Allah has created us because He wants us to love Him. Allah gives us many orders to be followed by us with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased with us. Allah orders us to love Allah, those who are loved by Allah and to love all the other creations of Allah. Allah has never order us to hate anyone, any race or any religion. Who are the peoples who are loved by Allah? The peoples who are loved by Allah are those who obey all the orders of Allah with the intention only to please Allah until Allah is pleased. How would we know that Allah loves a person? The peoples who are loved by Allah are those who have the quality of humbleness or tawa’dhu. Allah is Great. There is no one who is Great except Allah. A person who thinks that he or she is great is a person who is away from Allah and not loved by Allah. A person who is humble or tawa’dhu will have good characters. A person, through who, good come to other peoples is a good person. A person who always does good to other peoples, even to those who do evils to him or her is a good person. Good or bad comes only from Allah. Allah showers His blessing to the entire mankind through a man whom Allah has chosen to become the mean to spread His blessing to the entire mankind. The persons who are chosen to be the mean to spread the blessing of Allah to the entire mankind are known as the Prophets. Prophet Muhammad is one of the men who is chosen by Allah to become the mean for Allah to shower His blessing to the entire mankind and to the other creations of Allah. Allah has mentioned in the Quran with the approximate meaning; we have not sent you oh Muhammad except as a blessing to the entire mankind. What is mean by the words; a blessing to the entire mankind? The blessing to the entire mankind means is the correct lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad saw, which when practiced by the entire men, will ensure men to have a life of blessing which is full of happiness in this world and the hereafter.
Good or evil come only from Allah. There is no one who is able to give good and evil except Allah. Allah does only good. Allah never does any evil or bad action. Good or bad comes only from Allah. Allah gives good when men are doing good action and Allah gives evil when men are doing evil action. Wars that exist between men are evil and the evil come from Allah. War and peace come from Allah. Allah is the one who gives peace to men and Allah is the one who gives war to men. Allah is the one who gives good and Allah is the one who gives evil to men. What men should do in order to make Allah gives good to them? Men must do good actions then Allah will give good to men. Good actions are the mean upon which Allah will give good to men and evil actions are the mean upon which Allah will give evil to men. Allah is the one who gives good or evil to men. Allah decides to give good or bad to men according to the actions of men. Men are given the choice either to do good or to do bad actions. When men choose to do bad actions, Allah will give men the permission to do evil actions. When men choose to do good actions, Allah will give men the permission to do good actions.
When men choose to love each other, Allah will give men the permission to love each other. When men choose to hate each other, Allah will give men the permission to hate each other. Allah orders men to love Allah, to love those who are loved by Allah and to love all the creations of Allah. Allah never order men to hate Allah or to hate the persons who are loved by Allah or to hate other creations of Allah. Allah does not order men to hate evils deed and to hate the evil doers. Allah orders us to love even the evil doers. What it means to love the evil doers? It means to prevent the evil doers from committing the evil deeds by inviting the evil doers to do good. When Muslims are doing good deeds, Muslims should not do the good deeds because the Muslims love the good deeds but because it is the order of Allah and only to please Him. Allah orders the Muslims not to do evil deeds. Muslims should avoid from doing the evil deeds, not because the Muslims hate the evil deeds but because it is the order of Allah and to please Allah. Allah orders Muslims to love Allah, to love the persons who are loved by Allah and to love all the creations of Allah. Hatred is not the quality of Allah and it should not become the quality of those who wants to be loved by Allah. When Muslims hate the creations of Allah the Muslims have disobeyed the order of Allah. Allah is the most merciful and the most compassionate. Allah wants men to have the quality of merciful and compassionate. When Muslims are merciful and compassionate toward the creations of Allah, Muslims have obeyed the order of Allah.
We will be able to love all the creations of Allah and to love those who are loved by Allah only when in our heart there is love of Allah. When there is no love of Allah in our hearts, it will not be possible for us to love all the creations of Allah and to love those who are loved by Allah. How men will have love Allah in their hearts when men cannot even see Allah? Although men cannot see Allah but men can see the creations of Allah. Men can also see the good and the bad, which come from the creations of Allah. In order for men to love Allah who is unseen, men need to believe that all the creations, which are visible to men, are created by Allah. In order for men to love Allah who is unseen, men need to believe that good and bad which appear to come from the creations is actually come from Allah. How can such belief of the unseen can come into the hearts and minds of men? In order for such belief to come into the heart and mind of men, the first thing men should do is to recite the Great Kalimah. What is the Great Kalimah? The Great Kalimah is to recite; “I bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
Once men have recited the Great Kalimah, men should do the work, which will make the Great Kalimah enter into their hearts. What is the work to be done? It is the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil. What is the meaning of the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil? The non-Muslims must be invited to recite the Great Kalimah and the Muslims must be reminded about the Great Kalimah and must be invited to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. When a person is speaking and hearing about the meaning of the Great Kalimah repeatedly and with the intention to please Allah until Allah is pleased, Allah will place the Great Kalimah and the love of Allah into the person’s heart. When the Great Kalimah and the love of Allah is inside the heart of a person then that person will be able to love Allah, to love those who are loved by Allah and to love all the creations of Allah.
