PART 3
MOLVI SA’D OF NIZAAMUDDEEN
PAINTING NABI SULAIMAN (ALAYHIS SALAAM) WITH THE HUE OF KUFR
In one of his talks, Molvi Sa’d of Nizaamuddeen, committed the blasphemy of analogizing Hadhrat Nabi Sulaiman (Alayhis salaam) with the kuffaar. Understand well, that it is haraam to utilize the errors of the Ambiya (Alayhimus salaam) to cast any aspersion against them. The Ambiya are Ma’soom (sinless). Whatever errors they have committed were not sins. Their errors must be left between them and Allah Ta’ala. It is haraam for us to highlight the errors of the Ambiya for promoting our ideology or for emphasizing the importance of Shar’i ahkaam.
In his attempt to emphasize the importance of Asr Salaat, Molvi Sa’d drew an analogy with the error of Hadhrat Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam) having missed Asr Salaat due to inspecting his horses. In his talk, he denigrated Hadhrat Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam) in the following unacceptable and haraam way:
“Sulaiman (Alayhis salaam) became involved in looking at these horses and he became so engrossed that the Asr Namaaz became qadha, and the sun set (while he was thinking) that Allah Ta’ala had made (the horses) so, and Allah Ta’ala had made them so…
The kuffaar are those who are affected by the created things while Muslims are they who are affected by the Creator. He (Sulaimaan) became engrossed in inspecting them (the horses), hence Asr Namaaz became qadha and the time lapsed. Alas! He did not perform Asr. He called for a sword and slaughtered all the horses, leaving not a single one.”
The Urdu term used by Molvi Sa’d to denigrate Nabi Sulaiman (Alayhis salaam) is ‘A-re!’ For lack of a better term, we have translated it as ‘Alas’. The Urdu term conveys surprise with contempt, especially in the context of having missed Asr Salaat.
Could Molvi Sa’d find no Hadith narrations to impress on his followers the notoriety and villainy of missing Asr Namaaz? Despite there being Hadith Nusoos condemning with great severity missing Salaat in general, and Asr in particular, what constrained Molvi Sa’d to drag Hadhrat Sulaimaan (Alayhis Salaam), the Nabi of Allah Ta’ala, in an analogy juxtaposed with kuffaar and their attitudes? Immediately after highlighting the lapse of Hadhrat Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam), Molvi Sa’d predicating it with kufr, says:
“The kuffaar are those who are affected by the created things while Muslims are they who are affected by the Creator.”
The logical conclusion is that Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam) had acquitted himself like the kuffaar, Nauthubillah!
This is most a despicable buhtaan (slander) hurled at a Nabi of Allah Ta’ala. He has indeed committed a grave disservice to his own Imaan by having denigrated Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam). The errors of the Ambiya may not be utilized to analogize the sins of others. There are adequate narrations in the Hadith and in the statements of the Auliya to criticize, reprimand and warn Muslims for the commission of sins. It is haraam to drag the errors of the illustrious Ambiya (Alayhimus salaam) into the picture for warning Muslims of the sins they commit.
While Molvi Sa’d implied the attitude of kuffaar in Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam), Allah Ta’ala says about him: “Verily, for him (Sulaimaan) there is an abode of closeness to Us and a beautiful return.” (Surah Saad, Aayat 40)
The supporters of Molvi Sa’d should not attempt to pull wool over the eyes of the unwary and ignorant with the baseless contention that his statements being cited out of context. The full context (his Urdu bayaan) is reproduced here.
It now appears to us that Molvi Sa’d has a flagitious flair for citing the errors of the Ambiya for his own hidden sinister emotions and objectives, and in the process he is ghaafil (oblivious) – to say the least – of the capital crime of denigrating the lofty status of the Ambiya.
In a number of Qur’aanic aayaat, Allah Ta’ala severely reprimands even our Nabi (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam). If any person who believes himself to be a Muslim seeks to denigrate in any way whatsoever the lofty status of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) on the basis of reprimands of Allah Ta’ala, he will lose his Imaan and find himself beyond the fold of Islam. Thus, understand well that the lapses of the Ambiya (Alayhis salaam) are not up for public comment and debate in a manner casting aspersion against their lofty characters and their Ma’soomiyat (Sinlessness).
There was absolutely no need for Molvi Sa’d to degrade the elevated status of Nabi Sulaimaan (Alayhis salaam) in order to impress the business people of the imperative importance of Asr Salaat.