بسم
الله الرحمن
الرحيم
In the Name
of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Astrology – Fore-teller – UNSEEN
by Irshad Mahmood - Director, Siraat-al-Mustaqeem Dawah Centre
Duaa
for Discussing the Critical Issues:
After all we are human being and may be wrong on some point, so we need to make a very special Duaa:
O
Allah! Guide us and help us. If I am wrong, O Allah! Correct me. If
others are
wrong, O Allah correct them. If we all are wrong, O Allah correct all
of us. AMEEN.
”Rabbi
Zidnee Aailmaa”. (O my Lord! Increase me in knowledge). Ref:
Al_Quraan_020.114
AMEEN.
”Rabbishrah
Lee Sadree Wayassir Lee Amree Wahlul AAuqdatan Min
Lisanee
Yafqahoo Qawlee”. (O my Lord! expand my breast; And ease my
task for me; And
loose the knot from my tongue; So they may understand what I say). Ref:
Al_Quraan_020.025 – 028)
AMEEN.
”Rabbana
Hab Lana Min Azwajina Wathurriyyatina Qurrata aAAyunin WajjAAalna
Lilmuttaqeena
imamaan”. (O our Lord! grant us in our wives and our
offspring the joy of our
eyes, and give us (the grace) to lead the righteous). Ref:
Al_Quraan_025.074.
AMEEN.
Muslim cannot
be Astrologer or Fortuneteller:
O ye who believe!
Strong
Drink (Intoxicants), gambling, idols
and
divining arrows are only
an infamy of Satan’s
handiwork. Leave it aside in order that ye
may succeed.
[Al_Quraan_005.090]
Say (O Muhammad
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him), to
the disbelievers): I say not
unto you
(that) I possess the treasures of Allah, nor that I have knowledge of the Unseen;
and I say not unto
you: Lo! I am an angel. I follow only that which is inspired in me.
Say: Are
the blind man and the seer equal? Will ye not then take thought?
[Al_Quraan_006.050]
Say (O Muhammad
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him): I have
no power
over any good or harm to my
self except as Allah willeth. If I had
knowledge of the Unseen,
I should
have multiplied
all good and no evil should have
touched me: I am but a Warner,
and a bringer of glad tidings to those who have Faith. [Al_Quraan_007.188]
This day, I have Perfected your Religion for you and Completed my Favor unto you, and have chosen for you as Religion Al-Islaam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. [Al_Quraan_005.003]
(Allah’s
Favor has already
been completed on us, so no new
miracle may happen)
Some people asked Allah's Apostle (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) about the fore-tellers. He said. -They are nothing." They said, O Allah's Apostle (Peace-Be-Upon-Him)! Sometimes they tell us of a thing which turns out to be true." Allah's Apostle (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) said, "A Jinn snatches that true word and pours it into the ear of his friend (the foreteller) (as one puts something into a bottle). The foreteller then mixes with that word one hundred lies."
Narrated
by
Ayesha (Radi Allah Ta'lah Anha); Sahih Bukhari transmitted it. Vol 7:
#657 of
Sahih Bukhari.
Allah's Apostle (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) said, "Whoever comes to fortune-tellers, and ask him about something, his prayer is NOT accepted for forty nights."
Narrated
by
Hafsah (Radi Allah Ta'lah Anha); Muslim transmitted it. Vol 2: #4391 of
Mishkat
al-Masabih.
Allah's Apostle (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) said, "Whoever learns astrology, learns a branch of sorcery. He adds what he likes.
Narrated
by
Ibn Abbas (Radi Allah Ta'lah Anhu); Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah
transmitted it.
Vol 2: #4394 of Mishkat al-Masabih.
Allah's Apostle
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him) said,
"Whoever acquires a branch of astrology for a purpose other than that
for
which Allah mentioned, has indeed acquired a branch of sorcery, An astrologer is
a sooth-sayer and a sooth-sayer
is sorcerer and a sorcerer is an unbeliever."
Narrated by Ibn Abbas (Radi Allah Ta'lah Anhu);
Razin transmitted it.
Vol 2: #4399 of Mishkat al-Masabih.
He who presumes
that he would inform about what was going to happen
tomorrow
fabricates
the greatest lie
against Allah. And Allah says “Say thou
[Muhammad (Peace-Be-Upon-Him)]: None in the heavens and the earth
knoweth the UNSEEN
except
Allah”.
Narrated by Ayesha (Radi Allah Ta'lah
Anha); Vol 1:
#0337 of Sahih Muslim.
ECLIPSE
is not a sign of someone’s
death or birth etc, just offer additional prayers at the time of
Eclipse:
The sun ECLIPSED in
the lifetime of Allah's Apostle
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him) on the day when (his son) Ibrahim died. So the
people said that
the sun
had ECLIPSED because of the death of Ibrahim. Allah's Apostle
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him)
said,
"The sun and the moon do not ECLIPSE because of the death or life (i.e.
birth) of someone. When you see the ECLIPSE pray and invoke Allah."
Narrated by
Al-Mughira bin Shu’ba; Vol-002, Book-018,
Hadith-0153 of Sahih Bukhari.
The Prophet
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him)
said, “The sun and the moon do not
ECLIPSE because of the death or life (i.e. birth) of someone but they
are two
signs amongst the signs of Allah. When you see them offer the
prayers.”
Narrated
by Ibn Umar; Vol-002, Book-018,
Hadith-0152 of Sahih Bukhari.
A total
lunar eclipse occurs when the
Earth gets directly between the Sun and the Moon.
A
solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun
and
casts its shadow on Earth’s surface.
