Friday Sermon 23rd Dec 2016

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1 Friday Sermon 23rd Dec 2016 Hujjatul Islam Ustad Syed Jawad Naqvi (Principal Jamia Orwatul Wuthqa Lahore, Jamia Jafaria Gujranwala) Delivered at: Jamia Masjid Allama Mufti Jafar Gujranwala Pakistan

2 In the name of Allah (s.w.t) I invite all of you and myself towards divine Taqwa so that you can establish your lives on the basis of Taqwa. Allah has granted creation to man and for completion of creation Allah has established guidance for human being and for completion of guidance Allah has established Taqwa. The criteria and standard for guidance established by Allah is Taqwa. Taqwa is the divine plan for protection of human life. Since the creation of man is from Allah; it is only Allah who can establish the plan of guidance for human life and apart from the creator anything that gets established is misguidance. The way Allah has created human being in a beautiful manner similarly Allah has created the system of guidance for human being also in a beautiful manner. The beauty of this creation is on the basis of Taqwa as Taqwa is included in every specifics of guidance. Taqwa means the plan for protecting and securing human life from both the worldly dangers and hereafter. Since Quran is the book of guidance, there is a mention of Taqwa in various verses and chapters where Taqwa is mentioned in context to human life. Amongst these verses, the verse under discussion is verse 26 and 27 ي ا ب ن ي آد م ق د أ نز لن ا ع ل يك م ل ب اس ا ي و ار ي س وآت ك م و ر يش ا و ل ب اس ذ ل ك م ن آي ا ت ا لل ل ع ل ه م ي ذ ك ر و ن الت قو ى ذ ل ك خ ير O children of Adam! We have indeed sent down to you clothing to cover your shame, and (clothing) for beauty and clothing that guards (against evil), that is the best. This is of the communications of Allah that they may be mindful ي ا ب ن ي آد م ل ي ف ت ن ن ك م الش ي ط ا ن ك م ا أ خ ر ج أ ب و ي ك م م ن ال ج ن ة ي ن ز ع ع ن ه م ا ل ب اس ه م ا ل ي ر ي ه م ا س و آت ه م ا إ ن ه {27} ي ر اك م ه و و ق ب يل ه م ن ح ي ث ل ت ر و ن ه م إ ن ا ج ع ل ن ا الش ي اط ي ن أ و ل ي ا ء ل ل ذ ي ن ل ي ؤ م ن و ن O children of Adam! let not the Shaitan cause you to fall into affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you cannot see them; surely We have made the Shaitans to be the guardians of those who do not believe. It should not happen that Satan deceives you also the way he deceived Adam and Eve. The way Satan got them out was to remove their attire so that he can expose their defects which made them shameful. The reason why Satan is dangerous is because Satan and his tribe cannot be seen by you but you can see them. For Taqwa, this interpretation that Taqwa is an attire is presented in its generic dimension. Taqwa is the attire meant to conceal the deficiencies of human life. Attire (Libaas) means something that covers, conceals. Everything that conceals can be termed as attire though it is not used in this sense. For human being there are two attires mentioned; one is for his body and another for his entire existence. The attire that is for human life has vastness; it is the attire of his soul and every dimension of his life so that his deficiencies are not exposed. س و آ Is that defect, evil which when exposed to others 1

3 becomes an evil. That thing which if not exposed still is a defect but its exposure becomes irritating and shameful. We can consider human life in three sense; one is individual, family and third is social. The family life is also part of social life but since it has some specifics it has an absolute status. Satan brings down these pillars of human life. Quran says that Allah has established this attire and the attire of Taqwa is essential for you and Satan is your enemy who will remove the attire. The cover that is hiding the defects he will remove, thus disgracing man and destroying your world and hereafter. He is an enemy of manking but his attacks are on human attire, the way he has done for Adam and his wife Eve. Now the Quran is making the progeny of Adam attentive that what Allah has established we should adopt that is the attire of Taqwa. At an individual level there is a dress for body so that body does not become naked. Cloth is not attire because it is a layer and at times tight clothes makes the party of body more manifested. Satan does not remove clothes he removes the attire, that which conceals. At times man is naked by wearing tight dresses more than if he would not have put on something. This way Satan puts man into misguidance. This is the first attack of Satan whereby the cloth might remain on the body but he removes the concealment. At present if we look at our society gradually this is happening, whereby clothes are there but they are not counted as attire. They are such that more nudity is there that they expose the body curvatures more. Quran says that indecent people do such things and believers follow them. If you see the believers today their hearts have belief but they have copied their dresses from some corrupt beings, might be from TV channel, showroom or tailor. There are specialist today to promote immodesty whereby they come out with dresses such that it should make opposite gender attractive towards each other. There are experts, designers who have the skills to do this. They make such dresses, introducing it to society and even believing men, women put this on and are not attentive also. At times the children of believers adopt such outlooks which are from followers of Satan. Every community like Hindu, Christian, and Sikhs are identified with their outlooks. Similarly the followers of Satan also have specific styles in hairs, dresses which is the fashion today. These are the signs of followers of Satan. The followers of Satan who intentionally worship Satan and achieve his nearness. Their belief is that Satan is the source of power and can do anything. If man becomes a member of satanic tribe they get this power from Satan. To get proximity of Satan they do all possible crimes. They do aggression, cruelty and in the outward they have adopted a specific look. Like they put metallic rings in various parts of body known as piercing. They make beards like threads, leaving