What is the prove to shows that the followers of Jemaah Tabligh obey the orders of their ulama blindly? When their ulama forbid the followers of Jemaah Tabligh to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims because according to their ulama, nowadays Muslims are weak and are not capable of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims, the whole followers of Jemaah Tabligh in the whole world follow their ulama blindly. It is without doubt, Allah and Muhammad saw have ordered Muslims to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. What are the conditions which are laid down by Allah in order to qualify Muslims to deliver the Great Kalimah? Are Muslims required to be fully rectified before they are allowed to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims? Muhammad saw orders the Muslims to deliver to others even if the Muslim knows only one verse. What is the one verse which all Muslims must know other than the Great Kalimah? What is the verse to be delivered by all Muslims to the non-Muslims? All Muslims have recited the Great Kalimah or otherwise they are not Muslims. After the persons have recited the Great Kalimah, Allah orders the persons to deliver the Great Kalimah to those persons who have not recited the Great Kalimah. On the other hand the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh believe Muslims must be fully rectified before they are allowed to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. This shows that Jemaah Tabligh is not following the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad and in my opinion, whoever is not following the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw is indeed has become deviated from the correct path.
Although the order to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is fardu on all Muslims including to those Muslims who knows only the Great Kalimah but according to the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh, the order to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is not fardu on all Muslims. According to them, the order to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is only fardu to those Muslims who have become rectified. The ulama of Jemaah Tabligh believe that Muslims will only become rectified, once the Muslims go out in the path of ibadah which they call, in the path of Allah for 4 months once in the whole lifetime, 40 days for every year and 3 days for every month. In my opinion, what is understood by the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh is wrong and it is deviated from the teaching of Islam. It clearly shows to me that the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh do not understand the true meaning of Quran and Hadis. Ulama of Jemaah Tabligh do not understand the true meaning of the Quran and Hadis because they are not believers. The ulama of Jemaah Tabligh are not believers because they disobey the first order of Allah. What is the first order of Allah? The first order of Allah is to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. The ulama of Jemaah Tabligh neither invite the Hindus who live around the Banglawali mosque, in nizamuddin, New Delhi, India to recite the Great Kalimah nor they remind the Muslims who live around the Banglawali mosques about the Great Kalimah and to invite them to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. When the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh are only giving lectures inside the Banglawali mosque and are not doing the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils, their iman will not increased to the level which qualify them to become believers. When they are not believers, they will not be given by Allah the understanding of the Quran.
All Muslims know that the order to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is fardu on all Muslims men and women. However the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh forbid the members of Jemaah Tabligh from conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. Why the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh forbid the members of Jemaah Tabligh from conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims? According to the belief of the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh, the order to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is not fardu on Muslims because Muslims in whole world according to them are not capable of doing the work of delivering the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. The members of Jemaah Tabligh believe the decision of their ulama is a correct decision and to the followers of Jemaah Tabligh the decision is known as the decision of Hikmah. The members of Jemaah Tabligh do not even know the meaning of Hikmah. What is Hikmah? When Muslims are doing the actions which are the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw, then only the actions are known as Hikmah. When Muslims are not doing the actions which are the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw, then in my opinion, the actions are known as Fitnah. When the ulama and the members of Jemaah Tabligh are not conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims, they are actually not following the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw and when they are not following the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw, they have become deviated from the correct path.
In my opinion the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims is the Great Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw and when Muslims are not following the Great Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw, they have become deviated from the correct path. In my opinion, now the Muslims are following their ulama blindly because they are no longer practicing the true teaching of Islam. Muslims and their ulama are no longer practicing the true teaching of Islam because they are not able to understand the correct meaning of the Quran. When they are not able to understand the correct meaning of the Quran both the Muslims and their ulama will become deviated from the correct path. Muslims and their ulama will become deviated from the correct path when they are 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 and the greatest Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. When our ulama are not obeying even the first order of Allah, the iman of the so-called ulama will not become strong. When the iman of our so-called ulama are not strong they will not become believers. When our so-called ulama are not believers, Allah will not give our so-called ulama the correct understanding of the Quran. When our so-called ulama are not having the correct understanding of Quran our so-called ulama will start to interpret the meaning of the Quran according to their own mind and not according to the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. It is because our ulama are not believers is the reason why our ulama have interpreted the actions of looking only at the faces of the women, talking to the women, listening to the voices of the women, knowing the names of the women and looking at the shoes of the women are all the actions which bring men closer to zina.
Many ulama particularly the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh, understand the meaning of the verse of the Quran; “Do not come near to zina”to also include the actions of looking at the faces of the women, talking to the women, listening to the voices of the women and even looking at the shoes of the women. The ulama make all the actions which bring men closer to zina as Haram or forbidden in Islam so that men are prevented from the evil actions of fornication, adultery and prostitutions. Ulama have made it fardu for women to wear Hijab or Burkah when they are outside their houses because our ulama believe the action of looking at the faces of the women is action which will bring men closer to the action of zina. Our ulama persuade our women to remain always within the four walls of the houses so that men are protected from coming closer to the actions which will bring them closer to the actions of zina. I would like to ask the question to the ulama of the Muslims and the ulama of Jemaah Tabligh. Is it true that the action of looking at the faces of the women, talking to the women, listening to the voices of the women are actions which can be categorized as the actions which will lead men to zina and therefore the actions can be categorized are Haram or forbidden in Islam?
