Although I was once a member of worldwide tarikat group CLICK or popularly known as Jamat Tabligh but now I am no longer the member of the group. I do not think I will ever join the group again, although many members of the group are having a very high hope that one day I will return back to the group. Many members of the group particularly in Malaysia are having profound love towards me and they are hoping that one day I will be joining back the group. Once I was one of their leaders in Malaysia and I was regarded by many in the group as the gem of Malaysian’s Tabligh Jamat. I was one of their most outspoken leaders who often gave fiery lectures that help to arouse their desires to give sacrifice in the work of Tabligh Jamat. I was their leaders and in order for me to be convinced that the work of this Tarikat group has the capability in transforming Muslims to become good Muslims, I gave my utmost sacrifice, ability and capability to this tarikat group. During the last thirty years I was with the group, I have never missed to give my annual 40 days, my monthly three days and two and a half hours daily in the activities of the mosque. Every day I was always in the mosques and in the last thirty years of my life, I always perform my 5 times daily prayer with congregation in the mosques. I knew in my heart that this Tabligh Jamat is not the work of the Prophet saw but when I compare to all the other Islamic religious movement, Tabligh Jamat is the closest to the work of the Prophet saw. After I was involved in this Tarikat Group for nearly twenty years, I started to analyse myself and others in the group. I was wondering whether since the past 20 years I was involved in the Tarikat Group, I had become a better person or otherwise. When I observed those who had involved in the work longer than me, I do not observe the behaviours of a religious person that I had expected. When I look at my own self, I also do not have the religious behaviours that I should had after joining the Tarikat group for nearly twenty years. I told to myself that I would not like to be any worse than I am now in the next twenty years. I was puzzled and seriously in deep thought on how the work should be done in order I can become a better person in the next twenty years to come. A person will become better day by day when his or her iman keep on increasing day by day. I started to wonder in the last twenty years I was with Tabligh Jamat whether my iman increasing, decreasing or remain the same.

How to increase our iman? Many peoples talk about the importance of iman but not many people talk or write about the work that will increase our iman. Many peoples in the tarikat group says that to increase iman one has to make more sacrifices in the so call path of Allah, that is by spending 40 days or 4 months and some peoples in the tarikat group says that to increase iman, one has to give more dakwah on the greatness of Allah or to talk more about the greatness of Allah and to listen more to the greatness of Allah and to see more the greatness of Allah. On the other hand many religious scholars say that to increase iman one has to read more Quran, perform solat and make abundant remembrance of Allah while others say to increase iman one has to have knowledge and then to have amals and then only the iman will increased. It seems to me that, Muslims all over the world in general are not very sure on how to increase their iman and this really surprised me. When we look at the amals of the Muslims it certainly shows that Muslims all over the world generally have a very weak iman. No one seems to know how to increase their iman. It is a real tragedy when Muslims do not know how to increase the very important and basic qualities that all and each Muslims must have. It is great shame to the entire humanities that we do not know how to increase our iman. In this situation, where should I turn to, in order to know how to increase iman? Certainly I have to turn to Allah ad His Prophet saw. In other words, I have to turn to the Quran and Hadis in order to know the truth.

Allah has created men and certainly only Allah and His Prophet s.a.w. knows on how men can become a better person. I have asked and cried for a guidance from Allah. I have prayed to Allah so that He will show me the correct work to increase iman. With the grace of Allah I had came to understand from one Hadis that Allah will renew our iman when we frequently recite the great Kalimah. When I tried to talk abundantly about the Great Kalimah, I found my iman did not renew or increase. I knew, the Hadis of Prophet Muhammad saw must be right and why my iman did not increase when I talked abundantly about the Kalimah. It came to my mind that it must be the way I talk about the Great Kalimah was wrong. In order my iman to be renewed or increased, the way I must talked about the Great Kalimah must be the same way as Prophet Muhammad saw did.

Instead of giving lecture or talk in the mosque about the Great Kalimah, I must go out of the mosque and visit Muslims in their houses and talk about the Great Kalimah. When I went to visit Muslims from house to house like the Prophet Muhammad saw did and reminded them about the Great Kalimah, I found my iman started to increase.

At that time it did not come to my mind to visit the non-Muslim houses, because I still believed at that time, we must first work on the Muslims before we can work on the non-Muslims. From September 1997, I have decided to spend about an hour or so every day in the early morning after Fajar Prayer to go and visit every Muslim houses in all the lanes or roads in my locality area. In the evening I will spend time in Masjid Seri Petaling to do administrative work of Jamat Tabligh. In order to make the work of reminding the Muslims about the Great Kalimah easy, I have developed scripts that can be used as a guide by any Muslim when they do the work of reminding a Muslims. As my understanding about the work started to increase the script written as a guide to remind the Muslims also underwent changes time by time. The script written as a guide when reminding Muslims finally became perfect when the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Kalimah has started.