some part of hairs, cut remaining which are all symbols of satanic worship and many of us adopt it unintentionally. Such kind of things are adopted by people who are lowly, abased and lack a personality. They adopt every such thing which they believe would become a means of attraction for others and specifically opposite gender. These things enter inside the homes of believers and no one is attentive towards these inside our homes. The attire is also for this. The attire has two purpose; one is for concealing and other is for embellishment. The dress if it is not concealing the body, it is tight, exposing the body is just a piece of cloth and not an attire. This is a satanic tactic whereby they kept the cloth but removed the attires. If you see the Pakistani Salwar Kameez it is the best dress for both man and woman, provided that it is not stitched in satanic ways. This means the Salwar is made tight so that the body curves gets exposed. The Kameez (shirt) is kept but cuts at the sides are made so big that the shirt is hanging like curtains which makes man looks more naked. This is common in believers whereby they also look at someone else and get the same stitched. This is not an attire but cloth, so that your shameful parts of body are exposed 2

4 The second is the attire of Taqwa, which is also meant for concealing defects س و آ. As per the Quranic verse the definite specialties in attire is one concealment and second embellishment. In human life there are certain affairs which should remain hidden and not exposed to others. Like one thing that should remain hidden is Qan aat (contentment). We generally misinterpret it as Iqtefa, which means to be satisfied with what you have and not demanding for more. Like if someone is in need for two breads and he only got one, which he eats and does not demand for second one. He manages with one. Qan aat is interpreted as Iqtefa which are both Arabic words. Iqtefa is good whereby something is not available in quantum to the needs of man but he manages with whatever is available; this is Iqtefa. If you do not do Iqtefa then there is a danger of insult to personality. Wherever we have got less and is not enough, but if I start to demand for full need, go after it then my own personality gets hurt. Considering what you have got and not going after more is Iqtefa. To consider insufficient as sufficient is not Qan aat instead it is an Iqtefa. Qan aat means concealing. From Qan aat another word that has come out is Maqna a which is used by women and is a cloth the covers from head to waist. It covers the hears, head and conceals. If it is tight and presents every part of the body separately then this is not Maqna a. It is a loose scarf that is put on from head to waist. Maqna a is the means to hide something which is necessary to hide and is not seen by others. Women are hiding the hairs which are not defects, but they are to be hidden from Na Mahram and in front of Mahram they can and in certain cases should be exposed like to husband. As said before women do the opposite. They put on good dress when they go out and at home they remain ugly in front of husband. This is satanic act which have made things opposite. You should go out in ugly way so that no one looks at you and inside home beautify yourself but in satanic culture it is opposite. Man are also doing the same. He should also remain good looking at home and when he goes out he puts perfume and good dress to impress other woman. This embellishment is only permitted between husband and wife. Many things are purchased in dowry during marriage and all these are used for forbidden acts because Satan has to remove the attire. In human life as well there are such س و آ deficiencies which should not be exposed like Qan aat. Like if someone is poor, then he should not present or show his poverty, He should not shed tears everywhere. Ordinary people when they look at him should not realize that he is poor. He should make his outward such that people should not realize that he is poor. His Maqna a is that he should cover his state. Generally the poor present themselves in such a way that people become sympathetic to them. The poor people at times follow the feuds everywhere, sit outside their door and always present themselves as disgraceful. These people do not work, just live on left overs of the feudal lords. We should not be sacrificing our personality over our needs. We should always present ourselves with a weightage, personality. Allah has made the system that rich should find the poor and poor are not instructed to go behind rich. There are certain things which are س و آ deficiencies and if they are exposed it becomes a matter of shame for men. We should put a cover of modesty, superiority and not present ourselves as small and lowly. This is Taqwa. As said before also the scholars of ethics have also discussed Taqwa but only to a limited single dimension. Due to which people put on such attires that they deceive others in the name of Taqwa. This is not Taqwa that you make your outward like a Dervish to betray others. Taqwa means those affairs, deficiencies and also certain beauties which are inside you and should not be exposed to others. Like women are asked to hide their beauty and not just defects. At times beauty, bounty should remain concealed and not demonstrated to other and for this also Taqwa is required. In family life the س و آ deficiencies are more than individual life which all needs to be concealed. Certain people together make a family and there are such issues in a family which should not be exposed to others. Certain issues are specific to husband and wife, they are personal issues and should not be 3

