The
Chishti Nizami Habibi Soofie
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
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AULIA
ALLAH AND MINDUNILLAH
Allah
speaks about His Friends in the Holy Qur’aan, in the 10th Sura,
Yunus: Verse 62 to 64
Behold
(Observe)!Verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve;
those who believe and (constantly) guard against evil. For them are Glad
Tidings, in the life of the Present and in the Hereafter: no change can there
be in the Words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme achievement.
Teri
atke to wasile se kare istimdaad
Ya
Ghaus! Sun ke bigarti heh tabiyat teri
Maulana
Hassan Raza Khan (may Allah be well pleased with him)
When
we ponder on these verses then we realise that in the first verse Allah
(Almighty and Glorious is He) describes the status of His friends and in the
second He narrates their recognition whilst in the third He narrates their
destiny (anjaam). They have the highest status of being befriended by
Allah. How great is this status! He further tells us that He has freed them of
fear and grief in both the worlds. In the second verse Allah gives us their
recognising features that they are mumin or ‘ones with true faith’
and they practise restraint. Iman refers to having the proper belief or aqidah:
Taqwa is having sound character (aqhlaq) and performing virtuous
deeds (amaal). Therefore Allah’s Friends are those that have proper
belief or aqidah, sound character (aqhlaq) and perform virtuous
deeds (amaal). He whose belief or aqidah is not sound, whose
character (aqhlaq) is unpleasant and lacks in performance of virtuous
deeds (amaal) cannot be the ‘Friend of Allah’. Allah’s Friends
externally (zaahir) mirrors Shariah[1]
and internally (baatin) reflects Tariqah[2].
His lips must utter the teachings of the Holy Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam) (farmane Rasul) and his heart must be a vessel overflowing with
Divine Effusion (Faizane Rasul)[3].
Regarding their resultant destiny (anjaam) Allah says,
‘For them are Glad Tidings, in the life of the Present and in the Hereafter: no change can there be in the Words of Allah, This is indeed the supreme achievement.’
There has been much confusion regarding Allah’s Friends (Aulia Allah) and (mindunillah) or idols. Idolatry was widespread in Arabia at the advent of the Holy Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). Allah therefore sent revelation regarding these (mindunillah) or idols. The verses which instructs man not to ask for help or benefit from idols has been used out of context by the Wahabbi / Deobandi Ulema to be referring to Aulia Allah. On the basis of these verses, quoted out of context, they try to justify their claim that Aulia cannot benefit or harm us, so we should ask directly from Allah without intermediation. Is the use of verses revealed regarding (mindunillah) or idols, against Allah’s Friends (Aulia Allah) being just or unjust to the Muslim faith or aqidah? Is this not casting doubt on an important avenue of Divine help? Allah, in his divine wisdom knew that this will happen, therefore He says in the Holy Qur’aan, in Sura al-Isra 17: Verse 82.
We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur’aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.
Allah said ‘zalimeen’,[Zulm: Wrongdoing. The ones not capable of receiving internal
enlightenment are not only wrongdoers, but also display ignorance (jahl),
spiritual immaturity and even arrogance and pride (takabbur)].
Those whom they invoke besides Allah create nothing and are themselves created
(Saudi Transalation in Alim Computer Software)
And those (idols) which they (the pagans) call upon apart from Allah. Create nothing and are themselves created
Turkish translation by Ali Ozek , Nureddin Uzunoglu, Tevfiq Rusti Topuzoglu and Mehmet Maksutoglu.: Ilmi Nesriyat., Istanbul
Note
this is not coming from Indo/Pak but from the seat of the original Sunni
Ottomans
They show these ayah to the common man and tell him that asking the Aulia
is invoking ‘other than Allah’ and hence saying Ya Rasulullah, Ya
Ghous and Ya Khwaja are acts of shirk. Those that are fooled
by them their aqidah is destroyed. Most definitely Prophets and Aulia are
not Allah but they are not included in (mindunillah) or idols. What is
our proof of this? Let us read the Qur’aan. Sura al-Ambiya 21: Verse 98 says:
Verily ye, (Unbelievers), and the (false) gods that ye worship besides Allah, are (but) fuel for Hell! To it will ye (surely) come!
Here Allah says (mindunillah) or idols will be put into hellfire. If Prophets and Aulia are included in (mindunillah) or idols then according to the interpretation of the Wahabbi / Deobandi Ulema, astagfirullah, Prophets and Aulia will be in hellfire. Sura al-Ambiya 21: Verse 98 is our proof that Prophets and Aulia are not included in (mindunillah) or idols, since they can never be cast into hell. Can there be contradiction in Qur’aan? Never! Allah says in Sura al-Nisaa 4: Verse 82:
Do they not consider the Qur’aan (with care)? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.