Allah orders Muslims to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and not to convince the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. Allah orders Muslims to invite the non-Muslims to become Muslims and not to convince the non-Muslims to become Muslims. Allah does not order Muslims to convince the non-Muslims to become Muslims or to convince the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. Muslims are ordered by Allah only to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. Allah orders the Muslims to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims with love and affection. Allah does not order the Muslims to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims with force. Allah does not order the Muslims to wage war against the non-Muslims who choose not to recite the Great Kalimah or to wage war against the Muslims who choose not to obey the orders of Allah. Prophet Muhammad saw had never wage war against the non-Muslims who do not want to recite the Great Kalimah or against the Muslims who do not want to obey the orders of Allah. Whatever done by the Prophet Muhammad saw is known as Sunnah and the Sunnah is explaining the correct meaning of the Quran. The correct meaning of the Quran can only be correctly interpreted by the actions of Prophet Muhammad saw. Even the actions of the companions of Prophet Muhammad saw cannot be used to interpret the true meaning of the Quran. The actions of Prophet Muhammad saw are the Sunnah, the Sunnah is to explain the wishes of Allah, and the wishes of Allah are the Quran. Our Prophet Muhammad saw has left to the Muslims; the Quran and the Sunnah.
Prophet Muhammad saw has said with the approximate meaning; “Whoever among my umat follows the Quran and the Sunnah, they will not be forever deviated from the correct path, even though the Prophet Muhammad saw is no longer with the Muslims”. The action of Hazrat Abu Bakar r.anhu to wage war against the Muslims who became apostate and who refused to pay alms or zakat after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw is not the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. Similarly, the action of Hazrat Abu Bakar r.anhu and Hazrat Umar r.anhu to compile the Quran in the form of a book is also not the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad saw. Whatever action of a Muslim, which is not the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw, is known as Bid’ah. Bid’ah practices can either be Haram (strictly forbidden) or Makruh (not strictly forbidden). The person who practices Bid’ah, which is Haram, is committing sins but the person who practices Bid’ah, which is Makruh, is not committing sins. There are two types of Makruh. The first type is known as Makruh Tahrimi (not strictly forbidden of the higher level). The second type is known as Makruh Tanzih (not strictly forbidden of the lower level).The actions of Hazrat Abu Bakar to wage war against the Muslims who became apostate and Muslims who refuse to pay zakat after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw is Makruh Tahrimi and the action of Hazrat Abu Bakar and Hazrat Umar to compile the Quran in the form of a book is Makruh Tanzih.
Allah orders the Muslims to love Allah, to love those who are loved by Allah and to love the whole creations of Allah. Love means to do justice to the non-Muslims and the Muslims. Love means to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to remind the Muslims about the Great Kalimah and to invite Muslims to obey the orders of Allah. Islam is a religion of love, but the actions of Muslims do not seem to show that Islam is the religion of love. Non-Muslims will not know about the true teaching of Islam because many of them will never read and learn about Islam. Non-Muslims will only understand about Islam by looking at the actions of the Muslims. In my opinion, it is hard for the non-Muslims to believe that Islam is a religion of love by looking at the actions of the Muslims. What is the true teaching of Islam? Islam teaches the Muslims to love all the non-Muslims and not to hate the non-Muslims. Islam teaches Muslims to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah with love and affection. According to the teaching of Islam a person who never recite the Great Kalimah will never become successful in this world and hereafter and a person who never recites the Great Kalimah will never enter paradise and will never obtain the salvation (syafaat) of the Prophet Muhammad saw. A true Muslim will love the non-Muslims. When Muslims have become the true Muslims, the Muslims will love the non-Muslims in their hearts and when the Muslims love the non-Muslims in their hearts, the Muslims will invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. Nowadays the Muslims are not having the love of the non-Muslims in their hearts and because of that; the Muslims are not inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. In my opinion, nowadays the Muslims in the whole world are not inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah in the way done by Prophet Muhammad saw, because the Muslims are not having the love to the non-Muslims in their hearts.
Allah loves men and all of His creations. Allah wants men to love Allah. Allah wants men to obey all the orders of Allah and to become successful in this world and the hereafter. Allah has created men with His own hand. As compare to all the other creations of Allah, Allah loves men the most. Allah has created men as His best creation. Allah has created men with His own hand and Allah loves whatever He has created. Who does not love things, which they have created? Everyone loves the things, which they have created. Similarly, Allah who is the creator of men loves men and all the other creations, which are created by Allah. Allah has created men for Him and He has created all the other creations to serve men. Allah wants the whole mankind to become successful in this world and the hereafter. In order for men to become successful men must obey all the orders of Allah in the way shown by the Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention to please Allah.
April 2013
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
Twintech International University College of Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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About
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin is a professional academician and qualified as an Optometrist with a Master degree in Optometry from Melbourne University, 1978. He currently serves as Dean, Faculty of Optometry, Twintech International University College, Damansara, Malaysia while receiving patients for various kinds of illnesses at his clinic, Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre located in Gombak, Selangor. He preaches Islam daily to none-muslim and muslim in his locality, writes books and produces song lyrics. His ideas, views and critics on various topics can be viewed at his official blog www.mthago.com
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