For a man, the best way to start or initiate a piece of work is its inception with the name of Allah almighty. Allah is the treasure of all kinds of blessing. This immortal treasure is always brimful. The beginning of something with the name of Allah is equivalent to pray to Allah to come to our help and unleash His unending mercies on us so that we may get completion of the task to our entire satisfaction and draw benefits from it which go a long way in our salvation in this world and the hereafter. This is an acknowledgement on the part of man that Allah is omnipresent, all powerful and the sole constituent of our fate, our life and death, our bread and butter, and sole creator of this universe which is thought-provoking for mankind and serving it in a systematic and well managed way. When we accept that Allah is creator and the whole universe inclusive of man is His creation, It means that divine guidance, divine law and divine will is supreme and justified to prevail rather than self or ego of man or those of so-called superpowers or economic powers. Moreover, it is an established fact appealing to us that a creator is always in love with his creation as parents, especially, mother has a great love for her children and leaves no stone unturned to provide them with all the necessities for their success and protection. In the same way, Allah almighty loves humanity and has made all arrangements and systems for their success, guidance and protection by sending His prophets and messengers as practical examples. That is why, Allah is worthy of all praises, all prayers and all worships. Allah has been lasting since ever and will last forever. He is the eternal source of all sorts of knowledge and bestows upon us the amount and quality of knowledge as he wishes. He is the sole master of everything, within the earths and skies and beyond, even within and beyond our conception. None is there to challenge and share His sovereignty. He knows everything explicit and implicit. He is well aware of our intentions behind our deeds. He always keeps the doors of forgiveness open for us because He is the most beneficent to His creatures. He extends His benevolence even to those who do not believe Him. Allah almighty adores cleanliness, chastity and generosity. Only He has the power to give us an urge to seek the truth and follow the right path leading to make us humane for humanity and honour the justice and fair play without discrimination. It is binding upon us to be humble before Allah and before our fellow beings because humbleness and modesty are dear to Allah, whereas pride and arrogance cause His wrath and annoyance. Common points of all the religions stress upon us to be obedient to Allah, serve the humanity and keep praying for His forgiveness. It is said that the best way to remain obedient to Allah is that we should lead each day of our life as if we are going to die tomorrow and appear in the court of Allah where we will be held accountable for all our deeds and face unending punishment for our misdeeds and disobedience to Allah. Our observation with open, receptive and unbiased mind reveal the fact that this world is replete with the signs of existence of Allah almighty who controls and smoothly runs the whole universe with foolproof planning. Such a planning at such a large scale is out of scope of human conception. It clearly indicates some supernatural phenomenon by a supernatural power and that power is not else than Allah almighty. In ancient times when wisdom, reasoning, scientific knowledge and information along with means of communication were limited, It was quite possible that some part of humanity could not recognize Allah almighty. But in recent times with the greatest international exposure of young generation the worldwide, It is likely very easy to recognize Allah almighty and reject the idol worshipping as man's own made idols can not qualify to be worthy of worship. In the same lines, to follow no religion or claiming to be religionless seams having no ground in future as the global person to person interaction spreads through Internet and more and more closed societies are destined to open. In some countries governments ban the people to follow any religion. It is against the basic human rights stressed to guarantee in U.N Charter. In some countries there are some fanatic organisations which target minorities and followers of particular religions. Animals are declared sacred in some societies and are worshipped. With the further openness of societies, such unjustified religious customs will definitely come to an end as sea voyage was considered a sin in a particular religion but now such a belief is not intact. There are some vested interest groups associated with particular religions. They are hardliners who try indoctrination of new generation on the pattern suitable to their monopoly on religion and its followers. The result is that unjustified and out of date religious customs scare some people to come close to the particular religion and compel the governments to interfere to save other people from extreme religious actions. Many times, in Islamic countries, protest against unjustified blasphemy towards the Last Prophet of Allah(Peace Be Upon Him) on the name of so-called freedom of expression poses serious threat to the law and order as people simply demand to end all types of relations with the Countries where such a negative approach is adopted. In this way, a situation of tension develops between government and the general masses. Off and on, a mob attacks a local or a foreigner and beats him to death due to false allegation of blasphemy levelled by a group of people out of personal grudge. Such happenings defame the religions and the lobbies against the religions have pretext to term it as an instrument to divide the people. Christianity, Islam and Judaism are the three divine religions and most popular with common point of monotheism. Then is the Hinduism wherein more than one god are worshipped. The people with no religion or worship of no one are hardly one ninth proportion. And it is also estimated that many of them will definitely accept one of the divine religions if preaching is not banned there. To sum up, Allah is the greatest reality and those who do not believe Him are denying and defying the fact in this scientific age when there is explosion of information everywhere. I am concerned about the segment of humanity who do not believe in Allah. They enjoy the mercies of Allah, but are missing the pleasure and bliss of Allah which is more valuable than anything mundane for our salvation in the hereafter.I personally appeal to such people to ponder over and examine the signs of Allah's existence and take courage to embrace the religion which is the latest and last of the divine religions. May Allah show the right path to each and every human being and shower His blessings on him.
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Author
Muhammad Asif Cheema, retired S.S Govt Comprehensive School Gujrat, Pakistan.
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