5 known to others. In our culture marriages are done in traditional manner. If you look inside the lives of Infallibles; marriages were done even in the families of enemies also. Like if enmity is there with someone but his daughter is good, so they would marry. It is not that for small rifts we end the relationship till Qayamat. If you have some property issue in two families but if marriages can be done they should be done. They are not stopped. The simplest act in Islam is marriage which in our culture is the most difficult thing. This means we have went on an extremely deviated path. The easiest affair is made the most difficult. First we have to make our family ready, then the family of girl should agree, then neighbor, community, then members of family outside the country and everyone should agree. What have they all to do with this? This approach has created a lot of family issues. Husband and wife should keep their matters personal to themselves and not even present to their own parents. It is not that every small thing happening in family they are relaying to their parents. In Persian they refer to mother in laws as Minister of Defense. In this battle between husband and wife, they should not report anything to the Minister of Defense since she is always prepared for battle. There are rifts present in every home and it is natural where two persons are staying together, they clash and then become normal also. The conflicts between husband wife and amongst children are never serious, it is the camps that are behind which make them serious. If they are left on their own, they will fight and also become normal. They are not serious, but when elders gets involved they make the issues serious. Those affairs of family which when exposed would be shameful should remain covered this is Taqwa. Then the third arena of س و آ deficiencies which needs to be covered are social. A society that has Taqwa will not develop these س و آ defects. It is so shameful that a community gets identified with evils like in Pakistan corruption has become an identity. In every organization, individual level there is corruption and there is no shame also experienced now with these. س و آ Deficiencies are those affairs when done or exposed shamefulness is felt. If shame gets developed then we feel ashamed on our acts, way of living, activities and many things which we are doing we will be ashamed about it and many things which we are not doing we will feel ashamed about it. Since Satan has removed this cover, we don t feel ashamed on things where we should be feeling ashamed. A person who should not be doing something shameful, but he does those things and without any shame lives in society without experiencing any pressure from society. This means the society has finished shame and has made immodesty as part of its culture. For Taqwa this shame needs to be revived. Practical Taqwa will only get developed when shamefulness gets revived, modesty gets revived. Like if a person does a covenant, pledge and is not able to deliver he should feel ashamed but even after breaking covenant, he does not feels ashamed then this is not Taqwa. Someone makes his outward appearance as that of Taqwa to deceive people and people also think that he is a Muttaqee. This is not Taqwa. The sign of Taqwa is that he should feel ashamed on things that deserve shame. If someone violates values he should feel shame, if he speaks something indecent he should feel ashamed, if he looks at something indecent he should feel ashamed. In order to revive Taqwa in a society, to get it established at individual, family and social level it will start from shamefulness. This is because Taqwa is an attire to cover the س و آ deficiencies which are all those affairs س و آ when exposed makes man shameful. When there is shame then only we will feel that these are defects and evils. If after doing all filthy acts no shame is felt then there is no Taqwa. When shamelessness has become so common and turned into a culture and when in the laps of this culture new generations are nurtured then this continuous shamelessness does not allow Taqwa to be established. For the establishment of Taqwa it needs an arousing (Bethat). In a society of shamelessness such modest, chaste persons are born who feel ashamed on filthy acts, steps and also on not performing acts which results into shamefulness. 4

6 If you analyze our society in Pakistan. We don t feel ashamed in maintaining relationship with Faasik and Fajir (transgressing people). To cooperate with others in sinful acts no one feels ashamed where Quran has stopped that you should not cooperate in sinful acts. Establishing relationship and tolerating, accepting open criminals also does not make anyone shameful today in our society. The thing that aroused Sayed-us-Shohada against a corrupt system was shamefulness. He (a.s) himself said that life with Yazid is disgraceful. He says I prefer a dignified death over such a life of disgrace or shame. To accept such disgraceful and shameful lives is a humiliation. Satan prepares man to accept such disgraceful life. He removes the veils, makes human being habituated to shameful and immodest thing. Everyone becomes the same and do not feel the shameful acts of each other, no one finds it bad or irritated with the evil acts of others. If you see the political parties with whom you are associated, how disgraceful these people are with whom we are affiliated and we don t even feel ashamed. You give votes to them and no one feels ashamed. We become their voters, supporters without any shame for anyone. When Shamefulness is wiped off; then man delivers such shameful acts openly. Can such a man become Muttaqee by just wearing Aba, Ka ba (cloaks of Scholar)? The attire of Taqwa is not made by tailors, it is made by Allah and man has to adopt it. The attire of Taqwa are the principles of life established by Allah which man has to accept. Shamefulness is the basis of Taqwa and the Taqwa will be recognized with shamefulness. If there is shame, modesty then there is Taqwa also and if no shame then Taqwa is also not there. Certain things are so disgraceful that if man delivers them he should give preference that he should die rather than living with certain disgraceful acts. We should all ponder over our individual affairs and see how many things I have tolerated for which I should be shameful or there are acts which I am doing which are the basis of shame but I don t feel it. Our meter for gauging shame is not working and we should not rely on such a meter. Hence you should refer to a properly working meter. If you are sitting with hope on a defective bulb that it will work at night, but it does not work at night then