MADINA MONAWARA

"I
believe in
ALLAH, in His
Angels, His
Scriptures, His
Prophets, the Day of
Judgment, and
in the fact that
every thing
good or bad (in
the world) is pre-destined
by ALLAH the
Exalted, and in
the
resurrection
after death." Tauheed, the
Oneness of
ALLAH (s.w.t)
for a Muslim is:
" ALLAH, there
is no god but He, the Living,
the Everlasting;
slumber does
not seize him
nor does sleep;
to Him belongs whatever is in
the heavens
and whatever
is in the earth.
Who is there
that shall intercede with
Him, except by
His permission?
He knows
what is before
them and what is after them,
but they do not
comprehend
anything of His
knowledge,
except what He will. His
Throne
extends over
the heavens
and earth, and
their guarding does not strain
Him; and He is
the High, the
Great". ( 3 :
255 ) Al-
Quran. We say about ALLAH's
unity believing
by ALLAH's
help; that
ALLAH is One,
without any partners. There
is nothing like
Him. There is
nothing that
can overwhelm
Him. There is no god other than
Him. He is the
Eternal without
a beginning
and enduring
without end. He will never
perish or come
to an end.
Nothing
happens
except what He wills. No
imagination can
conceive of Him
and no
understanding
can comprehend
Him. He is
different from
any created
being. He is
living and never dies and
is eternally
active and
never sleeps.
He creates
without His being in need
to do so and
provides for
His creation
without any
effort. He causes death
with no fear
and restores to
life without
difficulty. He
has always existed
together with
His attributes
since before
creation.
Bringing creation into
existence did
not add
anything to His
attributes that
was not already there.
As He was,
together with
His attributes,
in pre-eternity,
so He will remain
throughout
endless time. It
was not only
after the act of
creation that He could be
described as
"The Creator"
nor was it only
by the act of
origination that He could he
described as
"The
Originator". He
was always the
Lord even when there
was nothing to
be Lord of, and
always the
Creator even
when there was no
creation. In the
same way that
He is the
"Bringer to life
of the dead", after He has
brought them
to life a first
time, and
deserves this
name before bringing them
to life, so too
He deserves
the name of
"Creator"
before He has created them.
This is because
He has the
power to do
everything,
everything is dependent on
Him,
everything is
easy for Him,
and He does
not need anything.
"There is
nothing like
Him and He is
the Hearer, the
Seer". ( 42 : 11 ) Al-Quran. He
created
creation with
His knowledge.
He appointed
destinies for those He
created. He
allotted to
them fixed life
spans. Nothing
about them was hidden
from Him
before He
created them,
and He knew
everything that they
would do
before He
created them.
He ordered
them to obey Him and
forbade them
to disobey Him.
Everything
happens
according to His decree and
will, and His will
is
accomplished.
The only will
that people have is what He
wills for them.
What He wills
for them
occurs and
what He does not will, does
not occur. He
gives guidance
to whoever He
wills, and
protects them, and keeps
them safe from
harm, out of His
generosity;
and He leads
astray whoever He
wills, and
abases them,
and afflicts
them, out of His
justice. All of them are
subject to His
will between
either His
generosity or
His justice. He is exalted
beyond having
opposites or
equals. No one
can ward off
His decree or put back His
command or
overpower His
affairs. We
believe in all of
this and are certain that
everything
comes from
Him. The
Existence is
Infinite and ALLAH has
encircled the
Infinite
Existence, and
the Infinite
existence has encircled all
existent things,
so there is no
possibility of
any other god
beyond ALLAH. The existence
of creatures is
very weak
before the
Existence of
Him. When we and you cannot
allow any
other being to
enter into our
own limits of
existence despite such
weakness,
then how
ALLAH, with
such a
tremendous strength of
existence, can
allow any
other god to
enter into His
dominion ? In short, there is
no space for
any other god
to enter the
Divine
Dominion. As such there is no
rational
possibility to
believe in any
other god
beyond ALLAH. He is the origin
of all creatures.
He is alone the
Master of all
creations, man,
angel, jinn etc. All creatures
are the slaves
and servants of
ALLAH, the
Lord of the
Universe. So it is incumbent on
every soul in
the great
Universe to
recognize and
acknowledge the Lordship of
ALLAH, His
Divine Unity
and denounce
all quarters of
polytheism. When He is the
Creator of all
creatures and
He provides for
them all
necessities, obedience to
Him is
obligatory and
binding on all
creatures
whether man, animals,
mountains,
angels, trees,
stars, moon,
and sun. Men
and jinn have wish, but other
creatures have
no wish, they
are completely
subservient to
the Divine Commands or
the Laws of
Nature. Other
creatures have
no wish of
their own, so they are not
susceptible to
disobedience.
The word
disobedience
does not come in the orbit of
other
creatures. It is
only man or
jinn who can
obey and disobey alike.
He is given
freedom of
choice. He is
given Reason
or Wisdom to judge and take
action
accordingly.. 2.
End of the
Prophethood,
Prophet Muhammad
(s.a.w.w) for a
Muslim is: No
single tenet of
Islam protects
the perfect and universal
religion of
ALLAH (s.w.t)
from
corruption and
innovation better than the
doctrine of the
finality of
Prophethood.
In more than
one hundred of its verses, the
Holy Quran has
made it
abundantly
clear that no
new prophet or prophetic
revelation will
be sent to
humanity. For
instance,
ALLAH has declared:
"Muhammad is
not the father
of any man
among you,
but he is the Apostle of
ALLAH and the
Last of the
Prophets".
