Dear readers,
In my previous articles, prophets that appear
in the Qur’an were listed. It should have drawn your attention. Almost all of
Allah’s prophets that are elected to notify the divine mercy are males. For
some reason, women are not assigned as prophets. This situation is stated in
the verse from Quran as:
"And
before thee We sent none but men, to whom We granted inspiration:" [Nahl, 43]
But throughout history, some female
figures appear such as Rabia al-Adawiyya who was spiritually and morally superior. She was a saintly dame who was raised in Basra
# Door to Grace is always open
One day, Rabia al-Adawiyya tells to a praying person
who asks Allah to open the doors to grace and mercy: “Oh
ignorant, why do you ask Allah to open the doors to mercy? They are already
wide open. But, not every heart is open to enter there. Pray for your heart to
be open for it”.
Dear readers; truthfully, the door to grace and
mercy of Allah (s.w.t) are always open. Yet, only those who are predestined are
granted to this.
Many people are interested in reading the
tabloid news and gossip topics of magazines every day, but they never care to
read even two verses from the Qur’an in which the word of Allah is preached.
Many people are not curious about the word of Allah who created us; who
provides us with the air we breathe; who gives us our daily bread and grants us
our welfare and well-being with tens of thousands of physiological events that
occur to our body. Many people usually skip TV channels in which a religious
conversation is going on, and instead prefer to watch entertainment shows in
another channel that lasts for hours and hours.
# What guides us towards divine mercy
Dear readers; “faith” is what guides us towards our Rab and
towards His divine mercy. If you are reading these lines right now, be assured
that you are faithful. Those who do not have faith in them
turn their face and leave the place right away once Allah (s.w.t) is being mentioned as if
an ordinary commodity was in question. It is ordered in the verse of Qur’an
that:
"Believers
are those who, when Allah is mentioned, feel a tremor in their hearts," [Anfal, 2]
Nobody, including our Prophets, can help those
who lack faith as can be recalled in the cases of Noah (a.s.) to his son,
David (a.s.) to his wife, Rasulullah (s.a.w.) to some of his uncles. Therefore,
Allah (s.w.t) ordered to our Prophet who exerted every effort for the salvation
of the people around him:
"If thou art anxious for their
guidance, yet Allah guideth not such as He leaves to stray, and there is none
to help them."
[Nahl, 37]
"It is true thou wilt not be able
to guide every one whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He
knows best those who receive guidance."
[Qasas, 56]
# Salvation is from Allah
Dear readers; salvation comes from Allah.
Nobody can help those who are not granted salvation by Allah. The duty of our
prophets are not to grant salvation to people, but to
tell them about Allah (s.w.t) and spread them His word by letting know of the
divine grace; in short, to notify Islam. It is ordered in the verses from the
Qur’an that:
"O
Messenger! proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord.
If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission." [Maida, 67]
"But
if they turn away, thy duty is only to preach the Clear Message."
[Nahl,
82]
"Obey
Allah, and obey the Messenger, and beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know
ye that it is Our Messenger's duty to proclaim (the message)
in the clearest manner." [Maida, 92]
"The
Messenger's duty is but to proclaim (the message)."
[Maida, 99]
"Thy
duty is to make (the Message) reach them: it is Our part to call them to
account." [Rad, 40]
# Prophets do not know of Al-Ghaib (The Unknown)
Dear readers,
The term “Prophet” refers
to “Paigambar” in English. This term also has the meaning of “diviner”. As
I have noted earlier, prophets of Allah born with extraordinary qualities; but
they are not diviners as Englishman regard. They are
the Man of Haq (Truth). Whatever Allah (s.w.t) reveals to them from the Truth,
they know it and they explain it to people. It is ordered in the verses from
the Qur’an that:
"Say:
I tell you not that with me are the Treasures of Allah, nor do I know what is
hidden, nor do I tell you I am an angel. I but follow what is revealed to me."
[An'am,
50]
"They
say: Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord? Say: The Unseen is only
for Allah (to know), then wait ye: I too will wait with you."
[Yunus,
20]
"Say:
None in the heavens or on earth, except Allah, knows what is hidden:"
[Naml, 65]
Dear readers; Al-Ghaib refers to the knowledge
about the spiritual organization of Allah or about the past and present that
mankind cannot reach to as well as to visible and invisible realms that Allah (s.w.t)
has created. This knowledge can neither be learned through observation and
experimentation nor can be calculated through quantitative data. Knowledge
about the invisible and visible realms is only limited to what Allah (s.w.t)
grants us.
# Man can only know to the extent Allah permits us to learn
It is ordered in the verse from the Qur’an
that:
"He
knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth." [Bakara, 255].
Just like other man, our prophets do not know
more than Allah (s.w.t) allows us to apprehend. It is ordered in the verses
from the Qur’an that:
"Say:
I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah willeth. If I
had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no evil
should have touched me: " [Araf, 188]
"Nor
will He disclose to you the secrets of the Unseen. But He chooses of His
Messengers (for the purpose) whom He pleases. " [Al-i Imran, 179]
"He
(alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make any one acquainted with His Secrets.
