Section 1: Deviations in Human Life

Allah created all of the creation for His worship, and He prepared for them provisions that will aid them thereupon. He - the Most High - said: “And I (Allah) created not the jinns and mankind except they should worship Me (Alone). I seek not any provision from them (i.e. provision for themselves or for My creatures) nor do 1 ask that they should feed Me (i.e. feed themselves or My creatures). Verily, Allah is All-Provider, Owner of Power, - the Most Strong. ” The soul by its nature, if it is left undisturbed, recognizes the sole right of Allah to be worshiped and loves Allah. It worships Him not associating any partner with Him. However, it (the soul) is polluted and deviated from this by what the devils amongst mankind and jinns embellish in it, with what they inspire to one another of Tawhid is engrained in the heart and polytheism is a foreign intruder. Allah - the Most High - said: L 4jjl “So set you [O Muhammad / your face towards the religion of pure Islamic Monotheism hanifa (worship none but Allah alone) Allah’s Fifrah (i.e. Allah’s Islam ic Monotheism), with which He has created mankind. No change let there be in Khalq-illah (i.e. the Religion of Allah - Islamic Monotheism)..."(Qur’an 30:30) He said: ’Every child is bom upon the Fitrah (pure monotheism), it is his parents who make it a Jew, Christian or Magian.'1 The basis of the progeny of Adam is Monotheism and the religion of Islam. “Mankind were one community and Allah sent Prophets with glad tidings and warnings...” (Qur ’an 2: 213) The first time polytheism and deviation from the correct doctrine occurred was with the people of Nuh (Noah). “Verily, We have inspired you [O Muhammad Js/ as We inspired Nuh (Noah) and the Prophets after him..." (Qur’an 4:163) Ibn Abbas said: ’Between Adam and Nuh, there were ten generations, all were upon Ibn Qayyim said2: ‘This opinion is the correct one, because the recitation of Ubayy bin Ka b (i.e. of the verse in al-Baqarah) is: “They differed and Allah sent 1 Reported in al-Bukhari and Muslim from Abu Hurayrah Ac This recitation is supported by the statement of Allah in Surah Yunus: “Mankind were but one community (i.e. on one religion - Islamic Monotheism), then they differed (later)...” (Qur’an 10:19) He di intended to say that, the sending of Prophets, was as a result of their differing from what they were previously upon of true religion. Similarly, the Arabs were upon the religion of Ibrahim till ‘Amru bin Luhayy al-Khaza‘T came and changed the religion of Ibrahim, establishing idols in the Arab lands, particularly in the Hijaz3 and these were worshipped besides Allah. So, polytheism spread through this holy city and its neighboring cities, till Allah raised the Prophet, the last of all Prophets. He invited people to Tawhid and to following the path of Ibrahim, and he strove in the path of Allah, a true striving till Tawhid and the path of Ibrahim returned. He broke the idols and Allah perfected by him, the religion, and perfected His favor upon all His creatures. The noble generations (his companions, those after them and those after them) followed his path, till ignorance became rampant amongst latter generations and foreign religious ideas came in. Then, polytheism returned to most of the Ummah (nations of Islam) through channels of the calls of misguidance, and the making of buildings upon graves in order to take example from the reverence of the pious and the righteous (in the graves). So, they claimed to love them till they built tombs over their graves and took them as idols, which they worshipped besides Allah with all manners of servitude, such as invocation, seeking assistance, making sacrifices at their station. They called this (form of) polytheism, Tawassul (seeking closeness to Allah) by means of the pious and a manifestation of love for them and not polytheism in their opinion. They forgot that this was the statement of the earliest polytheists who would say: "... We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allah...” 2 Ighathatu al-Luhfan v. 2, pg. 102 3 The part of Saudi Arabia running parallel to the Arabian Gulf. (TN) Despite this form of polytheism into which most of mankind have fallen - past and present most of them still believe in Tawhid-ur-Rububiyyah (Unity of Lordship). They only associated partners (to Allah) in worship as Allah said: “And most of them believe not in Allah except that they attribute partners onto Him (i.e. they are Mushrikun -polytheists]” None has ever contested the existence of ar-Rabb (the Lord) except a small negligible number of men, such as Fifaun (Pharaoh), the modem day freethinkers and the communists. Their denial is only out of arrogance as their inner selves affirm it. Allah - the Most High - said: “And they belied them [those Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, signs, etc.)] wrongfully and arrogantly, though their own selves were convinced thereof [i.e. those (Ayat) are from Allah and Musa (Moses) is the Messenger of Allah in truth, but they disliked to obey Musa (Moses), and hated to believe in his Message of Also, their intellects recognize that for every creature there must be a Creator, and anything in existence must have an originator, and that the intricate and precise order of the universe, must necessitate the existence of a wise controller, one able and knowledgeable. Whosoever denies this has either lost his sense of reasoning or is an arrogant one, who has shut his intellect in and made a fool of himself, so his opinion is of no value.