Sermons on Waqf-e-Nau — Page 5
progeny, your future generations, your brothers, your wives, your tribes, your race and the wealth that you have acquired with hard work, and the trades whose loss you fear, your dwellings (houses and palaces) built as you desired are more dear to you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in the cause of Allah then wait till Allah issues His Judgment. That is, a judgment that will prove your love to be false and instead of gaining Allah's love you will become the recipient of His dis- pleasure. He says, Allah does not guide the faasiqeen (disobedient). The Holy Quran has defined 'fisq' and you will not find this definition of 'fisq' in any book of the world. We gen- erally thought that 'fisq' meant to commit a sin or to do something that is clearly disapproved of. But the Holy Quran has included 'fisq' in the discourse on love and declared that absence of love is 'fisq'. It says that after Allah it is mandatory to love Hadhrat Muhammad saw. If you do not love him saw then you are a fasiq. The ques- tion is how not loving (Hadhrat Muhammad SaW ) is re- lated to fisq? The Promised Messiah as has explained this relation. He says that every moment of the life of Hadhrat Muhammad saw was spent in the obedience of Allah. There was not the slightest deviation from it. Had it been otherwise, Allah would not have com- manded us to follow him. Since Allah has ordered us to follow him, we know that each moment of his saw life met with Allah's approbation. Any act that is contrary to Al- lah's obedience is 'fisq'. Thus the Holy Quran has amazingly defined 'fisq' in terms of love: If you do not love Hadhrat Muhammad saw who spent his life striving in the cause of Allah Uihad) , that is, if you do not revere the jihad that he carried on through out his life, then you are like the 'faasiqeen' and wherever you deviate from his sunnah (practice) you commit 'fisq' and Allah does not guide the 'faasiqeen'. 5