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Faizel Patel \u2013 05\/11\/2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The publishing of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has hurt Muslims across the across the globe who have a deep love for Islam and the last prophet of Allah.<\/p>\n Sent as a mercy unto mankind, Prophet Muhammad was the greatest human and personality to have ever set foot on earth.<\/p>\n In Muslims response to the French cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and French President Emmanuel Macron’s defence of the publications of the derogatory caricatures and\u00a0describing Islam as a religion \u201cin crisis\u201d worldwide, Nurul Islam in Lenasia held a programme on Wednesday with esteemed Islamic scholars to disseminate the beauty of Islam and remarkable personality of the leader of all the prophets of Allah (PBUTH).<\/p>\n Speakers included Hazrat Ml Abbas Ali Zubair Ali (db), Hazrat Ml Ebrahim Pandor (db) and Hazrat Mufti Ismail Abduraheem (db).<\/p>\n While all the esteemed personalities conveyed the beauty of Islam and the hurt Muslims are going through by Macron’s comments and the publications of the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Mufti Abduraheem had a profound message for what he said was “to\u00a0the entire universe, Muslims and non-Muslims.”<\/p>\n Mufti Abduraheem requested his address to reverberate across the globe and be shared on every platform.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Below is the full speech of Mufti Abduraheem.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u0628\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0645<\/strong><\/p>\n \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0648\u062d\u062f\u0647 \u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629 \u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u0646\u0628\u064a \u0628\u0639\u062f\u0647<\/strong><\/p>\n Before commencing, I request the audients to send salutations upon our beloved Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad:<\/p>\n \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0645 \u0635\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0646\u0627 \u0648 \u0645\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0648 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644 \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0646\u0627 \u0648 \u0645\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0648\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0643 \u0648 \u0633\u0644\u0645<\/p>\n \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0645 \u0635\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0646\u0627 \u0648 \u0645\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0635\u0644\u0627\u0629 \u062a\u064f\u062d\u0644 \u0628\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0642\u062f \u0648 \u062a\u064f\u0641\u0631\u0651\u062c \u0628\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0631\u0628<\/p>\n I have a few points to make. But due to time constraints I will merely be touching on them for our notice and the notice of the listeners over the air. I request the scholars and professionals in particular to pay attention, whether they are from the Muslim camp or from the non-Muslim camp.<\/p>\n Please bear with me even if takes a few minutes more than usual and listen attentively while turning towards All\u0101h. It is a question of the \u2018Ismat ar-Ras\u016bl<\/em> r (Innocence of our Prophet r). It is an appeal to mankind at large. Perhaps this is the moment of acceptance for one and all.<\/p>\n At the outset I say:<\/p>\n \u201cO Muslims! You are a selected Ummah of All\u0101h. He has created you to convey a message. You are accountable only to All\u0101h and to no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a moment you have to prove that the Prophet r means everything to you. The world should know that you are alive and that the fervour of your Prophet is deeply seated in your heart.<\/p>\n This issue is sensitive and; therefore, it cannot be bypassed lightly by the 1,8 billion Muslim Ummah, nor are they expected to adopt a silent attitude towards it. Certainly, it cannot go unanswered. No one allows people to stifle their Religious Freedom; why should we?\u201d<\/p>\n At the same time, we earnestly request the fair-minded and unbiased non-Muslim listeners, or those to whom my messages will be conveyed, not to distort the material of tonight, and in the same vein to excuse us for our todays response because we expect you also to do the same if Prophet Moses or Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon the two) is insulted, rather we will stand with you. This is one of the million honest an unbiased approach of Isl\u0101m. Today you should stand with us. Our roots are the same, that is, celestial religions of a monotheistic origin. We are fully aware that fair-minded non-Muslims, who are seeking the truth, are being hoodwinked by the conspirators, who are giving a distorted or misrepresented version of Isl\u0101m to them. Todays programme will give you a glimpse of that, too.<\/p>\n The Muslims reserve their full rights to voice their opinions in defense of the innocence of their beloved Prophet r, who is dearer to them than the billions of souls on earth, past and present.