Seek Allah in His Creation To Be A Blessed Human Being
By
Arman Neyazi, New Age Islam
3 June 2021
Duties
towards Allah and Duties Towards His Vicegerent Are Equal in More Than One Ways
Main Points:
1. Our service
to the human being, the animals, the birds and all that constitute environment
is a service to Almighty, Allah.
2. Guidance
issued by Islam to be worthy and successful mankind is for the world
population, irrespective of any religious distinction.
3. We can find
God in every bit of the universe.
4. We must take
‘serving the people as worship and pray for peace, solidarity and brotherhood
in the world.
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All of us
on this planet earth are, in our ways, busy wooing the Creator of this universe
by the way of our good deeds and worshipping him in abundance for His blessings
of prosperity. We visit Mandirs, Dargah and Tombs requesting our religious
guides, dead or alive, to guide us on to the path of righteousness that brings
the blessings of the Almighty. What we forget is that we can find God in every
bit of the universe and therefore we just have to be true to ourselves and
behave humanely. Consider the following:
सृष्टि -दृष्टि,
सूक्ष्म -स्थूल
सब प्राणों का कौन है मूल?
जल,थल,अग्नि,वायु-आकाश,
इनमें करता कौन निवास?
कण-कण में बसता कृष्ण है एक,
कण-कण में बसता कृष्ण है एक।।
(कण-कण में कृष्ण है एक Vijay Kumar/ Amar Ujala)
God resides
in every bit of His creation and from this logic He resides in all the human
being, whom He calls ‘Ashraf ul Makhluqat’, the best of all His
creations. Our service to the human being, the animals, the birds and all that
constitute environment is a service to Almighty, Allah.
Allah, the
Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, created the human being as His vicegerent
and commanded them to behave like brothers and sisters among themselves.
Muslims most revered duty is to obey the commands of their Creator by accepting
His Oneness, singing His praise and remembering Him through Salah, Sawm,
Zakat and Haj, if they have the required resources. Performing their
duties towards their Creator transforms them into a soul that can never be at
fault with their fellow humankind. Always being on the right side of our
brothers and sisters in performing our duties allocated by Allah, the Most
Gracious, towards the Best of His Creation, that is we, the human being.
Performing
our duties towards Allah is like performing our duties towards His vicegerent
as Allah, the Most Gracious says in the Holy Quran, ‘You are the best ‘Ummah
ever raised for mankind. You bid the Fair and forbid the Unfair, and you
believe in Allah’ (Surah Ali 'Imran - 110 — Mufti Taqi Usmani). Bidding the
fair and forbidding the unfair, if performed believing that nothing is unknown
to Allah and that He is the All-knower, will guide the human being to be
brotherly and humane with their fellow humankind.
Our duties
like Salah, Sawm, Zakat and Haj towards Allah should carry
humility and love towards Him. Allah loves humility. Consider the following
Ayat:
The servants of the Most Merciful are those who
walk upon the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say
words of peace.
(Surah Al-Furqan: 63)
Lower to your parents the wing of humility out
of mercy and say: My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up when I
was small. (Surah
Al-Isra: 24)
Give good news to the humble-hearted. (Quran: 34)
If our
duties towards Allah are performed unwillingly and in an unsuitable manner just
for the sake of accepting His Commands, Allah knows the best whether those acts
will be accepted in the court of Allah or not. Allah does not like a show-off.
Even when performing our duty of Huquq ul Ibad we have to be very conscious
that there is no show off in it. Consider the following Hadees what Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) has said:
“…A man who gives in charity and hides it, such
that his left-hand does not know what his right hand gives in charity… (Saheeh
al-Bukhari)
Our duties
like Salah, Sawm, Zakat and Haj will bring us the desired
results, if Insha’Allah we will perform Huqooq ul Allah and Huqooq ul Ibad with
all humility just for seeking God’s mercy and not to show off the world. Allah
says in the Quran:
They seek to hide from men and seek not to hide
from Allah. He is with them when by night they hold discourse displeasing unto
Him. Allah ever surroundeth what they do. (Surat an-Nisa:108) M. Pickthall
The above
mentioned Ayat addresses human being and says in clear terms that they can not
conceal their acts from Allah as He knows what is there in their hearts.
