SPIRITUAL DETERMINISM AND DIVINE LAWS RELATED TO MUSLIM OBEDIENCEEssential Knowledge for Muslims Leaders

Omar Zaid, M.D.

Lecture for Insaniah Medical Students Course: Islamic Revealed Knowledge

Insaniah Medical School Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia

2012

The results of failure:

WHY?

Perplexity

Benefit Harm

Positive Outcome Thought &

Action IDEAS &

INTENTION Consciously

With DILIGENCE, CLARITY & INSIGHT

For Good

Spiritual Laws

Negative Outcome

Thought & Action IDEAS &

INTENTIONConsciously or notMINUS DILIGENCE, CLARITY & INSIGHT

For Evil (NB: ignorance only helps evil)

Principles of Spiritual DeterminismFEAR OF GOD -- OBEDIENCE TO GOD --

REMEMBRANCE OF GOD

WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE

Inverse Opposites

OBEDIENCE

is the essentialcomponent of

The Law of Husbandry

i.e.

Maintenance vs. Decay

Obedience vs. Disobedience

If leaders do not consciously attend to diligence, whatever he/she possesses and governs

will prematurely decay

Accelerated aging from drug use Accelerated Urban Decay from Neglect

Instantaneous Acceleration of Decay in Iraq (Destruction)

If leaders do not diligently seek Allah’s guidance and protection as husband-men and

women of their followers, premature decay will surely come.

THE LAW OF NEGLECT

This law is implicit in the thermodynamic principle of ENTROPY or tendency in nature towards disorder, best described as a return to the primal energy state of CHAOS unformed, created potential).

Here we have man’s call to work (i.e., ‘to act’) in order to maintain and or improve upon whatever we acquire by God’s grace; whether it is material or spiritual.

Without diligent maintenance a marriage will sink just as easily as a poorly tended aircraft falls from the sky.

The ‘Law of Neglect’ is the inverse or ‘default determinant’ of the ‘LAW OF HUSBANDRY’.

Key Words LAW OF HUSBANDRY (Neatness/Cleanliness/Order/Beauty) Knowledge -- Diligence -- Skill -- Action

Possess -- Maintain -- Protect -- Responsibility

Accountability -- Preservation -- Sustainability

LAW OF NEGLECT (Shabby , Unkempt, Disorder, Unattractive)

Decay (aging) -- Premature -- Accelerated

Entropy -- Chaos -- Power -- Energy

Apathy -- Laziness -- Ignorance -- Sanctimony ?

Carelessness -- Forgetfulness -- Abandonment

Premature Destruction/ Decay of that which is created By Al’Mussawir

Inverse RelationshipRate of Change

No Middle GroundWithout divine intervention

e.g. Al’Kidir Jesus

LAW OF HUSBANDRY (obedience)

Knowledge -- Diligence -- Skill -- ACTION

Possess -- Maintain -- Protect

LAW OF NEGLECT (Disobedience = Sin)

Decay (aging) Premature Accelerated

Return to Entropy Chaos Unformed Power -- Energy

Destruction of that which is created, formed/shaped By Al’Mussawir

Autonomy, Dominion, Dignity, Peace & Security

And indeed We did try Solomon and We placed on his throne Jasadan (a devil, so he lost his kingdom for a while) but he did return (to his throne and kingdom by the GRACE OF ALLAH and he did return) to Allah with OBEDIENCE AND IN REPENTANCE.

(Ch 38:30-40 Quran)

key to restoration is REPENTANCE (TAUBA)

loss of

Husbandry is a responsibility incumbent most especially upon leaders (Imams).

Neglect at any level of human activity fails to conserve economy and effectively utilize resources (God’s Grace Gift), which then causes the waste of accelerate decay – a thing which Allah hates.

When leaders are not vigilant their divinely imposed liability actually increases because:

- waste and environmental destruction increase- crimes of the citizenry also increase. WHY?

because otherwise citizens would have little opportunity or cause to

cross the bounds as set by Allah who commanded leaders to enforce

these limitations by offices of AL’HISBAH – Leaders are Responsible

to do their utmost to forbid evil (harm) and assure that which is

good (beneficial).

Husbandry is Hisbah

The Dignity of Man, by Mohd. Hashim Kamali, Ilmiah Pub. 2002, p. 58.

Hisbah is a broad principle of public law that entitles everyone to take a vigilant (due diligence) attitude towards corruption and abuse … The head of state and government officials are under an obligation [to be obedient] … and to discharge their trusts faithfully and justly:

No servant of God to whom God has made custodian over others dies without this predicament:

God will forbid the countenance of paradise to him if he has died while betraying those who were in his custody. Muslim, Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim, p.329, # 1226

This applies to husbands (Imams) who lie to wives and/or neglect them and their children.

Allah SWT intended for Islam to prevent human neglect and recurring social disorder and decay by perfectly designing the Islam of Prophet Mohammad (pbh) to preserve civilization.

Hence, Islam is the perfected guide of human Husbandry.

The Law of Submission

Those who do not submit to God submit to misguidance.

Hence, there is no divine help for them.

Even if thou (O Muhammad) desirest their right guidance, still Allah assuredly will not guide him who misleadeth [leaders who lie]. Such have no helpers. [An-Nahl, vs. 37]

People With No Help From Allah

The Qur’an says that Allah

gives such people jinn for

walliyah.

