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Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
No human can produce
another Quran, likewise no human can interpret the Quran
in its true sense. So don't turn into a Bin Laden stereotype trying to use the Quran as a shield, like the Osama
tried to misguide people in the name of Jihad.
You say the Bohras deen is not true and they
are not on the path of Islam. Well wise man produce me an Aayat
in the Quran that quotes Sunni, Shiaa,
Ismaili, Jaferri are
true deens and are on the path of Islam. Nevertheless
who has given you the authority to judge other people.
All muslims (be it a Bohra, Sunni, Shiaa, Ismaili or Jaferri) shall be
judged by Allah alone on the Day of Judgement. You
follow your faith and let us follow our own. You don't have to profess your
teachings on the 150,000 subscribers.
No one is
compelled in religion. Its by all faith and devotion
of an individual one practices a religion. I feel all the pride to be a Dawoodi Bohra. No Burhan of the
dawoodibohrahelpline can change my thoughts. As well if you are not a Bohra than why use the dawoodibohra
coat. An identity less person like you has no right to speak ill of our Maula. Check out your own deeds before pointing to others.
Your speaking reveals your true character.
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Answer:
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad
(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your statement: No human can produce another Quran,
likewise no human can interpret the Quran in its true
sense.
We would humbly disagree with
you here that no human can interpret the Quran in its
true sense! Allah Subhanah,
in His Infinite Mercy and Grace, did not just send down this Glorious Book for
the guidance of mankind; but He also appointed a Messenger amongst mankind in
the person of the noble Messenger of Allah, Mohamed ar-Rasool
Allah (saws). He was indeed no more than
a human being; and he lived his life as an example for the believers to follow
until the Last Day! Thus, your
statement that no human can interpret the Quran is
not true; because the Prophet (saws) understood the Quran
completely, lived his whole life in accordance with the guidance of the Quran, and taught the Quran to
his companions and the believers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzab verse 21:There is indeed the
best example for you to follow, in the Messenger of Allah, for every such
person looks forward to Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah much.
Let alone produce another Quran, even if the all the jinns
and the humans got together,
they would not be able to produce even one small Surah like in the Glorious Quran!
Allah Subhanah
revealed the Glorious Quran for the guidance of all
mankind. He himself says that He made
it easy, plain, direct,
clear, a guidance for the believers and a warning to those who
deny the Revelations of the Lord of the Worlds!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 44 Surah Dukhan verse 58:We have made this
Book easy in your own tongue so that they may
ponder and take good counsel.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 12 Surah
Yusuf verse 1-2:These are the verses of the Book that
makes its object perfectly clear. We have sent it down as a Quran
in Arabic, so
that you may understand it well.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 89:We have sent down to you this Book, which makes
everything plain, and is a
guidance, blessing and good news to
those who have surrendered themselves entirely.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 19 Surah Maryam verse 97:O Prophet, We have made this Quran easy,
and sent it down in your tongue so that you should give good news to the pious,
and warn the stubborn people.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 41 Surah Ha Mim As Sajdaah verse 2-4:This is a Revelation from the All-Compassionate, the
All-Merciful Allah. A
Book whose verses are well-expounded, an Arabic Quran for the people who want to understand, and a giver of
good news and a warner.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verse 1-3:All praise is for
Allah Alone, Who has sent down this Book to His Servant (Mohamed (saws), and assigned
nothing crooked to it. This
Book says everything directly, so that he may warn the
people of the severe chastisement of Allah, and give good news to the
believers, who do righteous deeds, that they will have
an excellent reward.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 99:We have sent down
to you Revelations that clearly expound the Truth, and
none but the disobedient reject them.
