Advice of Scholars - SERVING ISLAM

One coin given for serving Islam today is more thawâb than thousands of coins given some other time. The greatest service to be done for Islam is to get the books of Ahl as-Sunna, which teach îmân and Islam, and to distribute them to villagers and young people. A person who is vouchsafed this fortune must rejoice over it and thank Allâhu ta’âlâ profusely; he is so lucky, so fortunate. It is always a good deed to serve Islam. But at such a time as this, when Islam is weakened, when many efforts are made to annihilate Islam through lies and slanders, it is a much better deed to strive to disseminate the faith of Ahl as-Sunna.

Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam) said to his Companions, ‘You live at such a time that if you obey nine-tenths of Allâhu ta’âlâ’s commands and prohibitions but disobey one, you will perish. You will be tortured! After you, there will come such a time that those who then obey only one tenth of the commands and prohibitions will be saved. ’ [These are written in Mishkât-ul mesâbih, vol. 1, 179th article and in Tirmizi, Kitâb-al Fitan, 79th article. ] It is the present time that the hadîth ash-sherîf points out. It is necessary to struggle against disbelievers, to know those who attack Islam and to dislike them. For disseminating the books and words of the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna, one does not have to be a man of karâma or a scholar. Every Muslim should struggle to do it. The opportunity should not be missed.

On the Day of Judgement, every Muslim will be questioned on this and will be asked why they did not serve Islam. Those who do not strive to distribute the books teaching Islam and those who do not help people and institutions promulgating Islamic knowledge will be tortured very much. Excuse or pretext will not be accepted. Though prophets (’alaihimu ’s-salâm) were the highest and the most superior human beings, they never looked after their own comfort. In disseminating Allâhu ta’âlâ’s religion, the way to endless bliss, they strove day and night. To those who asked for miracles they replied that Allâhu ta’âlâ created miracles, and their duty was to communicate Allâhu ta’âlâ’s religion.