Means to Allah (PART I)

(The Prophet (PBUH))

• What is the Means between Allah and His Creatures?
• What is the Means between Creatures and the Creator?
• What is Our Stance from Messengers?


What is the Means between Allah and His Creatures?

When a child is born, his parents are extremely happy with him. They feed him with tenderness, love and milk. They raise him until he becomes stronger. As the child grows up and has teeth, their happiness is multiplied. Should he try to speak, they began to talk tenderly to him and try to teach to speak words like ‘mom’ and ‘dad’. They are undoubtedly extremely happy when he first speaks those words. Then, they continue with taking care of him until he becomes able to hold responsibilities of life and to behave well so that he is not astray in this big sea of life.

Allah Almighty has taken care of humans. He has made bodies to keep human in his material growing up and he created people to know him. Also, he is highly preferred to create someone for the human to lead and guide him to his creator and to take care of his soul and religion as he supplied him with others to take care of him in his life. Allah likes people to know him and tenderly talk to them like a mother talking tenderly to her child. There should be a mediator between them as the mother emits her tenderness to her child through her tongue. Similarly, Allah talks to people through messengers who are true and honest who convey the words of the Creator to His Creatures. Because they are humans, they need other humans to talk to them so that they do not feel alienated. Because people have no way to Him unless what they are familiar with, he sent them messengers from them conveying his verses…

When an atheist asked Imam Al Sadek (peace be upon him) how prophets and messengers were verified, he (peace be upon him) replied, “When we have proven that we have a transcendental creator who is greater than us and all what He has created and that Creator is so elevated and has great wisdom, it is not right then that his creatures could see or touch him or even talk to him. Therefore, we verified that He has ambassadors to his creatures and servants who guide them to their interests, sustenance and mortality.”¹

A messenger is the ambassador of Allah to His creatures to educate, raise, take care of and introduce them to their Allah and acts as Allah’s proof on them to spare them going astray. Therefore, a messenger must be honest to convey the message flawlessly and he should have what indicates that he is true about his claim. In other words, he must be infallible and supported with miracles.


What is the Means between Creatures and the Creator?

Allah says, ﴾O Prophet! Truly We have sent thee as a Witness, a Bearer of Glad Tidings, and Warner * And as one who invites to Allah's (grace) by His leave, and as a lamp spreading light.﴿²

Whereas Allah by his favor, mercy and position as God wants to lead the human to Him and makes him know Him, Allah has sent his messengers and concluded them with their master Mohamad (peace be upon him and his household) so that he could be as one who invites to the grace of Allah via His permission. There is a great place built up by Allah where there is a great banquet to honor human beings. Therefore, he had sent them invitation cards to this place and banquet with a messenger of His. Along with such messenger, Allah sends a map to reach this place and gives his messenger the permission to talk to humans about that place and what it contains to make them long for it. These messengers describe that place and how to get to it and what would happen if they refused to obey, ﴾O Prophet! Truly We have sent thee as a Witness, a Bearer of Glad Tidings, and Warner and as one who invites to Allah's (grace) by His leave…﴿

Moreover, this prophet is the idol in this path to Allah. He clarifies the courtesies of having such an honor. He is an example to those who deserve that and to watch over people in their preparation to win that house.

The prophet is also the leader of that path and the proof and guide of creatures to their Creator, “and as a lamp spreading light.” He is the one who lights the way and he is the example. He leads them to the highest ranks and stages.

This prophet is Mohamad (peace be upon him and his household) who was sent by Allah to teach and educate people and to clarify beliefs, doctrines, and laws to them and to lead them to real happiness: “It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered a messenger from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom,- although they had been, before, in manifest error;”³


What is the Stance about Messengers?

Allah is the owner of all graces and blessings in this existence that is geared for serving us. The first confession in these graces is to meet the same with a positive response and never leave them aside.

If Allah sent a messenger to us, we have to accept, follow, honor and love him since he is from Allah. The first duty with messengers, especially prophet Mohamad (peace be upon him and his household) is to believe in his prophecy and believe what he has brought and abide by the rulings that he told us about because by following messenger, we respond to the messenger and to his sender. Thus, our life would be real, ﴾O ye who believe! give your response to Allah and His Messenger, when He calleth you to that which will give you life;﴿⁴

He who does not respond so that he does not honor, believe in, abide by the rulings and the path of the messenger is more than a dead person. He is blind, deaf and in continuous torture.

“But whosoever turns away from My Message, verily for him is a life narrowed down, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment. He will say: "O my Lord! why hast Thou raised me up blind, while I had sight (before)? (Allah) will say: "Thus didst Thou, when Our Signs came unto thee, disregard them: so wilt thou, this day, be disregarded.”⁵

He whoever is given sight in life and never walked or followed the right path shall be like the person who was never given sight. Allah has given us what we can use to differentiate right from wrong, good from evil and sent us someone to guide us to the same. Should we turn away from the prophet and the Holly Qur’an we shall be like the blind and we shall end up on the Day of Judgment as blind, Allah forbids.


Conclusion

O Dear Brother! Think and contemplate: have you responded to the call of Allah? Have you followed Prophet Mohamad (peace be upon him and his household) or have you forgotten and turned away from mentioning Allah? You have to answer. If you have not responded so far, you still have a chance. Seize this chance and come to the banquet of Allah; do not turn away from mentioning Him, and know the right of Allah and the right of Prophet Mohamad (peace be upon him and his household) on you. 
 

* "Beginning of the Path", "Lesson 9". By: Islamic Cultural Knowledge Organization. Knowledge Center for Islamic Studies and Researches.

^{1- Ilal Al Shara’ih, v1, p120.
2- 033.046 (Al-Ahzab [The Clans, the Coalition, the Combined Forces]).
3- 062.002 (Al-Jumua [The Congregation, Friday]).
4- 008.024 (Al-Anfal [Spoils of War, Booty]).
5- 020.124-125-126 (Ta-Ha [Mystic letters Ta-Ha]).}