Islamic Inlightment

                                                
Starts with Name of God

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most MercifulA verse from the Holy Quran

He is Allah the Creator the Evolver the Bestower of Forms (or colors). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: Whatever is in the heavens and on earth doth declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the exalted in Might the Wise.

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A Defence against Heresy

Finality of Prophethood A Defence against Heresy

The strong, unbroken tradition of revivalist endeavor in Islam, seeking to restore the faith in its original purity, and the continuous struggle against the tyrants for restoring what is due to the poor and lowly stems from general Islamic consciousness. It holds the more learned in the community responsible for upholding truth and justice, maintaining the standards of candor and fair play, commending the right and forbidding the wrong and spreading the original creed unencumbered by later accretions. The existence of this awareness and the consequential efforts show, by the same token, that Muslims have never looked forward to the appearance of a redeemer or a new prophet, nor have they ever suspended their efforts in the hope of a new Messiah descending from the heavens to lead them on in the reformation and renovation of their faith and the community.

But, the followers of other religions or even those sects among Muslims which have placed reliance in a contrary principle, have never been inclined to take the responsibility of fighting the evil and restoring virtue and goodness. Airy hopes have been the parents of their faith. Lying for ages inactive, dreaming of a saviour and a prophet of hope, and, consequently, compromising with the worst situations, they never gave rise to any reformatory or revivalist movement of a fundamentalist character. Their voice of conscience to restore true faith has gradually languished and wasted away. Historians have failed to find the reason for it, but it has certainly been due to their belief in the appearance of a Messiah as promised in their traditions. This has also been the result of similar belief of certain sects in Islam who have place undue reliance on certain holy personages, possessing supernatural powers, having access to divine secrets and affiliated with prophetic spirit, who would make their appearance in the last days of stress and difficulty.1

There is not the least doubt that the apocalyptic doctrines asserting appearance of new apostles, pretending superior wisdom to prove the continuance of divine revelation, and the obscure arguments advanced in their support, create distrust in the durability of divine guidance itself and shake the confidence of man in his own ability to strive for holding up truth and virtue. These dogmas, thus, degenerate into senseless tricks and juggling and encourage unworthy pretenders to delude the ignorant by their visions and alleged wonders. They create new schisms which drift into hostility and hatred of the original fait...
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