Royal College Article

 

Awake!
In the Name of Allah—the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.  All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad [1] ﷺ is His slave and Messenger.
Yes, we have to awake from this hologram of materialism! At a time when religions are being attacked for being “unprogressive” and “backwards”, I write this paper to introduce you to the only religion of progressiveness and the only the religion which can be accepted through inquiry and sound intellect: Islam.
Islam is the only true religion from Allah (God). All other religions, philosophies and ideologies are man-made and thus following them blindly would lead you to be backwards and unprogressive. A person who follows the religion of Islam is known as a Muslim. The word ‘Muslim’ means peace acquired by submitting to Almighty God. A Muslim must believe in six articles of faith which makes him/her a Muslim. The six articles of faith are known as Arkanul Imaan.  They are:
1)       To believe in Allah and that He is the only God who is worthy of worship (Tawheed).[2]
2)       To believe in Angels (Malaaikah).[3]
3)       To believe in the Books sent down by Allah as guidance to the humankind.
4)       To believe in Messengers of Allah who came to guide mankind through revelations and instructions from Allah.[4]
5)       To believe in the hereafter (The final-day)[5].
6)       To believe in Divine Decree (Predestination)[6]
The primary source of information on Islam is the Quran[7]; the holy book of the Muslims. The Quran is the final revelation from Almighty God. It is an instruction manual from the Creator of all that exists to mankind and Jinn to be followed until the Last Day.  The Quran is a ‘Living-Miracle’. There are many reasons as to why the Quran is important and what makes it special. Firstly, It is the only religious book which testifies itself to be a revelation from God. “The revelation of this Book is—beyond doubt—from the Lord of all worlds”. Secondly, it is an infallible scripture. There are no contradictions in it. “Do they not then reflect on the Quran? Had it been from anyone other than Allah, they would have certainly found in it many inconsistencies”. Thirdly, the Quran retains its pure form. The Quran which we read today is exactly what was revealed to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Word by word, letter by letter. ”It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it”. Fourthly, Allah placed in the Quran advanced knowledge (prophecies). Fifthly, The Quran provides complete guidance for our individual, marital, social, political, economical affairs. Sixthly, the Quran is linguistically unmatched. Allah challenges the disbelievers to produce a scripture similar to it. “…If ˹all˺ humans and jinn were to come together to produce the equivalent of this Quran, they could not produce its equal…”. Seventhly, the Quran is the only book which is memorized completely by millions across the globe and lastly, it contains 500+ scientific facts and 0 errors. “And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?”.  
I would like you to read a true story about a man who was worshipping idols[8] and later embraced Islam.
Abdul-Wāhid ibn Zayd said, “We were upon a ship and we were overtaken by a strong wind towards an island. So we disembarked and found a man there worshipping an idol. We came to him, and said, ‘O person! What are you worshipping?’ So he pointed towards the idol. They said, ‘There is with us upon the ship who does the same. But this is not a god to be worshipped.’ So he said, ‘Who do you worship?’ We said, ‘We worship Allah.’ He said, ‘And who is Allah?’ We said, ‘The One whose throne is above the heavens, and upon the earth is His dominion, and over the living and the dead is His decree.’ He said, ‘And how did you come to know Him? ‘We said, ‘The Mighty King and Exalted Creator sent to us an honourable Messenger, and he informed us.’ He asked, ‘And what did the Messenger do? ‘We replied, ‘He fulfilled the message and then Allah took him to Himself with death.’ He said, ‘So he did not leave you with a sign?’ We said, ‘Yes, of course. ‘He asked, ‘What did he leave you? ‘We answered, ‘He left us with a Book from the King.’ He said, ‘Show me this Book of the King because surely the Books of the kings are most excellent. ‘So we gave him the Mushaf (Qur’an), so he said, ‘I do not know this!’ So we read to him a Surah[9] of the Qur’an. So, as we recited, he started crying, and as we read more, he cried more, until we completed the Surah. He said, ‘It is obligatory that the One who spoke these words is not to be disobeyed.’ Then he embraced Islam, and we taught him the laws of Islam and chapters from the Qur’an. And we took him along with us on the ship. As we travelled night fell upon us, and each person took to his bed. He said, ‘O people! This God that you have guided me to ―when night comes, does he sleep?’ We said, ‘No! O servant of Allah. He is Ever-Living, Self-sufficient that the creation relies upon, the Mighty, who does not sleep.’ So he said, ‘What bad worshippers you are! You sleep whilst your Guardian Protector does not sleep.’ So he started to worship and left us alone. When we reached our land, I said to my companion, ‘This person is new to Islam and a stranger in this land.’ So we gathered some dirhams (money) and we gave it to him. He said, ‘What is this?’ We said, ‘Spend it to fulfil your needs.’ He said, ‘There is no deity worthy of worship besides Allah! I was on islands in the ocean worshipping an idol besides Allah, and He did not abandon me. So will He abandon me whilst I now know Him.’ Then he left to earn his own keep. And then after that, he was from the greatest of the pious ones until he died.”[10]
If you are a non-Muslim who is reading this, then I humbly request you to read the Qur’an and awaken your soul to the divine guidance of our Creator. And  I invite you to accept the message of Islam before death reaches your collar bone.
May Allah guide us to the Straight Path!
You  can order a free copy of the Qur’an at https://cutt.ly/free-quran
 

 

 

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[1] A Unicode text indicating: Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him.

[2] The word Tawheed is the Islamic concept of Monotheism. It means the Unification or Oneness of God.

[3] Unlike in some other religious concepts, Angels in Islam has got no gender and are not encompassed with the quality of Free-Will.

[4] There were many Messengers sent by Allah and of them, the final Messenger was Muhammad ﷺ.

[5] Also known as ‘The Day of Recompense’ and ‘The Day of resurrection’.

[6] The belief in Divine Predestination includes belief in four things: Allah created everything, Allah knows everything; the past and present, There is a record of everything that has happened and will happen, Whatever Allah decrees to occur, will occur & Whatever Allah wills not to happen, does not happen.

[7] Also spelt as; Qur’an, Koran.

[8] Idols include Statues, images, sculptures, paintings etc.

[9] Surah is the Arabic word for “chapter”.

[10] Ref; At-Tawābeen of Ibn Qudāmah, p. 179.