Although I was doing the work of visiting each and every Muslims in my locality and I was reminding them about the Great Kalimah since September 1997 but, I was still doubtful about the level of my iman. I did experience an increase of iman but after reaching a certain level of iman, the level of iman became stagnant or flattened. I was not satisfied with the level of iman that I had achieved and I was questioning myself, why my iman was not continually increasing? I look again at the Hadis and asked Allah to make me understand what should I do next. The Hadis says, when we frequently talk to each other abundantly about the Great Kalimah our iman become renewed. The Hadis did not mention about the increase of iman but only says about renewed our iman. The next question that came to me is how to increase iman?

When I look at the Quran, there are verses that mention about iman and it seem to me, iman has a relationship with the work of inviting people to good and forbidding peoples from evil and such relationship is also found in Hadis. Allah says in the Quran with the approximate meaning, you are the best nation sent to mankind, you enjoin people to good and you forbid people from evil and you have iman in Allah. Prophet Muhammad saw also says with the approximate meaning, you must forbid evil with power but if you cannot do as so, forbid evil with words but if you cannot do as so then you forbid evil with your heart, which means with prayers or making doa and Prophet Saw said that is the weakest level of iman. What is ‘evils’ mention in the Quran and Hadis? According to the tafsir of Abdullah bin Abbas ra. whom the Prophet saw said as the best mufassirin of my umah, the greatest evil done by men is they do not accept the plain truth that there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.

The greatest evils done by Muslim who has accepted the Great Kalimah is they do not convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and the second greatest evil done by Muslim is they do not preserve their prayer where the men do not perform five times prayer with congregation and the women do not perform their prayers. What is ‘goods’ mention in the Quran and Hadis? According to Abdullah ibn Abbas ra. the greatest good done by men is to recite the Great Kalimah, I bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The greatest good done by Muslim, is when they convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and the second good deeds done by Muslims, when they perform their five times daily prayers as the Prophet saw did or asked us to do. From the Quran and the Hadis, Allah has made me to understand the reasons why our iman does not continually increasing as we grow old. Now Allah has opened the door of understanding to me which was closed to me previously. Allah has made me to understand that to increase our iman, Muslims must convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and to renew their iman, Muslims must frequently remind the other Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and to invite the Muslims to obey all the orders of Allah where the first order of Allah is to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and the second order is to perform five times daily prayers.

On September 2007, I started to visit the house of the non-Muslims too, but I only make prayers or making doa in front their houses. At that time, I am not dare to talk to them because I do not know the script to be used when giving dakwah to non-Muslims. On February 2008 while I was visiting a non-Muslim house and I was just about to make the prayer in front of his house, the owner of the house, a Hindu man came out of the house and asked me what I want? At that point of time, Allah taught me the script that I should use when giving dakwah to the non-Muslims. Since that day, the work of dakwah to non-Muslims has started CLICK. Allah has made the work of the Prophet saw to be resumed in this world. Allah has chosen and used me to revive the work of Prophet Muhammad saw and Allah has chosen my locality as the place where the work of the Prophet saw was revived again in this world. That is the day, which is so memorable in my whole lifetime. That was the day my dream became true. It was a day of joy and happiness to me and I am sure it was also a day of happiness for the Prophet Muhammad saw. I keep reminding my saying on that day to all my friends that Allah has made it alive, and with this it similarly like the Prophet Muhammad saw is alive again in this world. I also told my entire friends that, after this Allah will not punish the Muslims again in Malaysia and the whole world. My dream to be able to give dakwah to non-Muslims finally has become a reality. It is really a wonderful gift of Almighty Allah to me. Allah has bestowed me the great present and I could never imagine myself leaving this great work of the Prophet simply because I only want to remain as the members of the syura of the world Tarikat Group in Malaysia. Nothing really matters to me and Insha’Allah I will never stop this Great Prophetic work until the day I die. My journey to reach this starting point of the work of the Prophet saw has never been easy to me and I am sure the journey of the work of the Prophet saw itself is even harder. InsyaAllah I will continue to follow the path that has been taken by Muhammad saw and his companions until the day I meet Allah and gain His pleasure. As the work of Tabligh Jamat or World Tarikat Group is only on Muslims as being told to me by Sheikh Abdul Wahab whose one of world syura members of Tabligh Jamat, I have decided to stop joining Tabligh Jamat and not to become one of the syura members of Malaysian Tabligh. My decision is final and I hope there is no more attempt from the side of Jamat Tabligh to bring me back into their group. Allah has given me to them for almost thirty years and when they do not make syukur on the blessing of Allah, then Allah took away the blessing.

I hope all the members of the World Tarikat Group particularly in Malaysia; please do not regard me anymore as Malaysian syura members of the Tarikat Group. I sincerely declare in this article that I have ceased to become even the members of Tabligh Jamat or World Tarikat Group. Do not respect and honour me anymore as the Syura members of Tabligh Jamat, as all of you used to do before. If you still want to respect and honour me, you have to respect and honour me only because I am a Muslim. Allah and His Prophet saw told us to respect and honour a person according to the level of iman and amals that the persons have and not according to the status of the persons. If you give respect to me because I was or still the Malaysian syura members of Tabligh Jamat, I will not response to your respect and I will ignore you. I do not like to be associated anymore with Tabligh Jamat and I hope all of you in Tabligh Jamat understand this point very well.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
March 2011
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre