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Peace be upon you.
Peace be on you.
Hazrat Khalifa tul Messiah V (may Allah be his Helper) said:
A question, with more intensity than before, is being spread in the minds of young people especially and in the society in general, by those people who are against religion or by those who have gone away from religion rather God too, due to lack of proper guidance….The question is:
If one already has good morals or if worldly education leads to good morals then what is the need of believing in religion.
ANALYSIS
The religion or its believers make the same claim of teaching good morals. The worldly people say they have developed morals for them and the morals of majority of worldly people are better than the morals of people who believe in religion.
Especially Islam is made target for such comparison. The majority of believers of other religion have almost lost relation with faith. It is only Islam, whose majority of believers express their connection with their faith, even majority of non-practicing Muslims openly call themselves Muslims and relates to faith. That is why the real attack is on Islam. Effort is done to poison the mind of our children and youth to make them away from Deen (The Way , The Religion) by various ways by raising various points. In the mode of education in the West especially, the special emphasis is drawn to do exploration and research, which is a good thing and attention should be given to it. But it should be done in proper way.
When young people or adolescents seek answers to the questions (which come to minds or induced in minds) in home, the parents and elders either do not have time to answer them due to societal and economic needs and indulgence or simply they lack knowledge. That is why youths’ questions are attempted to be suppressed instead of answering them. For this reason adolescents think religion, (be it Islam) claim to be truth but it is not the practical solution in accordance with era or it does not have answer.
Or it happens too that the teaching given to children and the deeds of elders disagree. Children remain mute up to an extent while hearing religious matters but when they get independence, they drift away from religion and fall prey to those who make effort to move the people away from religion. That is why, despite Islam having beautiful teaching and being alive religion, now there are people being seen in Muslims who deny religion and God.
Thus in these circumstances, each of us need to pay attention to how we make ourselves to practice Deen (way, religion) and how to save our next generations?
There is no doubt in it that Islam is a perfect religion. It guides to solutions of various problems. Quran Kareem is the perfect Book. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) presents its perfect exemplar / model to us. This model developed a change in Sahabah (The Companions, may Allah be pleased with them); they understood religion and morals too and achieved physical progress as well. They obtained the understanding of keeping the religion, morals and material progress at respective places.
Thus our young, our children who are stepping in adulthood, and especially the grownups should remember (as it is responsibility of grownups to take care of next generations) that we have to make effort to understand the relation between correction of morals, material progress and religion, and then mold our lives according to that.
Understanding of this point will enable
= the elders to take care of next generations,
= paths of progress in spiritual and physical aspects of lives will be opened for young, and they will realize the beauty of teaching of Islam, and also that those who speak against it are liars.
This matter which, today, is raised with intensity by religion-less or anti-religion people, is not a new thing. Previously, time to time, such questions have been raised so that objection against religion is kept maintain because they never tried to understand the religion in right way, And so-called religious leaders presented the wrong solution (by not understanding the religion) and increased the confusion of the educated section of society.
In this era, Allah the Exalted granted His benevolence to us that He sent Hazrat Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) to resolve the confusions created by these problems. He (on whom be peace) developed the sense of understanding of these in us. It became easy for us to understand these problems and to find out their solutions.
Hazrat Musleh Mo'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) once delivered a sermon in its light……He explained the relation between correction in morals, material progress and religion and how Islam views it, and how Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) explained to us its reality by his action and practical model…….. Hazrat Khalifatul Messiah V (may Allah be his Helper) explains the subject by getting benefit from it.
We tell the world and it is true that Islam is such a religion which Allah the Exalted has sent by keeping human nature in view exactly. Islam is natural religion. Religion and morals and those human needs which are related to his body are so much common that it is difficult to make distinction between them.
A person who believes in religion, he cannot separate morals from religion. He cannot say that religion has made him free from world and he does not have needs. If one has this thought the wheel of material progress stops. Religion, morals and material progress are interlinked. Despite that they are different.
Those who do not believe in religion try to get free by saying that good morals and material progress are human needs.
But a true Muslim says religion is required too as it shows path to reach God. Thus it is difference of thought that how we see these things and how we have to make their mutual links. Other religions are becoming dead, it is only Islam which proves relation between religion, morals and material progress. But majority of Muslims (not understanding the reality of religion) linked the matters related to morals and material with religion in such wrong way that they did excess and caused the people go away from religion instead of presenting religion in beautiful way and attracting others towards it.
