The Holy Spirit (al-Ruh al-Qudus)

  

Dajjal (Anti-Christ), the Qur’an and the Beginning of History

The Holy Spirit (al-Ruh al-Qudus)

 

There are four verses of the Qur’an which make mention by name of someone called the Ruh al-Qudus or Holy Spirit. In the other verses, the same Ruh al-Qudus is referred to simply as the Ruh.

 

In the first verse we are informed that Allah Most High strengthened Nabi Isa, i.e., Jesus pbuh, with the Holy Spirit. This verse is repeated twice in the Qur’an:

(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:87, 2:253)

Allah Most High gave to Jesus, the son of Mary revelation which functions as evidence of the truth, and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.

 

Who or what is the Holy Spirit? Is the Holy Spirit of the Qur’an the same as the Holy Ghost in the Christian belief in a third person in a Divine Trinity?  

 

In the third reference in the Qur’an to the Holy Spirit we are informed that, as a consequence of being strengthened with the Holy Spirit, Jesus was able to perform miracles:

(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:110) 

Lo! Allah Most High would say: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember the blessings which I bestowed upon you and your mother—how I strengthened you with Holy Spirit in consequence of which you could speak unto men miraculously while you were a baby in the cradle, and again speak miraculously as a grown man having returned to the material universe after departing more than 2000 years earlier; and how I imparted unto you revelation and wisdom, including the Torah and the Gospel; and how by My leave you created a bird out of clay, and then breathed into it, and by My leave, it miraculously became a living bird; and how you healed the blind by miraculously restoring their sight, and the leper by miraculously curing the leper of his leprosy, and how you raised the dead by My leave . . . 

 

When the Qur’an referred for a fourth and last time to the ‘Holy Spirit’, it finally gave us the means with which to identify him as the Archangel who brought down divine revelation upon Prophet Muhammad ṣallā -llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhī wa-sallam:

(Qur’an, al-Nahl, 16:102) 

Say: A Holy Spirit has brought the Qur’an down from thy Lord-God by stages, setting forth the truth, so that it might give firmness of resolve, conduct, speech, etc., to those who have faith, and provide guidance and a glad tiding unto all who have surrendered themselves to Allah Most High. 

 

The Qur’an went on to declare that it was the Angel Gabriel pbuh who brought down the divine revelation (i.e., the Qur’an) from Allah Most High:

(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:97)

Say Oh Prophet: Whosoever is an enemy of Gabriel—who, verily, by Allah’s leave, has brought down upon thy heart this divine writ which confirms the truth of whatever there still remains of earlier revelations, and is a guidance and a glad tiding for the believers.

 

It is quite clear that when the Qur’an referred to a Ruh al Qudus or Holy Spirit, it was referring to the Archangel Gabriel. This was again made clear when the Qur’an referred to the Ruh coming down on Lailatul Qadr, i.e., the night of power, to perform all errands (assigned to it by Allah Most High):  

(Qur’an, al-Qadr, 97:3–4)

The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months because, among other things, the Angels descend in hosts by Allah’s leave during that night, and so too the Ruh, with all decrees.  

 

But the verse also disclosed that there were those who considered that Archangel to be their enemy. It was of course, the Jews (i.e., the Israelites who rejected Jesus as the Messiah), who considered Gabriel to be their enemy, and it should be obvious that their hatred for Gabriel arose from the fact that he played a crucial role in the test to which they were subjected when the Messiah appeared in the world as the son of a virgin mother,—and it was a test which they failed (this will be explained in greater detail in my next book on Dajjal entitled ‘From Jesus the True Messiah to Dajjal the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology). He also brought down the Qur’an which confirmed and validated that which had previously been revealed to the Israelite people in the Torah and Gospel, and in so doing, exposed whatever had been concealed or corrupted over time. 

 

Perhaps the most glaring example of such corruption of divinely-revealed scripture was the verse of the Torah which permitted money being lent on interest to those who were not Jews, while upholding the prohibition of such transactions with fellow Jews (Deuteronomy, 23:19–20). The Qur’an denounced them for their money-lending (to non-Jews of course) in the strongest language. (See al-Nisa’, 4:161). 

 

And finally, the Angel Gabriel brought the Qur’an down to an Arab (i.e., Prophet Muhammad pbuh) when they, the Jews, believed that only an Israelite could qualify to receive divine revelation since the Israelites believed (falsely so) that they were the chosen people of the Lord Most High to the exclusion of all of the rest of mankind. As a consequence, they hated Angel Gabriel (see Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:97–98).

