It is one thing to claim Islam but another thing entirely to live
and use Islam as a yardstick to measure our affairs. The sole purpose of
our sojourn into this fragile abode(a timely one at that)is to seek for
the pleasure of our Maker, we shouldn't err and derail from the path
albeit erring is an integral part of the human race. A sane mind should
not be disjointed and dislocated for a mistake that is unplanned,
forgiveness awaits him. No such thing as eternal damnation in this
affair saves those whose hearts find solace in apostasy and disbelief.
For it is enjoined that an apostate should be cleared up to render his
impact and blasphemous act fruitless.
We are all challenged
to work and contribute significantly to the betterment of our brethren
as believers. Now the question that needs to be answered is if an
ignorant fellow, that is not well versed in the scripture and the
traditions of his Noble face can venture into this redeeming business.
No! Such will only escalate the misguidance to a point where if
necessary steps are not taken can bring a new birth into this affair,
much of what we witness today.
Here we go,
Our
Deen is the very embodiment of knowledge, wisdom, and tolerance and the
unextinguished virtue of our faith is truthfulness, any measures
contrary to these are anathema to what the Prophet brought. Also, it has
been for the time immemorial safeguarded by tenets and principles which
have its sources only from the Divine Scripture and Sunnah. So we put a
question forward to those who deem it fit to come with oil to stain
this ageless white piece that who approved of them? Who gave them such
an audacity? No reasonable answers should be expected of them. If only
they have, it will be conjured fallacy and they are always ready to
succumb to misinterpretation of the text. One would wonder if they are
people whose heads are empty.
Certainly, most of them know
the truth but are being driven by baseless desires for wealth and
luxury, their love for this Dunya is indeed echoed by their action.
Should their desires be sought by manipulating the words of the Highest
when he has warned that we should not indulge in it? He says :
وَءَامِنُوا۟
بِمَآ أَنزَلْتُ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا مَعَكُمْ وَلَا تَكُونُوٓا۟ أَوَّلَ
كَافِرٍۭ بِهِۦۖ وَلَا تَشْتَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِى ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا
وَإِيَّٰىَ فَٱتَّقُونِ
And believe in what I
have sent down confirming that which is [already] with you, and be not
the first to disbelieve in it. And do not exchange My signs for a small
price, and fear [only] Me. ( Quran 2:41)
These people are nothing but felons!
The
ignorance of their acolytes also bugs the soul, their masters are
veterans in the act of brainwashing, they have been made to attest to
and affirm their superiority by belittling the essence of knowledge and
Sunnah. They place themselves in positions which even the Prophet never
placed himself and none of his noble companions placed neither him nor
themselves.
Their way of worshipping and living today is
according to intellectual reasoning constructed on foundation of the
unproven and unprovable and they clinched to the ark named "Men of God"
or say " The fallible beings " albeit they are self-acclaimed, heavenly
acclaimed nobles or men of God don't boast about it, they won't even
have the slight knowledge of them being acclaimed.
Self
acclaimed men of God who in their own thinking and that of their
acolytes are channels and symbols of the spiritual world. Are they
certified to provide service only God can render? Their worldly skill
is so minute and they need tactical means of survival, such that would
be on the plinth of nobility and free from the tongue lashing and finger
pointing, hence they resolved to exploit people of their hard earned
money through supplications and invocations. Yet they never ceased to
profit from the disaster of their ignoramus acolytes.
For one
thing, the Supreme Deity is not copyrighted and His realm is ever
accommodating to anyone that would enter. He is ever listening to anyone
that seeks
وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ٱدْعُونِىٓ
أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِى
سَيَدْخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَاخِرِينَ
And your
Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who
disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible. (Quran
40:60)
It
is manifested from the verse above and from others that claimants to
possession of Godhood are in fact the greatest liars and are obstacles
that are supposed to be consigned to the dustbin. Funny how those whose
sights have been shielded from the truth, with burdened hearts as a
result of overindulgence in innovative acts claim righteousness. To say
the light of guidance that permeates the hearts has faded in theirs is
not an overstatement.
And yet some of them
attribute to themselves some attributes which solely belongs to the
supreme being. It is an untoward behavior and the fastest route to
disbelief. These are people who fall preys to worldly possessions and
become agitated when struck by hunger and thirst, they become too
furious at mere insults and when they sleep at nights, they are unaware
of what transpires feet away from them. But they have so inserted
themselves into crevices of landscapes and social actualities seeking
fame and veneration. The peak of misguidance!
Also,
there are some of them who are so resolved to cause confusion in the
religion and run its affairs as if the Scripture was revealed in their
backyard. The sheer scale of their operation and misguidance is indeed
so alarming and their circle is nothing but that of frivolity,
innovations and corrupt practices. Should Abu Qaseem be resurrected and
visit one of our religious circle, he would let out a cry and proclaim
that what they do today is certainly not what he brought.
Can we stay clear of all these and walk the straight path? What is the way out of this palaver?
The
perpetual elasticity of knowledge and its essence has been emphasized
through ages. To be sound both spiritually and intellectually, to be
free from these emissaries of misguidance and disbelief, it is incumbent
upon us all, be it young or old, rich or poor, male or female to seek
for knowledge with sincerity and live with it.
Sani Mubaraq writes from University of Ilorin
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