Such people receive no help

from God, neither in this world

nor on the Day of Judgment.

Temporal respite is the only

grace available to them -- a

hopeless situation filled with

endless trouble.

Exceptions :

compliant servants of

righteous men &

women;

communities

submitted to such

people:

Divine Help No Divine Help

MEDINA EXAMPLE OF SUBMITTED POLITY

When Meccan army of 10,000 attacked, Allah caused a severe storm to discourage , disorient and dissuade them from their purpose.

Had this not happened, they would have bridged the ditch.

COMMUNITY UNDER MISGUIDED LEADERSHIP:

BAGHDAD (twice)

In the day of Genghis Khan

In the Day of George Bush

Palestine you may ask?

Like Omar Mukhtar, they await a concerted effort by the Muslim Ummah whose leadership is presently misguided. This is but a trial, a test for all Muslims.

The Misguided

Those who perform ritual but

take little thought of moral

imperatives beyond their

paycheck. These folk do not

live their faith with ‘conviction’ they are like the ‘Desert

Arabs’.

decent people who follow commonly acceptable patterns of living but seek not the things or knowledge of God with due diligence.

They rarely pray with comprehension or they attend communal prayers often not knowing what they recite or why they recite and accept the illusion of safety that conformity provides.

The Law of Submission:Conclusion

Complacent communities that do not rise to the command (i.e., Guidance) of preventing evil (hisbah) or migrate from its dominion (hijrah) will certainly not be spared the judgment of ‘God’s Hammer’ : No Divine Help

The Law of Faithfulness

If a people are unfaithful in prayer or in sustaining

the welfare of the poor and helpless or in the

enjoining of good and the forbidding of evil, God

will substitute another people in their place.

“If you turn your backs, God will substitute another people for you who will not be like you.” (9: 38)

implication

Faithless Leaders and/or People will be replaced at the discretion of Almighty

Allah swt

This same substitution (replacement) happens in marriage, in business and professionally

so why not in religion?

“Turning the back” is cowardice in the face of an enemy.

We admire even the brave heathen who dies facing his enemy; hence, what can be said for Muslims who neglect Al’Hisbah or join the ranks of God’s enemies?

Generally speaking, Muslims are faithful to prayer but evidence for their attendance to social welfare through justice by ensuring good and preventing evil is not readily admissible.

Points to Ponder God is the most

serious of business partners and has no intention of supporting the metaphysical usury of His contract with His slaves.

This is why He promises guidance only to the sincere of heart.

Faithfulness has no substitute or compromise.

Ask your spouse or consider what would happen if the sun went a-lusting after planets in the next solar system!

The Law of MercyUnless a man is amenable to self-reproach, empathy and compassion, he cannot receive

God’s mercy.

God’s Mercy is Contingent Prophet Isa (Jesus) said it

differently: “unless a man is regenerated from above, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven’ …

or … ‘love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Mercy is the grace-gift of ‘forgiveness and restoration (i.e., restitution)’

** ‘Born-Again’ is a common and popular mistranslation for ‘regenerated (purified) from above’

a man’s repentance or remorse for the error of his way;

a similar empathy towards his fellows;

and reverence for his superiors.

Gravitation to Earth = Materialism The Relation of Faithfullness to Mercy

SIN abject immersion in

materialism without the countering restraint of spiritual truth.

manifest in the Law of Gravity:

i.e. without the Spirit or God’s ‘Word of Command’ as an opposing force , the entire Universe would collapse into a gigantic black hole.

It is now known as the ‘Dark Energy’: an energy field so huge it dwarfs all previously calculated energy in the physical universe.

IBRAHIM & FITRAH Upon reaching the age of reason,

a man will look to the stars and incline himself to things beyond the confining principles of dense material as did Ibrahim.

without actualizing the spirit of remorse for either the loss of divine principles or memory of pre-incarnate existence, (fitrah)

he either forgets the stars or uses them to apologize for continued error like astrologers and magi;

whereupon he continues with pleasures of material gains under imagined auspices.

REMORSE & MERCY

a man of faith will experience profound remorse for his lack of spiritual guidance and will begin his search for God.

In response to this activation of faith, in mercy, God runs to meet this man and reveals Himself for the sole purpose of the man’s restoration to His Kingdom.

The man of faith continually and quickly turns in repentance after every error or sin, upon which God forgives and restores the man to His Grace in mercy, according to sincerity.

GRACE & REPENTANCE

Each time a person turns in repentance to seek God’s forgiveness and mercy they seek the restoration of lost grace.

if a man lacks understanding, each time he turns his query to God with a sincere heart God grants an answer according to the man’s ability.

Hypocrisy (i.e., Insincerity), Ignorance & Repentance: their relationship to Mercy

INSINCERITY

The practice of daily prayers is the discipline that should help us to acquire mercy continually, but because of hypocrisy (insincerity) and ignorance (prayer without understanding) it fails because the Lord requires an informed sincerity of heart rather than the vain ambition of beggars.

Allah requires an informed sincerity of heart

and not the vain ambition of untutored beggars ‘gravitating to the earth’ while desiring material ‘things’ rather than the mercy of God’s forgiveness and the inspiration of knowledge that improves his/her ability to attain and maintain human dignity with skill (action) and equanimity – an estate which Allah grants in Mercy.