"If only you had said something to us, if only you had heard something from us"
✍🏻Gul Raza Rahi Arriyavi
Islam is a pure religion; it always teaches humanity. It is a message of guidance for the entire human world. Its clear message shakes human nature and invites to the path of truth. Its laws are based on justice and equity.
Islam has provided guidance in every field of human life and has given complete rights to everyone—rights that other religions did not provide or were lenient about. Islam's message is present in every field; no thirsty person will remain without a drink. When Islam arrived, people, seeing its universal glory and high, pure character, began to enter the fold of Islam in groups. Impressed by the truthfulness and honesty of Islam, they began to present themselves in the Prophetic court to accept Islam because here everyone was receiving their rights, and the voice of the oppressed was being heard.
Those who study Islam completely, study it with the right perspective, and understand it for the purpose of guidance, come close to Islam, know it, and understand it; then they accept Islam. Because this tavern is such, O Cup-bearer, that no one remains thirsty.
The battle between truth and falsehood is an ancient tradition. Therefore, whenever Islam is propagated, the truth becomes clear, the message of truth reaches the people, and the forces of falsehood begin to tremble. This group has always been opposed to Islam and has been an obstacle to the progress of Islam. How can they digest the fact that Islam is progressing? So, they try to stop Islam through various methods and different deceits, spreading false rumors and fake news, just as happened regarding the martyrdom of Hazrat Usman and the news of your passing spread during the Battle of Uhud. This group always acts so that seekers of truth never come near it, just as Abu Jahl, Utbah, Shaybah, and Abu Lahab used to do.
From Nuh (AS) to you (peace be upon him), all prophets gave the message of truth, delivered the message of the Lord, trained humans, reformed psychology, and corrected the deviance of the inner self. But those who were stubborn, in whose nature were deceit and fraud, who did not have the capacity to accept the truth, and wanted to spend their lives in darkness, Islam bothered them. Therefore, they do not believe in Islam and remain in arrogance and enmity. Islam becomes an obstacle to their desires and keeps them away from everything that is harmful to humans, which is why they do not like the message of Islam. They do not want the message of Islam to reach far or be propagated. So, they try to defame and stop Islam through various paths. What did the ill-natured and evil-minded people not do to other prophets? They broke mountains of oppression; this is clearly present in the true books of history and Islamic books.
Although prophets are the most sacred beings on this earth, the ignorant made the earth narrow for them.
Bringing the teachings of Islam, the Last Prophet, the Master of the Universe (peace be upon him), arrived in the world. He invited humans to Islam, delivered the message of the Quran, taught humanity, and stopped wrong things. Then a group of opponents of Islam (who consider the religion and faith of their ancestors as the truth) targeted Islam and troubled the companions of the Last Prophet in various ways, practiced oppression, participated in every illegal act, martyred many innocent lives, and many companions lost their lives and drank the cup of martyrdom. This is a long story of Islam, until the Muslims were forced to migrate and they came to Madinah leaving Makkah. They wanted to live here in peace; but they did not let the Muslims live in peace even in Madinah, so the confrontation began. As a result, many Ghazwas (battles) took place. The Jews, Christians, infidels, and polytheists together tried to overpower Islam. Many battles were fought; but truth had to prevail, so it did. The message of truth became common, falsehood was overpowered, until falsehood was erased.
The Holy Quran has made it clear that falsehood wants to blow out the light of Allah with its breaths, and Allah will complete His light even if the disbelievers find it unpleasant.
(Surah At-Tawbah)
The light of God laughs at the movement of infidelity;
This lamp cannot be blown out with breaths.
The message of Islam reached the people and became common because truth remains clear.
In every era, battles have been fought against Islam; wars have been waged against it. Along with physical attacks, intellectual attacks have always occurred against Islam. The onslaught of falsehood continued in various ways—sometimes through the sword, sometimes through speech and expression, and sometimes through wrong ideologies of vision and disbelief, attempts were made to stop it; but its followers increased day by day. The group of Jews and Christians has already been opposed to Islam, but since the infidels became their supporters and the Jews and Christians helped them openly, they also grew wings. They considered themselves great and came into the field for confrontation. This group of deniers, who are seated on the throne in our India, is also at war. The fear is that they might be part of the same group, as the incident regarding Samiri and the calf is present in the Quran; they used to worship it. The current ruling party and its supporters also worship it, so in some form, these people are related to it. Since two of the 12 tribes had disappeared and could not be searched for at that time, and research could not be done on it, it is also possible that the group exists in this form, because in nature and culture, if not complete similarity, then almost complete similarity is found.