But some unfortunate people, who
call themselves muslims, have
tried to obtain guidance from books other than the Quran
like the Daim ul Islam, and
have tried to obtain guidance from their self-appointed leaders rather than
follow the example of the Messenger of Allah, Mohamed ar-Rasool
Allah (saws)! These unscrupulous leaders
have warned their followers that if they tried to understand the Holy Quran, they would be mis-guided! They tell them to obey and follow them and
their families unconditionally, and they will show them the straight path! They tell them the Quran
has many meanings of ‘zaahir’ and ‘baatin’ and ‘taaweel’, which can
only be understood by some ‘special’ people chosen by Allah! They tell them to submit themselves to the
high priest and his ancestors to attain salvation! They tell them to bow down in sajdah to the high priest and at the graves of his
ancestors! They tell them to become ‘abde-syedna’ (slaves of Syedna)
rather than guide them to become ‘Abd-Allah’ (slaves
of Allah)!
And the common people, because
they have absolutely no knowledge of what the Glorious Quran
is guiding to, obey and follow the false promises and statements of their
self-appointed leaders! Little do they
realize, that by doing the things that these leaders have commanded them to do;
they are going against the very principle of Tauheed,
and are guilty of committing the heinous and unforgivable sin of ‘shirk’! Little do they realize that the very same
leaders whom they bow down in sajdah to and invoke
sitting, standing, and lying down, will deny their invocation and worship in
the Court of Allah; not only that, they will infact
become opponents and enemies of each other on that Inevitable Day!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 46 Surah Ahqaf verses 4-6: Prophet, say to them, "Have you ever
seen them with open eyes those whom you invoke instead of Allah? Show me what
they have created in the earth? Or have they any share in the creation and
control of the heavens? Bring me a Book revealed before this, or produce some
remnant of knowledge in support of your beliefs if you are truthful." And
who could be further astray than the one who invokes, instead of Allah, those
who cannot answer him till the Day of Resurrection. Nay, they are even UNAWARE
THAT THEY ARE BEING INVOKED. And when all mankind shall be gathered
together (on the Day of Qiyamah), they (the so called
leaders and intercessors) will become enemies of those who invoked them and
they will DISOWN THEIR WORSHIP!!!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraf verse 190-194:They associate
with Allah partners who do not create anything,
but are themselves created! Who
cannot help them nor have the power to help themselves! If you invite them to follow the Right Way,
they will not follow you! It will be all
the same for you whether you call them or keep silent. Those whom you invoke with Allah are MERE
SERVANTS OF ALLAH LIKE YOU!
Just invoke them, and if what you say of them be true, they will answer
your prayers!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzab verse 66-68:On the Day their
faces are rolled about on the Fire, they will say, “Would that we had obeyed
Allah and His Messenger!” And they will
say, “O our Lord, we obeyed our CHIEFS and our GREAT MEN, and they led
us astray from the Right Path. O our
Lord, give them
a double chastisment and curse them severely”.
Read the Quran,
brother! Read the Quran! And then decide who deserves to be followed
unconditionally! Allah and His
Messenger (saws), or some self-made holy men and the book written by a person
called Qadi Noaman 350
years after the death of the Messenger of Allah (saws)?
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj
verses 13:Then, instead of Allah, he invokes those who
can do him neither harm nor good. This
is the last extremity of deviation. He
invokes those who are more likely to do him harm, than good! What an evil ‘MAULA’ he chooses,
and what an evil companion.
Your Statement: You
say the Bohras deen is not
true and they are not on the path of Islam. Well wise man produce me an Aayat in the Quran that quotes
Sunni, Shiaa, Ismaili, Jaferri are true deens and
are on the path of Islam.
Never have we claimed to belong
to any sect! We have always declared
that we invoke and worship Allah Subhanah Alone, and
obey and follow only Allah and His Messenger Mohamed ar
Rasool Allah (saws)!
We solemnly declare that we are muslims,
and belong to no sect whatsoever! We
are proud to be recognized by the name that Allah Subhanah
has chosen for the believers; and not by the names that men have created
themselves!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj
verse 77-78:O you who have believed, do ‘rukooh’ (bow down) and do ‘sajdah’
(prostration), and worship your Lord Allah Alone, and do righteous deeds: it
may be that you attain true success!
Exert your utmost for the cause of Allah, as one should. He has chosen you for His service, and has
not laid on you any hardship in your religion.
