
Muslim who has even an iota of enmity towards Allah, towards Prophet Muhammad saw and towards the Naib of Prophet Muhammad saw and Muslims who works very hard in order to earn a living in this world and Muslims who lies and Muslims who does not fulfill their promises are all included in the group of Muslims whose recitation of the Great Kalimah is not accepted by Allah. When Allah does not accept the recitation of the Great Kalimah of a Muslims the Muslim will become non-Muslims. In the Quran they are known as the Munafikin. A Munafikin is a non-Muslim. Although a Munafikin may perform prayers or fast in the month of Ramadhan but their prayers and their fasting are not accepted by Allah. The prayers and fasting of the Munafikin will not make them to become Muslims. They become non-Muslim because their recitations of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah. When their recitations of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah, their prayers and fasting are also not accepted by Allah. Among the Muslims there are many who pray and fasts and who think they are Muslims but in reality they are non-Muslims. Although they recite the Great Kalimah but they are non-Muslims because their recitations of the Great Kalimah are not accepted by Allah. Munafikins are non-Muslims and they belong to the group known as Ahluliblis or Ahlulsyaitan.
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
March 2013
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre