POINTS TO PONDER

BY MD. HADIUL ISLAM ( FARUK)

Muslim are the only fortunate people in the world today who have with them the Word of God completely preserved, free from interpolation  and precisely in the same wording in which it was revealed to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him.) And these very Muslims are those unfortunate people in the world who have the Word of God with them and are yet deprived of its blessings and its countless boons. The Qur’an was sent to them that they would read it, understand it and act upon it, and, with its help , would establish on God’s earth a state which will function according to the law of God. The Qur’an came to grant them dignity and power.

It came to make them real Vicegerents of God on the earth. And History testifies that when they acted according to its direction, it demonstrated its power making them Imam and leader of the world, but now for them its utility is confined to keeping it in the house in order to drive away demons and ghosts, to inscribe its verses on paper and hang it round the neck or wash it in  water and drink it, and read the contents unintelligibly to get some blessing. Now they do not seek guidance from it in the affairs of their life. They should be our deeds, how should we conduct transactions, what law should we follow in contraction friendship and making enmity, what are the rights on us of our fellow-being and of our own selves, what is truth for us and what is falsehood, whom  should we obey and whom to disobey, with whom should we maintain relation and with whom not , who is our friend and who is our enemy, wherein are honor, well-being and benefit for us and wherein lies disgrace, failure and loss?  Muslims have given up ascertaining all these verities from the Qur’an. Now they ask these things from unbelievers, polytheists, misguided and selfish people and form the evil force in their own souls, and follow what these elements advise. Therefore what invariably happens on ignoring God and following the precepts of others, happened them too, and they are reaping it today in Hindustan, China , Java, Palestine, Syria, Algeria, Morocco and every where.

As for the Qur’an , it is the fountainhead of supreme good. It will impart whatever and as much beneficence you seek from it. If you seek from it such, trivial, frivolous and spurious things as scaring away demons and ghosts, cure for cough and fever, success in litigation and securing of job, then you will get only these things. If you seek leadership of the world and ruler ship of the universe you  will get that also. And if you wish to reach the pinnacle of spiritual glory, the Qur’an will take you there also. This is just a question of your own capability that you ask for two drops from the ocean, otherwise the ocean is ready to give you a gift as big as the ocean.

Gentlemen, The cruel jokes which our brother-Muslims play with the Holy Book of Allah are so ridiculous that if they themselves see anyone else doing such frolics in any other matter, they will laugh at him and even brand him as a lunatic. Tell me if somebody got a prescription written by a doctor and hung it by the neck after wrapping it in a piece of cloth or washed it in water and drank it, then what would you say about it? Will you not laugh at it, and will you not call him a fool? But this very treatment is being meted out before your eyes to the matchless prescription written by the greatest of all doctors for the merciful cure of all your ailments, and nobody laughs at it, No one tries to understand that a prescription is not an article to be hung round the neck or soaked in water and drunk, but that its purpose is to use the medicine as directed by it.