Islamic Spirituality - The
Forgotten Path
A lecture delivered by
Maulana Imran Nazar Hosein
at the Maulana Abd
al-Aleem Siddiqui Masjid, Singapore
Shall I leave you to think about it until tomorrow night?
The only one who will be able to see that sign of Allah ﷻ, when it comes true in the world - a major
sign of the Last Day - is not the one who has a PhD from al-Azhar University but inside has nothing. It is the
one who sees with two eyes, who has knowledge externally
derived and internally derived.
This is the most learned of all men. So when Musa pbuh asked, ‘where
can I meet him?’ and Allah ﷻ said, ‘Go and you will find him at the
place at which the two oceans meet -
majmaul Bahrain. The commentator
of the Holy Qur’aan, Baidawi5,
is the only one who has penetrated the meaning of it. He said that the two
oceans are: the ocean
of knowledge externally acquired and the ocean of knowledge internally acquired. When these two oceans
of knowledge combine together in
one man, harmoniously, is integrated
together, you have the most learned of all men. Such a man was
Maulana Muhammad Abd al-Aleem Siddiqui τ, after whom this Masjid was named, and
such a man was his student, and my teacher,
Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur
Rahman Ansari τ. We are just little candles glowing from
the light which came from these great scholars of Islam. It is when you use
these two oceans to combine together that you can crack it, ‘a slave woman
giving birth to her mistress.’
Note 5 BAIDAWI ('Abdallah ibn 'Umar al-Baidawi) Muslim
critic, was born in Fars, where his father was chief judge, in the time of the
Atabek ruler Abu Bakr ibn Sa'd (1226-60). He himself became judge in Shiraz,
and died in Tabriz about 1286. His chief work is the commentary on the Koran
entitled The Secrets of Revelation and The Secrets of Interpretation (Asrar
ut-tanzil wa Asrar ut-ta'wil).
It is already 10 pm so I am going to be
very brief. In order to understand this you need to recognize two things which
come from Dajjal and with which he attacks to try and take control of mankind.
One, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said that, ‘The Age of Dajjal would be the age [Kasaratul riba]-when riba
(interest and usury) will take control of the world. What happens when riba
takes control of an economy is that the rich will remain permanently rich and
the poor will remain permanently poor.
Wealth will no longer circulate. The rich will grow richer and the poor will reach to the depths of destitution. In other words another age of slavery descends upon mankind. That has already come. The Ulama of Islam have been eating halva; it has already come upon us. Nobody teaches the subject about the prohibition of riba. I had the good fortune to live in New York, the capital city of riba, and there I was able to put book knowledge to bear upon the real economy in the world today. In addition I was blessed to study western economics; International Monetary Economics for example in Europe. This was how Allah ﷻ blessed me with some understanding of the subject; that’s why you will find my book outside, The Prohibition of Riba in the Qur’aan and Sunnah. It took me four years to write that book. When an economy is based on Riba then wealth will no longer circulate. Its like mankind traveling on a ship with 15 % of the population of the world traveling first class, with permanent first class tickets having the best drinking water, food, servants and luxury. The other 85 % are down in the hold of the ship living in squalor, misery, suffering and destitution, falling ill and dying like flies. So they are slaves down there. That’s Indonesia today. That woman therefore is a slave woman down in the hold of the ship. She is the one we are talking about.
In the age of Dajjal, not only do we have
riba, but something else. ‘The last people to come out to Dajjal will be
women,’ said the Holy Prophet ﷺ. Dajjal will weave such a web, of brainwashing of women that a
man will have to return to his home and tie down his wife, daughter and sister
to protect and preserve them from Dajjal. They’re brainwashed!
Nothing you could say to them will change their minds. Brainwashed! This
is the modern feminist movement. What
does the modern feminist movement
want to do?
The modern feminist
movement challenges the notion that men and women are functionally
different. That man has different basic functions from women. The modern
feminist movement wants to remove the barriers. Anything a man does a women
should have the freedom to do it. So women embrace the functional role of men
in the feminist revolution. The Woman down in the hold is too poor to do it,
the ones who do it are the elite. They’re rich! These are the first to embrace
the functional role of men, the women traveling first-class. What happens when women go out to work, the
way men do. At 7 am she is dressed to go to work the way he is. She comes back
home in the evening 6 to 7 pm the same way that he does. When she dresses to go
to work, this is not going to a party;
this is going to work so she has to dress in working clothes. So her dress becomes masculine. When she gets
into a position of authority in work,
has people working under her, then she has to shed her shyness and talk like a
man; behave like a man; so that she can command respect. But in the Holy
Qur’aan Allah ﷻ
describes women differently. Musa pbuh, remember how he drew the water for the
girls. Then one of them came back. Her father sent her to call him. Now she has
to approach this man. A women approaching a man, and Allah ﷻ describes in the Holy Qur’aan how shy and bashful she was that she has to approach a man.