Anyway! Even if the current ruling group does not belong to that tribe, there is no doubt that it is walking on the same path (Marg), and action is being taken on its footprints.
In the country of Syria, the Shias killed the people of truth and practiced oppression and coercion on them. On the land of Hijaz, they ended the Ottoman Empire and placed their supporters and companions there so that they could work on the sacred land of Hijaz according to their wishes. In a few years, the royal decisions there reflect Jewish thought. Then in other countries, the Jews and Christians established their rule and tried to make the entire nation their slaves; but Islam never accepted slavery and always stood firm before it, even if without friends or help, even if without means; but it never agreed with their ideology. This is the reason why for centuries, unrest has been prevalent on the land of Palestine, and the enemies of Islam have unjustly killed the lovers of Islam, practiced oppression and coercion, populated the gallows, reddened their land with the blood of these holy souls, orphaned children, and emptied the laps of mothers. Even in such concerning conditions, some people of our beloved country, instead of mourning their lives, celebrated and provided proof of being satanic agents. This was bound to happen because light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance, the righteous and the wicked can never be sympathizers of each other.
Even today, the effort continues to make two Islamic countries fight each other, and their differences and disputes increase. This is the reason why, despite having 57 Islamic countries, these heads of state never gathered for the protection and survival of Muslims, and in those areas where their Muslim brothers are in small numbers and oppression is practiced on them, they did not stand up for them. What happened to Andalusia? How were mountains of coercion broken on the Muslims there? How was the 800-year rule destroyed by a conspiracy of just a few years? Today, the places of worship are very silent; they have been converted into churches. They are populated today by satanic disciples; mosques are desolate. That magnificent, tall building of Cordoba is crying today and giving its plea that there was a time when it was the center of God's remembrance and the axis of God's memory, and today it is the center of rebels against God.
In the current era, the same thing is happening in our beloved country today as happened in Andalusia. How campaigns were launched against scholars there, here too there is an attempt to disgrace them. There, poison was spewed through various excuses to make people hate scholars; that is happening here too. News of the deaths of scholars and Imams is becoming the grace of the news every day. Objections were raised against the law of Islam, and by declaring Islam a religion far from humanity, the people there were converted to false religions. Today, the same is happening here. Political awareness has been ended; here political existence is on the last stage of ending. To distance people from worship, what was done to the mosques there, here ancient mosques have been populated for centuries; by telling lies, mosques were martyred overnight.
Even today in the country, a group of opponents and enemies who hate Islam tries to call the law of Islam wrong and tries to prove that Islam is a baseless religion and the religion we follow is a true religion. Although there is no reality to it, rather the matter is the opposite; it is a mold established on a wrong ideology. And an attempt is also made to spread the misunderstanding that Islam is a 1400-year-old religion that spread by the force of the sword, although this is not correct.
Islam has been there since the world was populated, as the entire history tells its story. Under this pretext, it is also said that Islam wants war and has spread by the force of the sword; there is no reality to this either. When you read history yourself, you will know that war was imposed on Islam, so war happened; otherwise, Islam always gives a message of peace. Today, when Muslims are weak everywhere, Islam is still spreading. Although if the claim were correct, Islam would not be spreading today. Islam spreads through its true teachings, human rights, and good character.
In our beloved country today, there is not only a physical attack on Islam and Muslims, but an ideological onslaught is also ongoing. Those Muslims who are simple-minded, who have not read anything, who are just attached to the name Muslim and live in the homes of Muslims, poison is being poured into their minds against Islam so that they turn away from Islam. For this, an easy solution has been found in today's time; there are various types of it, and many organizations are working for it.
I mention it briefly.
One group is that which is extremist and biased. It tries to show that it is committed to its religion in every way, but its daily complaints contradict this. Those complaints that shame humanity. That group which makes various claims, looks for idols in the House of God, and is razing the houses of God to the ground merely on the basis of hatred, and levels various allegations—that is it.
Some people of this same group trouble the general public, beat them, give statements against them, kill them, and trouble them in various ways. Seeing Muslims causes a kind of pain; they never hesitate to make any kind of attack on them and kill them as soon as they get a chance or start troubling them. If a defense is made, the poor person is called a traitor and a jihadi; they are not even aware of the literal and internal meaning of this word.
One group is that which is the leader of the ruling party, and it gives a message of peace and security outside; but it practices oppression and excess with the people of its own country and makes every effort to damage historical heritage.
