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Enslaved Nations

 

 

Allah the Exalted states that He does not change the condition of such nations that do not themselves want to change condition. As a nation, we have lost sight of the laws created by Allah the Exalted and have limited ourselves to the concept of reward and punishment. We have limited ourselves so much that we have become completely oblivious of the creative formulas. The Holy Quran is ours; Allah is ours. Allah the Exalted states in the Holy Quran that, 'We have made subservient to you the earth and the heavens and whatever is in between; we have made the sun subservient to you; we have made the moon subservient to you; we have made the stars subservient to you.' While we are so oblivious of it all that we have not even given a cursory glance towards the process of conquest. The Holy Quran is ours and it states loudly and clearly that within iron are many benefits stored for mankind. Obviously, the Holy Quran is saying that, 'look for these benefits which Allah the Exalted has placed within iron and when you find these benefits they will in turn be beneficial to Allah's creatures, and thus you will receive honour and respect among Allah's creatures.' Allah's law stands true in its place. Those who looked for the abilities of iron gained respect on the national level; and we who ignored the teachings of the Holy Quran, have been disgraced. Salaat [Obligatory prayer'], Fasting, Hajj ['obligatory pilgrimage to Makkah”] and Zakaat ['obligatory monetary donation'] are important in their own place; obligatory, and necessary. This is because fulfilling these acts of worship strengthen the spirit, and the spiritual abilities are activated and awakened, But here the situation is completely reversed in that then is no awareness at all as to whether spiritual abilities even exist among us or not. The reason for this is that we do not possess the quality of reflection. We act, but we pay no attention to the reality and purpose of that action. When a servant of Allah, who has been bestowed ilm-ul-yaqeen ['faith based certainty'], reflects upon the Holy Quran, he is able to see, before him the history of the rise and fall of nations, and he observes that the rise and fall of nations depends upon the fact that the nations that reflected upon the words of Allah the Exalted became victorious, and nations that refused reflection became enslaved. What a tragedy it is when we see that within the progress of present-day science all those formulas are at work that were left behind by our ancestors and which were our inheritance, but since we did not pay any attention to that inheritance, others benefited from them while we became a backward and beggarly nation.


 


Journey Towards Insight

KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI

Science has made immense progress, yet many believe that, even with all of the modern tools at our disposal, human beings function at no more than 10% of their mental capacity. This leads to the question of what exactly it is that comprises the remaining 90%. Yet another question that arises is this: If it has taken man four and a half billion years to be able to apply only 10% of his ability, how long will it take for him to make use of the remaining 90%?