In
the light of above-mentioned Hadiths, HOW come Rasool Allah
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him) did Foretell about
Imaam Mahdi and Dajjaal?
May be He (Peace-Be-Upon-Him)
didn’t. Not in Quraan and Authentic Hadith.
Knowledge
of Future is with Allah only: Messenger did not
know when & where he would die:
Then, when We
decreed (Solomon’s Peace-Be-Upon-Him) death, nothing showed them
his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept
(slowly) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the Jinns saw
plainly
that if they had known the unseen, they would Not have tarried in the
humiliating
Penalty (of their Task). (Al_Quraan_034.014)
Verily the
knowledge of the Hour is
with Allah (Alone). It is He Who knows rain, and He Who knows what is
in the
wombs. Nor does any one (including Messengers) know what it
is that he will earn
on tomorrow: nor does any one
(including Messengers) know in what land he is to
die. Verily with
Allah is full knowledge and He is acquainted
(with all things). (Al_Quraan_031.034)
Men ask thee
concerning the Hour: say, The knowledge thereof
is with Allah (alone): and what will
make thee understand? Perchance the
Hour is nigh. (Al_Quraan_033.063)
Say (O Muhammad
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him), to the disbelievers): I say not
unto you (that) I possess the treasures of
Allah, nor that I have knowledge
of the Unseen;
and I say not unto you: Lo! I am an angel. I follow only that which is
inspired
in me. Say: Are
the blind man and the seer equal?
Will ye not then take
thought? [Al_Quraan_006.050]
Say (O Muhammad
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him): I have no
power over any good or harm to my self except as
Allah willeth. If
I had knowledge
of the Unseen, I should have
multiplied all good
and no evil should
have touched me: I am but a Warner, and a
bringer of glad tidings to those who
have Faith. [Al_Quraan_007.188]
Jesus
/ Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) – Dead or Alive?
The main reason why we
don’t understand
the concept and the meaning of Quraan could be as mentioned in the
Quraan as, “
… And yet ye study the Scripture? Will
ye not understand?” (Al_Quraan_002.044).
To
understand about Jesus / Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) Dead or Alive we need
to do
analysis of
the Ayaat below:
There
is none (not
a single one)
of the People
of the book (including
1.5 Billion
Muslims) but
must believe in him
(as only
a Messenger
of Allah)
before
his (Jesus Peace-Be-Upon-Him) death.
And on
the Day of Resurrection (NOT
Before),
he (Jesus) will be a witness
against them." (Al_Quraan_004.159)
First Proof:
The
first proof that Jesus / Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) is NOT Alive is this
Ayaat itself,
since
it says that “on
the Day of Resurrection (NOT
Before), he
(Jesus) will be a witness against them”, if Jesus / Isaa
(Peace-Be-Upon-Him) comes
second time in this
world then he will be witness in the world before the Day of
Resurrection,
which cannot be true according to the above mentioned Ayaat. The
concept of
Quraan cannot be wrong, BUT our pre-assumptions and our believe could
be wrong.
Second Proof:
For
the second proof, we need to understand the meaning of People of the Book (Scripture).
Jews are the People of the Book,
since they believe on
the Torah, which is one of the Book of Allah.
Christian are the People of the Book,
since they believe on
the Injeel (Bible), which is one of the Book of Allah.
Similarly
Muslims
are the People of the Book, since they believe on the Quraan, which is
also one
of the Book of Allah.
This
is also another proof that Jesus / Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) is not
Alive, since in
the above
Ayaat it is mentioned that “none
(not
a single one) of
the People of the
book (including
1.5 Billion Muslims) but
must believe in him (as only
a Messenger
of Allah) before
his
(Jesus Peace-Be-Upon-Him) death“, and
Alhamdulillaah, around 1.5 Billion Muslims around the world believe on
Jesus /
Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) as Messenger of Allah.
Third Proof:
For the third
proof, Allah said that he will take away
Jesus / Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) and no where he mentioned that he will
send back
Jesus /
Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) again for the second time, instead He
mentioned that what
ever we
are arguing about him (Peace-Be-Upon-Him), He will tell us on the day
of Judgement
and NOT
before.
Behold
Allah said: O Jesus / Isaa (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) I will take thee and
raise thee to
myself and
clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make
those who
follow thee superior to those who reject Faith, to
the day of resurrection (not
before):
then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge
between you of the matters wherein ye dispute. (Al_Quraan_003.055)
To get
Success Leave the Fore-tell behind and Start Helping Allah:
O ye who believe!
Strong Drink (Intoxicants), gambling, idols and divining arrows are only
an infamy of Satan’s
handiwork. Leave it aside in order
that ye may succeed.
[Al_Quraan_005.090]
Help Allah to get Help from Allah:
O
ye who believe! If ye will Help Allah,
He will Help you, and plant your feet firmly.
(Al_Quraan_047.007)
Allah’s Favor
has Already been Completed:
This day, I have Perfected
your Religion
for you and Completed
my Favor
unto you, and have chosen for you as Religion
Al-Islaam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by
will, to sin: (for him)
lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. [Al_Quraan_005.003]
(Allah’s
Favor has already
been completed on us, so no new
miracle may happen)
Islaam
will eventually come to all over the World:
Their intention is to extinguish the
Allah’s light (by blowing) with their mouths, but Allah will complete His light, even
though the Unbelievers may detest (it). [Al_Quraan_061.008]
Don’t waste your time in
Foretelling and just do what Allah
has commanded.
We Already have One living Miracles, The Quraan with us.
Allah’s Favor has already
been completed on us.