Next to Salaat and Fasting, there are morals and worldly needs. Worldly needs may include making an Association or convening a Gathering; scholars consider these as parts of Islam. If anyone does not participate in these, he is called Kafir (who denies, disbeliever) and Murtad (apostate) according to these so-called clergies. This attitude is now being seen in Islamic world; it expands and takes over everything; things go from calling Kafir and Murtad to wars. Each sect has its own Fatwas. That is the reason, various Islamic groups are doing killings; they want to implement their version of Islam by making their own code of morals or so-called laws.
In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they are doing bloodshed on the name of religion by using their self made laws. A French journalist came from the captivity of so-called Islamic government in Iraq and Syria. There he saw things, their deeds and laws which were against Islam, as according to his knowledge of Islam, Holy Quran and Hadith. He brought this observation before the officials of so-called Islamic government there, they replied, ‘we do not know what is in Quran and Hadith, it is our law and we are doing according to it.’
That is how real teaching of Islam is being distorted.
What is happening in Yemen is because the Fatwas-of-choice are given the name Islam and air strikes are being done on innocents. One side is wrong and other side is wrong too. The solution is not to kill innocents.
It is being noted in Islamic history (still happening) that various Molanas and Aalims has made their own religions. Therefore there is no reality has left in the Islam which they are practicing as compared to the real Islam. That is why, after following such Fatwas-issuing Ulamas / clergies, majority of Muslims have drifted away from real Islam. Unqualified things are happening on the name of spirituality and faith.
On the other hand, the Western developed people (already away from religion) try to make spirituality and morality a part of material world.
=Suppose, if they ever ponder over revelation they say it is part of human acts.
=If they ponder over morals they do it with point of view that morals are beneficial for human in the worldly life.
=If they ponder over religion they say low level illiterate or less educated people get saved from crimes on the name of religion up to some extent because of somewhat moral improvement, provided if right religion is owned.
=They also say that those who already have good moral, what is the need of religion to them.
But reflection will tell that material progress, morals and religion are so close that a common person does not know where a limit begins and where it ends.
To understand it we study the pure life of Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). He (s.a.w.) is world’s physical life reformer, moral reformer and spiritual reformer. His (s.a.w.) pure life combines all these aspects.
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Hazrat Khalifa tul Messiah V (may Allah be his Helper) said:
A question, with more intensity than before, is being spread in the minds of young people especially and in the society in general, by those people who are against religion or by those who have gone away from religion rather God too, due to lack of proper guidance….The question is:
If one already has good morals or if worldly education leads to good morals then what is the need of believing in religion.
ANALYSIS
The religion or its believers make the same claim of teaching good morals. The worldly people say they have developed morals for them and the morals of majority of worldly people are better than the morals of people who believe in religion.
Especially Islam is made target for such comparison. The majority of believers of other religion have almost lost relation with faith. It is only Islam, whose majority of believers express their connection with their faith, even majority of non-practicing Muslims openly call themselves Muslims and relates to faith. That is why the real attack is on Islam. Effort is done to poison the mind of our children and youth to make them away from Deen (The Way , The Religion) by various ways by raising various points. In the mode of education in the West especially, the special emphasis is drawn to do exploration and research, which is a good thing and attention should be given to it. But it should be done in proper way.
When young people or adolescents seek answers to the questions (which come to minds or induced in minds) in home, the parents and elders either do not have time to answer them due to societal and economic needs and indulgence or simply they lack knowledge. That is why youths’ questions are attempted to be suppressed instead of answering them. For this reason adolescents think religion, (be it Islam) claim to be truth but it is not the practical solution in accordance with era or it does not have answer.
Or it happens too that the teaching given to children and the deeds of elders disagree. Children remain mute up to an extent while hearing religious matters but when they get independence, they drift away from religion and fall prey to those who make effort to move the people away from religion. That is why, despite Islam having beautiful teaching and being alive religion, now there are people being seen in Muslims who deny religion and God.
Thus in these circumstances, each of us need to pay attention to how we make ourselves to practice Deen (way, religion) and how to save our next generations?
There is no doubt in it that Islam is a perfect religion. It guides to solutions of various problems. Quran Kareem is the perfect Book. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) presents its perfect exemplar / model to us. This model developed a change in Sahabah (The Companions, may Allah be pleased with them); they understood religion and morals too and achieved physical progress as well. They obtained the understanding of keeping the religion, morals and material progress at respective places.
