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SERMON 197
Allah's attribute of Omniscience
Allah knows the cries of the beasts in the forest,
the sins of the people in seclusion, the movements of the fishes in the deep seas and the
rising of the water by tempestuous winds. I stand witness that Muhammad is the choice of
Allah, the conveyor of His revelation and the messenger of His mercy.
Advantages of fear of Allah
Now then, I advise you to fear Allah, Who created
you for the first time; towards Him is your return, with Him lies the success of your
aims, at Him terminate (all) your desires, towards Him runs your path of right and He is
the aim of your fears (for seeking protection). Certainly, fear of Allah is the medicine
for your hearts, sight for the blindness of your spirits, the cure for the ailments of
your bodies, the rectifier of the evils of your breasts, the purifier of the pollution of
your minds, the light of the darkness of your eyes, the consolation for the fear of your
heart and the brightness for the gloom of your ignorance.
Therefore, make obedience to Allah the way of your
life and not only your outside covering, make it your inner habit instead of only outer
routine, subtle enough to enter through your ribs (up to the heart), the guide for all
your affairs, the watering place for your getting down (on the Day of Judgement), the
interceder for the achievement of your aims, asylum for the day of your fear, the lamp of
the interior of your graves, company for your long loneliness, and deliverance from the
troubles of your abodes. Certainly, obedience to Allah is a protection against encircling
calamities. expected dangers and the flames of burning fires.
Therefore, whoever entertains fear of Allah,
troubles remain away from him after having been near, affairs become sweet after their
bitterness, waves (of troubles) recede from him after having crowded over him,
difficulties become easy for him after occurring, generosity rains fast over him after
there had been famine, mercy bends over him after it had been loath, the favours (of
Allah) spring forth on him after they had been dried, and blessing descends over him in
showers after being scanty. So, fear Allah Who benefits you with His good advice, preaches
to you through His Messenger, and obliges you with His favours. Devote yourselves to His
worship, and acquit yourselves of the obligation of obeying Him.
About Islam
This Islam is the religion which Allah has chosen
for Himself, developed it before His eyes, preferred it as the best among His creations,
established its pillars on His love. He has disgraced other religions by giving honour to
it. He has humiliated all communities before its sublimity; He has humbled its enemies
with His kindness and made its opponents lonely by according it His support. He has
smashed the pillars of misguidance with its columns. He has quenched the thirst of the
thirsty from its cisterns, and filled the cisterns through those who draw its water.
He made Islam such that its constituent parts cannot
break, its links cannot separate, its construction cannot fall, its columns cannot decay,
its plant cannot be uprooted, its time does not end, its laws do not expire, its twigs
cannot be cut, its parts do not become narrow, its ease does not change into difficulty,
its clarity is not affected by gloom, its straightness does not acquire curvature, its
wood has no crookedness, its vast paths have no narrowness, its lamp knows no putting off
and its sweetness has no bitterness.
It consists of columns whose bases Allah has fixed
in truthfulness and whose foundation He has strengthened, and of sources whose streams are
ever full of water and of lamps, whose flames are full of light, and of beacons with whose
help travellers get guidance, and of signs through which a way is found to its highways
and of watering places which provide water to those who come to them. Allah has placed in
Islam the height of His pleasure, the pinnacle of His pillars and the prominence of His
obedience. Before Allah, therefore, its columns are strong, its construction is lofty, its
proofs are bright, its fires are aflame, its authority is strong, its beacons are high and
its destruction is difficult. You should therefore honour it, follow it, fulfil its
obligations and accord the position due to it.
About the Holy Prophet
Then, Allah, the Glorified, deputed Muhammad - the
peace and blessing of Allah be upon him and his descendants - with truth at a time when
the destruction of the world was near and the next life was at hand, when its brightness
was turning into gloom after shining, it had become troublesome for its inhabitants, its
surface had become rough, and its decay had approached near. This was during the
exhaustion of its life at the approach of signs (of its decay), the ruin of its
inhabitants, the breaking of its links, the dispersal of its affairs, the decay of its
signs, the divulging of its secret matters and the shortening of its length. Allah made
him responsible for conveying His message and (a means of) honour for his people, a period
of bloom for the men of his days, a source of dignity for the supporters and an honour for
his helpers.
About the Holy Qur'an
Then, Allah sent to him the Book as a light whose
flames cannot be extinguished, a lamp whose gleam does not die, a sea whose depth cannot
be sounded, a way whose direction does not mislead, a ray whose light does not darken, a
separator (of good from evil) whose arguments do not weaken, a clarifier whose foundations
cannot be dismantled, a cure which leaves no apprehension for disease, an honour whose
supporters are not defeated, and a truth whose helpers are not abandoned. Therefore, it is
the mine of belief and its centre, the source of knowledge and its oceans, the plantation
of justice and its pools, the foundation stone of Islam and its construction, the valleys
of truth and its plains, an ocean which those who draw water cannot empty, springs which
those who draw water cannot dry up, a watering place which those who come to take water
cannot exhaust, a staging place in moving towards which travellers do not get lost, signs
which no treader fails to see and a highland which those who approach it cannot surpass
it.
Allah has made it a quencher of the thirst of the
learned, a bloom for the hearts of religious jurists, a highway for the ways of the
righteous, a cure after which there is no ailment, an effulgence with which there is no
darkness, a rope whose grip is strong, a stronghold whose top is invulnerable, an honour
for him who loves it, a peace for him who enters it, a guidance for him who follows it, an
excuse for him who adopts it, an argument for him who argues with it, a witness for him
who quarrels with it, a success for him who argues with it, a carrier of burden for him
who seeks the way, a shield for him who arms himself (against misguidance), a knowledge
for him who listens carefully, worthy story for him who relates it and a final verdict of
him who passes judgements.
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