Question:
Asslamo alaikum .
With due respect sheikh tahir your answere left me in a bit sad and discomfort thoughts
regarding this being pakistani i have little right to say that muslims in subcontinent were not, even to claim as muslims. so how come a muslim state is not better than as combined subcontinent ? and still muslims in india are supperessd by hindo.Also the founder of Pakistan “Mohammad Ali jinah” have not fought for this land for his own needs i have read that he just acted upon a command from divine, so as far my little knowledge it was mashiyat Allah . regardless the country has never achieved its goal based on shariya and sunnah as its goal to be “fort of islam “, but still we got this land after many sacrifices. Why is there dislikeness against pakistan ?
salaams for sheikh hisham and hajjah naziah .
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
What has happened, happened and cannot be changed, it is Allah’s Will. But we can always look back at our mistakes.
There is no inherent dislike against Pakistan, it is the commentary of our Shaykh based on Islamic principles. You say it is an “Muslim” state, but what of Islam is being implemented there? Islam is not just a flag or slogan which can be sprinkled here and there and “make everything better.”
Division is always worse than unity. Pakistan began in a divided state and ended up losing its larger half (Bangladesh) after bloodshed over ethnicity. Now the bloodshed is over `aqidah, with the Sunni/Sufis losing out to the bloodthirsty Wahabis. In the end everyone loses, for the entire nation has fallen into a corrupt situation, just as in the Arab countries today.
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham said the following in a recent suhbat:
Look what happened in Pakistan; Allah (swt) punished them. However, not all Pakistanis deserve that punishment. Like Sayyidina Musa (as), when he said, “Ya Rabbee! When You are angry with someone, why do You destroy the whole city. Why not just that one?” He spoke like that because He had familiarity with Allah (swt). So Allah said to him, “O Musa! Let me show you My Judgment. Go to that jungle and sit for a while.” So he went there, waiting to see Allah’s Judgment. And he doesn’t have patience, he is “Kaleemullah”, so among the anbiya he feels some preference and higher distinction. So if he likes, like a child speaking to his father can say anything, it is accepted. So Sayyidina Musa thinks he is better than anyone else, so he says as he likes, and he said, “How do you punish everyone who is innocent due to the acts of one person?”
Allah (swt) left him waiting for three hours. He became impatient and said, “Ya Rabbee! What is this?” And as soon as he said that, many small ants crawled up his legs. Then Allah ordered one ant to bite him and that ant was happy, as Allah had ordered an ant to bite a prophet! That is love to Allah and love to Sayyidina Musa (as). Allah commanded the ant, “Bite him very strongly!” As soon as he bit him, Sayyidina Musa (as) pressed his leg and killed all the ants except a few. Then he heard a voice, “O Musa! What have you done?”
He said, “An ant bit me!”
“But you crushed all of them! That is My wisdom, one bad person among them causes all of them to be punished.”
Those (flood victims in in Pakistan) who were innocent were given Paradise, and those who did wrong, the Hellfire is ready for them, but since they were punished they are sent to Paradise.
Here is one message to Pakistanis from one of His awliya: “If you keep doing that, Allah will continue to send like that.” They blew up the maqam of one great wali, Sayyid `Ali Hujwiri (q). It is as Allah said in Hadith Qudsee:
من عادى لي وليا فقد آذنته بالحرب
man `ada lee waliyyan faqad adhantahu bi ‘l-harb.
Who declares war on a Friend of Mine, I declare war on him.
Allah (swt) said in Holy Qur’an:
أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ
alaa inna awliyaulllah la khawfan `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon.
{Behold! Verily on the Friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve.}(al-Anbiya, 10:62)
So when they blew up that maqam, Allah defended him. Sayyid Ali Hujwiri didn’t want to defend himself, so Allah defended him: He brought that huge flood. Twenty-five million for one. When they came to Sayyidina Lut, the angels said, “We are coming by Allah’s order to destroy your people!” … Allah said to Sayyidina Lut, “Don’t look behind you as you leave!” And in one strike He finished them, in one tornado or one hurricane; their homes were destroyed completely in one strike.
So Allah showed Sayyidina Musa (as), “For one I take all!”
And that is Allah’s Uniqueness, no one can be like that. And how to save ourselves? By Kalimat at-Tawheed, la ilaha illa-Llah. When we recite that we are saying, “There is no one to resemble You, ya Rabbee!” And that is Maqam al-Hudur and Maqam ash-Shuhud, the station of Presence and the station of Seeing. To those doing their dhikr, Allah will open these veils, slowly, slowly, for them to see this beauty.
Taher Siddiqui
