A-Laisallahu bi-Kaafin 'Abdahu? [Quote - 418]

Is not God Almighty enough for us? Why do we chase the mirage of Ma Siwallah, things other than Allah, when all we need is him: God Almighty?

To those of us who aspire for all things sublime and wonderful, not just in this world, but also in the next world, I suggest we try God Almighty.

Maybe, once you have him, you will have all and you will need nothing besides. And you will need to chase shadows and phantoms no more.

And I submit two words to your consideration that will help you find God:

1. Qur'an

2. Hadith.

Once you have those two, Qur'an and Hadith, and you decide to take them seriously, as seriously as they should be taken, or as seriously as you can take them, you will find God.

Those two -- Qur'an and Hadith -- will take you to God, provided you take them the way they should be taken and you handle them the way they should be handled.

Here now are a couple of hints with regard to them that will help you handle them right:

(a) Don't forget, this is the same Qur'an that if God had placed on a mountain, the mountain would have gone to smithreens.

Lawu Anzalnaa Haadhal Qur'ana 'Ala Jabalin, La-Ra-Aytahu Khwaashi-an Mutaswaddi-an Min Khashyatillah.

(b) And don't forget that Hadith has to do with Allah's most beloved creation, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, for whom the gates of heaven were thrown open, right here in this world.

(c) And don't forget that Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, is also a man whom not only God's angels, but also God Almighty himself blesses and exalts and glorifies.

Innallaha Wa Malaa-ikatahu Yuswalloona 'Alan Nabiyyi!

What more can anyone want, especially those who say they want Allah and they are working for him?

What more can anyone expect to get?

END

(Dr. Pasha)

Want to Know Who Really God Is? Ask God! [Quote - 405]

Ever wondered who God is? Don’t. Not anymore.

Go to the source and get the answer from God himself.

Don’t ask others who God is. Not Muslims and, certainly, not Non-Muslims.

No disrespect, folks: My beloved non-Muslim friends and brothers and sisters. It is an informed and fairly confident statement.

And a very, very considered, and respectful, one too.

And no disrespect to my Muslim brothers and sisters, either.

I know only too well how intricately my worldly success and other-worldly salvation is welded to both of you ladies and gentlemen, of the Muslim as well as non-Muslim persuasion.

But what I am saying is this: Instead of asking these folks – Muslims and non-Muslims – go and ask God Almighty directly who or even, as Pharaoh did, “what” he is. 

You see, Non-Muslims, really, don’t know – and, in most cases it seems, don’t care.

Muslims, on the other hand, know a little bit, no matter how sketchy and confused they may be, but they won’t share.

So, between the two of them – those who Don’t Care and those who Won’t Share – the goose of the world is nicely cooked to a perfect juicy pink.

That is why I am saying, don’t ask people, instead, go to God directly and ask him.

You can do that by picking up a copy of the Qur’an today – and reading it.

That is all you need to do and you will get all the answers you were looking for.

About God – or just about anything else.

So, pick up a copy of the Qur’an and read it.

You can get yourself either a translation of the Qur’an in any language you know. Or you can take yourself to the one and only, original, Qur’an, which is in Arabic.

For, there is only one Qur’an. And it is in Arabic.

Arabic is the original language in which the Qur’an was sent down: from God in Heaven Above to Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, on Earth Below.

So, when you visit with the Qur’an and talk to it, this is what the Qur’an will tell you – about God. For, the one talking to you in and through the Qur’an is

God Almighty himself.

None other.

And he will tell you, God I mean – right at the outset – in the very first passage of the very first chapter, who he is: that he is God, the maker, master and owner of the worlds.

“Worlds” plural – with an “s” at the end – don’t forget that. For, that pretty much is all you need to know.

That he is the one who made the world and the one who owns and controls the world. The one whose writ and mandate runs the world – from the rising of the sun in the East to the fading and setting of your own breath in the privacy of your own bed, when you slide into blissful slumber every night, after a hard day’s labor.

And it is, therefore, he whose will, commands and directives must prevail in the way human beings manage their affairs, small and big, in the world.

That is what God Almighty himself will tell you in the Qur’an about who he really is.

That he is the Master of the Worlds – Rabbul 'Aalameen.

Learn that expression well. And carry it with you wherever you go. I mean in your physical, psychological, social, political, cultural, epochal traversing of time and space, throughout your life.

Hold on to God’s own words Rabbul 'Aalameen, for, you will need those words to remind you, every step of your uncertain journey through life, who he is and who you really are.

He is the master. And you, with all your pretensions, are nothing but a slave: his slave.

His and no one else’s.

But he is the master of not this or that little domain, but of all the worlds – plural with an “s” – which means every conceivable world of every kind that may exist anywhere, at any time, in any form.

Now, what you have in your hands is a miracle – a genuine wonder without parallel.

And that is what a miracle really is: an event whose probability of occurrence is so small as to be almost non-existent.

Odds defy its existence.