So there can be no contradiction in the Qur’aan, since it is from
Allah.
Let me present two verses from the Holy Qur’aan, which if looked at
externally seem to contradict each other, how contradiction sets in and what is
the remedy for it. Allah says in Sura at-Tauba 9: Verse 116
The Wahabbi / Deobandi Ulema wrongly translate this verse as
meaning.
Except
for Him (Allah) you have neither protector nor helper.
In
Sura al-Maida 5: Verse 55 Allah says:
Your (real) friends and protectors are (no less than) Allah,
His Messenger, and the (Fellowship of) Believers, those who establish
regular prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly (in worship).
Ponder on these two verses, in the first in states that none can protect and help you except Allah, whilst the second says that your helper and friend is Allah, His Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and the group of believers possessing perfect iman. There is no contradiction if the verses are translated properly. In the first verse there is stated wa ma lakum mindunillah. I have already stated that mindunillah refers to idols and wrongly translated as ‘other than Allah’ in certain sectors. If mindunillah is translated, as it should be, referring to idols then there is no contradiction between the two verses.
Sura at-Tauba 9: Verse 116
should be translated as:
From
amongst these idols, you have neither protector nor helper.
O! Allah if we have no helper and protector from these idols, then do we
have any that can protect and help us? Allah replies with Sura al-Maida 5: Verse
55
Your (real) friends and protectors are (no less than) Allah, His
Messenger, and the (Fellowship of) Believers, those who establish regular
prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly (in worship).
So there is no contradiction if the verses are translated properly. So
these Wahabbi / Deobandi Ulema and their propagation body, the Tabligh
Jamaat apply verses referring to idols as being in reference to Prophets and
Saints. They also make reference to path of a verse and quote it out of context.
E.g. A man refused to perform salaah saying the Qur’aan says, ‘we
should not approach prayer in Sura an-Nisaa 4: verse 43
O ye who believe! Do not pray
When he was told to read further he said, “I am trying to act upon a
little, it is difficult to put the whole Qur’aan into practice.”
This is the condition of those fiercely defending the conception of Tauhid
exported worldwide by the Saudi-Wahabbi regime. They read part of a verse, that
suits their ideology, and leave out, conveniently, the rest of the verse or
chapter that puts it into context. E.g. they read this verse to mislead people:
Sura al-A’raf 7: Verse 194,
Verily
those whom ye call upon besides Allah are servants like you
On the basis of this verse they say we proclaim ‘Ya! Rasulullah, Ya
Ghous and Ya Khwaja”, and since they are servants of Allah being
created being like us we are committing an act of ‘assigning partners to Allah
or shirk. In this verse also ibaadun amsaalukum refers to idols.
The proof being that Allah says in the next verse:
The
feet you make for these idols can they walk with? Or hands can they hold with?
Or eyes can they see with? Or ears can they hear with?
So these verses refer to idols. Remember if you see the word mindunillah ensure it is translated as idols and not wrongly translated as ‘other than Allah’ to confuse you. So those who commit this injustice, the Qur’aan make it clear in Sura al-Isra 17: Verse 82.
We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur-an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.
May Allah save our children from these erroneous beliefs
Transalated
and extracted by Irshad
Soofi from a lecture delivered by Maulana
Muhammad Shafi Okarvi (may Allah be well pleased with him) in South Africa in
the 1970's.
2 Rajab 1424/ 30 August 2003
Ur’s of Hazrath Soofie Saheb (Rahmatullahi alaihi)
[1] shari'a: The Sacred Law. Shari 'a makes manifest the Divine Reality
(haqiqa). It provides all the principles and means for a human to develop true knowledge and acquire the noble character traits. Those who "know" Allah never leave His Sacred Law. Their courtesy towards Allah preserves them from letting the Scale of the Law slip from their hands.
[2] tariqa: The Way or Path. Tariqa is the narrow and steep Spiritual Path to Reality (haqiqa). The qualified -seeker can travel this Path only under the direction of a qualified Guide (murshid, shaykh, pir). The name tariqa is specific to the Islamic Spiritual Path.
[3] Al-Faiz- Allah bestows Divine effusion or overflow or emanation to the heart of His Perfect Slave, the Perfect Man. The world itself remains in existence due to this overflowing of the lights of His Self-manifestation. The attention paid to them during their remembrance or visitation is repaid by attention from them, leading man to heightened states of spirituality.