Uncle Sam’s daughter isn’t shy! They behave, dress and talk like men.
Eventually their faces begin to look like faces of men. The softness, shyness
and bashfulness is gone. As women assume the functional role of men, they begin
to lose their femininity. But Allah ﷻ describes the male and the female by using
the analogy of the night and the day. Listen to Him! [The 92nd Sura, al- Layl
[The Night], verses ]
He takes an oath by the night
and that which it shrouds
and covers so mysteriously, so beautifully
and covers so mysteriously, so beautifully
He takes an oath by the day
and its bright powerful light
That, in the same way that
Allah has created the night and the day;
so to, did He create the male and the female.
so to, did He create the male and the female.
Allah ﷻ wants the day to be day and He wants the
night to be night. When the day is day and the night is night, do you notice
the attraction? How much they are
attracted to each other! When the day is
coming to an end and it is
approaching the night
do you notice
the anxiety and
the enthusiasm? How the day paints the sky in so many colours. Are you
blind, don’t you see it? When the day reaches the night, the day plunges itself
into the arms of the night. A rush of a plunge, into the arms of the
night! It happens every sunset. Then the
day spends the night with the night. There is a time for rest, sleep, love,
worship and meditation; and then the time comes to say goodbye. The day must
say goodbye to the night but the night doesn’t want the day to go. So the night
holds on to the day and only one ray of light comes out and then a second ray
and a third ray of light; slowly, slowly,
slowly the light
comes out in
the morning. How different
from sunset. So when the day is day and the night is night there will be
intense attraction between the
day and the night.
It is because of that
intense attraction there is a forbidden space between
a man and a woman. The forbidden space is not just physical; but also
psychological and sociological. It should not be invaded, because
of the intense attraction that there is between the male and the female. But
when the night tries to become day, the night will no longer be truly night. The
day will no longer be attracted to the night. When the night is rivaling the
day, in the workplace, it’s now an adversarial relationship not attraction.
When the day is no longer attracted to the night what will happen? Its not what
will happen but what is already happening. The
day will now mate with the
day. Wherever the modern feminist revolution and its struggle
for women’s liberation have taken roots the necessary corollary has always been homosexuality. But
that is not our subject tonight. The slave woman is still down there and we
want to know how a slave woman will give birth to her mistress. When the night
tries to become day not only does the night lose her femininity, but she loses
something else. She loses her fertility.
She can’t have babies. But she is
traveling first class, remember! So then
how will babies come? Eventually, the answer is the slave woman down there who
is to poor to try and become day. So her womb is still fertile. This womb will
now become a factory and she will be paid for her services. For nine months she
will live like a queen. No genetically
reengineered food for her but real food. No milk and meat with hormones,
that’s for the rest. So for nine months she lives like a queen. When the baby
is born, baby goes first class and mum goes back down in the hold. So a
slave woman has given birth to her
mistress and it has already started. While the scholars of Islam have been
eating halva, it has already started.
We are living now in the Last Age. The only ones, who can read and understand and penetrate the last age, realize the reality of the world around them today; are who see with two eyes not one. Who in addition to the effort that they make to acquire knowledge externally -that effort has to be made- they also are blessed with the capacity for internally derived knowledge. When these two oceans of knowledge come together then they can understand, and penetrate the reality of the world in which we live in today. This has been an introduction to Islamic Spirituality, The Forgotten Path of Knowledge, to you.
We are living now in the Last Age. The only ones, who can read and understand and penetrate the last age, realize the reality of the world around them today; are who see with two eyes not one. Who in addition to the effort that they make to acquire knowledge externally -that effort has to be made- they also are blessed with the capacity for internally derived knowledge. When these two oceans of knowledge come together then they can understand, and penetrate the reality of the world in which we live in today. This has been an introduction to Islamic Spirituality, The Forgotten Path of Knowledge, to you.
We pray that Allah ﷻ may grant that tonight’s humble lecture may be a
wake up call, and that we may return to this important branch of knowledge and
to this effort which must be made which will realize it.
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