Hidayah
and Dawah
The relationship
between Hidayah and Dawah is similar to that between eiman and
amal-e-saleh. Quran establishes a strong unbreakable bond between eiman
and righteous good deeds in no less than sixty verses of Quran, e.g.,
Every
Muslim is a walking salesperson for Islam, its values, its ideologies,
a mobile dawah machine. Our plant has been filled living creatures,
including men and women, some of who submit to the will of God while
others either follow their sweet-will or submit to the will of some
other creation of God. If we know what Muslim means then we easily
understand which category we belong to. While it is the promise of God
that anyone who submits to the His will alone would be blessed with
hidayah and the right guidance, the promise of the satan is to mislead
us away from this path of true success. We pay huge sums to bring
shaitan into our houses, e.g, through latest T.V. sets or iPhones,
unrestricted internet, DVD players, paintings of scintillating
bombshells of the glamour world, and when we are told that we have made
our houses places where no angels would ever tread, we make a fun of
this outdated thought. We keep the angels of mercy out of our
houses, still expect God’s mercy to reach us; reach us through satanic
sources!
 Saeed
Anwar or Mohammad Yusuf, the Pakistani Cricketers do not need to utter
a word to sell Islam to “others”. Their sheer presence on the ground,
like the brand they carry on their jersey, does enough marketing for
Islam.
Like charity, hidayah begins at home. If a child does not get hidayah
in his/ her house, there are plenty of agents of misguidance to grab
the opportunity to market their own brands in glamorously draped
seductive packages. It is upon us to make our houses the first and most
important source of guidance for our children or let it become a
devil’s workshop. It may be quite fascinating to imagine that the
school can turn the devils we produce into angels, because we pay them
for this. Do we really pay the schools for imparting hidayah to our
children? Should we really expect the schools to do this? And, where
should we expect our children to find hidayah?
A friend of the Mulla Nasrudin found the Mulla crawling around outside
at night beneath a lamp post. Of course he asked, “What are you doing?”
“Looking for my key”, replied the Mulla. The friend asked, “Where did
you lose it?” and the Mulla replied “In my house”. The exasperated
friend asked, “Then why are you looking for it here?” The Mulla
answered, “Because there is more light here.” [Sufi teaching story,
e.g., Shah, 1972]
MaaN
kee Dua Khalee nahi
jatee,
Uskee
bad'dua Taa.lee nahiN jatee,
Bartan Maanj Kar bhee MaaN 3-4 Bachay Paal
letee hai
Lekin
ab 3-4 BetoN se 1
Maa Paalee nahiN jaatee
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From
a Keralite brother, on Bihar Elections 2010
I
am a Keralite and have got
nothing to do with Nitish or Lalu. I humbly agree each one of you have
got the right to have your own view and perspective. I would bring to
your kind attention of a few points.
1.
Nitish seems to be secular; that is all right. He is controlling
BJP; that is even better. Muslims vote for Nitish; that is the best.
But why does Nitish NOT divorce BJP and contest alone or ally with any
other secular party? How can a pure secularist , even for a moment, be
in the company of BJP? I believe all of you are secular. Can you be in
unison with BJP for a jiffy?
2.
Muslims cannot give a chance to BJP, even for a change, if bugged by
Congress or RJD for the singular reason that, unlike other political
parties which come into power and vanish from power, BJP once in power
is like always in power for matters concerning Muslims and Christians.
BJP once
in power ensure that their people are implanted where it matter.
Governments may come and governments may go. But the executive
mechanism which actually matters will remain saffron clad. This is what
BJP is ensuring everywhere they are in power. Whether they win next
election or not, they make double sure that Muslims and christians will
be harassed forever. That is their first goal. A muslim setback in any
form in any land is a thing of
joy for ever for 'Sangh Parivaris'. That is the lesson we learned in
umpteen number of cases against RSS on involvement in terror activities
and sabotage in different parts of the country where the proceedings
against them face impediments by bureaucracy. Remember Karkare.
3.
To the question of what did Lallu do for muslims in comparison to
what was done by Nitish (hats off to Nitish for the good deeds) the
answer is that just because Lalu came into power muslim mortality rate
has improved. Each year during the rule of congress an average of 2000
muslims used to be killed in Bihar in different communal riots
instigated by RSS. Now you
don't see those riots. Now you don't see muslims beeing butchered
systematically or not. No more "Bhagalpurs'. I still remember the story
of the bus carrying women and children escaping from a riot hit place
with 50 people on board was stopped and the passengers being dragged
and beheaded, the lifeless bodies thrown in to the holy river. Deenanad
Pandey did oversee the 'holy' sacrifice. He was the Janasangh MLA then.
When the furore came in to the Assembly hall one MLA shouted 'Mahatma
Gandhi ki Jai' . The slogan was dealt with 'Godse Ki jai' by Deenanad
Pandey in the assembly hall of Bihar in free and secular India. One
Muslim safe on earth is more important than
many unused masjid buildings or false pride or void doctrines.
4. It
is time to think differently. We are a society guided by emotions
and impulses. Let us not talk about muslims becoming MLA's or MPs. What
these Muslims can do to protect muslims in this country? Rather the
question
should be what could they do hitherto? Nothing. No muslim can protect
muslims in India. We are a minority and we got to live in harmony with
the majority. Give love and concern to the majority. They will return
us safety.
No muslim prime minister in India can do what V.P.Singh did at Ayodya.
What did we give the great man back? The north Indian muslim brothers
must understand the fact that we are living in the post independent
India. Not the pre-independent India when the story was different.
Admit the power of numbers else we will be challenging the rules of
arithmatic. We got to attend the funeral of our Hindu neighbor. Attend
his daughters marraige. Invite them to our daugthers' and sons' marrage
functions. We got to
bridge the gap. Doing so we are not doing charity. We are contributing
our bit to abate the opposition against us. The RSS is working. They
have so many
false propaganda materials the contents of which will seem to be
credible, the
anecdotes plausible to the innocent and gullible listners. Before the
entire country be brainwashed by them let us act and protect us. Let us
play the game of wit, intelligence and pragmatism. Our emotional
outbursts
did not work. It will not work. 'One does not hunt mad dogs with
chivalry.
May
All protect all the good people all over the universe including us
and never only us.
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