Therefore, be steadfast in the religion of your father Abraham. Allah had named you ‘muslims’ before this, and has named you (muslims) in this Quran also,
so that the Messenger may be a witness in regard to you, and you may be
witnesses in regard to the rest of mankind.
No sect can dare claim that the
Prophet of Allah (saws) was a Sunni, or a Shia, or an
Ismaeli, or a Dawoodi Bohra, etc. He was
a muslim, and the true
believers follow the deen that was followed by
Prophet Mohamed (saws), his noble ‘ahle-bayt’, and
his noble companions!
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 171 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Amr
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said: There will befall my Ummah exactly (all
those) evils which befell the people of Isra'il, so
much so that if there was one amongst them who openly committed fornication
with his mother there will be among my Ummah one who
will do that, and if the people of Isra'il were
fragmented into seventy-two sects my Ummah will be
fragmented into seventy-three sects.
All of them will be in Hell Fire except one sect. They (the Companions)
said: Allah's Messenger, which is that? Whereupon he said: It is one
to which I and my companions belong.
Just look at the anger and wrath
of Allah on those people who have broken away from the Truth of Islam and
formed their own sects!
Allah says in Chapter
30 Surah Rum aayat
31-32:"This (Islam) is the right and true faith, but most people do not
know. (Be steadfast on this) turning wholly and sincerely towards Allah Alone,
and fear Him, and establish the Salat, and do
not be like the mushriks, who have set up their
separate creeds and divided themselves into sects, each sect
rejoicing in what it has."
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 23 Surah Mu’minoon verse 52-55:And you all
belong to one and the same ummah, and I (Allah) am
your Lord; so fear Me Alone! Yet
afterwards the people divided themselves into different sects, and each sect
rejoicing in what it has. Well, leave
them deeply involved in their heedlessness up to an appointed time. What?
Do they think that, by continuing to provide them with wealth and
children, We are solicitous for their welfare? Nay, they do not understand the reality of
the matter!
Your Statement:
Nevertheless who has given you the authority to judge other people.
All muslims (be it a Bohra, Sunni, Shiaa, Ismaili or Jaferri) shall be
judged by Allah alone on the Day of Judgement. You
follow your faith and let us follow our own. You don't have to profess your
teachings on the 150,000 subscribers.
Allah has revealed the Glorious Quran as a ‘Furqaan’ (a Criterion
is something that differentiates between right and wrong)! And Allah has declared clearly in the Holy Quran, who are the people who are
on the Straight Path, and who are the ones who are astray! Allah has made it a duty unto every
believer to propagate the Truth from the Holy Quran,
however much the disbelievers may hate it!
Allah says in Chapter
2, Surah Baqarah aayat 185:"Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was sent down: this Book is a perfect guidance for
mankind and consists of CLEAR teachings which show the right way and are a
‘Furqaan’(Criterion) of the
Truth and falsehood."
Allah says in the Holy
Quran: Chapter 16, Surah
An-Nahl Ayat 125:Invite to the way of your
Lord with wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with people in
the best manner. Your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Way and who
is Rightly guided.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anam verse 70:And leave alone
those who have taken their ‘deen’ as a sport and past
time, and have been deluded by the life of this world. Nevertheless, you go on admonishing
them by reciting the Quran to them, lest
any person should be seized because of his own deeds; and that too, at a time, when there
would be no protector, no helper and no
intercessor to rescue him from Allah; when no conceivable amount of ransom
would be accepted from him. This is
because such people shall be seized, in consequence of what they themselves had
earned.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 33:He is Allah, Who has sent His Messenger
with guidance and the Right Way so that He may make it prevail over all the
other ‘deens’, even though the pagans be
much opposed to it.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 12 Surah
Yusuf verse 108:(O Mohamed) tell them plainly, “This
is my Way! I invite you to Allah. I myself see my Way in full light, and my
followers see it too. And
Allah is absolutely free from defect, and I have nothing to do with those who
invoke others with Allah.”
