WHAT DOES THE ISLAM TEACH ?

Islam teaches us that it is not the name of rituals only. It is a complete political ,social and economic system. It is a complete code of life.
True Muslim is one:
Who does not deceive any body
Who does not usurp any body?s right
Who always speaks truth even if he has to lose his life in it
Who keeps before him the Allah and prophet?s orders
Who cares for other?s right like rights of his own self and family
Who while reciting Quran and saying prayers if promises any thing then applies it to his every act, his business and his utterances and statements
The thing he can not do openly he should not do it in seclusion.
Islam’s order is:
A Muslim should cause pain to the other Muslim rather a Muslim should not cause pain to any human being
A Muslim must satisfy himself before taking his meals that his neighbours have also taken the food
Any money earned through fraud and dishonesty is not legitimate for a Muslim and he never consumes any ill-gotten wealth
A Muslim will follow the life pattern of the holy prophet according to Quran and Sunnah and will obey the orders of Quran
He is Muslim who enforces the orders of Quran and Sunnah on his person.
Worship
A Muslim is not exempted from Kalima(Affirmation in faith), Namaz( Prayers) Roza (Fasting) Haj(Pilgrimage to Mecca) and Zakat (Charity).
The Standard of faith
It is stated that Hazrat Imam Abu Hanifa(RA) came to know that there is a man in Mecca who knows an order of the holy prophet(PBUH) which he heard with his own ears. Imam-e-Azam went personally to Mecca to meet him and to hear the order of the prophet(PBUH). There he saw a man who was carrying his sack in such a manner as if it had fodder for catching a running horse. As the horse drew near it he caught him and inverted the sack which was empty. When Imam Abu Hanifa asked for the person he wanted to meet he was told it is the same man who had caught the horse. He refused to believe the authenticity of his statement and said that one who can deceive an innocent animal can also deceive a human being and believing in a liar?s statement means inviting trouble. Just imagine if in Islam there are so many filters to ascertain the veracity of a statement then there is no scope for any worldly ism.

We declared Islam as our code of life but could not adopt it because to own Islam we have to surrender all that is not ours and we are embracing it for our benefit. WE shall have to give up all those ways and means which are not Islamic and adopt hundred percent Islam. It is not possible that we adopt only those parts of Islam which are beneficial for us and put the remaining one in our cupboards . No, that is not possible. Almighty God points out in Quran those who usurp the rights of orphans and shove them away. Our superior courts give decisions that an orphan grandson can not share the property of his grand father. You talk of which Quran and Shariah? Our holy prophet (PBUH) has ordered so many rights for the neighbour that without being true Muslims we can not practise them. Is the orphan grand son so bad that he should be thrown out mercilessly? Curse be on Satan we are going towards an Islam which is not the Islam of God and prophet. . Why?don?t we have any one to tell us that this is the wrong way. Once upon a time there used be a board hanging at important points in our streets and market places on which a verse of Holy Quran was written with its translation which read like this,? Why the people do not ponder over Quran. Are their minds blocked?? And under this they had written ,? Read Quran yourself and understand its translation so that you can save yourselves from being misled.? There was a person who was doing this. I do not know whether he is still alive or has left for his heavenly abode. This man in Lahore would install this board on a bicycle and stand at the crowded spots and would draw passer-bys? attention towards it. Some times he would repeat this performance in Rawalpindi and would go away after touring different streets and market places. I am remembering that man today and praying for him from my heart that may God accept his sacrifices.

We were discussing that why did we stop from acting on Islam. Let us look at Europe, America , former Soviet Union and its freed territories and People?s Republic of China. In these countries people are provided jobs. The students are also given part-time jobs. They are not given any concession or latitude. Two hour?s work means 120 minute full work and honest remuneration for it. There are many people in Britain who receive unemployment allowance. There are many who receive medicines and doctor?s fee under social security laws and financial assistance for food and also receive unemployment allowance. Islam says that every citizen will be provided security by the state. The state will provide you respectable livelihood and shelter and state can also requisition the services of any one on payment and without payment. Except for the Islamic countries every non-Islamic country is providing these facilities to its citizens. Millions of our Pakistani brothers are availing this facility in America and U.K. and look at our rich Islamic countries. Can you get their citizenship? Can you get job in these countries as a Muslim? Today all Arab and Islamic countries are offering jobs to men and women who are Indian Hindus, Filipinos ,or Thais or Koreans. They are turning out Pakistani Muslims from their countries. They do not like even the Indian Muslims. Why is it so? We Muslims are supposed to be brothers of other Muslims, then why this hatred? I live outside Pakistan in such a country where there is hundred percent rule of law and where people work under certain rules and regulations.

Japan is the most important country in the world from industrial point of view. The citizens here are registered by the registering authority. The government knows how many people are living in which city. How many are employed and how many work in offices or industries. How many do business and how many of them are doing private jobs. They also know that how many are unemployed in every village, town or city. They have detailed information about every one of them. The Japanese government receives enquiries from factories and industrial units that they require so may skilled, semi-skilled or un-skilled workers. The experts of the government then recruit these people from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other countries and give them respectable salaries. But they never turn to our country for this purpose. If we tell them then they ask for excuse that they do not recruit labour from Pakistan. Why don?t they seek labour from Pakistan? Why do they forcibly deport Pakistanis who come to Japan?. Why don?t they give them jobs and get work out of them?. After all they get work from others.

But we, Pakistanis, when listen to stories about the doings of our compatriots hang our heads in shame. In Budhism there is much importance to moral character but not too much. For Hindus morality means business. The other religions also give much importance to moral character. But these are our Pakistani brothers only who are undergoing sentences in jails of the different countries of the world on the charges of keeping narcotics and smuggling. They are facing charges of moral turpitude. In the prisons of the world there are few inmates belonging to other religions. There are lots of Pakistanis. And most shameful thing is that our embassies do not bother about these people at all. When some one has passport of your country why do you let him languish and suffer in foreign prisons. But alas it happens nowhere. We started talking about Islam. Why the followers of Islam are so miserable and wretched in the world today? Why can?t they themselves defend their self respect? The reason is that in Pakistan we do not train our citizens.

We do not educate them and do not give them religious education and tell them their obligations.
My wife is Japanese. She received Islamic education from me after our marriage. I have told her that this is Quran, read it as such and its translation. If she is not clear about any thing we discuss it between ourselves or go to the learned man in the local Islamic centre. When Pakistan government issues passports it should also assume some responsibility on its shoulders. They should know where the passport seeker would go and what would he do. We shall have to impose some control on these people who go abroad and bring bad name to themselves, Pakistan and Islam.