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Al-Hajj
(cont')
3
[The pillars of religion
are
completed by Al-Hajj
to the House
of Allah in the Holy country]
(qasida
39:1)
In a completion to our topic about Al-Hajj
in the previous editions, we say with the help of our Allah
Almighty:
Allah -The Exalted and The Blessed-
said at the beginning of Sura
Al-Ma'ida [lawful
to you is the
beast of An'am
except that which
is now being recited to you
(in
the verse after)].
(Al-Ma'ida
5:1)
We have clarified that the
beast of An'am has two
meanings: the worldly meaning and
the divine meaning as sayydi
Muhyiddin said
in his interpretation.
The first meaning is clear to any ordinary
Muslim reciting and following Qur'an,
which is
camels,
cattle, and sheep,
as Al-Hassan,
Kattada and a few other scholars [AAT]
said. But the intrinsic latent
meaning tells us that the beast of
An'am
refers to the purified
selves that get their
owners closer to Allah by killing their lusts and coming between them
and their
instincts through the great
struggle against
self. So the self
here is a beast of
An'am,
and one sacrifices
it to get closer to Allah.
So the worldly meaning of beasts of
An'am
refers to camel, cow and sheep that
they are considered the food of our bodies, but souls and hearts are
fed upon the meanings that come directly
from Allah, the true intrinsic
meanings. We can get these meanings
only from sincere worshipers, who sacrificed their souls for the
sake of Allah, they got rid of their egos
and their souls' emotions, they also
maintained reciting
the name of Allah with clear purified
hearts. Those are the ones who
were faithful to Allah, so
He bestowed the
goodness unto them and He put them in
charge. Allah, Blessed
Almighty, honored them in the Qur'an
and mentioned them in
verses we recite.
He said
[And
do not obey him whose heart We have made oblivious to Our
remembrance, who
followed his own whim, and whose
conduct became
excessively loose]
(Al-Kahf 18:28),
it means that you have to follow only
who has an
alive heart reciting
with Dhikr, who
is free completely from self ego and whim.
Allah also said: [Obey
Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those charged with authority
among you]
(An-Nisa'
4:59).
Those described, in the other verse,
are the ones in authority
who are worth to be followed in all
matters of our religion.
So
analyze dear faithful
brothers and sisters what Satan said, then be careful and
choose whom to be with and whom to follow. The
Damn Satan said to Allah, Blessed
Almighty, [O
My Lord, because You have
misled me,
I shall adorn for them the path of error
on earth and I shall
mislead them all *
except those chosen slaves of Yours who
are sincerely devoted]
(Al-Hijr
15:39,40),
So Satan
excluded the devout
slaves of Allah from this misguide
because he knew well that he has no power
over them. Allah said [Truly
as for
My devout slaves,
you shall have no warrant, sway or
ability,
and
Your Lord suffices as a guardian
and protector for them]
(Al-Esra'
17:65).
Those are the
truthful [Oh you who believe fear Allah and be with
those who are
truthful] (At-Tawbah
9:119),
those who got rid of their
selves, so their hearts became
purified and clear, so
they became truthful
and free from the ego of their
selves. So if we take the Qur'anic
meanings from
them, our hearts and spirits will promote and will
raise up high to the divine proximity.
You know the divine house
of Allah that we
cruise
around
with our
bodies. Now would
you know the immaterial house
of Allah that our
hearts and souls
cruise
around?
It was mentioned in our heritage
that Allah, Blessed Almighty, said to the
prophet Dawud:
{ Purify a house for me to dwell
in. Dawud replied:
O Lord, is there any
house suitable enough for
You?
Allah said:
Neither My sky,
nor My earth
were suitable
enough for me, but the heart of My
faithful slave will be}.
In other words, this heart will be
suitable enough for Allah with
knowledge. This
heart that is filled with the divine light and
occupied with secrets and knowledge, will be a shelter and a
reference to the devout slaves of Allah.