In my opinion, the actions of looking at the faces of the women, talking to the women, listening to the voices of the women are actions which cannot be categorized as the actions which will lead men to zina and therefore the actions cannot be categorized as Haram or forbidden in Islam. I would like to ask the ulama of the Muslims? What are the order of Allah and the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw when we are looking at the faces of the women, when we are talking to the women and when we are listening to the voices of the women? In my opinion the actions of looking at the faces of the women, the action of talking to the women and the actions of listening to the voices of the women can only be categorized as the actions which will lead men to zina when all these actions are able to arouse sexual desire to the men. What is the sign that the men who are doing these actions are experiencing an arousement of sexual desires? Men should know that they are experiencing arousement of sexual desires when there is a movement of his male genital organ. When there is even a slight movement of the male genital organ, it indicates that the men are experiencing an arousement of sexual desires.
In my opinion, when the actions of looking at the faces of the women, the actions of talking to the women, the actions of listening to the voices of the women and the actions of looking even at the shoes or the writing of the women are able to arouse men’s men sexual desires as indicated by the movement of his male genital organ then only these actions can be categorized as the actions which will lead men to the evil actions of zina and therefore these actions are to become Haram or forbidden in Islam. In my opinion the actions of looking at the faces of the women, talking to the women, listening to the voices of the women, looking at the shoes and to the writing of the women and to shake hands with the women are not Haram or forbidden in Islam if these actions are not leading men to have an arousement of sexual desires. What is the sign which indicates that the men are having an arousement of sexual desires? When there is movement of the men’s genital organ then it indicates the men are having an arousement of sexual desires and therefore the actions which lead men to have an arousement of sexual desires should be immediately avoided or terminated or otherwise the actions may lead to the actions of zina. In case the actions of looking at the faces of the women, the actions of talking to the women, the actions of listening to the voices of the women are not arousing any sexual desire on the part of the men then the actions in my opinion cannot be regarded as actions which will lead men to zina. All actions which do not lead men to the actions of zina in my opinion are not Haram or forbidden in Islam.
When the action of looking at the face of a woman causes an arousement of sexual desire on the part of the man then the action can be categorized as actions which lead men to zina. Allah orders Muslims to be away even from even the actions which may lead men to zina. What is the order of Allah to a man when at the time of looking even at the faces of the women has aroused his sexual desires? The order of Allah to that man during that time is to lower his gaze. When the man lower his gaze it means the man is obeying the order of Allah but when the man does not lower his gaze, the man is disobeying the order of Allah. When a man, while looking at the face of a woman do not causes an arousement of his sexual desire, then there is no order of Allah for him at that time, to lower his gaze. When a man while talking to a woman or while listening to the voices of a woman has caused an arousement of his sexual desire as indicated by the movement of his genital organ, then the order of Allah on him at that time is to immediately stop the action of talking to the women and the action of listening to the voices of the women and to immediately lower his gaze. In case these actions do not cause an arousement of his sexual desire as indicate by no movement of his male genital organ, then, there is no order of Allah at that time, for him to stop talking to the women or to stop listening to the voices of the women or to stop looking at the faces of the women. In other words the action of looking at the faces of the women, the actions of talking to the women and the actions of listening to the voices of the women are only Haram or forbidden in Islam when such actions are capable of arousing sexual desire on the part of the men.
When the action of looking at the women have aroused men’s sexual desire, as indicated by the movement of their male genital organ and during that time, when men failed to lower their gazes, then the men are said to have disobeyed the order of Allah. One action of disobedience will lead to another action of disobedience. Once the men have failed to lower his gaze it will lead the men to another action of disobedience which may finally will lead the men to the evil action of zina. Who is to be blamed? It is not only the women to be blamed but also the men are to be blamed? In my opinion both the men and women are to be blamed because the evil action of zina will only be committed when both the men and the women are disobeying the orders of Allah. Men and the women will only disobey the orders of Allah when both the men and women are not believers. Our ulama want to prevent the evil action of zina by ordering the women to completely cover their bodies by wearing Hijab or Burkah and this will not prevent the actions of zina from happening in the societies. The order for women to wear Purdah and Hijab is not the order of Allah. Our ulama order the women to wear Purdah or Burkah because our ulama want to prevent the evil actions of zina and this will not prevent the actions of zina from occurring in the society. In my opinion the order for women to wear Purdah or Burkah will not prevent the evil actions of zina. The evil action of zina will only be prevented in the society when both Muslims men and women in the society are believers. Men and women will only become believers when both men and women are doing the first and the second order of Allah. What is the first order of Allah? The first order of Allah is to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and the second order of Allah is to perform the five times daily prayers.
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
October 2013
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre