Reward
for Conformance and
Punishment for Contravention
In short, a real Muslim is one who, in joy as
well as sorrow, in friendship as well as enmity, in fact, in every stage
of life, may act, keeping the Quran and Hadith and the prophetic pattern
in mind. If there is friendship and love for anyone, it should be purely
with the intention of winning Allah's and His Apostle's pleasure; and if
there is enmity and antagonism against anyone, that too should be for the
sake of Allah and His Apostle. Then disputes too should be settled with
reference to the Quran and the prophetic pattern. If life was lived like
this and in every thing obedience to Allah and the Holy Prophet's
auspicious methods were kept in view, then very great rewards have been
promised for it in the Quran and the Hadith.
Allah Most High will bestow progress, exaltation
and honour in this world. And in the Hereafter, such bounties regarding
which the Holy and Truthful Prophet
has said:
"Neither have eyes seen them nor ears have
heard their description and praise nor their thought has crossed any heart."
Vis-à-vis, very great tortures have been
described in the Quran and the Hadith for those who are disobedient to
Allah and the Holy Prophet .
May Allah Most High, bestowing upon us all the grace to act according to
the Quran and the Sunnah, save us from this disgrace! Amen!
The Blessings and Rewards for Conforming
To The Sunnah
Allah Most Gracious hath promised great rewards
on conformance to the Holy Prophet :
"Say, (O Muhammad to mankind): lf ye love
Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah
is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. Say (O Muhammad) Obey Allah and the messenger.
But if they turn away, lo! Allah loveth not the disbelievers.
(III: 31-32).
For a man of faith and with an appreciative heart,
what blessings could be better and worthy of pride than the Lord Most High
may appoint him as a loved one. But a dormant spirited body unaware of
relish and pleasure of love, strange in this corridor, cannot appreciate
the bounty and can have no sorrow on its deprivation. Only the enlightened
can appreciate value of such love.
Persian couplet:
"This felicity is not achieved by the force of
arm as long as the Munificent Lord may not bestow it."
Those who follow the unlettered prophet (VII-157),
the divine order is that, "They are successful." Here 'success' has been
mentioned as a reward for following the Holy Prophet .
In this material world any one achieving a literary
degree or a certificate considers to have achieved a milestone in life
and guards the precious possession through all his means, even though the
achievements of a mortal world are also mortal. Wealth, affluence, and
honour are transitory and evanescent, much toil and efforts are put in
to achieve prosperity by hook or by crook.
Whereas here we are being asked to follow a being
who is the beloved of Allah (Who hath no partner) and the greatest well-wisher
of all, in short, of the whole humanity; one who for such keen and sincere
well-wishing devoted all his possessions, home, household, family, clan
and his own holy self. We are being asked to follow such a beloved person
and such a benefactor of humanity and for that a certificate of success
in both the worlds is also being awarded.
Divine Punishment in the World and
The Hereafter for Avoiding the Sunnah
Similarly, Allah hath shown His wrath for turning
away from the Sunnah and disobeying it. Saith Allah Most High: -
And whatsoever the messenger giveth you,
take it. And whatsoever he forbiddeth abstain (from it). And keep your
duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is stern in reprisal. (LIX: 7)
O ye who believe! Obey Allah and His
messenger, and turn not away from him when ye hear him (speak). Be not
as those who say, We hear, and they hear not. Lo! the worst of beasts in
Allah's sight are the deaf, the dumb who have no sense. Had Allah known
of any good in them He would have made them hear, but had he made them
hear they would have turned away, averse.
Here the believers are ordered to obey Allah and
the Holy
and to give up opposition to them; and they are also ordered not to create
similarity with the unbelievers who say that they hear but in fact they
do not hear anything.
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