29 Shawwal 1437
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
August 3, 2016
Explanatory Statement
After praise and salutations!
I met with some scholarly companions and those who are making efforts for reform, and asked them what they want from this effort, and why they are doing this work separate from Nizamuddin, when people think such an important effort should be done through Nizamuddin. Many people are having doubts about this and are calling it rebellion against the center, apostasy, replacement of the community, and abandonment of duty. Please explain clearly before us so that we and the entire gathering can be freed from suspicion about you, and the reality becomes clear to us. If what you explain is correct and beneficial for the work and its practitioners, then all of us scholars, workers, and the entire ummah will unite with you on truth and in support of truth. Therefore, the reality that became clear from them is as follows.
The first and last foundations that existed in our great work have become shaken and obscured among the workers. The foundation of our work was that every individual who joins this effort should become religious and remain so until death, so that their afterlife becomes better and better and they also become a means for improving others’ afterlife. In simple words, it is training and steadfastness, through which Allah continues to accept work. But for quite some time, due to lack of proper explanation of the work and some other reasons, most workers continued in this effort with formality and self-indulgence, resulting in both these aspects becoming progressively weaker.
To the extent that a large portion of the gathering has been deprived of even distinguishing between right and wrong, let alone walking on truth and sacrificing for it. That’s why millions are moving around but thousands are not being reformed, which every worker is feeling clearly. In the current situation, even if several times more groups than present start moving without training and steadfastness, there won’t be any significant positive effect, neither on their lives nor on the world system, because without these foundations all this movement is waywardness and without training and steadfastness, Allah’s support is withdrawn. And the biggest work gets trapped in circumstances and dangers. And any tribulation can uproot and end it. Our fourteen hundred years of history bears witness to this.
Therefore, understanding what causes and obstacles have brought the work to its current state, and explaining to our working gathering our effort’s true foundations, and trying to gain Allah’s support through effort and prayer to put them on correct work, and explaining to our gathering and applying prayer’s power to try to revive these foundations with Allah’s support and help – these are what assist in reaching this goal. There is no disagreement with any individual, no disagreement with any place, nor is resolving any partial issue the aim of our initiative. Whatever partial matters are being discussed, whether they are beneficial or harmful for the work – therefore we request all working friends to emerge from any kind of prejudice and ask Allah for the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and avoiding formality, engage single-mindedly in the effort through which comes the ability to distinguish and walk on right and wrong, and come to correct work while avoiding anyone’s undue agreement or opposition. Because on the Day of Judgment, neither undue agreement nor undue opposition will save anyone from Allah’s grasp.
May Allah grant all workers and the entire ummah the ability to understand right effort and right/wrong, to walk on truth and travel the world with truth, and unite the scattered fabric of the ummah, because a major cause of having Allah’s help is unity, and unity cannot be created through the force of statements or any propaganda but only through correct effort.
The second thing we asked was why you couldn’t do this work while staying in Nizamuddin, what necessity arose to do it separately, so these respected individuals said that while staying in Nizamuddin, attempts were made repeatedly but resulted in complete failure, and there remained no hope for future success either, and now such an atmosphere of tension has been established there which keeps coming to the entire world repeatedly through different routes therefore there is no opportunity for it there anymore, this is the reason for working separately from there. Therefore we request all respected individuals to pray that Allah makes this initiative a means of His pleasure and better afterlife, and makes it a means of protection of the work and creating acceptance before Allah in practice. Amen.
This letter is not part of any conspiracy but is being written understanding it as a major part of the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) method of invitation. The only difference is that the Prophet (peace be upon him) sent messages with people which is a very powerful means, but since at this time the entire world and entire ummah is the field of work and they have to be removed from misunderstanding, and it is impossible to reach every individual through people, therefore current resources are being used necessarily with correct intention in the correct way, because if these are used with correct intention in the correct way then apparently there is no danger of accountability before Allah, still if this method is not correct before Allah then we seek Allah’s forgiveness, and pray that Allah protect the work and workers and the entire ummah from its harmful effects.
An important guidance: In these circumstances, no one should think that the effectiveness of invitation work has ended, rather even today it contains the same influential effectiveness that existed before, it just needs to be done with correct foundations. Like if someone recites the Quran incorrectly, this is the reciter’s fault – the effectiveness of guidance in the Quran itself is present in every condition.
From: Maulana Hakeem Abdul Rasheed Qasmi and Group of Noble Scholars
