We praise G-d, Who created everything. We seek Him for assistance and help, aid. And we seek Him for forgiveness for our sins, for our faults, for our mistakes, for our shortcomings.
We believe in Him, and trust in Him, and we are loyal to Him. We do no break our trust,
break our faith, or our loyalty.
We accept Prophet Muhammed, who told us “G-d Is One, and there is nothing to be worshiped with Him.” We accept him as the last of the Prophets.
The seal of the Prophets mentioned in the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Books of the Christians and Jews.
As the liberator mentioned in the Qur’an, G-d says of him, He is the one mentioned in the Torah and in the Gospel, in the Injil.
And he will come, according to the prophecy in those scriptures, and break the bonds of slavery. Take off the yokes that made the people subservient to other than G-d.
And he will break the bonds of slavery, all the bonds of slavery and free them from all forms of captivity.
He will be an educator. He will be a liberator. Liberating the people with the education that G-d provides, with the knowledge, the higher knowledge that G-d provides.
And he will be a mercy, he will be a compassionate man. He’ll be a mercy to all the people.
And we are to see that mercy in many forms.
But most of all, we are to see that mercy in enlightenment that came with Qur’an.
With Qur’an came enlightenment, higher knowledge, sciences, the higher sciences. And the higher sciences, the higher knowledge enabled the society to serve humankind better. To protect the human life better. To give the human society more.
So this is the great mercy of G-d, and Muhammed is a mercy of G-d.
And every ayat of the Qur’an is a mercy from G-d to man.
The Qur’an begins with the words: With G-d’s Name, the Merciful Benefactor, Mercy in Ar-Rahmaan. The Merciful Redeemer, Mercy in Ar-Raheem.
So this is the way we should understand our religion.
Our religion comes to make life better. Our religion comes to help people. Our religion comes to save people from mistreatment.
Mistreatment that comes mainly from those who would dominate them, as a god over them.
And we have no G-d but G-d.
And G-d says: And the worst for of oppression is shirk. And shirk means associating a god with the G-d. Making The G-d not one, but saying this is also a god, “Yes there’s a G-d who did all of this, but pharaoh is god”.
No, there’s only one G-d. The One that did all this in skies, and in the earth. That’s the only G-d.
And that message liberates the people. That message liberates the human being in every aspect of his life.
It frees his hands. It frees his eyes, it frees his intelligence. It frees his heart.
It frees the whole being so that he can get the best of the life that he finds himself with, when he’s born from his mother here on this earth.
The best of that life. The best that that life promises.
- Imam W. Deen Mohammed – Harvey IL 05-29-98
As-Salaam-Alaikum!
We have to move beyond the mind-set of being powerless to learn the Holy
Qur’an.
It is truly profound that the mercy of Allah had this article posted three days before the passing of Imam W.D. Mohammed from 1998. It is a simple message, but also very profound in the acknowledgement of this life we are blessed to have in the Deen of Al-Islam. A sobering (& joyful) reminder to us all,
Salaams and thanks
It is a reminder that the rational-minded liberated free thinker in religion has the G-d given right to have religious freedom. A reminder that there (Is) only one G-d who is the Creator of (ALL) things. There are still too many religious leaders of other faiths who want to perpetuate that old dilapidated idea that a play on the emotions and untruth , is your only way to have salvation. The rightly guided proper thinking individual must come out of the comfort zone . One really important beginning is to learn the Qur’an in Allah’s language to begin remaking yourself, then move out into the community level to start helping to “Remake the World” as taught by our beloved leader, Imam W. Deen Muhammad.