<\/p>\n Therefore, firstly, we should note the following verse of the Holy Qur\u2019\u0101n in which All\u0101h has forewarned us explicitly 1500 years ago of the ongoing and unbecoming attitude of the opponents of Isl\u0101m towards All\u0101h and His Messenger r:<\/p>\n \u0644\u064e\u062a\u064f\u0628\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0648\u064f\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0641\u0650\u064a \u0623\u064e\u0645\u0652\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0646\u0652\u0641\u064f\u0633\u0650\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0633\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0639\u064f\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0623\u064f\u0648\u062a\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0643\u0650\u062a\u064e\u0627\u0628\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0642\u064e\u0628\u0652\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0623\u064e\u0634\u0652\u0631\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u0630\u064b\u0649 \u0643\u064e\u062b\u0650\u064a\u0631\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u062a\u064e\u0635\u0652\u0628\u0650\u0631\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u062a\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0651\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0641\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0630\u064e\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0639\u064e\u0632\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064f\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0631\u0650 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIndeed, you <\/em><\/strong>(Muslims) will decidedly be tried in your properties and your persons. And you will hear many annoying statements on behalf of those who were endowed with the Scripture before you and on behalf of the polytheists, too. If you persevere with patience and ward-off evil, then indeed that will be a matter of great \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n First, I touch the issue of Tolerance and Freedom of Speech. I wish to expound both these topics. Please listen carefully. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The first of the two is tolerance and religion: It is amazing to notice how we Muslims are repeatedly reminded of tolerance towards religions while the opponents go about violating the same rule by using offensive language against the Prophet of Isl\u0101m r and hurting the sentiments of the Muslim Ummah. Where is justice? Or can we conclude that there is \u2018something else\u2019 of a worldwide connivance behind the scene that is disturbing them and that is not been expressed<\/u>?<\/p>\n We address the French government that you have only taken advantage of the tolerance of Isl\u0101m. After insidiously causing the damage, insulting our Prophet, traumatizing the young boy \u2018Abdull\u0101h Anzorof and disturbing the Muslim emotions, you are taking shelter under your double-standard Human Rights policy and the label of tolerance, and now conveniently portraying yourselves as an innocent victim. Where is your humanity?<\/p>\n Contrary to your attitude, listen to the Isl\u0101mic message and listen to what my All\u0101h has to say:<\/p>\n \u0647\u064e\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u0646\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0623\u064f\u0648\u0644\u064e\u0627\u0621\u0650 \u062a\u064f\u062d\u0650\u0628\u064f\u0651\u0648\u0646\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064f\u062d\u0650\u0628\u064f\u0651\u0648\u0646\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u062a\u064f\u0624\u0652\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0652\u0643\u0650\u062a\u064e\u0627\u0628\u0650 \u0643\u064f\u0644\u0650\u0651\u0647\u0650<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYes, you <\/em><\/strong>(Muslims) are those who love them <\/em><\/strong>(People of the Book) while they do not love you, though you believe in all the Scriptures.\u201d (Q: 3:119)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This, and similar other commands of the Qur\u2019\u0101n, speak volumes of the just and unbiased approach of Isl\u0101m. It tells the Muslims to believe in all the heavenly Books and Prophets without discrimination. Obviously, besides binding the nations, this approach of the Qur\u2019\u0101n strives to unify the human race under a single concept and philosophy until mutual trust is developed. This has been the thrust of the Qur\u2019\u0101n throughout.<\/p>\n Ab\u016b Hurairah has reported that the Prophet r said:<\/p>\n \u0643\u0648\u0646\u0648\u0627 \u0639\u0628\u0627\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0625\u062e\u0648\u0627\u0646\u0627(O servants of All\u0101h! Live as brothers.)[1]<\/a><\/p>\n The verse makes plain that All\u0101h is \u2018Just\u2019 and loves that the Muslims also should display justice and tolerance in all their social and religious affairs because tolerance is their distinctive mark, even if they are reciprocated differently. \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u064a\u064e\u0639\u0644\u064a \u0648 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u064f\u0639\u0644\u064a (Isl\u0101m always dominates in all legal and moral spheres of life. Isl\u0101m is never dominated upon.)