Allah says in Chapter
45 Surah Al-Jathiyah aayat 17:"Then they differed amongst themselves after
the knowledge (of Islam) had come to them, only because they wanted to wrong
one another. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of
Resurrection concerning the matters in which they have been differing."
In light of the above clear aayahs of the Glorious Quran, it
is Allah Subhanah Himself who has given the authority
to declare the Truth from the falsehood!
Your Statement: No
one is compelled in religion. Its by all faith and
devotion of an individual one practices a religion.
Indeed, no one should be
compelled to believe in Islam! But if
one accepts Islam and wants to be part of the Muslim Ummah,
it is a condition that he follows and obeys Allah and His Messenger
(saws)! If someone calls himself a muslim and wants to remain part of
the Muslim Ummah; how dare he invoke and worship
human beings and the graves of their holy men?
How dare he call himself a believer and bow down in sajdah
to his high priest and at the graves of their holy men? How dare he call himself a muslim and submit himself to a
created being rather than to the Creator Himself? How dare he call himself a mu’min and commit the heinous crime of shirk after Allah
and His Messenger (saws) have warned the believers about its consequences? How dare he call himself a muslim and become ‘abde-syedna’ (slave of syedna),
rather than becoming ‘Abd-Allah’ (slave of Allah)?
Your Statement: I
feel all the pride to be a Dawoodi Bohra.
Allah has given man the free
will to choose whatever deen or way of life he wishes
to follow. You may be proud today to declare yourself with a
sect who commit the heinous sin of shirk…. But on the Day of Judgement, we assure you with clear authority from the
below aayahs of the Quran,
that you will wish that you had followed Allah and His Messenger (saws), and
had never associated another being with Allah Subhanah!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter16 Surah Nahl verses 86-87:When the people
who had committed shirk in this world will see those whom they had made
associates with Allah, they will say, “Our Lord, here are those
associate-deities whom we used to invoke besides You.” At this their deities will retort, “You are
liars!” At that time, all of them will
proffer submission before Allah, and all that they used to forge in
this world shall vanish from them.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verses 103-106:Tell them (O
Mohamed), “Should We tell you who are the most unsuccessful people and
miserable failures in regard to their deeds?
They are those, all whose edeavours in the
worldly life, had gone astray from the
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 25 Surah Furqan verses 26-30:The Real
Kingdom on that Day will belong only to the Merciful. And it will be a very hard Day for the
disbelievers. The unjust man will bite
at his hand and say, “Would that I had stood by the
Messenger! Oh, woe to
me! Would that I had not chosen
so and so for a friend! For it was he, who had deluded me to reject the Admonition which
had come to me. Shaitaan has proved indeed very treacherous to man.” And the Messenger will say, “O my
Lord, my people had made this Quran the object of
their ridicule.”
Your Statement: No Burhan of the
dawoodibohrahelpline can change my thoughts.
My beloved brother, our duty as
your brothers-in-faith was never to change your thoughts! Allah Subhanah, in
His Infinite Wisdom and Knowledge, only made it a duty unto the believers to
declare the Truth of the Quran from the falsehood
invented by men; and invite the people who want to listen to good caution to
the Truth of the Holy Quran. To guide someone to Islam,
or to leave them astray is in the Power and Domain of Allah Subhanah
Alone! You bear witness, and Allah
suffices as a witness, that we have invited you to align yourselves with the
clear guidance of the Glorious Quran.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 28 Surah Qasas verse 56:You
cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whomever He Pleases. And He best knows those who would accept
guidance.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 41 Surah Ha Meem As Sajdah verses 4-5:Yet most of these people have turned away from it (The Quran), and they pay no heed. They say, “Our hearts are covered with veils
from that to which you are calling us; our ears have become deaf; and between
us and you there is a curtain, so do as you please, and we shall do as we
will!”
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 82:But if they turn
away, your only responsibility is to convey the plain Message of
Truth! They recognize the blessing
of Allah, yet they deny it, for the majority of them are not inclined to accept
the Truth!
Your Statement: As well if you are not a Bohra
than why use the dawoodibohra coat. An identity less
person like you has no right to speak ill of our Maula.
