Sermons on Waqf-e-Nau — Page 11
'How absurd!' Says Allah. 'How can you learn to love Allah from idols? They are neither capable of following someone nor are they worthy of being followed. Love of God can be learned from someone who has been taught how to love God by God Himself. ' And then Al- lah tells the Holy Prophet SaW to say: 'If this is your claim [that you want to love Allah] then follow in my footsteps because Allah has taught me how to love Him. You cannot learn to love Allah by following the idols'. Perfect love for Hadhrat Muhammad saw and the teaching of perfect obedience to him saw : Allah has described the love of Hadhrat Muhammad saw or we should say has described his way of obedience at an- other place in the Holy Quran. The verse begins with '0 my people. . . '. It is being said to Hadhrat Muhammad Mustafa saw , 'announce to the people, announce to man- kind by saying 0 my people. ' Some commentators of the Holy Quran were perplexed by these words and could not understand why Hadhrat Muhammad saw who had brought the message of absolute Oneness of God, was instructed by Allah to say: (AI-Zumar Ch39 v54)5 '0 my people. . . '. The Promised Messiah as has written about it more than once and explained it in a very so- phisticated and beautiful way. At one place he writes, 'here 'eebadee' means servants not people'. Thus it means 0 Muhammad announce: 0 my servants'. Here lesson in 'following' is given in pic- torial language. When Allah says announce 'ittabioonee' it means, 'love me in a slavish manner. ' 5Translation: Say, '0 My servants who have sinned against their souls. . . ) I