The third is that which is populated on television, sitting and spewing poison against Muslims and conducting programs against Muslims, raising objections to Islamic laws and trying to call them wrong. Films and movies are made against it, trying to give wrong messages, and they give statements against scholars. They are called by various names and remembered with such low and disgraceful words so that suspicion against them arises in the hearts of people and hatred is created in the heart.
One group is that which looks like Muslims, calls themselves Muslims too, but they are unsuccessful in it because truth is bought and lies are sold, so these people sell lies. In every situation, they stand with falsehood, support it, and always appear against Muslims in every matter and always support them. One group is in between; they also try to wash their hands in the flowing Ganges so that some benefits and favors can be obtained, but they are having to face disgrace. These have not even been well-wishers of their own religion; rather, they want their chair, their power, or the people working under its influence who were mentioned work for their own interests. For this reason, they have no concern for the public and are always busy trying to cause chaos. What conditions are you going through? What trouble do you have? What things do you need? They have no concern with this.
The educational condition is so bad that it is indescribable. People have drowned in ignorance to such an extent that the element of research has now ended within them. They just trust what they have heard on television or seen regarding the news and, considering it the final decision, they think it is the truth, which is not correct because the era is also one of selling one's conscience.
The acting that was once done to promote culture and civilization is today wearing the garb of religion and is busy in the propagation of its ideology and tries to defame a specific group.
In recent days, some movies have been broadcast that target a specific group and try to tell simple-minded Muslims that these things are wrong in Islam. For those who are not Muslims, an attempt is made to make them hate Islam and Muslims. Some films that have come, including "The Kerala Story" and "Hijab" and other such movies in which Islam is publicized. Even the great spokespersons of the beloved country encourage watching such films; they are very free.
A few days ago, a film named "Halala" came to light. Some people are talking about giving their money for tickets to see it. Although they will not help the weak, they will find it there, but they need curses. In this film, an attempt was made to show that Islam oppresses women, the idea of divorce in Islam is not correct, life is ruined, there is an invitation to adultery in Islam. And it was also tried to show that Muslims are established on the ideology of their ancestors, and the people who know the religion, who know the Quran and Hadith, who are scholars—if said in their language, the "Moulvis" know nothing and they present themselves to promote Halala, and language is used against them. And in the end, it is shown how the Moulvis took Halala for their own benefit and stop people from Vande Mataram, although there is room for it in the religion. They try to say all this, that scholars have made fools of Muslims. All this is dishonesty, lack of culture, and misleading talk. Then finally, a Muslim girl is made to fall in love and marry a Hindu boy; the wall of religion is broken. This is against basic principles. Those people who are playing the roles are not Muslims who have real knowledge of Islam and are aware of its laws and have complete perception of permissible and impermissible things. They try to show that divorce has no reality in Islam; these have been fabricated by Moulvis. Although this basic thing cannot be rejected even rationally, let alone being rejected in other ways.
Divorce is an issue of the Quran; its details are also present in the Hadiths, and it is also mentioned in the Quran. When, why, and how divorce should be given—all these messages are present in detail.
What will be the effect if divorce is given unnecessarily? If there is embarrassment after giving divorce, what will happen in that case? The fact is that the rights Islam has given to women have not been given by any other religion. The regulation of divorce is fixed. To whom can you give divorce? When can you give it? In what conditions can you give it? How much can you give? What should be done before the turn of divorce comes so that the matter does not reach divorce? These are all regulations. If they are acted upon, the matter will not reach complete divorce. But in this film named "Halala," all these things were ignored and every effort was made to defame the scholars. Therefore, I want those people who do not know about Islam, instead of understanding Islam from television, to study it themselves, read it themselves, and try to understand every message with practical wisdom. And I want to make it clear that promoting Halala in Islam is not correct; rather, if someone performs a marriage with this condition, they have been cursed. A woman has freedom that if the husband has divorced her, whatever the reason, she can marry again and stay happy; there is no need to come back to the first husband.
In this lies the honor of the woman. If the woman wants to come back at all, there are regulations for it: that woman, after completing the Iddah, marries another man; that husband gives a divorce of his own will; then after completing the Iddah, she marries the first husband. This is at the time of extreme necessity. Otherwise, in the case of giving one or two divorces, the husband is commanded to return (Ruju) before the woman completes the Iddah. Then if Ruju was not done and the Iddah was completed, that woman became "Baina," meaning now the husband will have to marry again. The effort is that the home should not be ruined without marrying another man.