you will live in darkness. Allah has kept the meter of sensing shame inside man but our culture has broken this meter, and killed the sense of shame. Hence we don t feel ashamed on things on which we should be shameful. We have no feelings for ourselves as well as others. Under such condition wearing the attire of religion is hypocrisy whereby a person makes his outward appearance as religious but there is no shame inside him. He is shameless. He robs, steals, usurps rights, does not deliver his duties and responsibilities, and does not take any trust (amanat) on himself. When such a collection of things are present how can you develop Taqwa. You write the full poem on this one statement of Mirza Ghalib Kaaba kis Moo se jaoege Ghalib ke tumko sharm nahi aati With what face you will visir Kaaba Ghalib that you have no shame inside you Mirza Ghalib has written about the acts which we do then we should be shameful. Shamefulness is Haya, which is from Hayat that is life. If you are alive then you should feel ashamed. If it is not coming then conscience, soul has died. The sign of death is that there is no life in it and you cannot guide a dead person. If a dead person wears the attire of scholar, intellectual but there is no sense of shame on anything because he is dead from inside. You should find such persons who feels ashamed on everything on which shamefulness is there. If you find such a person then he is a valuable person. This is the criteria of assessment, a scale to weigh persons and is the pillar of Taqwa. are those deficiencies, relationships, affairs, society, business on which a person should feel س و آ ashamed. Taqwa has to conceal these deficiencies in such a way that it has to remove these from the life of man and his life becomes purified. We leave Quranic principles and then title ourselves as the most high grade religious persons. We deliver shameful acts and consider ourselves as heirs to 5

7 paradise. The Quran says these are all your estimations, conjectures and not the laws of Allah. These are imaginations in your mind that you will go there and will get these many things for the acts which I have done but you don t see the number of shameful acts that you have done. This culture of shamefulness and immodesty ( Be hayai) is not confined to Na Mahram women. It is possible man refrains from mingling with Na Mahram but then carries out all other shameful acts. He does not feel ashamed and is not a person with Taqwa and not in accordance with faith. Taqwa is for life, a Quranic culture of modesty, shame can give salvation to humanity. We pray to Allah to grant the entire Islamic Ummah with the bounty of shame. SECOND SERMON There are several incidents and events this week amongst which the topmost is the one for which everyone was waiting since long which is the decisive stage in Syria. Victory in Aleppo (Halab) The city of Aleppo has been freed up completely by Syrian army and its alliance and there is complete control of the Resistive movement in the city. This is a very important success and a big defeat for the ninety countries front who created the terrorists and Takfirists; amongst them foremost are the Arab states, then west and then Turkey who has put their entire nation at stake for Syria. The city of Aleppo is a strategic city and according to the strategy of Arabs and others behind them Aleppo was supposed to be the capital of Takfiristan. Takfirists are those who consider everyone else as infidels other than themselves. This army was made taking into advantage the weakness of Muslims and certain vices of politicians. This army had some big criminal plans but Allah made them reach their end and we can say that in Syria this final stage took place and in other places also the resistance will gain strength. The possibility of dialogues will also have more probability since this Takfirist army has suffered defeat and negotiations with defeated forces is easier. It is possible that there won t be any encounter, battle after this but the chances are also there that they will fight till their last breathe in other places. The chances are there that they will come on negotiation table and when such negotiations are done between victorious and defeated forces, then the victorious forces have an upper hand in these negotiation. After the success in Aleppo the situation in Syria would turn towards improvement which will have an impact across the region. The battle of Syria was not just in Syria, it was in entire Middle East and in fact it had a global crisis; and now a turning point has come which will change the situation everywhere. Foolish steps of Turkey Turkey has played a foolish role in the issue of Syria. The biggest foolish role was of Ale Saud which is ongoing and has a different story whereby this accursed family has been born in history committing the most heinous crimes across entire history. Turkey has a historic past with many ups and downs but in the current Turkish governance the most insane ruler has come. He has big plans to revive the same Ottoman Turkey and is dreaming about the most powerful Turkey. But when a foolish person dreams then those dreams are dangerous for both himself and his nation. Turkey is now turning into the axis for all events in the region which were previously dispersed in many other nations. Like whatever was happening in Middle East, Lebanon, Pakistan, Iraq will all gather towards Turkey in which some events that took place before some days in Turkey is part of this. Another big incident was the assassination of Russian Ambassador by security guard can be seen as the big changes and issues about to happen in near future in Turkey. Turkey in the upcoming days will get indulged into big crisis and the type of rulers dominating Turkey are taking all foolish steps. First they articulated a 6

