The future belongs to Islam



The future belongs to Islam

All praise is due to Allaah. May His peace and blessings be upon Prophet
Muhammad, his household and companions.

Brothers in faith! Be dutiful to Allaah, for that is the best provision and
the surest way to salvation on the Day of Resurrection.

Fellow Muslims! Things turn upside-down when those who follow destructive
and erroneous sects and beliefs falsely assume that theirs is the true faith
and that the good ending and the future belongs exclusively to them.
However, the fact that men of reason and understanding do not dispute, is
that the future belongs to the religion of Islam; that it shall prevail over
all other beliefs, for it is the only true religion that Allaah has
perfected for His slaves, with which He has completed His favor upon them
and which He has chosen for them as religion. He Says (what means):

?This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon
you and have approved for you Islam as your religion.? [Quran 5:3]


No wonder then dear brothers, that Islam enjoys such a distinguished
position. This is because it is a religion that is full of innumerable
qualities.

The future belongs to Islam, for it is the religion with which Allaah raised
the status of man and honored him. He informed us in His Speech, which is
the most-truthful of all speech, that He created man with His two Hands,
breathed of His soul in him and made the angels prostrate before him. He
honored man by subjecting him to His worship Alone, for there is no deity
worthy of worship except Him, glorified are His Names and Attributes. He
honored him by subjecting all that is in heavens and earth to him and gave
him innumerable other blessings.


The future belongs to Islam, because it is the only religion whose message
is characterised by pure monotheism, which agrees with the laws of nature
and sound opinion. It is through Islam that Allaah made lawful for His
slaves all good and useful things and prohibited all filthy and harmful
matters. Removed from this Ummah (Muslims) are the heavy burden and fetters
that were upon those who came before them -- such as strictness in matters
of religion; for example, the imposition of self-killing as an atonement for
sin, cutting the part of the body used for committing an impure act,
purifying a cloth by cutting off the place of filth with scissors,
compulsory implementation of the law of equity in murder cases (with no
option of paying blood money or pardon, whether the killing was intentional
or accidental) and prohibition of taking war booty.


All the above restrictions were removed by Allaah from this Ummah by His
Mercy. He Says (what means): ?Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered
Prophet, whom they find written [i.e. mentioned] in what they have of the
Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them
what is wrong and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for
them the evil, and relieves them of their burden and the shackles which were
upon them. So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and
followed the light which was sent down with him ? it is those who will be
successful.? [Quran 7:157]


The future belongs to Islam because in it, Allaah firmly laid the basis of a
sound social system that is well-established like a firm structure. He
established through Islam that unique society described by the Prophet , in
the most eloquent way thus: ?The similitude of the believers in regard to
mutual love, affection and mutual-compassion is that of one body; when any
limb of it aches, the whole body shares the agony, sleeplessness and fever
that arises from it.? [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]


The future belongs to Islam because it is the religion by which Allaah
firmly fixed the principles of justice among His creatures -- Muslims and
non-Muslims; Arabs and non-Arabs; black and white; male and female; young
and old. He prescribed for each group its rights and duties -- a quality
that is non-existent in any of the man-made systems and ideologies that most
people follow and respect. These ideologies are full of deficiencies and are
restricted to a particular place and time or the personal or national
interests of those who formulated them.


The future is for Islam, for it is the religion with which Allaah preserves
people?s lives, properties, honor and minds. He prohibits all killing of
life except for a just cause, forbids the defamation of a person?s honor,
disallows all that could affect the soundness of people?s minds such as
narcotics and intoxicants and forbids the usurpation of properties unjustly.
All this Allaah does through Islam, in order to protect the social structure
of this Ummah from disintegrating.


There is no wonder then that a great and honorable future belongs to this
religion. No amount of deception from the enemies of Islam, or their
increasing assaults on the Muslims with their cavalry, infantry and wealth,
nor their oppression such as killing and expelling people from their
lands -- as the Jews do today, can weaken the firm bonds of this religion or
disrupt its structure. For, the future is for Islam and the Muslims Inshaa?
Allaah and the victory belongs to Allaah and His Messenger , and to the
truthful and persevering Muslims -- those who know with certainty that
victory comes with perseverance, relief comes after sorrow and that with
every difficulty there is ease. Allaah Says (what means): ?They want to
extinguish the light of Allaah with their mouths, but Allaah refuses except
to perfect His light, although the disbelievers hate it.? [Quran 9: 32].


Brothers in faith! If this Ummah wishes to attain the promised victory and
be well-established on the land, it should truly practice Islam by giving
Allaah His right of worship with all sincerity and completely abstain from
associating anything with Him in acts of worship. It should implement His
Law and submit to His Judgment in all matters and be pleased with that. It
is then that the whole of humankind will have felicity -- and the
rightly-guided leadership will become that of Islam, the religion of Allaah,
the Omniscient, the All-Wise, the All-Knowing.

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