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SERMON 146
The purpose of the deputation of the
Holy Prophet and the condition of the time when people would go against the Qur'an
Allah deputed Muhammad (p.b.u.h.a.h.p.) with Truth
so that he may take out His people from the worship of idols towards His worship and from
obeying Satan towards obeying Him and sent him with the Qur'an which He explained and made
strong, in order that the people may know their sustainer (Allah) since they were ignorant
of Him, may acknowledge Him since they were denying Him, and accept Him since they were
refusing (to believe in) Him. Because He, the Glorified, revealed Himself to them through
His Book without their having seen Him, by means of what He showed them out of His might
and made them fear His sway. How He destroyed those whom He wished to destroy through His
chastisement and ruined those whom He wished to ruin through His retribution!
On the future
Certainly, a time will come upon you after me when
nothing will be more concealed than rightfulness, nothing more apparent than wrongfulness
and nothing more current than untruth against Allah and His Prophet. For the people of
this period nothing will be more valueless than the Qur'an being recited as it ought to be
recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an being misplaced from its position. And
in the towns nothing will be more hated than virtue, nor anything more acceptable than
vice.
The holders of the book will throw it away and its
memorisers would forget it. In these days the Qur'an and its people will be exiled and
expelled. They will be companions keeping together on one path, but no one will offer them
asylum. Consequently at this time the Qur'an and its people will be among the people but
not among them, will be with them but not with them, because misguidance cannot accord
with guidance even though they may be together. The people will have united on division
and will therefore have cut away from the community, as though they were the leaders of
the Qur'an and not the Qur'an their leader. Nothing of it will be left with them except
its name, and they will know nothing save its writing and its words. Before that, they
will inflict hardships on the virtuous, naming the latter's truthful views about Allah
false allegations, and enforcing for virtues the punishment of the vice.
Those before you passed away because of the
lengthening of their desires and the forgetting of their death, till that promised event
befell them about which excuses are turned down, repentance is denied and punishment and
retribution is inflicted.
About Ahlu'l-bayt
O' people, he who seeks counsel from Allah secures
guidance and he who adopts His word as guide is led towards what is more straight, because
Allah's lover feels secure and His opponent feels afraid. It does not behove one who knows
His greatness to assume greatness, but the greatness of those who know His greatness is
that they should know before Him, and the safety for those who know what His power is lies
in submitting to Him. Do not be scared away from the truth like the scaring of the healthy
from the scabbed person, or the sound person from the sick.
You should know that you will never know guidance
unless you know who has abandoned it, you will never abide by the pledges of the Qur'an
unless you know who has broken them, and will never cling to it unless you know who has
forsaken it. Seek these things from those who own them because they are the life spring of
knowledge and death of ignorance. They are the people whose commands will disclose to you
their (extent of) knowledge, their silence will disclose their (capacity of) speaking and
their outer appearance will disclose their inner self. They do not go against religion,
and do not differ from one other about it, while it is among them a truthful witness and a
silent speaker.
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