( 33 : 40 ) Al-
Quran. The Last Prophet,
Muhammad
(s.a.w.w), has
also explained
this point in
over two hundred
Ahadith. For
instance, the
Messenger of
ALLAH has
taught: "My position in
relation to the
prophets who
came before
me can be
explained by the following
example: A
man erected a
building and
adorned this
edifice with great beauty,
but he left an
empty niche in
the corner
where just one
brick was missing. People
looked around
the building
and marveled
at its beauty,
but wondered why a brick
was missing
from that
niche. I am like
unto that one
missing brick and I am the
last in the line
of the
Prophets".
(Bukhari,
Muslim, Musnad Ahmad, Tirmizi,
Musnad Abu
Dawud).
"There will
arise thirty
impostors in my Ummah
(followers) and
each one of
them will
pronounce to
the world that he is a prophet,
but I am the
last in the line
of the Prophets
of God and no
Prophet will come after me".
(Abu Dawood).
"I am
Muhammad, I
am Ahmad, I
am the effacer and infidelity
shall be erased
through me; I
am the
assembler.
People shall be assembled on
Doomsday
after my time.
And I am the
last in the sense
that no prophet shall
succeed me".
(Bukhari,
Muslim, Tirmizi).
"...O People, no
prophet will come after me,
and no new
faith will be
born. Reason
well, therefore,
O People, and understand my
words which I
convey to
you...".
(Sermon
delivered on the ninth day
of Dhul-Hajj 10
A.H. and
witnessed by
120,000
Muslims). Prior to Islam, a new
prophet was
generally
commissioned
when the
teachings of earlier
prophets were
lost, corrupted,
or required
some
modification. However, the
holy Quran
clearly states
that the
dispensations
of Islam are universal, final,
completed,
perfected, and
protected. For
instance, we
read: "Say (O Muhammad): 'O
Mankind! Lo! I
am the
Messenger of
ALLAH to you
all, (the Messenger) of
Him unto
Whom belongs
the
Sovereignty of
the heavens and earth". ( 7 :
158 ) Al-Quran.
"...This day I
have perfected
your religion
for you, completed my
favor upon
you and have
chosen for you
Islam as your
way of life". ( 5 : 3 ) Al-
Quran. The
Holy Quran,
Hadith, Tafseer,
and the opinion
of the Companions
(r.a) have been
consistent on
this point, since
the advent of
Islam. In fact, the first rightly
guided Caliph,
Hazrat Abu
Bakr (r.a),
supported by
all companions of the holy
Prophet
(s.a.w.w),
waged a war
against the
false claimant to
Prophethood,
Musailma the
Kazzab (liar),
despite the fact
that the Muslim state was still in
its infancy and
without the
necessary
means. Those
taught by the holy Prophet
(s.a.w.w) were
absolutely
certain of this
doctrine and
the need to protect the
religion of
humanity from
corruption.
Indeed, three
times as many Muslims
willingly
sacrificed their
precious lives
fighting
Musailma, as had during the
entire mission
of the holy
Prophet
(s.a.w.w). This
act of Hazrat Abu Bakr (r.a)
was so highly
regarded,
endorsed and
accepted by
the companions,
that Hazrat
Umar (r.a)
proposed: "I
will exchange
all good deeds of my life time
for your acts of
one night and
one day. One
night from
those three nights you
spent with
Prophet
Muhammad
(s.a.w.w) in the
Cave of "Saur" and one day
from the days
of battles
against
impostor
prophets to guard the
Finality of
Muhammad".
(Mishkawt).
Throughout
ages, great scholars,
Mujaddids, and
jurists of Islam
have also
unanimously
agreed on absolute
finality of
Prophethood.
Sheikh Mulla Ali
Qari (r.t.a), for
instance, has written:
"Muhammad
(s.a.w.w) is
"Khatim-un-
Nabiyeen"
meaning the Last of the
Prophets (a.s)
and that on Him
all sorts of
Nubuwwat
(Prophethood) came to an end.
This is
supported by
definite
arguments and
clear injunctions and
is one of the
fundamental
beliefs of Islam.
Rejection of
this doctrine is an obvious
disbelief and an
ugly
deviation". The
great jurist of
Islamic Law, Imam Abu
Hanifah (r.t.a),
has ruled. Once
a person
claimed that he
is a Prophet of ALLAH. Imam
Abu Hanifah
(r.t.a) made an
announcement;
"Anyone who
demands proof from him (a
claimant to
Prophethood)
will become a
Kafir
(disbeliever), as Prophet
Muhammad
(s.a.w.w) has
emphatically
said: 'No
Prophet will come after me".
(Manaqib Abi
Hanifah). Every
believer is
advised to
remain mindful of this
fundamental
teaching of
Islam and the
activities of
misguided organizations,
like Qadyani
(Ahmadi) and
Bahai
movements,
whose leaders reject this clear
decree of
ALLAH and
selfishly strive
to divide
mankind, misguide the
uninformed,
and create a
following for
their
organization. Just as there is
no deity
worthy of
worship but
ALLAH, there is
no Prophet after
Muhammad
(s.a.w.w), and
no revelation
after the Holy
Quran. With ALLAH is
Success and
Peace of ALLAH
be upon his
final
Messenger, Muhammad
(s.a.w.w), His
family,
Companions
(r.a), and
sincere followers till
the Day of
Judgment..)