<\/p>\n History testifies that never did any Muslim scoff the beliefs of the non-Muslims, insult their Prophets or make derogative statements against their religious personalities. Never do the Muslims recall the names of Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus without adding \u2018Alayhis Sal\u0101m<\/em> (May peace be on him). Not only are these two Prophets held with high regard by the Muslims, but they are also graded among the five high ranking Messengers of All\u0101h. The same applies to the Old Testaments and New Testament. Yet these facts are grossly overlooked by the People of the Book.<\/p>\n Freedom of Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a strategy worked out smartly to serve your agenda. You have conveniently created this lopsided rule so that it can be used particularly against Isl\u0101m and not against any other religion. This, too, is part of your overall conspiracy. You have planned it for yourselves, knowing well that the Muslims will never use it.<\/p>\n Though you are using the excuse of \u2018Freedom of Speech\u2019 against Prophet Muhammad r, we will never use it against any Prophet. In fact, even a remotest of offensive word against Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus (May abundance of tranquillity descent upon them and may they lie in peace wherever they are) will be intolerable to us because we are Muslims, we belong to a divine religion, thus, are bound by the Isl\u0101mic obligation of respecting every Prophet. This is why never does the names of Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus slip out from the tongue of a Muslim child without he adding \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 (May peace be upon him) in Arabic. This is the training we give our children which you could not even give your teacher Sumuel. This is food for your thought if you have the appetite to digest it. Does this point not make sense to you and your accomplices?<\/p>\n Freedom of Speech is to be upheld as long as it does not insult the sacredness of any religion, yet you conveniently accuse the Muslims for not appreciating freedom of speech.<\/p>\n Speech adds grace and beauty to a person if said within the bounds; otherwise it is a disgrace to him. He is a numb person. He does not belong to civilised human creation.<\/p>\n A person who possesses an impolite and abusive tongue is called feeble-minded. <\/em>This is because he does not find scope to be vulgar but in the company of uncivilised or feeble-minded people like himself.<\/p>\n Only people who have no consideration for others stoop so low. They feel no compunction in hurting the sentiments of others.<\/p>\n This is why Muslim authorities have mentioned that despite the rights to freedom of speech and the use of the pen, these two (pen and speech) are not to be used unconditionally.\u00a0 Freedom is permissible until such times that they are consistent with the norms of ethics, public feelings and principles of religions. Therefore, any statement defaming a religion that may hurt the feelings of its people is not permissible. Such are the\u00a0 Isl\u0101mic ethics that makes Isl\u0101m a unique religion worth recognizing. It is a religion that advocates consideration for others, honesty and high morals.<\/p>\n The essential factor in freedom of speech is the justice of the heart. If a person\u2019s heart is enriched with justice, his tongue will echo that justice; and if the heart is soiled with injustice, the tongue will echo injustice.<\/p>\n Though the Prophet of Isl\u0101m had imparted thousands of advices to his Companions, never did he utter a single word<\/em> injurious to anyone\u2019s feelings. He only disclosed the truth of an event and then left it to the addressees to decide.<\/p>\n This explains that freedom of speech does not mean that a person has a carte blanche to say just whatever he wishes and however he wishes. To consider the sensibilities of the people is equally essential even if there is disagreement in opinion.<\/p>\n We may ask, why is the intelligentsia and why are the serious-minded people in the outside world not asking themselves this question that what is withholding the Muslims from using the same argument of \u2018Freedom of Speech\u2019 in retaliation to the French misbehaviour. Why are the Muslims not using abusive language against other Prophets to settle the score?<\/p>\n They would not ask this question because they know that we Muslims will never stoop so low. We are people of honour and are absolved of any blame. We are obliged to respect Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus, no matter how we are reciprocated?<\/p>\n It is the Isl\u0101mc principle and our conscience that withhold us from behaving inappropriately. We cannot behave as they have behaved. We are accountable to All\u0101h. The man-made law of Freedom of Speech will never drive us to sling mud against any Prophet. And let me spell it more clearly to the listeners that it is these types crystal teachings of Isl\u0101m that have qualified Isl\u0101m as a world religion. It is a religion divine indeed of which are thankful to All\u0101h.