8 velvet rebellion and then they started to control army, various political groups, supporting terrorists, financially supporting ISIS are some of the acts which Turkey did and these have become the basis of what is about to happen in Turkey. It is a common fact that when any nation in the region develops some issues inside its effects go to nearby places and across region. Whatever is happening and about to happen in Turkey will have an effect on the entire Muslim world except for the fact that some major changes take place in Turkey for which there are high possibilities. Turkish government has now crushed their opponents inside the country, arresting many of them, banning them and now they want to bring changes in the constitution by transforming the system to that of Presidential state. They have created terrorist camps inside their countries which are all these foolish acts which Zial ul Haqq did in Pakistan and the its worst effects are seen today but Turkey has gone more beyond this and these will take Turkey towards destruction. During this time there are certain underground personalities because the nature of these things are like this only when you take extreme measures openly then a resistance starts to develop underground and when this underground lava boils out it gulps down everything. This could be an army coup, a civil revolution and anything can take place with the intervention of foreign elements. Under such situations the foreign elements support such underground movements. Turkey is about give birth to a dangerous new born baby which has been experimented in other nations before. Turkey was and is the most developed nation amongst Islamic nations in materialistic sense. Its industries, national infrastructure is better than other Islamic nations. The opportunities they have being neighbor to Europe is also present and their economy is considered to be stable but now everything is at risk and stake. And it is evident also that for an Islamic nation to be developed also pinches the Satan s. They indulge such nations into these crisis to block their movement. They have themselves got Erdogan in this leadership position and now they will make him do such things by which this position and title of Turkey would get snatched away. The way Pakistan has come under the mercy of China whereby it is disgraceful the entire economic dependency of Pakistan is on China. This Chinese community of Gog and Magog who want to destroy the economy of every nation which they have done in Pakistan. Turkey will also get into the same state. Turkey was few steps away from being titled as a developed nation from its current position of being a developing nation but these few steps which they have taken has taken it backward and their downfall journey has started. The way Ale Saud has this attitude to make the rise and falls of Arab nations. They want to keep the destiny of all small Arab nations in their hand as an arrogant power and in pursuit of this they are getting into destruction. The same thing which this accursed Zia ul Haqq did in pursuit of taking control of the Islamic world, the same foolish destructive acts are being followed by Ale Saud and Turkey. The Satanic powers and Ale Saud claimed that we will bring the downfall of the Bashar Assad government in Syria but now after the defeat they are sitting in Moscow negotiating with Turkey and Iran, claiming that we want to keep the Assad regime and will support in developing it. When a force gets defeated their stance changes. Turkey was the biggest supporter of ISIS but now they are changing the stand. Mosul Easy with complexity The same situation is in Mosul as well. The difference between Iraq and Syria is that in Syria the reigns of the entire battle is in the hands of the Resistance. But in Iraq the control and authority is with America and everything gets done under their instructions hence it is somewhat complex in Iraq. Hashad us Shabi has kept the Iraqi government under a lot of pressure that they should be involved in the attack on Mosul and this should not be a failed attack. ISIS is not so strong in Mosul as compared to Aleppo hence if in Aleppo their four years dominance can come to an end then Mosul could get released more quickly. But the internal complexities becomes the basis that ISIS again and again gets opportunity and time to strengthen themselves and gain foreign support. One more foolishness which 7

9 Turkey is doing is that they are supporting full-fledged ISIS in Mosul as well. Turkish border touches both Aleppo and Mosul. Ale Saud purchases ammunitions and supplies them through Turkey to ISIS in Aleppo and Mosul. We have hopes that a decisive battle will take place in Mosul also and this sedition will be wiped out completely from Mosul and other places as well. Suppression of Shias in Bahrain and Kuwait In Bahrain, the acting of suppressing Shias is ongoing. The two Shia leaders in Bahrain; Sheikh Salman and Sheikh Essa Qassem are under house arrest. It is the mission of Ale Saud to suppress Shias across the world. Since Bahrain border touches Saudi also they want to make Bahrain part of Saudi Arabia. Apart from the human torture they are troubling the scholars also but the resistance is also going on. The resistive nature of the people of Bahrain is becoming more firm and mature which had some shortfalls in the beginning. We pray to Allah to give salvation to these scholars and the people of Bahrain from the evil clutches of Ale Saud. In Kuwait also Ale Saud is making efforts to change the situation as that of Bahrain since there is a significant Shia population in Kuwait. Since Kuwait is also under the control of Ale Saud, they want the situation in Kuwait to become the same as that in Bahrain. In Bahrain they are able to get this done through Ale Khalifa regime and in Kuwait also they are expecting the regime to do the same by accepting the dictation of Ale Saud. They want them to lay hands on Shia personalities of Kuwait, arrest them, torture them but until now they have not been successful in doing this. The Takfirists are increasing day by day in Kuwait, their networks are growing and this is also a sign that the situation in Kuwait might also become like the situation in Bahrain. May Allah protect the believers in Kuwait also from these oppressors. Yemen In Yemen another incident that took place around two weeks back was when a Yemeni ship was attacked by Saudi aircrafts. Now our media has released the news that there were seven Pakistani nationals also onboard who got killed. Our media has got this news