I don’t mean the entire Qur’an, which of course is a Miracle Par Excellence from beginning to end. I mean just that one divine expression: Rabbul 'Aalameen.

You get it, of course? Right? How can anyone possibly miss it?

To think and talk about the “World” – in singular – is challenge enough to our cramped, narrow, insular mind – even today, in spite of all our education and sophistication and scientific and cultural advancement.

But to talk about Worlds – plural with an “s” at the end – is nothing short of a miracle, wouldn’t you say?

For anyone, anywhere, at any time.

And then to think and talk about Worlds in plural, not today or yesterday, but all of 1400 years ago? As they say, Come on, give me a break!

And that too, not in famous centers of civilization, learning and culture like Greece, Rome, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia and India, but in the barren sands and rocks of Arabia?

How is something like that even conceivable?

But that is exactly what happened, right? For, it was precisely then – 14 centuries ago – and in that place – in Makkah, Arabia – that the Qur’an came down.

So, the expression you hold in your hands today – Rabbul 'Aalameen – is from then. And it is from there.

But, wait, don’t go away yet. For, we have more where this thing came from.

Now, the man out of whose mouth this miraculous expression – Rabbul 'Aalameen –emanated, his name was not Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Copernicus, Einstein or Carl Sagan, but Muhammad – Sallallahu Alaihi wa Wasallam – a man whom the Qur’an itself refers to as “The Unlettered Prophet.”

Annabiyyil Ummiyyi!

So, you are telling me: “An Unlettered Man, in an unsophisticated place like Arabia, in the middle of the Seventh Century from Christ, uttered these earth-shaking expressions “The Worlds” and “Master of the Worlds”?

You must be joking!

How is it possible? What “Worlds” could he conceivably be thinking about?

Unless, of course, it was God that was speaking, and not this Unlettered Man, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.

For, it must be obvious to anyone that there is no earthly way that the words of the Qur’an could be the words of this Unlettered Man, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.

Absolutely, positively not! The odds are too overwhelmingly against such an outcome.

Such a profound and earth-shattering Revolution in human thought, speech and reality-consciousness, coming out of the mind and mouth of a simple human being like that?

Not possible! Simply speaking, it is off of all possible probability charts!

And, then, not only that: Do you know that the Qur’an uses that Most Revolutionary Expression, Al 'Aalameen, the Worlds, not once or twice or 10 times, but a soul-stirring 73 times, no less?

Do you know that?

You don’t? You didn’t know that? Well, what can I say?

Non-Muslims don’t care, Muslims don’t share. So, the fate of world is in a pretty precarious place.

I can only quote God in the Qur’an:

Yaa Hasratan 'Alal 'Ibaad!

That is what God himself says in the Qur’an!

Yaa Hasratan 'Alal 'Ibaad!

Paraphrase:

“How pitiable are human beings! How utterly sad and sorry their life!”

And then there is even more!

God Almighty, in the Qur’an, calls himself Rabbul 'Aalameen, not once or twice – or even 10 times – but no less than 42 times.

That doesn’t mean anything to you?

All I can say is: Yaa Hasratan 'Alal 'Ibaad!

Non-Muslims don’t care, Muslims don’t share. So, humanity hurtles down the path of loss and despair.

Qur’an again:

Wal 'Asr! Innal Insaana La Fee Khusr!

Paraphrase:

“Judged by the testimony of Time, the Human Being is in a State of Loss.”

That is why I say: Don’t ask the Muslims. And don’t ask the Non-Muslims. But, instead, go directly to the Qur’an, and ask God Almighty himself who he really is!

And he will tell you who he is:

Rabbul 'Aalameen!

Maker, Master and Owner of All the Multiple Worlds!

That is who he really is!

Isn’t this alone reason enough for everyone everywhere to check out the Qur’an and see who really God is?

END

(Dr. Pasha)

One Thing that Should Make Everybody a Muslim:
Du'a - Asking Allah for Help and for What You Want and Need [Quote - 394]

Here is a simple fact: No one does it like the Muslims.

Don't believe me? Go, check it out.

I mean making Du'a the way the Muslims do. That is, asking God for help and for what one wants and needs.

How can the rest of the world compete with the Muslims on this front when the Muslims have a whole set of powerful choices and incentives going for them?

All given to them by God Almighty himself.

What options others do or do not have is up to them to tell us. But what the Muslims have open to them is clear as daylight.

And it is powerful stuff. Enough to put anyone over the edge to become Muslim.

I am providing below some of the options and incentives the Muslims have available to them.

If I were not a Muslim already, this alone will be a powerful enough argument for me to take a careful look at Islam as a life-choice for me.

Muslims, of course, are perhaps the worst people on earth in sharing some of these things with the rest of the world, even though they have been enjoined – ordered – by God to go tell everyone everywhere about Islam and about God.

  1. The divinely ordained and mandated five-times-a-day “Prayers” are just that – more than anything else: they are prayers and supplications.

    I don’t know who else has anything like that.

