Islamic Spirituality - The Forgotten Path
A lecture delivered by
Maulana Imran Nazar Hosein
at the Maulana Abd
al-Aleem Siddiqui Masjid, Singapore
Dajjal see with one eye, his left eye. The
left eye symbolizes his external capacity for sight. Dajjal is blind in the
right eye; indicating that Dajjal is internally blind. Therefore all those that
follow Dajjal will all be internally blind. What is the price that we pay if we are internally blind? PhD from university of Singapore!
But inside, blind. What is the price that we pay? Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala declares that huge numbers of people are
condemned for the hellfire. What did they do that they are condemned for the
hellfire?
[The 7th Sura, al-Araaf [The Heights],
Verse 179]
They have hearts but they
cannot understand.
They have eyes but they
cannot see.
They have ears but they
cannot hear.
The people who are internally blind are a
people who in the age of Dajjal are destined for the hellfire. How does
Allah ﷻ describe such people? He ﷻ says: [The 7th Sura, al-Araaf [The
Heights], Verse 179]
They are just like cattle
What! With a PhD? Yes! They are just like
cattle.
Rather! They are more
misguided than cattle.
These are the ones that are
truly heedless.
Heedless of the signs of Allah ﷻ !
This is our introduction to Spirituality in
Islam. Spirituality is the path through which the heart comes alive. When the
heart comes alive, then it can see; and hear; and understand that which
rationality can never penetrate. Allah ﷻ sent down in the Holy Qur’aan the 18th Sura, Kahf
(The Cave). The Holy Prophet ﷺ identified this Sura as the only Sura in
the Holy Qur’aan which protects from Dajjal. Recite the first ten verses of
Sura, Kahf over Dajjal and he won’t
be able to harm you. He
also said something
else about Sura,
Kahf. You know
these (physical) eyes can’t see
unless there is light. Similarly this eye (spiritual eye of the heart) cant see
without Nur. You can’t buy nur in the stock market. Where does the Nur come
from?
[The 24th Sura, al-Nur (The Light), Verse
35]
Allah ﷻ encompasses the totality of the Nur
in the Heaven and the Earth
You cannot get nur other than from Allah ﷻ. Not even from the Security Council of the
UN. So we need nur, if we are to be protected from Dajjal; and therefore to be
able to see with the internal eye, because
he does not see with the internal eye-.
He ﷺ
said recite Sura Kahf on a Friday3
and it will deliver to you nur from the heavens to the earth and that
nur will stay with you until the next Friday. So now I ask you to raise your
hands. Let me see how many people have recited Sura al-Kahf last Friday. What
happened to your hands? Something wrong? This is the dearest Masjid in the
whole of Singapore for me. Fourteen years ago when I came to Singapore for the
first time I came as a guest of this Masjid. I lectured here first and I slept
at the room at the back. So this Masjid is the dearest of all. It is named after
Maulana Abd al-Aleem Siddiqui τ. Do you know who he was? My teacher, my
shaykh, my murshid was Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari
τ whose masterpiece, the two volumes The Qur’aanic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society is now
available. His teacher, his shaykh, his murshid was Maulana Abd al-Aleem Siddiqui τ. So I am the second generation from him.
So next time I come I want to see your hands raised that you are now reciting
Sura al-Kahf every Friday without failure.
Note 3 The Holy Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever
would read Sura Al-Kahf on Friday it would provide him of light for the
duration between the two Fridays”. It was reported by 'Al-Hakim, page 564 of
volume 1 who said that it was of sound ascription.
to be continued . . . .
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