Therefore Haqooq-ul Ibaad will be fulfilled if Haqooq ul Allah is performed
with grace and humility, which He likes the most.
Islam is a
universal religion so all human beings, by its standard, are bound in a
relationship of kinship. Therefore, the guidance issued by Islam to be worthy
and successful mankind is for the world population, irrespective of any
religious distinction. Everyone with a conscience will accept that he/she is
obliged to live in peace with everyone in the world. Huqooq ul Ibad is a
beautiful concept, given by Islam, of being at peace and in harmony with each
other forever.
Even in
worldly parlance, we find ourselves obliged to pass our obligation and thanks
to those who work for our good, in a manner and way that pleases them.
Likewise, performing our duties towards Allah and His creation, to receive His
kindness, is a way of expressing our ‘thanks’ to Allah.
Many verses
command people to serve the creation of God with utmost mercy to attain the
mercy of the Most Merciful Allah. Consider the following two verses that
proclaim that human being has to be good to himself as Allah changes the
condition of a person only when they change and guide themselves on to the
right path :
…Verily never will Allah change the condition
of a people until they change it themselves… (Ar-Ra'd, Ayah 11) Yusuf Ali
…He whom God guides, he alone has found the
right way; whereas for him whom He lets go astray thou canst never find any
protector who would point out the right way (Al-Kahf: 17) - Muhammad Asad
A list of ‘Rights
Of Allah On Us’ (Huqooq ul Allah)and ‘Rights Of Our Fellow Beings On
Us Regardless Of Their Religion/Believe’ (Huqooq ul Ibad) with space for
addition and deletion in it:
List Of
Huqooq Ul Allah (Rights Of Allah On Us)
1. Believe in the
oneness of Allah (Tawheed), nobody is worthy of any kind of worship except
Allah. Supplication with Him only.
2. Believe in all
Allah’s Messengers (From Adam (AS) to Muhammad (SAW).
3. Believe in All
his divine books (Quran being the final book of Allah)
4. Believe in
Angeles.
5. Believe in
resurrection and Day of Judgment.
6. Believe in
Qadar (destiny)
7. Prayers (Salah)
8)Fasting 9)Performing Hajj (If able to physically and financially)
8. Fasting
9. Performing Hajj
(If able to physically and financially)
10. Zakat (Giving
in Charity)
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List Of
Huqooq Ul Ibad (Rights Of Our Fellow Beings On Us Regardless Of Their
Religion/Believe)
1. Rights of
orphans
2. Rights of our
neighbours
3. Rights of
parents
4. Rights of
husband on wife
5. Rights of wife
on husband
6. Rights of
children on parents
7. Rights of
inheritors
8. Rights of
inheritors among each other
9. Rights of
relatives
Let all of
us be honest to ourselves and express our gratitude to our Creator, for
everything there in the world. He has created it for our good and all-around
development. Our foremost duty after complying with ‘Rights Of Allah On Us’ is
to serve the world to comply with ‘Rights Of Our Fellow Beings On Us’. We can
do our bit as and where and in whatever situation or condition we are. We
should not make excuses for ourselves as it is not worth it. We must encourage
others around us to struggle and do their bit for the welfare of the world
society.
All the
religious people, whether a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Jews or belonging
to any other religion, worship in their way to please the creator. We must take
‘serving the people’ also as worship and pray for peace, solidarity and
brotherhood in the world.
And
Allah knows the best.
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Arman
Neyazi is a columnist with NewAgeIslam.com.
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/allah-creation-righteousness-/d/124926
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