that there were Pakistani crew on the vessel on Yemen shore but there is no complete news on what they were doing there as they are not releasing complete news. Like the Pakistani pilgrims who were martyred in Mina last year, no one went there to even collect their bodies also. In Pakistan conferences are taking place to prepare forces for defending the Haramain from Yemen. First they defended Afghanistan, then Pakistan and now they want to go and defend Haramain. There are conferences and seminars happening every day. It is clear that this act was stopped for some time and looks like they are organizing this again. The meaning of defending Haramain is well known but I cannot open this now but we should keep this in mind that every slogan which this Takfiri and its supporters give consider Shia as the front and they do all preparations for Shiite. Son of leading terrorist wins election in Jhang, Pakistan In Pakistan one more astonishing incident that took place is related to one terrorist. The son of this big well known terrorist whose (son) is also a terrorist won provincial elections with big majority. This person belongs to terrorist group and his name is in Schedule 4 which means his nationality is revoked and he cannot participate in any national political activity but he has won the elections and everyone made him successful. The strangest news which was there that he has won with Shia votes in Jhang. This is the deep vision and insight of Shias, our Shia leaders and Shia political groups whose results are seen, first in Gilgit and now in Jhang. This is an astonishing fact that he is a criminal, terrorist, banned and on other hand he was allowed to participate in elections, made to win with full majority against 8

10 the candidate from the national ruling party who lost it. The ruling party has not lost any mid elections because they have the means to win these elections. Wherever due to candidate termination reelections have taken place the ruling party has won but this is the first such election where the ruling party has lost that too in their own province. And after winning this election this person has immediately done alliance with Jameatul Ulama group of Fazlur Rahman. His father is that satanic element who has expressed Takfirism openly in Pakistan to whom everyone supported. He was also a member and pillar of this same party of Fazlur Rahman, then he came towards Takfirism and started this sedition of terming Shias as Kafir (infidel) for the first time. His son is also following his footsteps now. Another news is that the Home Minister had a meeting with banned terrorist outfits and groups to which some politicians have objected. Despite of these objections these banned groups have met the Home minister and pursued him to accept their demands. On one hand they declare them as banned, then they meet them also and accept their demands. This shameful politics is going on in Pakistan but what is disturbing since last twenty five years is that the atmosphere of awareness is missing. The Pakistani community both Shias and Sunni s don t have a correct analysis and interpretation of the situation. They cannot grasp the situations properly which is because they have been deceived and indulged into tricks by these deceivers, jugglers on pulpits and treacherous people. They are not attentive towards the actual affairs; neither there is anyone to inform them and nor are they willing to listen. There is a lot happening with the community but deeply concerning matter is that they are not even aware as to what is happening with them. We should be aware about the right things and understand what conspiracies are being made for you and where the situations are going towards. Birth Anniversary of Prophet Isa (a.s) Another important event coming up in next Islamic week is the birth anniversary of Prophet Isa which is on 25th December. They also have differences in the dates but the catholic majority consider this day as the birth day of Prophet Isa. This birth took place around 5000 yrs. back in the same Palestine at a place called Nasiriya which today is known as Bethlehem. This is why Christians are also known as Nasara. This great personality of Prophet Isa is a miracle of Allah (s) and is alive as per the witness of Quran. We express our greetings of this birth to all Muslims and followers of Prophet Isa (a.s). AS per traditions Allah aroused 124,000 Prophets amongst whom majority belonged to this area but certain personalities Quran presented as role models and around 24 or 25 names are mentioned in Quran where there is a difference about two names of Idris and Elias belonging to one prophet. The name that occurred the most after Prophet Moosa in Quran is that of Prophet Isa. The personality on which Quran descended his name came only twice in Quran. Those whom the Prophet Mohammad (s.a.w.s) inherited from their names have come in abundance like Prophet Ibrahim, Moosa and Isa. The life of Prophet Isa is a very enlightened and blessed. His character, acts, deeds are all much esteemed. He is amongst the Ulool Azm Prophets and has been the one confronting Taghoots and resisting against them. Christianity has presented the face of Prophet Isa, his character and religion in an adulterated form. Since the Christians were all Jews before and were on the religion of Moosa (a.s). The distortions which Jews did in the religion of Moosa; Prophet Isa was aroused by Allah to reform those. Prophet Isa has been a revolutionary personality. The way Quran is a revolutionary manifesto and Quran presented the revolution of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s); on how he changed the system, standards of a society, the same character was that of Prophet Isa (a.s). The divine personalities are sent for this purpose only that is to change the systems and revolutionize a society which Prophet Isa did and got the revolution of Christianity. In reality it was a divine revolution and it got the name of Christianity as religion was because of his name. The religion is that of Allah and Quran. After Quran 9

