Songs of Love

It is said that this world has gone through the cycle of destruction and repopulation time and again, or according to better estimates, 16 times. This world so beautiful, adorned with enchanting greenery and colourful flowers, with its ice capped mountains and waterfalls glimmering like pearls, basking in warm rays of the sun and bathed in enchanting light of the moon, is yet again standing at the brink of death, shaking with fear, as 40,000 atom bombs have the world as their target. Springs that flow from within the earth, minerals that have shown man the path towards progress, the system of gravity, all, regrettably are awaiting their destruction at the hands of their sons. The earth that has raised us, that earth, that world, stand perplexed as to why mankind is bent upon destroying the earth—what crime has the earth committed to justify such a punishment! Man has received so much from mother earth. The thumb-sucking infant reaches his youth and enjoys the pleasures of adulthood, resulting in the joyous flourishing of the earth—is this not a favour bestowed by the earth? What ungratefulness is this that children are bent upon rendering barren, and destroying, their mother's womb!

The creator of the universe had made this world a cradle of love, happiness, joy and selflessness. Even today, everything in this world provides joy and happiness to those who can see. Beautiful birds of so many colours, landscapes affirming id motile the rise and ebb of water, the loftiness of the mountains, the elevations of the sky, the beauty of the flowers starlit nights, bright days, love glistening in the eyes of one's mother, the cooing of a baby, the purity of one's sister, the sincerity of one's brother, the love of one's father, these are all indeed means of joy and happiness for mankind. Just like mother, the earth also wishes that its progeny live a joyful life; that it not turn the earth into hell; that flowers be cultivated upon it, and not burning embers.

Who is Allah, the being whose love for [mankind] is greater than the love of 70 mothers? Allah is love, Allah is joy. Allah not only created the universe, but in order to sustain the universe and perpetuate happiness and joy, He created man and laid the responsibility of the auxiliary creation upon the fragile shoulders of women. Within the heart of women and within their every pore, He infused that love which is His own attribute. Allah, the Creator of the universe, made women the medium of creation, and along with creative abilities He transferred into them one seventieth part of His love so they may become mothers and establish Allah's creation, and tend to that garden which, when it flourishes and blooms, gives Allah the greatest joy.

My sisters, my mothers, and my daughters, this world is populated and flourishing because of you. Your greatness is apparent from the fact that the system of creation is established through you. You are the means of creation of every such personage who, in light of the laws of Allah, has tried to rid this earth of grief and misfortune. That includes great thinkers, as well as God's prophets and their friends, aulia-Allah ['friends of Allah'].

The beneficence and the greatness of women is of such a calibre that Allah's beloved, Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was raised in the comforting embrace of a mother, and it was a mother whose milk nourished and developed the conscious of the Holy Prophet(saw), and it was that conscious that delivered the commandments of Allah to mankind. Who does not know that it is a mother's milk that tins in the body of every national reformer!

What a travesty it is, that under the illusion of scientific progress, plans are underway to steal your children. An Influential group from among the scientists wishes to turn castles of joy into ruins. [It wishes] that streams of love run dry, and that the moral and social constraints that exalt man to high stations, be annihilated and brought to the ground.

A few selfish and wealthy capitalists have made the acme of human intelligence a means of accumulating wealth into their own reserves. Indeed, surgical heart repair is a great feat iii medical science, but a single operation on the heart costs thousands of dollars. What portion of the population would be able to spend such an extraordinary amount of money in quest of life for an ailing heart? The ability you had developed in your beloved children, nursing them with your own milk, has now turned into commerce. Silver and gold have increased in value, whereas man's value has depreciated.

0 my mothers, my daughters, women who give colour to the creation of Allah! Now you have a dual responsibility. The law of nature wants to include you in its kingship. You should instil this notion deep into the hearts and minds of your children that the world was created to remain established. This world is a cradle of joy, music and song. Establish this way of thinking in your children that Allah is all love, and He wishes that songs of love be sung in this world. If our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters, transfer the way of thinking of sincerity, love, and selflessness as taught by Allah and his Prophet(saw), the clouds of fear and terror would be lifted away from the world. The society would be reformed. The intelligence of those who consider wealth their all will tarnish, and once again humankind will march towards their destination, finding that world which is joy, happiness, delight, and love.