Thus our young, our children who are stepping in adulthood, and especially the grownups should remember (as it is responsibility of grownups to take care of next generations) that we have to make effort to understand the relation between correction of morals, material progress and religion, and then mold our lives according to that.
Understanding of this point will enable
= the elders to take care of next generations,
= paths of progress in spiritual and physical aspects of lives will be opened for young, and they will realize the beauty of teaching of Islam, and also that those who speak against it are liars.
This matter which, today, is raised with intensity by religion-less or anti-religion people, is not a new thing. Previously, time to time, such questions have been raised so that objection against religion is kept maintain because they never tried to understand the religion in right way, And so-called religious leaders presented the wrong solution (by not understanding the religion) and increased the confusion of the educated section of society.
In this era, Allah the Exalted granted His benevolence to us that He sent Hazrat Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) to resolve the confusions created by these problems. He (on whom be peace) developed the sense of understanding of these in us. It became easy for us to understand these problems and to find out their solutions.
Hazrat Musleh Mo'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) once delivered a sermon in its light……He explained the relation between correction in morals, material progress and religion and how Islam views it, and how Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) explained to us its reality by his action and practical model…….. Hazrat Khalifatul Messiah V (may Allah be his Helper) explains the subject by getting benefit from it.
We tell the world and it is true that Islam is such a religion which Allah the Exalted has sent by keeping human nature in view exactly. Islam is natural religion. Religion and morals and those human needs which are related to his body are so much common that it is difficult to make distinction between them.
A person who believes in religion, he cannot separate morals from religion. He cannot say that religion has made him free from world and he does not have needs. If one has this thought the wheel of material progress stops. Religion, morals and material progress are interlinked. Despite that they are different.
Those who do not believe in religion try to get free by saying that good morals and material progress are human needs.
But a true Muslim says religion is required too as it shows path to reach God. Thus it is difference of thought that how we see these things and how we have to make their mutual links. Other religions are becoming dead, it is only Islam which proves relation between religion, morals and material progress. But majority of Muslims (not understanding the reality of religion) linked the matters related to morals and material with religion in such wrong way that they did excess and caused the people go away from religion instead of presenting religion in beautiful way and attracting others towards it.
Next to Salaat and Fasting, there are morals and worldly needs. Worldly needs may include making an Association or convening a Gathering; scholars consider these as parts of Islam. If anyone does not participate in these, he is called Kafir (who denies, disbeliever) and Murtad (apostate) according to these so-called clergies. This attitude is now being seen in Islamic world; it expands and takes over everything; things go from calling Kafir and Murtad to wars. Each sect has its own Fatwas. That is the reason, various Islamic groups are doing killings; they want to implement their version of Islam by making their own code of morals or so-called laws.
In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they are doing bloodshed on the name of religion by using their self made laws. A French journalist came from the captivity of so-called Islamic government in Iraq and Syria. There he saw things, their deeds and laws which were against Islam, as according to his knowledge of Islam, Holy Quran and Hadith. He brought this observation before the officials of so-called Islamic government there, they replied, ‘we do not know what is in Quran and Hadith, it is our law and we are doing according to it.’
That is how real teaching of Islam is being distorted.
What is happening in Yemen is because the Fatwas-of-choice are given the name Islam and air strikes are being done on innocents. One side is wrong and other side is wrong too. The solution is not to kill innocents.
It is being noted in Islamic history (still happening) that various Molanas and Aalims has made their own religions. Therefore there is no reality has left in the Islam which they are practicing as compared to the real Islam. That is why, after following such Fatwas-issuing Ulamas / clergies, majority of Muslims have drifted away from real Islam. Unqualified things are happening on the name of spirituality and faith.
On the other hand, the Western developed people (already away from religion) try to make spirituality and morality a part of material world.
=Suppose, if they ever ponder over revelation they say it is part of human acts.
=If they ponder over morals they do it with point of view that morals are beneficial for human in the worldly life.
=If they ponder over religion they say low level illiterate or less educated people get saved from crimes on the name of religion up to some extent because of somewhat moral improvement, provided if right religion is owned.
=They also say that those who already have good moral, what is the need of religion to them.
But reflection will tell that material progress, morals and religion are so close that a common person does not know where a limit begins and where it ends.
To understand it we study the pure life of Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). He (s.a.w.) is world’s physical life reformer, moral reformer and spiritual reformer. His (s.a.w.) pure life combines all these aspects.
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