  2. Other than that, God commands all human beings in the Qur’an to make Du’a to him. Ud’oonee, he says, meaning “Call Me!”

    I don’t know who else has anything like that either.

  3. And then God says in the Qur’an that when people put through a call to him, he answers back; he responds; and he gives them of what they want.

    If others have things quite like that, at that level, I am not familiar with them.

  4. And then God says in the Qur’an that he is so close to everyone that he can hear and respond to the call and prayer of anyone who calls him, when and as they call him and pray to him.

    I don’t know who else has those kinds of assurances given to them.

  5. And then the Qur’an, using actual words of its own, teaches us what to ask God and how to do it – using what specific words.

  6. And I don’t think – to the best of my very limited knowledge of course – there is any other collection of Du’as (prayers) in the world like what the Qur’an offers, either in terms of quality or quantity.

    That is why I say this alone should push me to become a Muslim if I were not already one.

  7. And then there is the Hadith – the Du’as and supplications and prayers of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.

    There is really nothing quite like them anywhere else in the world, either in quality or quantity.

  8. And then there are all the unlimited options that are open to individuals to pour out their hearts to their creator, without anyone else getting in the way, between them and him.

    How do you beat that?

That is why I say, if I knew nothing about Islam other than its amazing architecture of Du’as, prayers and supplications that is, that alone would drive me “post-haste” to check out Islam and embrace Islam.

Regardless of what else may be stopping or holding me back.

(Dr. Pasha)

Why Doesn't God Comply?

People often have questions about the way God does things. Many good people do.

And it is perfectly all right for them to do so.

At least from the Islamic point of view it is.

God, in the Qur'an, not only allows humans to ask questions, he even encourages and challenges them to do so.

So, there are people who do not understand how a loving, good, just, fair and compassionate God can allow bad things to happen in this world if he is really in control of everything that happens.

How can a Good God permit, watch and preside over Evil?

[...]

Who Is the Decider?

George Bush (Jr.), former president of the United States, once said he was the decider. Well, I have news for him.

In the real world, the world in which all decisions are made and count, the only decider is Allah – God Almighty.

It is God who makes and moves every single particle in this world, individually as well as in any combination thereof.

So, ALL decisions are Allah's decisions.

[...]

Love and Hate [Quote - 288]

"To love and to hate is part of human nature.

As a result, all of us love and hate something or someone. And we do that in one form or another and at one point of our life or another.

Those who are driven entirely by their own base needs and emotions, they love and hate for narrow personal and selfish reasons.

But those that are blessed and favored by God, they love and hate for broader and more enlightened reasons.

They love and hate for the sake of God.

That means they use their basic human emotions of love and hate as an instrument of loving God and serving all of humanity and all of God's creation.

As a result, they love all – and hate none. For, love is their dominant emotion.

But when they see God’s laws being disrespected, and when they see God’s most basic commandments being violated, and when they see all kinds of atrocities and injustices being perpetrated on their fellow human beings, or on God’s broader creation in any form or fashion, they often tend to react not only in sorrow and pain, but also in anger and with indignation.

But theirs is a righteous wrath.

And it is not unlike God’s own wrath and indignation when he beholds humans violating his laws and commandments on earth: knowingly, willfully and persistently.

And when he sees human beings commit all kinds of blatant wrongs and oppressions against one another – something the Qur’an repeatedly refers to as Zulm, a term that sadly is not a part of English vocabulary.

So, the wrath of these good people against Zulm, in that context, is a reflection on earth of divine displeasure in Heaven.

And those who do not feel this righteous wrath and indignation, at any time and with regard to any issue, are often the ones whose hearts have gone dead.

They are people who have not allowed themselves to rise above the lowest level of human existence.

In fact, they are like animals, if not worse, as the Qur’an puts it.

They proceed from the narrowest focus and motives of personal greed, ambition and selfishness.

But what the good people in their state of righteous wrath and divinely inspired indignation do not do is take the law of the land – any law of any land – in their own hands as it were.

Nor do they use their righteous rage to perpetrate any atrocity or terrible deed of their own (Zulm) on the guilty.

But instead they set about systematically working to wipe out all injustices from the face of the earth.

And they do so by embarking upon a totally focused mission of inviting humanity to God and to his Book, the Qur’an, and to his prophet, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.

And they do that using the best and the finest possible means and methods of human communication and outreach ever devised.

Such blessed individuals are God’s reflection on earth. They are God’s elect.

And they are God’s chosen and favored people in every age and place. " (Dr. Pasha)


No One Holds Us Back from Doing Great Things Except Us [Quote - 274]

"All too often, nothing stands in the way of our being able to make great things happen in the world except us.

All too often, it is our laziness, our lack of clarity and focus, our lack of understanding, our fears and prejudices, our hesitancy and timidity, our lack of courage and confidence in ourselves, our lack of determination and purpose, our lack of discipline, and, “ultimately” as they say, our lack of trust in Allah that holds us back.

Nothing else can or does."  (Dr. Pasha)

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