If they can
reach it and cruise around it,
they will
be safe from aberration, obstinacy, bad
thoughts and misbelief.
All that was stated
in the interpretation
of Ibn Agiba, Al-Baher
Al-Madid (The
Vast Sea), the
verse:
[And
when We appointed the House, to be a place
of resort and
sanctuary for
mankind,
and take you, O
people, to yourselves Ibrahim’s
Maqam (place) for a place of prayer.
And We made a covenant with Ibrahim and
Isma'il; ‘Purify My House for those
who shall
circumambulate
it, those
who cleave to it in ritual residence, and
those who bow and
prostrate themselves’]
(Al-Bakara
2:125).
There is a relation between Al-Hajj
and the verse [Lawful to you are all
beasts of
An'am].
This verse is
number 1 in sura Al-Ma'ida,
and verse number 3 in the same sura
is
[Today
I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed My
favour upon you, and I have approved, chosen, Islam for you as
religion].
The completion and the perfection of
our religion was done by the fifth corner,
Al-Hajj.
This verse was
revealed down in the farewell
Hajj, on Friday afternoon on the
mountain of Arafa, in the tenth
year of Al-Hegra,
and Our Massenger was on his camel Al-Adba'.
This was mentioned by al-Niasabury [AAH]
in his book (Reasons of Revelation).
The
intrinsic latent
meaning of the verse
[lawful to you the beasts of An'am]
as we mentioned earlier is the purified
souls that Allah makes as
lawful source of knowledge to take
all our rituals of our true religion.
Then Allah said: [except
that which will be announced to you]
it means that there are
souls that are impurified.
You should not take any knowledge
from them. These
souls are shown clearly in the next verse:
[Forbidden to you are the dead
An'am - that were not slaughtered, the
blood - that was spilled, the flesh
of swine - pork,
and what has been hallowed to other
than Allah]
Al-Ma'ida
5:3
... till
Allah said in the same
verse [Today
I have perfected your religion for you,
...]
Now
think about this divine teaching that will
lead us to the perfect religion.
Allah excepted,
from An'am, the dead
ones which means the souls that died of
ignorance and heedlessness because they
did not accept the purification. The
same way Allah does not want us to feed our bodies on the
dead animals, He does not want us to feed our
souls on the meanings that came
out of heedless and ignorant souls.
Some interpreters said that the dead
An'am is the worldly
life that is clear in the words of our Prophet
[PPBUH]:
(The worldly life is a carrion -
dead animal- and those who seek
it are dogs). So we only take only our
necessary needs from this
worldly life just to keep us alive.
Some others said that the dead
An'am refers to backbiting
your brother, which
is completely prohibited, unless we have to, like
if you have to eat something or else you will die, then you may eat
a dead animal. Otherwise it is not one bit lawful.
Al-Qoshiery
said: "As with
animal, the purified is lawful,
but the dead is prohibited also who slaughters his
self with the knives of the hard
struggle and purifies it,
then it is permitted to be near him and it
is lawful to accompany him. And
whosever soul died
in darkness of his heedlessness
until he does not feel anything about his
religion, then his
soul is malicious and
no one should associate with or
accompany him. His company will
be unblest.
Allah sai
in Qur'an: [Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life,
and a light whereby he can walk amongst men, be like him who is in
the depths of darkness, from which he can never come out?] (Al-An'am
6:122).
The companions asked the Prophet
about this, He replied: (he who always
recites Allah -Dhikr-
and he who never does, are like an alive one
and a dead one).
narrated by al-Bokhary.
Also He said:
(the house where Allah is always recited
-Dhikr- and the one where He never is, are
as an alive person
and a dead one).
May Allah
keep our hearts alive in this worldly
life and in the hereafter, keep our
masters pleased with us, and gives us their
blessings.
To be continued ...
Written
by Mohammad Makbool
Translated
by
Ahmed AF
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