Check out your own deeds before pointing to others. Your speaking reveals your
true character.
Just for your information,
almost all the brothers who volunteer their time and effort on this humble
forum were born into Dawoodi Bohra
families. Our Merciful Lord, guided us at various times in our lives to read the
Holy Quran with understanding…. And after reading the
Quran with understanding, we were left with only one
of two choices! Either we believe in
what the Holy Quran was guiding towards; or we believe
in the words of some self-appointed holy men….
And with the Grace and Mercy of Allah Subhanah,
we chose to be guided by the clear teachings of the Glorious Quran!
We have submitted ourselves to
our Merciful Lord, Who created us, Who gave us life, Who
will cause our death, Who will give us life again and gather us all on an
Inevitable Day for a full accounting!
In Him we have believed, and to Him we have submitted! We do what He ordains; and we abstain what
He commands us to abstain from! We love
what He loves; and we hate what He hates!
The sin of ‘shirk’ is so hated
by Allah Subhanah, that He has termed it as a ‘dhulm-un-adheem’ (a grave injustice) to Him! He hates this heinous sin to such an extent
that He has declared this sin unforgivable for the one who dies in that
state! This sin of ‘shirk’ is so
monstrous in the sight of Allah Subhanah, that He has
solemnly declared that He has made
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj
verses 13:Then, instead of Allah, he invokes those who
can do him neither harm nor good. This
is the last extremity of deviation. He invokes those who are more likely to do
him harm, than good! What an
evil ‘MAULA’ he chooses, and what an evil companion.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verses 34-35 :O
you who believe! There are indeed many
among the priests and the holy men who devour the wealth of others by evil
means, and debar the people from the Way of Allah. Give them the good news of a painful
torment, who hoard up gold and silver and do not expend
these in the Way of Allah. The Day
shall surely come when the same gold and silver shall be heated in the fire of
Hell, and with it will be branded their foreheads, their bodies and their
backs. (And it will be said): “Here is
that treasure you had hoarded up for yourselves! Taste now the evil of your hoarded treasure!”
Dear brother in Islam, we have
done our duty and invited you to the clear guidance of the Holy Quran. Neither will
we be asked for the deeds you do; nor will you be asked for the deeds we
do! Each individual will be presented
alone in the Just Court of Allah Subhanah, to give a
full accounting of his deeds!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anam verse 94:(And Allah will say),
“So, you have come before Us all alone, as We created you at first. Now, you have left behind all that We gave you in the world.
Now We do not see with you those ‘shufa’a’(intercessors), who, you believed, had a
share in moulding your destinies! All the relations between you and them have been
cut off, and all those, in whom you trusted, have left you in the lurch.”
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus verses 40-44:Some of these people will believe in (The Quran), and others will not. Your Lord knows these
mischief-makers very well indeed. If
these people deny you, say to them: “I am responsible for my deeds and
you for yours. You are not accountable
for what I do, nor am I for what you do.” There are many among them who hear what you
say, but will you make the deaf to listen to you, even though they be incapable of understanding this? Then there are many others among them who
see you. But will you show the way to
the blind, even though they be bereft of sight? The fact is that Allah does not in any way
wrong the people, but they wronged themselves!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verse 29:Proclaim, “This (Quran) is the Truth from your Lord: now whosoever wills may accept it, and
whosoever wills may reject it.” (As for those who reject it) We
have prepared for such workers of iniquity a fire whose flames have encircled
them. There, if they ask for water,
they will be given a drink like the dregs of oil, which will burn their
mouths! What an evil drink, and what an
evil abode!
We have tried to give you clear
evidence from the Holy Quran for each of our views
and answers to your statements!
Believe, obey and follow the clear guidance and teachings of the Holy Quran if you wish to be guided aright! Or believe in the promises made by your high
priests, without any authority from Allah and His Messenger (saws); and await
the events which will unfold on an Inevitable Day exactly as Allah and His
Messenger (saws) have promised! The
choice is yours!
May Allah have mercy on you and
us all, and guide us to the Straight Path of Islam.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
