TRUTH VS FALSEHOOD

Allah, the Most High, says:

AND MOST OF THEM FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE. BEHOLD! CONJECTURE CAN NEVER BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TRUTH.  VERILY, ALLAH HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT THEY DO. (Surah Yoonus : verse 36)

The quarrel of Truth against Falsehood had always existed, and will continue to exist until the Day of Judgement. The wicked and irreligious people always hated those who had invited them towards the Truth and will continue to do so.

Initially, the King Nimrod was NOT an enemy of Prophet Ibraheem (alaihis salaam). The enmity and hatred started only when Prophet Ibraheem (alaihis salaam) began to invite him towards the Truth, i.e. the worship of the only ONE Creator, Allah.  The King Nimrod became his arch enemy and prepared a huge fire to burn and destroy the Prophet Ibraheem (alaihis salaam), but the King was totally unsuccessful. Similarly, the King Fir'awn was NOT an enemy of Prophet Moosa (alaihis salaam). In fact, Prophet Moosa (alaihis salaam) was brought up in the lap of the wife of Fir'awn from birth to the age of youth.  Fir'awn treated Prophet Moosa (alaihis salaam) as his own son.  But, when Prophet Moosa (alaihis salaam) invited Fir'awn towards the Truth, the King became a strong enemy of Prophet Moosa (alaihis salaam) and endeavoured to kill him.   But this king was also totally unsuccessful.

Let us now look at the history of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Was there any enmity initially between our beloved Prophet and the polytheists of Makkah?  None at all.  In fact, the polytheists accepted him as the best man in their community.  They relied on his loyalty and trust and was famously known throughout Makkah as "Muhammad AI-Ameen' i.e. Muhammad the Trustworthy.  But when our Beloved Prophet placed the Truth in front of them, the Prophet became their greatest enemy.  They not only stopped calling him ‘A1-Ameen’, but used such words which did not befit the sublime character of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam).

Even today, we live in such great harmony with our close relatives and friends.  After learning about their un-Islamic and un-Quranic beliefs and practices, we remain silent without a word of guidance to them.  Our modernized Muslims say that this is done to keep the ‘Islamic’ Brotherhood.  And unfortunately, at times, this is also called wisdom (hikmah) and considered as the ‘live and let's live’ policy in an environment of great tolerance.  But when our sincere Ulama speak out against their un-Islamic and un-Quranic beliefs and practices, they become the greatest enemies of these righteous Ulama.  Naturally, the Truth is bitter and cannot be swallowed easily.

All the above incidents prove one thing, and that is:

MAN BECOMES AN ENEMY OF ANOTHER MAN WHO TELLS THE TRUTH.

Alas!  we have so many false (baatil) movements in the name of the Quran and Islam.  Movements like the Shias, Qadianis, Parwezis, Maududis etc, are promoting their anti-Khulafa and anti-Sahaba ideologies which are in complete contradiction to the Quran itself.   How can such movements ever be true when Allah Himself praises the Khulafa and Sahabas and commands us to follow them in the following words:

AND THE FIRST AND FOREMOST - OF THOSE WHO WERE THE MUHAJIREEN (EMIGRANTS) AND THE ANSAAR (HELPERS) - AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THEM EXACTLY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WELL-PLEASED IS ALLAH WITH THEM AND WELL-PLEASED ARE THEY WITH HIM. FOR THEM, HE HAS PREPARED GARDENS UNDER WHICH RIVERS FLOW, TO DWELL THEREIN FOREVER. THIS IS THE SUPREME TRIUMPH.  (Surah At-Tawbah: verse 100)

How then can movements which degrade the Khulafa and the Sahabas ever be successful? Their existence in such minority groups is, in itself, a proof of it being false and unsuccessful. When Allah Himself orders Muslims to follow the Sahabas, the most honourable of whom are the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs, how then can we blindly follow today's westernized irreligious Muslim  ‘scholars’ who promote anti-Khulafa and anti-Sahaba ideologies?  Na'oozubillah!

The overwhelming majority of Muslims are followers of the Khulafa and the Sahabas. These are the real AhIe Sunnah wal Jama'ah.  This is, in fact, the real Muslim Community (Jamaa'ate Muslimeen) which includes all four schools of thought viz. the Hanafee, Shafe'i, Maliki and Hanbali.  Whoever turns away from the Muslim Community, Allah warns him in the most severest of words, as follows:

BUT AS FOR HIM WHO, AFTER GUIDANCE HAS BEEN CONVEYED TO HIM, CONTRADICTS AND OPPOSES  THE MESSENGER (OF ALLAH) AND FOLLOWS A PATH OTHER THAN THAT OF THE BELIEVERS, WE SHALL LEAVE HIM IN THE PATH HE HAS CHOSEN, AND WILL LAND HIM IN HELL - WHAT AN EVIL REFUGE! (Surah An-Nisaa : Verse 115)

The new brand of Muslims today claim that they are learning their DEEN from the Quran and Sunnah alone, and they are in no need of the guidance of the Khulafa and the Sahabas.  There is only one reason for such an approach. They are overawed by modernism to such an extent that they find it difficult to present their DEEN in its original form. As a result, they modify the DEEN to pacify the modernists.  They are creating their own standards for judging the Truth which, in reality, is far from the Truth.  Ghulam Ahmed Parwez claims that all his ideologies are based exclusively on the Quran and Sunnah (note: Parwez does not believe in the Hadith but claims to practise on the Sunnah. What a joke!).   The Shias and Qadianis also claim to follow the book of Allah and His Messenger.   Maududi makes a similar claim.  How do we know that whatever is presented to us is, in fact, correct? What standard do we use to judge this?  The only standard lies in recognizing the interpretation and understanding of the Quran and Sunnah by our pious predecessors i.e. the Khulafa and the Sahabas.  This is what was passed on from generation to generation and preserved with the help of Allah.   This is what our sincere Ulama (Ulama-e-Haqq) propagate and these are the true leaders of our DEEN.   Allah commands us in the following words:

O BELIEVER! FEAR ALLAH AND BE IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ARE TRUTHFUL.  (Surah At-Tawbah : Verse 119)

May Allah keep us guided on the Straight Path of the Prophets, the Truthful, the Martyrs and the Pious Ones.   May Allah also keep us in the company of the true and sincere Ulama-e-Haqq.  Also, may Allah safeguard our lmaan from the tentacles of  irreligious and irresponsible Muslim ‘scholars’ of today.  Ameen!

Abdul Haq Abdul Kadir, Umhlanga Rocks, KZN.