 

While it is outside of the scope of this book to examine the hypothesis, it nevertheless remains worthy of study to determine to what extent did Jewish hatred for Gabriel provoke an attack on Christianity which culminated in the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit (i.e., Gabriel) being worshipped as the third person in a divine trinity (i.e., God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost).      

 

More importantly, we must determine whether the Holy Spirit can descend on human beings who are not Jews. If such is possible, it would further expose the falsehood of the Jewish claim to an exclusive status with the Lord-God in which they are recognized as His chosen people.  

 

The Qur’an confirmed that Allah Most High can bless any of His true servants by strengthening him with a Ruh, or spirit, from Him:

(Qur’an, al-Mujadilah, 58:22)

As for the true believers, it is they in whose hearts Allah Most High has inscribed faith, and whom He has strengthened with a Spirit from Himself .  .  .  

 (Qur’an, al-Nahl, 16:2)

Allah Most High causes the angels to descend with the Ruh or Spirit which is bestowed at His behest upon whomever He wills of His servants .  .  .  

 

The Qur’an makes yet another mention of the Ruh which comes down with the Angels on a certain night of the year (i.e., Lailatul Qadr or the night of power) to perform whatever errand is assigned to them. Most commentators of the Qur’an recognize this Ruh who comes down to the believers on that night to be the Ruh al-Qudus or Holy Spirit:

(Qur’an, al-Qadr, 97:4)

The angels and the Spirit descend during that night, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees.

It was precisely this Ruh al-Qudus which was sent to Mariam ʿalayhi as-salām so that she, who was still a virgin, could miraculously conceive a child. The Ruh, which is an entirely spiritual being, was made to appear before her in the material form of a man:

(Qur’an, Mariam, 19:17)

Mariam, or Mary, kept herself in seclusion from her people, whereupon Allah Most High sent unto her His Ruh, who appeared to her in the shape of a well-made human being. 

 

Our examination of the event of the creation of mankind at the beginning of history has thus allowed us to recognize that all human-beings are divinely-blessed with a Ruh that is breathed into them by the Lord-God Himself, and that selective human beings who have faith in their hearts and whose conduct is righteous can be chosen by Allah Most High, to be blessed to receive a visit from the ‘Holy Spirit’. The beginning of history did not confer on the Jewish people any special Divine status through which they were recognized as a chosen people of the Lord-God to the exclusion of the rest of mankind!

 

When Allah Most High breathed His Ruh into the human being, He gave to every human being a divine capacity to create. That creative capacity finds concrete expression in man’s creative intellect aided with internal intuitive spiritual insight through which he can forge new knowledge or thought and new ideas with which to extend the frontiers of knowledge. Unless the human mind or intellect flies with the wings of the Ruh it will not be able to penetrate and discover new knowledge in the scriptures—especially the last scripture or the Qur’an, and will not be able to even understand and hence can never respond, to the trials of Dajjal, the false Messiah, or AntiChrist, in Akhir al-Zaman.

 

In the previous chapter we found nothing in the Qur’an supporting the view that Jews, who claim to be a chosen people of the Lord-God, are the only people into whom a Divine Ruh or spirit was breathed, and hence the only people so honored by the Lord-God and endowed with a Divine capacity to create. Now we find further evidence which exposes as false the Jewish belief that Jews are the chosen people of the Lord-God, since they declare their enmity against Angel Gabriel, who is the Holy Spirit and, as a consequence, have no access to the Holy Spirit. 

 

Allah Most High strengthened Nabi Isa, i.e.,  Jesus ʿalayhi as-salām with the Holy Spirit, yet the Jews rejected him, and Allah sent the Holy Spirit to his mother Mariam so that she could conceive a baby while yet unmarried and untouched by any man, and the Jews responded by slandering her. Finally Allah sent the Holy Spirit to Nabi Muhammad ʿalayhi as-salām continuously for a period of twenty-three years and sent down upon him, through the Holy Spirit, the blessed Qur’an, and yet the Jews rejected him and rejected the Qur’an. Finally, Nabi Muhammad ʿalayhi as-salām is reported to have invoked the blessing of the Ruh al-Qudus, i.e., the Holy Spirit, on his companion, the poet Hassan ibn Thabit (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Daud, and Tirmidhi). Hassan ibn Thabit was an Arab, as was Nabi Muhammad ʿalayhi as-salām, and so they both belonged to that part of mankind whom the Jews refer to as Ummiyun, hence an inferior gentile people. It should be clear from the prayer of the blessed Prophet on behalf of his companion Hassan al-Thabit, that the Prophet, also, rejected the Jewish belief that they were the chosen people of the Lord-God with a birth-right of superiority over the rest of mankind.