11 those past religions are not enough for man to be on them. Just like at the time of Prophet Isa people were not allowed to remain on the religion of Moosa but they were stubborn Jews who remained on that past religion similarly at the time of Prophet Mohammad (s.a.w.s) these Jews and stubborn people remained on the past religions and did not accept the religion of Prophet Mohammad (s.a.w.s). The life of Prophet Isa has various dimensions and Quran has presented it very well. We have not been able to express the personality of Prophet Isa to the extent we have been talking about Prophet Moosa (a.s) The character of Holy Maryam (s.a) The beginning of the life Prophet Isa starts from his sacred mother; Lady Maryam bin Imran or the Infallible Maryam. The Quran has presented an esteemed and firm character of Lady Maryam as a role model to humanity. The way the believers should have understood the character of Lady Maryam has not been done and instead we only compare her personality with other divine personalities. Allah has not kept competition amongst personalities, Allah has presented them as complementary to each other. Quran has mentioned that these Prophets and personalities have come and had attested, affirmed their predecessors. It is our orators who start to compare them to show who is greater. Quran has presented the personality of Lady Maryam in a beautiful manner whereas Bible has been distorted and hence the personality of Lady Maryam has not been presented in a correct manner. The Quran says that the followers of Prophet Isa got divided into supporters and enemies. Even those who were supporters also became misguided like their enemies. The situation of Prophet Isa if you want to see the resemblance then it is the personality of Ameerul Momineen, Imam Ali (a.s). He (a.s) himself says that two types of persons, groups related to me will get destroyed. One is that enemy who does not accepts Ameerul Momineen (A.s) is a killer of Ali and his progeny and other is that exaggerator who consider Ali as Allah. They are both same, misguided, notorious and destroyed. The same happened with Prophet Isa as well. Two groups related to Prophet Isa also got destroyed; one were his enemies and other his supporters who declared him as the son of Allah and believed in Trinity. They deviated a big majority and we can see that the followers of Christianity are more than Muslims. This deviation is due to their scholars who misguided them. Quran presented the beautiful and pure face of Prophet Isa. In order to manifest his personality Quran started with Lady Maryam (s.a). A beautiful, astonishing character of Holy Maryam was presented by Quran. If man ponders and dives deep into the character of Lady Maryam; the way she got born, what she did and the characters around her. Her mother pledged to Allah that when she gets a child which she was hoping to be a boy she will present it in the way of Allah. She got a daughter and was astonished that Allah this is a daughter and now how she will fulfill her pledged. This was because at that time the religious studies, arrangements were only meant for boys. Allah replied to her that it is easy for Allah. Since she had pledged with Allah and it was necessary to present it to religious personalities to take her into custody. There was a draw done and it came in favor of Prophet Zakaria. He became the sponsor and custodian of Lady Maryam. Since at a very young age she came under the custody of Prophet Zakaria who himself is a pure character and an ideal of servitude of Allah. He is an ocean of divinity which Allah expressed for Zakaria. He became a custodian and teacher for Lady Maryam. This holy lady grew up and despite that the teacher himself is so enlightened but the student excels so much that even the teacher is impressed by the student. To this extent that Maryam was highly impressed with Zakaria but he was more impressed by Maryam, when he would see her growth, character, enlightenment, spirituality, divinity and listening to her words. Zakaria would remember Allah when looking at Maryam and prostate to Allah. Similarly incident took place when Allah blessed Lady Maryam with his special bounties. Whenever Zakaria would see Maryam she would be in Mehrab 10

12 (the praying place). A small girl was not seen playing, jumping but always in the praying place in state of worship, education or nurturing. When Zakaria would see Maryam in this state, he would get impressed. On one day when Zakaria saw Maryam, though he would everyday feel the enlightenment of his student every day, but this day he saw many bounties in front of Maryam. She would fast throughout the year, and would become weak to the extent that she would have difficulties in worship. Zakaria would try to bring good food for her but he also did not had any wealth to bring good food. Hence he would bring staple food which he had but Maryam would always express gratification for everything. In those days when parents would give children in the way of Allah, then they would wash their hands off their children unlike today they take the name of Allah but still they don t let the children free, they try to trick to Allah also. Though mother was there, she would visit and just peep inside and see, but not allowed to meet. During this period when she was nearly five years, her mother passed away and Maryam did not got the news. Allah revealed on Maryam s heart and when Zakaria came she asked him I am feeling about my mother that some incident had happened with her. Zakaria told her about news and it was not she yelled and fainted. She went into worship and prayed for her forgiveness, blessings. She prayed for herself to Allah to grant her patience. Such firmness in this age is astonishing. During this tenure of education she was a source of enlightenment for everyone over there. Though the masses were not able to witness this which Zakaria witnessed. The masses would come to her for getting cure for their sick ones. They would visit her to get desires fulfilled through her prayers. Masses need only this, they only want those people who can get their desires fulfilled. They only recognized Maryam to this extent that her supplication gets fulfilled. This is a role model of student which Quran has presented that how students can become so enlightened that their