Spiritual Determinism And Divine Laws Related To Muslim Obedience

1. Spiritual Determinism And Divine Laws Related To Muslim Obedience Essential Knowledge for Muslims Leaders Omar Zaid, M.D. Lecture for Insaniah Medical Students Course: Islamic Revealed Knowledge Insaniah Medical SchoolAlorSetar, Kedah, Malaysia 2012

2. The results of failure: WHY? Perplexity

3. why Bad Things happen to Good People InverseOpposites

4. Obedience is the essential component of The Law of Husbandry i.e. Maintenancevs. Decay Obedience vs. Disobedience

5. If leaders do not consciously attend to diligence, whatever he/she possesses and governs will prematurely decay Accelerated aging from drug use Accelerated Urban Decay from Neglect

6. Instantaneous Acceleration of Decay in Iraq (Destruction) If leaders do not diligently seek Allah’s guidance and protection as husband-men and women of their followers, premature decay will surely come.

7. The Law of Neglect This law is implicit in the thermodynamic principle of entropy or tendency in nature towards disorder, best described as a return to the primal energy state ofchaosunformed, created potential). Here we have man’s call to work(i.e., ‘to act’) in order to maintain and or improve upon whatever we acquire by God’s grace; whether it is material or spiritual. Without diligent maintenance a marriage will sink just as easily as a poorly tended aircraft falls from the sky. The ‘Law of Neglect’ is the inverse or ‘default determinant’ of the ‘Law of Husbandry’.

8. KeyWords Law of Husbandry (Neatness/Cleanliness/Order/Beauty) Knowledge -- Diligence -- Skill -- Action Possess -- Maintain -- Protect -- Responsibility Accountability -- Preservation -- Sustainability Law of Neglect (Shabby , Unkempt, Disorder, Unattractive) Decay (aging) -- Premature -- Accelerated Entropy -- Chaos -- Power -- Energy Apathy -- Laziness -- Ignorance -- Sanctimony ? Carelessness -- Forgetfulness -- Abandonment Premature Destruction/ Decay of that which is created By Al’Mussawir Inverse Relationship Rate of Change No Middle Ground Without divine intervention e.g. Al’Kidir Jesus

9. Autonomy, Dominion, Dignity, Peace & Security Law of Husbandry (obedience) Knowledge -- Diligence -- Skill -- Action Possess -- Maintain -- Protect Law of Neglect (Disobedience = Sin) Decay (aging)  Premature Accelerated Return to Entropy  Chaos  Unformed Power -- Energy Destruction of that which is created, formed/shaped By Al’Mussawir loss of key to restorationis repentance(tauba) And indeed We did try Solomon and We placed on his throne Jasadan (a devil, so he lost his kingdom for a while) but he did return (to his throne and kingdom by the Grace of Allah and he did return) to Allah with obedience and in repentance. (Ch 38:30-40 Quran)

10. Husbandry is a responsibility incumbent most especially upon leaders (Imams). Neglect at any level of human activity fails to conserve economy and effectively utilize resources (God’s Grace Gift), which then causes the waste of accelerate decay– a thing which Allah hates. When leaders are not vigilant their divinely imposed liability actually increases because: - waste and environmental destruction increase - crimes of the citizenry also increase. WHY? because otherwise citizens would have little opportunity or cause to cross the bounds as set by Allah who commanded leaders to enforce these limitations by offices of Al’Hisbah – Leaders are Responsible to do their utmost to forbid evil (harm) and assure that which is good (beneficial).

11. Husbandry is Hisbah

12. The Dignity of Man, by Mohd. HashimKamali, Ilmiah Pub. 2002, p. 58. Hisbahis a broad principle of public law that entitles everyone to take a vigilant(due diligence) attitude towards corruption and abuse … The head of state and government officials are under an obligation [to be obedient] … and to discharge their trusts faithfully and justly: No servant of God to whom God has made custodian over others dies without this predicament: God will forbid the countenance of paradise to him if he has died while betraying those who were in his custody. Muslim, Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim, p.329, # 1226

13. This applies to husbands (Imams) who lie to wives and/or neglect them and their children. Allah SWT intended for Islam to prevent human neglect and recurring social disorder and decay by perfectly designing the Islam of Prophet Mohammad (pbh) to preserve civilization. Hence, Islam is the perfected guide of human Husbandry.

14. Those who do not submit to God submit to misguidance. Hence, there is no divine help for them. The Law of Submission

15. Even if thou (O Muhammad) desirest their right guidance, still Allah assuredly will not guide him who misleadeth[leaders who lie]. Such have no helpers. [An-Nahl, vs. 37]

16. People With No Help From Allah • The Qur’an says that Allah gives such people jinn for walliyah. • Such people receive no help from God, neither in this world nor on the Day of Judgment. • Temporal respite is the only grace available to them -- a hopeless situation filled with endless trouble. • Exceptions : • compliant servants of righteous men & women; • communities submitted to such people:

17. Divine Help No Divine Help Medina Example of Submitted Polity Community under Misguided Leadership: Baghdad (twice) In the day of Genghis Khan In the Day of George Bush Palestine you may ask? Like Omar Mukhtar, they await a concerted effort by the Muslim Ummah whose leadership is presently misguided. This is but a trial, a test for all Muslims. • When Meccan army of 10,000 attacked, Allah caused a severe storm to discourage , disorient and dissuade them from their purpose. • Had this not happened, they would have bridged the ditch.

