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When
Allah decided to appoint Adam as His caliph on the earth, Angels told:
"Do you appoint there who shall
go berserk and shed the blood? With a bid to prove that Adam was compounded
with virtue too, apart from evil. Allah instilled in Adam His traits,
indicative of His creational prerogative, which were express as
"Names". When He presented them before Angels, they told, Be
glorified We have no knowledge barring what you have taught us verily your are
the omniscient, the sagacious ".
Through
deep study it becomes crystal clear that Allah has programmed this universe two
ways: Virtue and vice, This is why Allah did not disallow the core objection,
raised by the Angels. But He demonstrated that Adam was confined to be a mere
vice unless and until he was dinned over by Allah, and as soon as he was dinned
over, he turned to be a mere virtue. The creation of Adam preceded the creation
of Angels, and they were vice-free by instinct. Therefore Allah created Adam
who was a compound of both : Vice and virtue, so as to avoid the evil and go
for virtue, keeping himself firm on the right path and inviting his progeny
too, to the same path. This is the invitation for which (124000) messengers
were sent and this is what we call as ' PROPAGATION '.
Allah
Almighty says :
"Call to the way of your Lord
with tactics and rhetoric sermon and discuss with them in a better way".
This
Quranic verse provides us with three guidelines :
1. The
Call Should be accorded tactfully with an aim to eschew any mishappening and to
adopt any good thing.
2. The
advice should not be discharged in a repulsive and injurious fashion. The face
of the preacher should be fresh and eyes brimming with love and solidarity and
heart with sincerity.
3. If
some controversy erupts in the course of talk, you should check your voice not
allowing to be crude, and if the criticism is inevitable, you should be
restricted to the constructive and courteous one! The way of negotiation should
be attractive and luscious, not provocative and acrimonious, and if the
addressee resorts to insurgency and obduracy, you should rein your mouth as it
is the better for his interest.
The
propagation of Islam always has involved two ways:
The
first one is that the man should negotiate his addressee according to his
mental capabilities, and should win his heart with his moral power, and take
care of his needs and solve his problems as if they were his own ones. As far
as the other way is concerned, it is to communicate your ideas to others
through essays and speeches, keeping in view that this one is an age of writing
and speaking, and all the distances have shrunk, or rather, have converged. The
expansion of the earth has been reduced to a globe. With a sonic viewpoint, the
distance between U.S. and Karachi is less than that of a room. To cast a news
over London and U.S. from Karachi has been a daily routine. The same thing is
going with the writing. There is a vast cluster of publication. A passage,
typed in U.S. or an any other overseas country, is legible in Karachi or
Islamabad as if the same was being typed in Karachi or Islamabad.
The
writing leaves on the reader such an impact that cultivates the intellectual
nuclei of the mind which turn to souring tree. Therefore, you should maintain
equanimity and restraint in your writing and speech using an optimistic
phraseology, and avoiding a pessimistic and menacing method which makes a
reader or listener respondent of Divine mercy and totally confused about his
reformation or salvation. Please use in
your writing the encouraging words and present such an idea of Divine Love that
may replace the scare with regard and respect so that he may accept the Divine
Mercy with all his respects to the Doner. Hazrat Ali (R.A.) says :
"The
best scholars are those who invite to Divine path in such a way which does not
ward off the invitees from the threshold of Allah, and who do not present such
image of Allah which makes them indifferent with their accountability to Allah
for disobedience".
You
have to participate permanently, in the propagation of Islam and dissemination
of Divine knowledge though on a small scale, and to call the mankind to exploit
their internal talents, and to welcome wholeheartedly all the difficulties and
hardships, waiting for you in this way. as the Prophet said:
"The dearest work to Allah is
that lasts for long though it is meager".
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE BENEVOLENT
Dedicated to those scientists, who are inching towards the cognizance of the facts, spotlighted by Allah Almighty, in the wake of their intelligent observation for the top vertex of scientific achievement, which is not other than the "Disastrous end of the Universe". And this is probably during 15th century of Lunar calendar.
