Jameel Kermalli (United States)
SAY, ‘WHO IS THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?’ SAY, ‘ALLAH!’ SAY, ‘HAVE YOU THEN TAKEN OTHERS BESIDES HIM FOR GUARDIANS, WHO HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN BENEFIT OR HARM?’ SAY, ‘ARE THE BLIND ONE AND THE SEER EQUAL? ARE DARKNESS AND LIGHT EQUAL?’ HAVE THEY SET UP FOR ALLAH PARTNERS WHO HAVE CREATED LIKE HIS CREATION, SO THAT THE CREATIONS SEEMED CONFUSABLE TO THEM? SAY, ‘ALLAH IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, AND HE IS THE ONE AND THE ALL-PARAMOUNT.’
[110:1] When there comes the help of Allah and the victory,
And you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies,
Then celebrate the praise of your Lord, and ask His forgiveness; surely He is
oft-returning (to mercy).P
]
BECAUSE ALLAH IS A PERFECT CREATOR.
BECAUSE EVEN NON-MUSLIMS FOLLOW ISLAMIC WAY OF LIFE.
BECAUSE NO-ONE CAN TOP THE INFALLIBLE A.S.
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Hujjatul Islam Muhammad Baig
If God sent a religion, how would people who do not know of the religion believe in it? What means did God put in the human beings by which they can decide right from wrong? Surely the religion was not revealed to the whole of humanity at once. It must have started from one point. How would others know of it and more so accept it and believe in it? What is that one faculty that is shared by all human beings by which a message can be analyzed and determined to be right?
The answer is quite simple; it is the human mind and the faculty of reasoning. It is the mind that helps us judge things and decides between right and wrong in every matter of our lives. The word of God, if it is to be transferred to other people who are foreign to it, must conform to the faculty of reasoning that God put in all of us. This is why in Islam faith in God is not the outcome of dogmas and doctrine but rather the product of reasoning and deep scrutiny of revelation.
ONE CAN WRITE AN ENTIRE BOOK ON THIS. BUT THREE MAIN AREAS OF DISCUSSIONS.
- EVERY CREATION IS ISLAMIC. EVERYONE IS BORN A MUSLIM.
- PROPHET MUHAMMAD SAID THIS WHEN SEEN CRYING AND BURYING A NON-MUSLIM – I WISH I MADE AN INVITATION, TO THE DEAD PERSON, ABOUT ISLAM.
- IN THE MONTH OF RAJAB WE SAY TO ALLAH – O HE WHO GIVES TO ONE WHO ASKS HIM. O HE WHO GIVES TO ONE WHO DOES NOT ASK HIM AND DOES NOT KNOW HIM, OUT OF HIS AFFECTION AND MERCY…
IN DUA KUMAYL, WE SAY – O ALLAH! I BESEECH THEE BY THY MERCY WHICH ENCOMPASSES ALL THINGS, AND BY THY POWER BY WHICH THOU OVERCOMETH ALL THINGS, AND SUBMIT TO IT ALL THINGS AND HUMBLE BEFORE IT ALL THINGS AND BY THY MIGHT BY WHICH THOU HAST CONQUERED ALL THINGS, AND BY THY MAJESTY AGAINST WHICH NOTHING CAN STAND UP, AND BY THY GRANDEUR WHICH PREVAILS UPON ALL THINGS AND BY THY AUTHORITY WHICH IS EXERCISED OVER ALL THINGS, AND BY THY OWN SELF THAT SHALL ENDURE FOREVER AFTER ALL THINGS HAVE VANISHED, AND BY THY NAMES WHICH MANIFEST THY POWER OVER ALL THINGS, AND BY THY KNOWLEDGE WHICH PERVADES ALL THINGS, AND BY THE LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE WHICH ILLUMINATES EVERYTHING…
IN DUA ABU HAMZA THUMALI WE SAY TO ALLAH, AND YOU BESTOW YOUR MERCY ON WHOMEVER YOU WISH, WITH WHATEVER YOU WISH, AND HOWEVER YOU WISH, YOU ARE NEVER QUESTIONED ABOUT YOUR DOINGS, NEITHER IS THERE ANY STRUGGLE IN YOUR KINGDOM, NOR IS THERE ANY PARTNERSHIP IN YOUR COMMAND, OR CONFLICT IN YOUR JUDGMENT…
IN DUA KUMAYL WE SAY TO ALLAH, WHO IS THERE, WORTHY OF WORSHIP, BESIDES YOU? … (I) humble before Your lordship? …And these (Your displeasures) cannot be withstood by the heavens and the earth…
IN DUA ABU HAMZA THUMALI WE SAY TO ALLAH …I AM NOT FIGHTING YOU AGAINST YOUR LORDSHIP…I swear with Your exalted might, O’ Master that if You rebuked me, I would not depart from Your door, and I won’t cease to compliment You, since I have indeed come to grasp the knowledge of Your generosity and benevolence. And You are the doer of whatever You desire, You punish whomever You wish, with whatever You wish and however You wish, and You bestow Your mercy on whomever You wish, with whatever You wish, and however You wish, I swear with Your exalted might, O’ Master, that if You rebuked me, I would not depart from Your door and I won’t cease to compliment. YOU ARE NEVER QUESTIONED ABOUT YOUR DOINGS, NEITHER IS THERE ANY STRUGGLE IN YOUR KINGDOM, NOR IS THERE ANY PARTNERSHIP IN YOUR COMMAND OR CONFLICT IN YOUR JUDGMENT AND NO ONE CAN OPPOSE YOU IN YOUR DISPOSITION OF AFFAIRS AND NO ONE CAN OPPOSE YOU IN YOUR DISPOSITION OF AFFAIRS. TO YOU BELONGS ALL OF THE CREATION AND COMMAND… and I take refuge through believing in Your unity, and through my certainty of knowledge about You, that indeed I have no other god or lord but You, only You; there is no partner for You.