Brothers in Islam! Muslims are the
only people in the world today
fortunate enough to possess the word
of God preserved in its original form,
free from all distortions, and
precisely in the wording in which it
was sent down upon the Prophet,
blessings and peace be on him.
Paradoxically, these same Muslims
suffer the misfortune of being denied
the countless blessings and benefits
which the word of God must give to
those who believe in it.
The Qur’an
was sent to them for them to read it,
understand it, act upon it, and, with
its help, establish on God’s earth the
rule of His law. The Qur’an came to
grant them dignity and power. It came
to make them true vicegerents of God
on earth. And history shows that
whenever they acted according to its
guidance, it did make them the leaders
of the world. Irreverence and Misuse
But now the Qur’an’s usefulness, for
many Muslims, consists only in keeping
it in their houses to drive away jinns
and ghosts, in writing its verses on
amulets to hang round their necks or
washing those amulets with water and
then drinking it, or in reading its
contents without comprehending their
meaning in the hope of receiving some
reward. No longer do they seek
guidance from it for their lives. No
longer do they ask it to tell then
what should be their beliefs, morals
and actions, nor how they should
conduct transactions, what principles
they should observe while dealing with
enemies and friends, what the rights
are of their fellow beings and of
their own selves.
Nor do they turn to
it to find what is true and what is
false, whom they should obey and whom
disobey, who their friends are and who
their enemies, where honour,
well-being and benefit are to be found
and where disgrace, failure and loss.
We Muslims have given up looking for
answers to these important questions
in the Qur’an. Instead, we now ask
Kafirs, idolators, misguided, selfish
people, even our own ego and
desires—and follow what they advise.
What invariably happens to those who
ignore Allah and follow the precepts
of other has happened to us too. We
are reaping only what we have shown
everywhere in the world—in Palestine,
the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia
and many other places.
The Qur’an is
the source of every good: it will give
whatever and as much as you ask from
it. If you seek from it such trivial,
frivolous and spurious things as how
to scare away jinns and ghosts, how to
cure coughs and fevers, how to succeed
in litigation and find a job—then you
may get them, but only them. If you
seek supremacy on earth and the power
to rule the world you may get that
too. And if you wish to reach near
God’s Throne (‘Arsh), the Qur’an will
take you there.
If you receive only a
few drops from the ocean, do not blame
the Qur’an, blame yourselves.
***For the
whole ocean is there waiting for him
who knows how to take it.***
> Incomprehensible Contradictions