 

It is possible that the Jews knew from their own sources that the Messiah would be empowered with the Holy Spirit and it was for this reason that they posed that question to the Prophet. If this was so then we can expect that Dajjal would have to demonstrate such miraculous powers as would be adequate to convince the Jews that he is indeed empowered by the Holy Spirit. We can therefore look forward to his scientific and technological revolution delivering many more gadgetries than would render even today’s so-called smart phone less than really smart!     

 

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Woman and Paradise in Islam

 Woman and Paradise in Islam

http://imranhosein.org/n/woman-and-paradise-in-islam/

The secular feminist revolution rose upon the world from the West with an essentially godless agenda to liberate women from the “shackles” of the ages by totally transforming her status, role and function in society. In so doing it has turned the previous religious and sacred order upside-down in such a way that the sun now appears to be rising from the west.

Secularism led to materialism which in turn denied woman any reality beyond her material reality. Consequently the young beautiful woman became the goddess of the age. But she was a goddess who was shamelessly exploited in advertising to sell everything. She became a thing enjoyed, exploited, abused, degraded and discarded when her physical beauty and sex appeal began to wane. Then a host of schoolgirls would rush in to replace her. Even the national calypsonian gave his view on the subject quite some time ago when he sang of the prostitute, “… and if you catch them broken (i.e., in financial difficulty), you can get them all for nothing.”

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) prophesied the deception that would enslave women. He said, “women would be dressed and yet be naked”, thus anticipating an age of increasing feminine nudity that would be integrally linked to the feminist revolution. Carnival bandleaders in Trinidad are now complaining that they cannot use enough cloth to make creative designs since women increasingly demand the skimpiest of costumes. The ‘naked’ woman’s body was used to usher a sexual revolution that would culminate, according to the Prophet pbuh, with “the majority of children being born out of wedlock” and “people having sexual intercourse in public like donkeys.” When we see sex publicly simulated in Trinidad carnival we know that the feminist revolution will soon climax with woman being transformed into a donkey. Despite this colossal failure, the modern godless world has insisted on opening a ‘gender’ battlefield in quest of ‘equality’ while waging war on Islam. The latest target is the innocent Hijab that is maliciously attacked because it obstructs the way for the Muslim woman to be absorbed into the godless melting pot.

Islam has never sought to put an equal sign between the sexes. ‘Woman’ can neither be studied nor understood in a context independent of ‘man’. The two are inseparable. The Prophet pbuh declared that women were “… the twin-halves of men.” The Qur’an confirmed this inter-dependence when it declared “They are your garments, and you are their garments.” And in a passage with sublime literary beauty the Qur’an (al-Lail, 92:1-4) first directed attention to the ‘night’ and that which it shrouds and conceals with such mystery and splendor, and then turned to the ‘day’ with its bright light which exposes everything and leaves nothing concealed, and then proceeded to explain that the ‘male’ and the ‘female’ are functionally analogous to the ‘day’ and the ‘night’. In the same way that ‘day’ and ‘night’ are functionally different yet interdependent, so too are the ‘male’ and ‘female’.

When this philosophy of gender was applied to Muslim society the ‘night’ never attempted to become ‘day’. Rather ‘night’ and ‘day’ eternally longed for each other. And so we were never subjected to the abominable phenomenon (that European civilization is now exporting to the rest of the world) of the ‘day’ mating with ‘day’ and vice-versa. Women in such a society not only fulfilled all their sacred functional duties as wives and as mothers, and thus contributed in a significant way to preservation of the health, strength and stability of the family, but, in addition, they preserved both their femininity as well as their fertility. And so the Muslim woman remained truly and enchantingly a woman! An age that produced the celibate priest had obstinately insisted that one had to turn away from woman in order to turn to God. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) responded by declaring “Three things have been made dear to me in this world of yours – perfume, women and prayer.” And so Islam rejected both celibacy and the ‘object’ while recognizing woman, like prayer, to be a medium through which a man might journey to paradise. 

 

How can a slave woman give birth to her mistress?

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

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.

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 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.

 

Source:  Islamic Spirituality - The Forgotten Path