18. The Misguided • Those who perform ritual but take little thought of moral imperatives beyond their paycheck. These folk do not live their faith with ‘conviction’ • they are like the ‘Desert Arabs’. • decent people who follow commonly acceptable patterns of living but seek not the things or knowledge of God with due diligence. • They rarely pray with comprehension or they attend communal prayers often not knowing what they recite or why they recite and accept the illusion of safety that conformity provides.

19. Complacent communities that do not rise to the command (i.e., Guidance) of preventing evil (hisbah) or migrate from its dominion (hijrah) will certainly not be spared the judgment of ‘God’s Hammer’ : No Divine Help The Law of Submission:Conclusion

20. If a people are unfaithful in prayer or in sustaining the welfare of the poor and helpless or in the enjoining of good and the forbidding of evil, God will substitute another people in their place. The Law of Faithfulness

21. Faithless Leaders and/or People will be replaced at the discretion of Almighty Allah swt “If you turn your backs, God will substitute another people for you who will not be like you.” (9: 38)implication

22. This same substitution (replacement) happens in marriage, in business and professionally so why not in religion? • “Turning the back” is cowardice in the face of an enemy. • We admire even the brave heathen who dies facing his enemy; hence, what can be said for Muslims who neglect Al’Hisbah or join the ranks of God’s enemies? • Generally speaking, Muslims are faithful to prayer but evidence for their attendance to social welfare through justice by ensuring good and preventing evil is not readily admissible.

23. Points to Ponder • God is the most serious of business partners and has no intention of supporting the metaphysical usury of His contract with His slaves. • This is why He promises guidance only to the sincere of heart. • Faithfulness has no substitute or compromise. • Ask your spouse or consider what would happen if the sun went a-lusting after planets in the next solar system!

24. Unless a man is amenable to self-reproach, empathy and compassion, he cannot receive God’s mercy. The Law of Mercy

25. God’s Mercy is Contingent • Prophet Isa (Jesus) said it differently: “unless a man is regenerated from above, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven’ … • or … ‘love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Mercy is the grace-gift of ‘forgiveness and restoration (i.e., restitution)’ • ** ‘Born-Again’ is a common and popular mistranslation for ‘regenerated (purified) from above’ • a man’s repentance or remorse for the error of his way; • a similar empathy towards his fellows; • and reverence for his superiors.

26. Gravitation to Earth = Materialism The Relation of Faithfullnessto Mercy Sin Ibrahim & Fitrah Upon reaching the age of reason, a man will look to the stars and incline himself to things beyond the confining principles of dense material as did Ibrahim. without actualizing the spirit of remorse for either the loss of divine principles or memory of pre-incarnate existence, (fitrah) he either forgets the stars or uses them to apologize for continued error like astrologers and magi; whereupon he continues with pleasures of material gains under imagined auspices. • abject immersion in materialism without the countering restraint of spiritual truth. • manifest in the Law of Gravity: • i.e. without the Spirit or God’s ‘Word of Command’ as an opposing force , the entire Universe would collapse into a gigantic black hole. • It is now known as the ‘Dark Energy’: an energy field so huge it dwarfs all previously calculated energy in the physical universe.

27. Remorse & Mercy Grace & Repentance Each time a person turns in repentance to seek God’s forgiveness and mercy they seek the restoration of lost grace. if a man lacks understanding, each time he turns his query to God with a sincere heart God grants an answer according to the man’s ability. • a man of faith will experience profound remorse for his lack of spiritual guidance and will begin his search for God. • In response to this activation of faith, in mercy, God runs to meet this man and reveals Himself for the sole purpose of the man’s restoration to His Kingdom. • The man of faith continually and quickly turns in repentance after every error or sin, upon which God forgives and restores the man to His Grace in mercy, according to sincerity.

28. Hypocrisy (i.e., Insincerity), Ignorance & Repentance: their relationship to Mercy Insincerity Allah requires an informed sincerity of heart and not the vain ambition of untutored beggars ‘gravitating to the earth’ while desiring material ‘things’ rather than the mercy of God’s forgiveness and the inspiration of knowledge that improves his/her ability to attain and maintain human dignity with skill (action) and equanimity – an estate which Allah grants in Mercy. • The practice of daily prayers is the discipline that should help us to acquire mercy continually, but because of hypocrisy (insincerity) and ignorance (prayer without understanding) it fails because the Lord requires an informed sincerity of heart rather than the vain ambition of beggars.