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In our
previous chapter, I focused on the importance of Greetings so
that our day begins and ends with blessings of Allah. Here my
emphasis was on human as well as Allah’s rights.
Keep in mind
one thing that our Allah is self sufficient one and He does not
need anything from you. Now the question arises that if He does
not need anything then why does he need our worship? If He
commands every thing? Then why did He order prayers, fasting,
zakat pilgrimage and are these the only worship?
The answer
to first question is that He does not need our prayers; rather
we need these to keep a balance in our lives. We need Him, He
does not need us. We need law and order for our lives under
which we should respect and protect each others lives and wealth
so that we can live peacefully in this world. Most of the
people think this can be worked out with civilized manners but
they forget that this comes from teachings of the religions. We
see that civilized nations, in the name of liberty, have adopted
such manners which in their view are right, for example, birth
control due to which in next hundred years their generation will
be lost.
That is why
Islam's first condition is to have faith in Allah and His
prophet (pbuh) and the condition is to accept Him as the
Almighty and submit ourselves completely to Him. Whether we know
its benefits or not as our knowledge is finite and His is
infinite. For a long while in Europe all those who claimed Earth
is round and is revolving were hanged, whereas Qur’an told us
fourteen hundred years ago that Earth and many other planets are
revolving in the universe. If we take examples from Islam we
can write a number of books.
Here I have
proved that science, in spite of all its knowledge, is not
perfect and never any of its formulas remain the same. Islam and
Qur’an, on the other hand, are an authentic source of
information till the end of world. If we are not able to
understand anything now, it is because of our lack of knowledge.
With time every question will be answered, as our knowledge
progresses. That is why it is so much stressed to acquire
knowledge. Holy prophet (Pbuh) said, "gain knowledge even if for
that you have to go to China". We have limited our knowledge to
religion only. When Muslims were ruling the world, our scholars
were enlightening Europe with modern and religious knowledge.
Here I mentioned Hadith, as to follow the traditions of holy
Prophet (Pbuh) is also a compulsory part of our religion. God
never gave any messages or addressed us directly. He addressed
us through many of his messengers and prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) is
the last one of all of them. To follow him is the part of our
faith and without that our faith is incomplete.
Allah is
accepted by all the religions, but to follow the Holy Prophet is
the first condition of our faith. Qur’an came to us through him.
Its explanation and practical teachings as well are because of
him. According to Hazrat Ayesha (ra), holy prophet (peace be
upon him) is a role model of Qur’an. God also said "Stop where
he (the prophet) forbids you and take all that the prophet (pbuh)
gives you". Further more Allah has told us that every thing
uttered by the holy prophet is divine orders. Holy prophet
introduced us to Allah with all His attributes, otherwise a
sacred place like Kaba was the temple of idols.
Through Holy
prophet ( pbuh), we received Qur’an and to follow it, his hadith.
If we would have accepted Allah with all his qualities, we would
have also accepted the fact that he is baseer and khabeer that
is, one who is seer of every thing and having knowledge of
everything. Here I would like to mention a hadith in which it
is mentioned that we should imagine in all our prayers we are
watching Allah it is best, and least is He is watching us. If
this spirit of religion is alive in us every time every where,
then we cannot commit any sin and may God bless us to have a
firm faith.
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