Hujjatul Islam Ustad Syed Jawad Naqvi
(Principal Jamia Orwatul Wuthqa – Lahore)
Delivered at: Masjid Baitul ul Ateeq
Lahore – Pakistan
Friday Sermon – 22nd December, 2023
Sermon 1 : Structure of Society is Values
Sermon 2 : How to end Gaza war in 24 hrs?
Allah has established the basis of Taqwa on Adl. And Adl is the foundation of religion which is the system of guidance for humanity. This is because the foundation of reality of man, his Fitrat is on Adl. The Adl here does not mean justice and justice is one of the objective references of Adl.
First Adl in human life is in personality, character development of human being. The Ahsana Taqweem which Allah has set as design for human being is due to Adl. In this creation of human being development of personality has been left to human being himself. The basis of development of this personality is on Adl, which means the personality should have balanced traits, attributes and features. An Adil person is one who possesses perfect traits in every aspect. The most important dimension of human life is social life in the laps of which the personal life of man gets developed. Thus the personality of human being would be the way society is.
In religion the design of human society is on the basis of Adl which means a balanced society. Man has understood many secrets of human body and to the extent we have understood our bodies we should use it as a reference to understand Adl. The human body itself is a complete book of Monotheism and I get astonished on the medical students, professionals who study the human body in details and then they become psychologically apostate. This is established fact whereby if someone studies in Madrassa and then becomes apostate is not astonishing but if someone studies medical and then becomes apostate is astonishing. In seminaries the books are not really of religion, they are all surficial but those who study medical their entire study is about body which is so precise, systems inside in minute details. A medical student can become monotheist by studying medical science. In Pakistan there is a disease of psychological apostate which is due to inferiority complex. Like we do not consider ourselves educated unless we know English language. We prove our existence by speaking English which is not the case in other countries like China for instance. Those who are psychologically sick they think that with English we will gain superiority. This is another disease that if we represent ourselves as religious person then we won’t be considered as educated and won’t get that status. You are studying Medical which has nothing other than Tauheed. In other sciences things are outside religion but not in Medical.
The human body is given resemblance to human society. Despite of studying human body you can still see how much religious sense these medical professionals have. The doctors know the human body so precisely which scholars don’t know. These medical student study from teachers who are psychologically apostate. You should take skills, knowledge from him and not take his sickness. The human body is very delicate, precise and human society is also the same. In Islamic sciences the most important subject should have been sociology but unfortunately none of the sects, Fiqh has this even though the pioneer , discoverer of this science is Ibn Khaldoon who we can say was the first and last scholar of sociology. Today the research of Ibn Khaldoon has been translated , then distorted which comes from America and we study those as sociology.
The society also has a skeleton which we see of human body as well in clinics and medical institutes which only has bones and one base is spinal cord. The society also has bones and spinal cord on which society stands and these are values (Aqdar). The other systems, segments , relationships get formed around these values. One whose spinal cord is broken is Fakeer and Miskeen is one who cannot move from one place to another. In society Fakeer is that society which has no wealth. Everyone needs wealth, money including Prophets, Imams. They all need money for their personal, social lives and for guidance of society. Quran says wealth is the basis of your rising. The wealth, money is the spinal cord of economy and not society.
In a famous tradition of Usool e Kaafi , chapter of Junoodo Aqlo Jahal ( Battalions of Intellect and ignorance). Imam has expressed around 55 list of battalions of Aql and then same for ignorance. Then the famous Hadith of Imam Sajjad (a) where he says when you see the exterior of someone as good do not get deceived, but instead examine various things like this sincerity, dealings, his love for world and then if all these are clear then at the end see his love for fame and governance, then distance from him as he is dangerous person. The one who has lust for power beware from him. The one who has no love for power then clinch him, he can be the means of salvation for your hereafter. These are values which forms the structure of human society and then additional things come up to complete the formation of human society.
If this structure did not gets formed , this means values were forsaken and all garbage was filled in. Due this every generation that comes up in the society becomes more adulterated. The foundation of religious society is based on values. It is not that you form society anyway and then use religion to solve issues. We think Imam is like Mayor who is administrator. As the mayor is not responsible for forming society instead he has to administrate the society only.
When Ali (a) came into power , the first sermon he delivered was very hard and those who were supporters and did allegiance to Imam Ali (a) got scared and shivered. Ali (a) said I did not want to become your ruler, since you pursued me and the Hujjat was accomplished else I would have refused. Since I have taken up it does not mean that I will just drag the society the way it is. I will do a revival of society. He said I will do it one by doing TAGARBUL and TABALBUL. The Tabalbul is from Bala which means I will examine you, take you through hardship, I will melt you and mold you back. The Tagarbul means straining, filtering which the farmers use to remove husk from wheat. I will filter and see who can walk with me. And those who cannot I will do their Tabalbul that is reform them. Ali (a) will not see our outward , he will assess our values. Those who pass through these values filter will go with Ali (a) and those who do not he will try to reform them.