Except an messenger whom He has chosen:" [Jinn, 26-27]
It is ordered in the Hadith that:
"None has the
knowledge of the unseen but Allah” [Tabarani].
# None has the knowledge of the unseen but Allah
Again in another hadith narrated by Khalid
al-Madani Abu Husain (r.a) it is transmitted that the daughter of Muauwidh,
ar-Rubai has claimed:
“Rasulullah (s.a.w.) was with me on the
mid-morning of my wedding day. In the meantime, some girls were beating the
tambourine and recalling the memories of their fathers who were martyred in the
Battle of Badr. One of them said: “There is a Prophet among us who knows what
will happen tomorrow”. After that Rasulullah (s.a.w.)
ordered: “Do not say so. Because nobody knows what will happen tomorrow except
Allah”. [Bukhari, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah]
Dear readers; it is understood that nobody can
know "the Unseen" except Allah who has the ultimate and infinite knowledge
about everything, including the prophets. But Allah (s.w.t) has enlightened His
elected messengers through revelations. The divine revelation is only a small
drop that is granted for us from the unknown, from the Creator’s sea of
infinite knowledge. Human knowledge is limited, but Almighty Allah keeps extending the limits of knowledge to the caliphs He
appointed. The developing man, with the will of Allah, figures
out many dark and complicated questions in life. With the development of
information technologies, the level of human knowledge pushes the limits of
libraries. But still, this knowledge is nowhere near to this sea of infinite
knowledge that Allah holds.
# Miracles of Prophets are genuine
Dear readers,
We live in a material world. Our sense organs
have the mechanism to work accordingly in this material world. But attributing
meanings to these perceived senses is totally another issue. And everybody
perceives these senses in accordance with their own spiritual values such as
personal history, accumulation of knowledge, level of intelligence, evaluation
of the world and worldview etc. An avaricious man perceives everything in
relation with material wealth and money. A dervish like Yunus
Amra perceives everything by looking through
meaning… Indeed, perception and their meanings are formed through these
approaches.
Human is in a material world. Emerging
perception through the sense organs are based on the material mechanisms, but
they become ideas and convictions of that person by being processed in his
brain. These signification and interpretations are formed the essence of
human's spiritual life. Our hearts are a
passage in the midst of material and meaning, where these spiritual values are
reformed with religious knowledge.
The material world is a realm in
which everything occurs with certain reasons, where tangible objects, situations
and events occur under the certain rules. For this reason, everybody who lives
in this world, whether it be scholars or ignorant, are conditioned to find a
reason behind everything. Because people witness all the time that any
occurrence emerges as a result of certain causes. Any occurrence that takes
place against the rules of the material world is extraordinary. These
extraordinary occurrences always interests people. This is the reason behind
why many people go after fortune-tellers and sorcerers that claim to be
revealing the unknown.
# Prophets are mistaken for fortune-tellers and sorcerers
In history, people have mistaken prophets (who
were the people of truth and were calling people to truth, justice, honesty and
morality) to fortune-tellers and sorcerers as these prophets were giving news
from the future with the permission of Allah and most of the time they have
asked for extraordinary things in order to believe in prophets.
"Say
those without knowledge: "Why speaketh not Allah unto us? or why cometh
not unto us a Sign?" So said the people before them words of similar
import."
[Baqara, 118]
Dear readers; Allah (s.w.t) has, most of the
time, supported his prophets with extraordinary miracles, but the unfaithful
still did not believe.
Similar requestes were also made to Rasulullah
(s.a.w.).
"Ye
they say: Why are not Signs sent down to him from his Lord? Say: The signs are
indeed with Allah: and I am indeed a clear Warner."
[Ankabut,
50]
"And
is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book which is
rehearsed to them?" [Ankabut, 51]
# Deniers will not believe even if they witness miracles
Yet the deniers will resist to believe even
though they witness miracles. The situation of these deniers are summarized in
the following verse from the Quran:
"Even
if every Sign was brought unto them,- until they see (for themselves) the
penalty chastisement." [Yunus, 97]
Dear readers; miracles of the prophets are
epitomized in the Qur'an. It is unnecessary to make a list of these miracles
here. These miracles of Allah are extraordinary cases that sometimes happen
within the limits of the rules of the material world, and sometimes happen by
exceeding those limits. The miracles of prophets are true. A true believer
should believe, acknowledge and approve these miracles to have an absolute
faith. Allah (s.w.t) has created the universe from nothingness. The Creator has
given qualities to the every living and lifeless things and has organized them
in his own will. In this order, He changes, develops and organizes the universe
at any moment with quadrillions of events whose number can only be known by
Him. That being said, is He incapable of creating some extraordinary phenomena
like in the example of a small drop from the oceans? Can you not see; even His impotent servants
are in the capacity to be able to do wonders in electronic devices invented by
them by doing little changes on their softwares? Is Allah (s.w.t), who taught
them everything and created them as well as their deeds, more impotent and
incapable than his servants??!!
Be
entrusted to Allah.
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