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By Ijaz Chaudry
Islam is the
oldest religion in the World! Arabic word Islam in English means Submission.
Therefore all Muslims are submitters; this in turn means that all prophets and
messengers were also submitters, because they submitted to the God’s
revelations. The first Muslim on earth was Prophet Adam. At the time of Adam,
believing in God, believing in Last Day and leading a good life was the only
criteria to follow to be a Muslim (5:69).
This trend
continued with all the Prophets and Messengers who came after Prophet Adam,
until Prophet Abraham arrived. Prophet Abraham was the founder of Islam with the
leave of God, the way it is now.
Since our God
is a Just God, and Quran tells us that the people of Adam were Muslim’s and so
were the people of Abraham. This constitutes the categorisation of “Practicing
and non-practicing Muslims”, i.e. those who observe the rites of Islam as
founded by Abraham and those who do not follow the rites of Islam as at the time
of Adam, respectively.
Since the
Salat, Fasting, Hajj, Zakat came later on after Abraham. The non-practicing
Muslims do not required to observe these rites of Islam. They are only required
to believe in God, believe in Last Day and lead a good life (5:69).
When you read
the Quran, these two categories of Muslims have been made distinct by the word
“righteous” in Arabic which is called “al-mutaqeen” and “good doers” in Arabic
are called “al-khaer/salaheen”. The word righteous in Quran is used each time
when the rites of Islam are implied and the words “good doers” is used when the
rites of Islam are not implied in the verses of the Quran.
Following is
a mathematical confirmation that Hajj is only required by the “righteous”.
(22:27) chapter 22 Pilgrimage (Hajj) verse 27 is describing the modern version
of invitation to Hajj. This verse is especially related to today’s generation
because one form of transport described here by which believers will come to do
Hajj is by exhaustive means of transport, which is fuel driven means of
transport, like planes, cars, buses etc. this indeed is today’s scenario!!
22
27 "And proclaim that
the people (the righteous Muslim’s) shall observe Hajj pilgrimage. They will
come to you walking or riding on various exhausted (means of transportation).
They will come from the farthest locations."
Indeed the
Arabic phrase for “the righteous Muslim’s” is almuslimin mutaqeen. Their
respective geometric values are 261 & 600. When we concatenate these geometric
values with (27:22) we get complete multiple of 19, confirming that this
interpretation is divine and that only practicing Muslim’s are required to do
Hajj and the non-practicing Muslim’s are not required to do Hajj;
22 27 600 261
= 117242119 x 19:
One more
point I would like to make here, which has direct correlation with this subject.
Quran mentions “God’s system” at multiple levels. One such description of “God’s
system” is as follows;
33
38
The prophet is not committing an error by doing
anything that is made lawful by GOD. Such is GOD's system since the
early generations. GOD's command is a sacred duty.
Now how does
this verse apply to this subject? It applies in a very simple but profound way.
God allowed Prophet Adam to practice Islam without rites, and He allowed Prophet
Abraham to practice Islam with the rites. Both these methods of Islam were made
lawful by God. As the verse suggests it is God’s system that whatever He makes
lawful it becomes our sacred duty to obey. Therefore, both religious practices
are valid and good to follow, and it is the individual’s responsibility to
follow which practice he/she would like to follow.
The
disbelievers find Quran difficult to understand; they say there are many
important points missing in the Quran, but look at the verse below;
54
40
We made the Quran easy to learn. Does any of you wish to learn?
We know now why the disbelievers say this. It is because they disbelieve in the
detail of the Quran and they do not believe in the usage of Miracle of 19 in
order to remove doubt. The onus lies with the disbelievers to take interest in
the Quran and wish to learn it!!!