supplications for others gets fulfilled. There is not a single case present where Maryam supplicated for someone and it did not get fulfilled. Maryam is a Quranic role model and Isa is a Qur anic prophet of Islam whereby Christianity has adulterated them We should be aware of these models and follow their footstep. If they were not to be followed then there was no need for their mention in Quran. They are syllabus of guidance. This ideal is especially for students. That enlightenment was felt by everyone and most by Zakaria. One day he stepped in and saw so many bounties and he asked her from where it all came from. Lady Maryam replied that it all came from Allah and whomsoever Allah desires he gives. She did not say that this is all due to my efforts and Allah grants to whomsoever he wishes. From there Quran says Zakaria stood up and called his Lord after being impressed by his student. He desired from Allah to grant a child as Maryam. Zakaria had no child, his wife was barren and had no potential to give birth. Maryam developed hope in Zakaria and an impossible thing became a hope for Zakaria, that if Allah desires to give someone then let me also ask. He asked for a child as Maryam. Allah can grant to everyone a child as Maryam. The children born are pure but it is their parents who spoil them. It is the tradition of prophet that every child born is pure but the parents make them Jews and Christian. Their parents destroy them, misguide them. They make them live in dirty society, filthy culture. They give birth to children and then hand them over that filthy culture hence these children lose their sanctity; else every child can become Maryam if they remove this adulteration. Allah gave this status to Maryam and it was the supplication of Maryam that developed in Zakaria and in an impossible state Zakaria got Yahiya. He was also such a child which was not given to anyone before and his name was also selected for the first time. That Yahiya whose name was always on the lips of Imam Hussain (a.s) and in the uprising of Karbala one role model which Imam Hussain had was that of Yahiya. He would say what happened to Yahiya the same would happen to me and just like after his martyrdom Yahiya s head was presented as a gift my head would also be presented as a gift. Such elderly personalities are these and it all started from Lady Maryam. The character, personality of 11

13 Maryam is so impressive but we have not looked at her from the perspective in which Quran has presented her. When Maryam reached the pinnacle of her divinity, servitude at that time Allah addressed Maryam; we are giving you glad tidings that through your existence I will manifest my words (Kalema). Ayah is also a sign of Allah and words (Kalema) is also a special and greater sign of Allah. Allah will manifest Kalematullah through Maryam. Maryam has passed through all these stages of servitude, gratification, patience and then resistance. The Jews are most ill suspicious community on the earth. Allah placed Maryam in this examination. What did they did with Lady Maryam? That society which was shameless, immodest and these Jews were the worst creatures. Amongst these shameless people there is an icon of chastity and modesty. Now Allah has to demonstrate his sign to these unchaste people through this one chaste lady in that society. So you can imagine what reaction they are going to show. Maryam comes and informs them that I am pregnant and Allah will manifest his words through me. These shameless people insulted, humiliated her to this extent that Quran says that she invokes Allah that I wish I was not alive and dead and would not have witnessed this scene. The way they tortured her but she demonstrated perseverance and became successful. Allah preserved her sanctity and purity through this new born. Allah instructed her to not to reply to their propaganda, do not defend yourself. You remain silent and this is the silence of modesty, infallibility and that of chastity. Allah will humiliate these propagandist. Whenever they say anything just point towards the child. They were astonished that how can this child of two days speak. And this child started to speak out that I am the Prophet of Allah. When they heard this they were astonished, humiliated and disgraced but still they did not bring faith. Stubborn people whose hearts have blackened are like this only. This is how Allah brought into existence Prophet Isa through the womb of a sacred lady in a miraculous manner. Prophet Isa became a miracle for entire humanity. The Jews and Christians are even misguided in the matter of birth of Prophet Isa. He was a Prophet of resistance as compared to what they present that he was a secluded, stagnant Prophet. He was a Prophet of the field and was struggling in that. The effect of Prophet Isa had so much effect on that society that two groups shivered with his teachings. One were the Jewish Rabbis who had opened shops, were giving verdicts to people and had become authorities in the society. Their market was being closed due to Prophet Isa. Another group was the Taghoot, the emperor of Rome who was the enemy of Prophet Isa. The Scholars and the king did an alliance and it was sure Prophet Isa did something which made the king concerned and afraid of him. Why will the king give death verdicts for someone in seclusion? Prophet Isa had such steps and movements that the Taghoot disliked. The Scholars conspired to siege Prophet Isa and hand him over to the Roman emperor. The way some companions of Imam Hassan planned to besiege him, arrest him and hand him over to Muwaiya. These scholars caught Isa and took him to the emperor for crucifying. But Quran says that the way stratagems of Allah work was that Allah took Isa out and the one who brought Isa his face became like that of Isa and emperor crucified him whereas Isa remained secure. His birth was a miracle and till today this miraculous prophet is alive and it is there in teachings of all religion that Prophet Isa will reappear and when it will happen he will appear in the Imamat of Last Imam (a.t.f.s) and follow him. He will be part of His (a.t.f.s) revolution. We pray to Allah for salutations on this great Prophet. 12