Without Mediation

WITHOUT MEDIATION A businessman can walk away from everything but he cannot walk away from his customers. In a similar way, a dayee can tolerate everything but he cannot tolerate going to a secluded place where there are no madus. When he remains among the madus, he may be beset by certain problems, but he overlooks them because he cannot afford to break off his relations with them. Along with tazkiyah, dawah is an equally important goal for the believer. And if a believer is sincere it is not possible for him either to give up his efforts to attain tazkiyah or to give up his dawah activities. WITHOUT MEDIATION The concept of mediation is an obstacle in the path of tazkiyah. When God is closer to man ‘than his jugular vein’ (50:16), why should there be any need for mediation? Consciously or unconsciously, people generally think that tazkiyah requires some mysterious mediation, say, of past saintly figures or great men of learning, or some religious guide who has attained a high degree of spirituality, etc. According to this mysterious concept of mediation, the religious guide (shaikh) himself becomes the goal, or the focus, whereas it is God Who must be at the centre and the position of the religious guide must be purely peripheral, i.e., as a means to an end. The concept of mediation is entirely without foundation. Tazkiyah is attained through contact with God, without any