Today we see our society and the incident of Gaza. Two groups have come out, one are the beasts of Israel, America, Europe and Arab supporters of theirs. The other group is the rest of world, the Muslims and people around Gaza whose faces are unveiled. We can see this on daily basis and then analyze what is the cause for lowliness of human beings today. I have given this example as well about roadside rabies dogs. A dog with rabies will bite and they bite children generally. The dogs are biting a child and people are watching, if they stop they make a selfie. Here in this scene you have to analyze, there are 5 of 6 dogs attacking a child and more than 15 persons are taking picture. Who is worse, lowly over here? The dogs or these human beings. The dogs are wild they will do this, but the other scene is more deadly. Israel, Zionists are beasts and their masters America, Britain are beasts who will do this beastliness. But what about rest of humanity? They are worse than dogs, they are not doing anything to stop these beasts. They are more lowly. Israel has become a rabies dogs with their supporters but those who are sitting silent without doing anything practically Allah hates them more.
Now the question is what we should do? Just burn from inside and watch as spectators? Is there any plan to save this situation? There is definitely a way. Allah has always made those doors for salvation but for that man needs that insight. Those ways are available we all should adapt. May Allah (s) destroy these oppressed with their oppression.
SERMON 2
Without Taqwa humanity becomes insecure which we can see today whereby humanity is getting shattered to pieces under the claws of beasts and rest name sake humans are watching as spectators. This is because we have distanced from the path of humanity which Allah has ordained for us and hence man has become beasts.
The situation that is in Gaza is highly painful. Those orphan children whose parents are martyred are yelling as to who can come to help us to give us salvation. There are always paths of salvation available from Allah (s). There is never total darkness, always light is there at some point but those who are blind cannot see this. Since five days the ceasefire resolution in UN is being delayed and the rest of the world is also witnessing the killing. Now the news, sensitivity, passion have also reduced. Pakistan was already in other trouble , now after social pollution there are elections which has made everyone busy in the lust for power even for those who were trying to raise some voice before.
We can see the sensitivity of religious leader. Pope Francis after 70 days has opened his tongue that too when two women were fired inside a church. Pope said what is happening in Gaza is not war but is terrorism. For 70 days this leader was considering this as war and now he says it is terrorism. The others as well took out some rallies and then silence. Allah has kept some paths, the entire world can play some role which everyone person can do inside their homes. This dignity was blessed only to the Yemeni Houthi Mujahideen. They are Zaidi Shias who have been the most oppressed in entire history, has been victim of Ale Saud. The deaf, dumb, blind Ale Saud are supporting Israel but have ruined Yemen. In the ruins of Yemen the left over have come out , to present to world that the way is available if you want to protect Gaza. We have been saying in these sermons that everyone can do this.
We can damage the interests of all these Zionists, the Israeli, Muslims, Hindus, Christian Zionists who all want Israel to take over Palestine. The Supreme Court has said this President is not having intellect. The interim PM also went in Zionist lobby in this matter and proposed two state solution. The press told him that Quaid e Azam has written letter to Britain that two state is Fitnah. This PM replied that to go against the views of Quaid e Azam is not infidelity. You can go against, because you have always opposed whatever he has said and everyone the politicians, establishments, scholars have opposed and did not allow that Pakistan to be made which he wanted. But to become a supporter of Zionists is oppression and you are with oppressor. Today Houthis have proven that this is a solution , similarly in every country these people Israel, America, Britian have economic interests like schools, embassies, businesses. If their interests in every country can be stopped which a common man can do. This war can end in a day. The Houthis while sitting in Yemen , the Red Sea that passes they did a blockade to not allow any vessel of Zionist supporting country to pass. The shipping agencies have stopped passing through the route. They have got a big stroke from these oppressed Yemenis. This was what I was saying, we should stop their interests on every street. Stop their schools, banks, businesses in your own place. You have shown so much passions in rallies so let’s do it practically. If after Yemen even one country stops their interests, in 24 hrs. they will seek forgiveness and all issues can get solved. The sense which Houthis had they do not have. The houses of Houthis have ruined , they don’t have food to eat but they have not allowed humanity to end. They do not even have sandals, clothes but their humanity is preserved. Today these Shias of Yemen are presenting the best example of humanity. The rest Shias, Ahle Sunnat can all do this but they do not turn towards this. If other human beings develop this sense like Houthis then the oppression will not happen anywhere else. Anyone who is part of Gaza war may Allah purify the earth from their impure existence. May Allah grant freedom to Palestine, Kashmir and send a Wali for their salvation.
