Gist of 6th Majlis by Maulana Mohammed At’har

 

Gist of 4rd in series of topic, 6th Majlis by Maulana Mirza Mohammed At’har, 1 Dec, Moharram 2011, Masjid Iraniyan, Bombay, India

Topic: Injustice done to Prophet (saw) and his ancestors as well as progeny by biased Islamic history

Today, I would like to have a reply from them who want the matter to be forgotten, that as to why shouldn’t we analyse the events in light of evidence and conscience? When ever, something is spoken, they get objected to our views and opinion on grounds of so called authentic hadith. Look, it is written in so and so book, how can you have a contrary opinion? Well, it should be asked from them, for you who is more important? Who do you love more, Prophet (saw) or these so called narrators?

In their opinion Prophet (saw) was bestowed prophet hood after 40 years. We believe him to be prophet throughout his life from start to the end. Well, let them believe what they have to, but can they answer that up to these 40 years, what was the status of Prophet (saw)? Since, if he was not a prophet for 40 year what was he an ummati (follower of prophet) or a prophet himself? If he was ummati and later became prophet, isn’t it stupid to think that he was lower in status to someone else since he was the other person’s ummati and all of sudden became greater than the person to whom he was ummati, because we all know Prophet (saw) is higher than any other prophet (as). Thus, we can’t have such shaggy belief as they have.

What we have to say about his first 40 years is that in that time as well he was a prophet. But his job was not to reveal the scripture or bring new canon to an uncultured people of Hijaz (his county). It was necessary that first the characters of these people be raised to comprehend the canon and then the revelation be bought. Just like to sow the seed, the farms have to be tilled and fertilized. Prophet (saw) for 40 years gave them characters, the people who had no virtue began to realize the virtue of sadaqat (truth) and amanat (trust) in Prophet (saw), that’s why they gave him title of Sadiq (Truthful) and Amin (Trustful).

These so called muhadditean (narrators) have bought so much ignorance in minds of muslims that it needs to be checked, else, it harms the faith. They wrote when Mohammed (saw) was in Hira (famous cave) he saw a spirit he got frightened he came trembling to his wife, she wrapped him in blankets. Later, she went to Waraqa (her cousin, a scholar in Bible), Waraqa told her: ask Mohammed (saw) not to get frightened as the spirit which came to him was Gabriel, who in aforetime had came to Moses (as) as well, he will soon become a prophet. So she came and asked him what her cousin had spoken to her, she later asked him to go there once again in the cave. So he went this time Gabriel, pressed him, took out his heart, slit it, took out something and threw that away washed the heart and later put something in his heart and then placed it in chest and closed the slit. How stupid are these whims and fancies of so called narrators. In today’s world we all know the position of heart in human body; it does just the job of pumping blood. All feelings, desires, good and bad action that we do take place first in our brain, so in modern day we know brain and not heart is centre of activities. This Mohaddith was ignorant about anatomy to he wrote as he thought, he wrote heart was cleansed, how could heart be cleaned when views and actions have their centres in the brain? This itself shows, the so called authentic hadith are baseless.

Points to be noted here is that see how favours and certifications of Christianity and Judaism are imposed on Prophet (saw)! We, also don’t believe him to have got frightened when Gabriel appeared to him, when his deputy (Ali (as)) didn’t got frightened with python in childhood, it is so stupid to think Prophet (saw) getting scared. Also, on one occasion they accuse Prophet (saw) is illiterate on second they say Gabriel asked Prophet (saw) to read, how can an illiterate person be asked to read, it is so stupid to think so. They and not we have such baseless belief that Prophet (saw) was illiterate.

Why did Prophet (saw) come to Makka (Hijaz) as these places were almost uncivilized? Why didn’t Prophet (saw) appear in Egypt, India, Greece, Mesopotamia (Iraq) as these were centres of civilization. Well, suppose if am asked to deliver a lecture to a decent public, I will very well do that, but if am asked to deliver a lecture at some place. I go there on the podium and then had a look, those people in audience had stones in their hand, children were doing mischief in the right side and few insane people were sitting on the right side, I would definitely get down and won’t give lecture. Why?

If I get praises from decent audience that is greatness of the content of lecture. But If I give lecture to the above discussed people who had stones in their hand and they praise me and get very engrossed in the lecture, that is definitely the greatness of my character, same happened with Prophet (saw), had he appeared in civilized society that there was nothing great because people were already civilized, Prophet (saw) appearing in Makka, cradle of ignorance and then making them civilized was his personal greatness.

Certain events are attributed to Prophet (saw) that we can never accept, our conscience never accepts those stupid things. One event is Prophet (saw) came for prayers in mid of it got away and later again came back, people asked him, what had happened? He replied: I had forgotten to do ablution. How can a Prophet (saw) forget? If he can than people would definitely ask what kind of prophet is he?

If we object these so called stuff these people say: why you check, what is the necessity? Well, I would like to ask them don’t you check notes (1000 Rs, 500 Rs)? Don’t you have faith in your friend or boss or anyone who gave it to you, what would you say if he objects at your checking? You would say don’t feel bad but there are duplicate notes in circulation. So shouldn’t we also ask these people are there unauthentic hadith in circulation as well? So let us check, don’t object.

Govt. too had made available machines which separate duplicate notes from real one. Did God also give us machine to separate fake hadith from real one? Yes, we have Quran. Checks with it, the hadith which confirms with Quran are authentic while those which have contrary content are faulty.

It is just like someone presenting you 1000 glasses of colddrink, and says to you just one glass has potassium cyanide in it, the possibility is 1 in 1000 so don’t fear have a glass of colddrink, you will never do that, so also, is the case with hadith.

My appeal is not with Muslim ulema (scholars) today but with Muslim Ummah (Muslimdom), that they have a look on these issues which defames the characters of Prophet (saw) and his family and delete these fake hadith.

Husain (as) gave us true identity of Islam, yet they accuse: what was the use of Karbala, people are still doing evil things. Well don’t have such opinions because in that case it can create a more troublesome questions, so many prophets (as) came did the world got a better place? Religion has its own policy. Allah doesn’t want people to believe in him out of force or do actions under force or compulsion. Had it been so Allah would have given headaches to people and that would go away the moment a person offers namaz, no one will ever leave namaz. Allah can give people stomach ache if they don’t fast, all will begin to fast. But Allah doesn’t want anyone to perform his religious duty under force.