This is an Islamic method that should not cause any trouble to people of other religions. But some people have a passion for interfering in the laws of other religions. Therefore, the grief for all women, although these same people take the lead in staining the honor of women. Daily rape cases are clear proof; some commit rape with a three-year-old innocent girl and they talk about civilization. Such things do not look good coming from the mouths of such people.
In the film named "Halala," all these things were hidden; Islamic civilization was not shown completely. How could they show it? In the clean and transparent mirror of Islam, their own faces look stained, so they tried to blacken the mirror of Islam.
Halala does not mean that if the husband has given a divorce, she should immediately go to someone, have intercourse with him, and immediately come back to the old husband. There is nothing like that. Her marriage takes place with another man, and it is not told to him that this is Halala. If it is the woman's wish that she comes back to the first husband, then after marrying the second man, she takes a divorce, completes the Iddah, then marries the first husband, as mentioned above. And this is done for the betterment of the woman so that the husband's self-respect is hurt and the thought of divorce does not come to mind again. But it was shown in a wrong way, and whoever has tried to show this deceit is not doing right; rather, they need to understand the message of Islam from the correct angle.
What is said nowadays, that the new generation has moved far ahead, has moved far ahead in intellect and awareness—this is not correct. Their capability has become so superficial that they are unable to understand the wisdom of their religious commands and are unable to read its details because they do not read, they watch. It is not necessary that what you are seeing is also like that in reality, because this era is one of deception and delusions; here deceit and fraud are sold and bought.
When this generation is not reality-conscious and wants to break the religious chain by following others, then it is clever but also foolish because this nation does not read but, just getting emotional and taking wrong decisions, gets cut off from religion. And the result that comes is before everyone: that in just a few months or years, that girl is left alone or becomes a corpse or a living corpse. Daily incidents are witnesses to this. This is not a good thing; rather, religion is a path (Marg) that shows people the way and teaches the distinction between right and wrong.
Therefore, those who have done this and make movies of this kind—the actors, actresses, and its directors—all these are harmful to this country, rather to any religion. Negative messages should be avoided; otherwise, everyone will suffer because humans are fickle-minded.
People should reflect on this and study Islamic history completely; only then will you find out what Islam is. What is shown and what is it? What is reality and what is fiction? What is run on television is not correct; it is wrong in every way because today is the era of lies, of hatred, of provocation, of incitement. Still, they trust it; here everyone sees the naked dance of your emotions; everyone has to cook their own bread.
This beloved country, which you and I can call a democratic country, we call it a secular country too; the law and constitution are also apparently equal for everyone; but until today, it has never been acted upon. Always using this law as a support, Muslims were targeted and oppression was practiced, their religion was defamed, and they were supported on the basis of majority. Members of the government also kept supporting such people. The people in power have been unsuccessful so far in maintaining peace and security; the supremacy of law has not been possible so far.
If any mistake is committed by Muslims, they are immediately punished or such action is taken against them as if they were the only criminals. And if, contrary to this, someone else is involved in such works, the law is silenced; significant action is not taken against them; they are free from it.
They just think that today the government is ours, it will remain forever, we will always keep doing what we want; although this has never happened and never will, because the world is made of the warp and weft of existence and non-existence. Every existence implies non-existence, but every non-existence does not imply existence, because the knowledge of all non-existence is non-existence before us.
This is the world; here conditions keep changing, time keeps changing, people keep changing, there remains a difference of ideologies. This is a system made by God; this universe is also under His control, and everything is running by His command. So He will always maintain His message and will keep illuminating Islam until the Day of Judgment. And it will not happen that Islam is completely ended; Hadiths give a clear message on this, and the message of the Quran is open in this regard.
Understand this, that Muslims are loyal to this country, they love the beloved country, and this is nature. Doubting someone's nature is equivalent to doubting your own nature. Proofs are not asked for things that are natural. And if there is any such person who is anti-country, whatever religion he belongs to, take action with investigation; let it not be that your hand is stained with the blood of some oppressed person.
My request is that you develop the element of research yourself. Every person involved in the matter should be referred to. It is not appropriate to trust others because today is the era of deception. Those who are in the pursuit of defaming someone, I request them to walk on the path of truth. Neither do wrong yourself, nor let anyone do wrong. Live in peace, give the message of peace.
Ending the talk with a complaint:
You told others, you heard from others.
If only you had said something to us, if only you had heard something from us.