A Hadith

A Hadith

1991 5-6 May-June 23 A Hadith (305) Many predictions have been made in the books of hadith about the final age, i.e. the immediately preceding Doomsday. One of these has been recorded by Imam Ahmad and other traditionists. “Miqdad narrated that he heard the Prophet saying that no house or hutment would be left where Islam’s Kalimah had not entered. Either God would honour them by bringing them into the fold of Islam on their own, or God would force them.”

This hadith shows that in the last period, Islam will enter into every home. However, what it actually means is that it will be the Kalimah (religion) of Islam which will enter, and not the political power of Islam. Certain people have interpreted this hadith to mean that it will be the political rule of Islam which will bring everyone within its fold. As a result, they are engaged in apolitical battle with the mad‘u all over the world in the name of bringing Islam to the political domination of the world. Thanks to this fertile, political interpretation of Islam, people all over the world are being driven away from Islam.

To make this prediction (i.e. that true religion will enter every home in the final period) a reality, what Muslims must do is invite the mad‘u to God. Muslims must engage themselves whole-heartedly in the task of communicating to all nations of the world the message of monotheism and the life hereafter. They must work towards making the ideological power of Imam a known and established fact, so that those who want to accept its message are enabled to do so, while those who do not cannot say that they were not told the truth.

The culmination of the process of daw‘ah is to have fully communicated Islam to the people, rather the establishment of the political power of Islam.

Three things which must remain inviolate

1991 5-6 May-June 23 Three things which must remain inviolate (13) “A Muslim’s honour, property and blood: no Muslim should violate these things.”

(Hadith)