WARNING TO MUSLIMS ?

BY MD. HADIUL ISLAM (FARUK) 

ALLAH O-AKBAR?

 What a situation to take lesson from , the warning given to Bani Israel was taken by them as  an empty verbal threat, and they saw the consequence of not paying deed to it. They are wandering today on the surface of the earth. They are being shuttled hither and thither and do not get any resting place. They have coffers brimming with crores of rupees. They are he wealthiest people in the world. But this money is of no use to them.

 By adopting the cursed system of usury instead of Zakat, and by taking to lewdness instead of Salah they have invoked Allah’s curse: and loaded with this curse they are running about contaminating the whole world like plague-rats. Then this very threat was given to Muslims but disregarding it they neglected Salah and Zakat and stopped using the God-given strength for propagating virtues  see its result that they were dislodged from the seat of government and thrown away. They became victim of oppressors throughout the world. They are weak and subjugated in all parts of the earth. 

You have seen the disastrous result of abandoning Salah and Zakat. Now a party has risen among them which wants to drag them into indecency, obscenity and lewdness and is telling them that to end their poverty they should start insurance companies and begin taking usury. By God if they did this they will be overtaken by the same disgrace and ignominy which Jews suffered and they will be subjected to the same curse of God which has afflicted Bani Israel.

DOOM OF DEFAULTERS OF `ZAKAT`.

I shall tell you in my future lectures what Zakat is and what tremendous power Allah has infused in it. I shall also show that this Divine mercy, which is considered an ordinary thing today by Muslims, indeed contains a great blessing for them. My intention in today’s lecture was only to explain to you the  position which Salah and Zakat occupy in Islam. Many Muslims think, and their Maulvis too assure hhem day and night, that they remain Muslim even though they  may not observe Salah and pay Zakat.

 But the Qur’anic  clearly refutes their assumption. From the Qur’anic viewpoint the affirmation of kalmia Tayyiba is itself meaningless if to substantiate it a man does not bind himself to the observing of Slah and giving of Zakat. For this very reason, as I have just now described to you, Hadrat Abu Bakr waged a war against the rejecters’ of Zakat branding them as disbelievers. The Prophet’s companions doubted in the beginning whether or not such a Muslim who professes belief in God and His messenger and observes Salah also can be included in that category against which war is ordered to be waged. But when Hadrat Abu Bakr, who was granted by Allah a very eminent position in Al-Islam became adamant in his opinion and insistently said:

``By God if these people withheld from the Zakat they used to give during the time of the Holy Prophet (peace be on him)even a piece of rope to which a came is tied, I shall raise my sword against them``.

Then eventually Allah opened the hearts of all companions for the perception of Truth and they all accepted the verdict that Jihad must be waged against he rejectors of Zakat is the work of idolaters who deny the Hereafter.

``And woe unto the idolaters who give not Zakat, and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter``. (Al-Qur’an 41: 6-7)