Jawed Anwar

Long weekends, holidays, and 2016 have gone. We did everything on these days except the one thing that Allah commanded us to do and for which Allah sent His Messengers (and Books) on earth --warning and glad tidings.     

 "Praise be to Allah, Who has sent to His Servant the Book, and has allowed therein no Crookedness. (He has made it) Straight (and Clear) in order that He may warn of a terrible Punishment from Him, and that He may give Glad Tidings to the Believers who work righteous deeds, that they shall have a goodly Reward. Wherein they shall remain forever. Further, that He may warn those (also) who say, "Allah has begotten a son". No knowledge have they of such a thing, nor had their fathers. It is a grievous thing that issues from their mouths as a saying what they say is nothing but falsehood!"

(Quran Sura Kahaf: 18:1-5)

Furthermore, Allah says in very powerful words:

Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begets not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.

(Quran Surah Al-Ikhlas 112)

Allah has sent us here to North America from all parts of the world. The purpose may not have been clear to us when we were migrating, but Allah had a plan –a plan to test us by providing economic prosperity, comfort, and easiness of worldly life. A large number of Muslims have been living in this part of the world for centuries. Followers of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were all Muslims at their times, but they forgot their message over the passage of time.

There is no Messenger of Allah after Muhammadï·º the last Messenger of Allah. Muhammad ï·º said by joining forefinger and middle finger that the distance between me and Qiyamah (doomsday) are so close. Now the prophetic task has been assigned to the community of Muhammad ï·º till the last day.

كُنتُمۡ خَيۡرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخۡرِجَتۡ لِلنَّاسِ تَأۡمُرُونَ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَتَنۡهَوۡنَ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنڪَرِ وَتُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ‌ۗ ÙˆÙŽÙ„ÙŽÙˆÛ¡ ءَامَنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡڪِتَـٰبِ لَكَانَ خَيۡرً۬ا لَّهُم‌ۚ مِّنۡهُمُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ وَأَڪۡثَرُهُمُ ٱلۡفَـٰسِقُونَ (١١٠)     

“You are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith, it would be best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.”

(Surah Al e Imaran 3:110)

Now what are we doing? We are all busy in countering Islamphobia that has been created mainly because of our not fulfilling the assigned task from Allah. Now, we ourselves are living in “trump-phobia”.

Prophetic movement is a positive movement. It is a creative movement. It is a peaceful, resistant movement. It is not a negative and defensive movement. It is not a nationalistic and ethnic movement. This movement starts from the love of humanity, and the main purpose is to save people from hellfire, to protect them from a heavy loss in hereafter.

We are living here in the society where majority of people are either disbelievers or partnering someone with Allah. And they went so long, so grievous that they said (may Allah forgive us), “Allah begets a son”. It is so false, so untruth that that no statement can be so untruthful like it. It has been said knowingly and in error despite the fact that the Messenger of Allah, the one before Muhammad ﷺ , Eisa (Jesus) (peace be upon him) never said it.

The term “Son of God” had been used in a symbolic sense as a metaphor for the Messiah, but the Church gave it a literal meaning.  In the King James Version of the Bible, John 3: 16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son….”  The words “only begotten” were falsely translated from the Greek word ‘monogenous’, which means ‘one of a kind’ or ‘unique’.  In a metaphorical sense, we are all Allah’s children, but Jesus is unique in that he is a spirit emanating from Allah.  The Qur’an corrects the literal meaning of “Son of God” that was assigned by the Church.  It is our duty to carry that correction to those who have been misled.

This biggest false statement makes the society and state unrighteous. And that is the reason Presidents of America never tell truth to the world.

We are the only group of people who can correct them by conveying and providing the message of Allah and His book. And it is all in love with Allah, His Messenger, and people of the nation. There should not be any personal, ethnic, or nationalistic grievances in the fulfilling this task.

If we take care of Allah’s and his people’s rights, Allah will take care of our rights. This is a universal and eternal principle.

jawed@seerahwest.com