From the Quran – Part One
1. Purity from Allah Alone
“Had it not been for the Grace and mercy of Allah Rabbul-Izzat upon you, none of you would have ever been purified, but Allah Rabbul-Izzat purifies whomsoever He desires to.” (24:21)
From this ayat it becomes apparent that together with striving to attain spiritual purification, it is also essential to attain the Graces and Mercy of Allah Rabbul-Izzat. We have to constantly entreat and implore Him for his Mercy and beg Him to include us amongst those whom He has purified.
Hazrat Moulana Rumi Rahimahumullah writes:
“O Allah! If a thousand chains of carnal desires and satanic deceptions have shackled our feet, we have nothing to fear if your Graces are upon us.”
2. Believers! Lower Your Gazes
“Tell the believing men and women to lower their gazes and protect their sexual organs. That is purer for them.” (24:30)
In this verse Allah Rabbul-Izzat has mentioned the controlling of the sexual organs in conjunction with the protection of the gaze, illustrating thereby that the controlling of the sexual organs is based upon the protection of the gaze. He who does not protect his gaze is bound to lose control over his sexual desires and organs.
3. Stay Away From Zina
“And come not near unto adultery, Verily, it is an obscenity and an evil way.” (17:32)
In this verse Allah Rabbul-Izzat has prohibited us from even approaching zina (adultery); thus educating us to the fact that: Any cause that leads up to a Haram act is also Haram, and thus to be totally avoided.
Human instinct is such that no sooner do a strange man and woman meet in privacy than a sensation of mutual attraction permeates the atmosphere between them. This attraction develops from stage to stage, from mere affection to uncontrollable passion and ultimately into the irreversible stage, where it is almost impossible to control the nafs, and finally the shameful deed of zina is perpetrated.
Thus Allah Rabbul-Izzat has made easy upon us the beautiful pathway to chastity, purity and piety (taqwa), by declaring unlawful all those factors that contribute to the commission of zina.
4. Sodomy & The Nation of Loot Alayhimus-Salaam
“And Loot! When he said unto his folk: Will you commit an obscenity that none has ever committed before you? You fulfil your lust on men instead of women? Indeed, you are a wanton nation.” (7:80-81)
In these verses, Allah Rabbul-Izzat emphatically denounces the unnatural, perverted manner of sexual gratification that was practised by the nation of Loot Alayhimus-Salaam, the people of Sodom (and which became known thereafter as sodomy).
At another juncture in the Qur’an Majeed, Allah Rabbul-Izzat has described the punishment inflicted upon this sick nation. Hazrat Jibra’eel Alayhimus-Salaam lifted their entire city into the sky, inverted them and brought them crashing down onto earth with a terrific bang. Thereafter, boulders and rocks rained down upon them from the sky. These stones were of a different composition altogether, and each had the name of the culprit to be pelted by inscribed upon it.
Hazrat Moulana Phoolpuri Rahimahumullah most aptly comments on this incident:
“These actions of this nation were perverted and natural, thus the punishment meted out to them was a befitting one; They Were Inverted!”
Despite the sincerest of warnings from Hazrat Loot Alayhimus-Salaam, they remained persistent in their foul deeds and doings; thus 40,000 of them were annihilated in a single moment.
Allah Rabbul-Izzat made them a lesson unto mankind right up to the Day of Judgment, that even today, traces of their destruction are present in the Dead Sea (also known as the “Sea of Lot”), the water of which is so dense and bitter, it will not permit any tree or vegetation to grow upon its shores.
by Maulana Hakeen Akhtar Sahib Damat Barkatuhum
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