<\/p>\n Impoliteness makes people behave ridiculously and irresponsibly because they are bound to no human principles.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n This is what happens that when impoliteness grips a people, they resort to irrational behaviour and even justify rules that are against human integrity.<\/p>\n The attack on the chaste dressing of our sisters is agitating to the French government, but wearing the mask is not. When they are asked why the difference, they say \u2013 although not admittedly of course but by way of guilt – that \u2018when we have lost our courteous ways, you cannot have it either.\u2019<\/p>\n Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad <\/strong>r<\/strong> – the Soul of the Souls<\/strong><\/p>\n But we tell the French government that because of your level of behaviour you are not even capable of comprehending the noble status and personality of Prophet Muh\u0101mmad r. Let me give you a briefing on him.<\/p>\n History has recorded that during the Dark Ages of the pre-Isl\u0101mic era, when all hopes of resuscitating humankind were shattered, All\u0101h raised the Sun of Prophethood from the Valley of F\u0101r\u0101n<\/em> and the Moon of Apostleship that had settled on Thani\u2018atul-Wid\u0101\u2019,<\/em> to bring maturity in the thinking and culture of the people,\u00a0 alter their values of life, salvage them from sinking further and restore hopes in them till Doomsday. Hence, not only did Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad r succeed in bringing an absolute change in the religious sphere of the Arabs of his age, but he also revolutionised the culture and thinking of the generations succeeding him, which was witnessed by the Byzantines, Sassanids and Indians of those days, as much as he had offered a civilised form of life based on ethics worth observing by people of today.<\/p>\n The nations that were tottering down the path of self-annihilation; he raised them to the heights of glory; and the billions who had turned away from their Creator and were living with no purpose in life other than producing and consuming; he instilled in them All\u0101h-consciousness.<\/p>\n All\u0101h said: \u201cO My Messenger r: Offer a peace-plan to My creation for I love them, and convey a potent message to them that their success is only in bowing down to One All\u0101h and in submitting to the message of Isl\u0101m. Isl\u0101m is the religion that will subsist up to Doomsday, no matter how much it will be suppressed or misrepresented. It is a religion of peace for those who would appreciate and make their sojourn of life worth its while.\u201d<\/p>\n Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s r character was immaculate from the day of his birth, to the extent that even before his prophethood, the Arabs used to call him as-\u1e62adiq, Al-Amin<\/em> (the truthful, the trustworthy). They found him to be that \u2018Ideal man\u2019 for whom mankind was waiting from centuries. But then, only after he was endowed with prophethood and the Pagan Arabs \u2018feared\u2019 that Isl\u0101m is destined to rise on the scene of the world, they started to oppose him. The fear was \u2018Isl\u0101m\u2019 and not his personality. Take note.<\/p>\n When the Pagans were asked: \u201cWhen Isl\u0101m is in favour of mankind, its teachings are crystal and it is the only religion of monotheism that is in existing, then what withholds you from acknowledging it? Will Isl\u0101m not bring peace to man and will it not draw the multitude close to their Creator?\u201d They said: \u201cIt will overthrow our culture and dismantle our game plan.\u201d The secret was given out. i<\/p>\n Testimonies of non-Muslim scholars in favour of the Prophet of Isl\u0101m<\/strong><\/p>\n Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s r contribution to mankind and his attainments in this regard is acknowledged even today by the level-minded and wise erudite. They cannot help but admit their indebtedness to this orphan of Amina, who, without a pen in his hand and a tutor on his head educated the unenlightened humanity. Here are a few quotes:<\/p>\n After making a selection of the hundred most influential persons in history and placing the Prophet of Isl\u0101m on the top of the list, the American writer, Michael H. Hart writes in his THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY<\/em>, New York:<\/p>\n \u201cMy choice of Mu\u1e25ammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMu\u1e25ammad must be recognised as by far the greatest of all Prophets, before or after him.\u201d<\/p>\n George Bernard Shaw said:<\/p>\n \u201cIf a man like Mu\u1e25ammad were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would lead it the much-needed peace and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n Diwan Chand Sharma writes in his The Prophets of the East<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u201cMu\u1e25ammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.”<\/p>\n Bosworth Smith writes in his Mohammad and Mohammedanism<\/em>:<\/p>\n “He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue. If ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and its supports.”<\/p>\n\n