AUTHORITY TO UNDERSTAND THE HOLY QURAN
Oh man, you were created weak! Don't try to balance big things within your small mind. Greatness belongs to Allah.
One of his Divine Attributes is to be able to do whatever and forever what He asks to do. Everything concerning
yourself He has put into the Quran. You must believe that.
What did Muhammad sws. Do during 20 years? He was giving explanations about the Holy Quran, because we
cannot enter the wisdoms of it. Even now, you may read a hadith and not be able to give its meaning. If you are not
authorised, then you should not comment. But in our days everyone has so many books and they bring them and
say, "I know about hadith, I can explain them." From where have they been authorised?
In the old days a learned one used to hand on the authorisation to his successor or to his student who would sit
infront of him for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years and then the alim would say, "I am authorising you to speak to people
about the hadith and about the Holy Quran." That is why I am ashamed to recite a verse out of the Holy Quran and
then to say the meaning. Even if there is such an authority and if in the traditional way I learned from my teacher
and he gave me permission 50 years ago. It is written, in the traditional way, "I am giving the authority to address
and to talk to people to my student Muhammad Nazim Adil. I am giving that authority to him because my teacher
gave that authority to me and my teacher was also authorised by his teacher and he was also authorised by his
teacher... This reaches back to the Prophet sws."
If no such authority has been given to you reaching back to the Prophet sws., you will be made responsible
whenever you teach the hadith or the Holy Quran. It is a very wrong thing when unauthorised people come and
teach, they cannot do that. Allah Almighty is witnessing when we are saying something without authority, and we will
carry all the responsibility of the people to whom we teach.
Muhammad sws. Explained the Holy Quran in a period of 23 years. During this time millions of hadith came, but now
Wahabi people have only made one book with a few hundred hadith and they say that it is all which is acceptable
from the Prophet.For 23 years Muhammad sws. Was addressing his nation and he knew that it was not only for his
companions, it was meant for his future nation, for the Muslims to come through all times.
He did not only sit with his companions, he was always speaking. If you take all the knowledge of all the learned
ones it will only be like one spot compared to the ocean of wisdoms of the Prophet sws. How can anyone say that
they know anything?
People were coming like rivers to listen to the Prophet sws. Were are all these talks? I wonder... They have only put
a few hundred hadith and they say that it is all. They accept his Prophethood, but they don't accept his hadith?
These ignorant people, some of them even being doctors, are proud and think that they can decide according to
their minds which hadith is true and which one isn't.
If you are not sure, then admit that you cannot know if it is a hadith or not, just leave it. But don't cut it away. In our
traditional books millions of hadith were written. How is it possible to bring the whole Islamic culture into one book.
How is it possible?
That is why our belief is losing it’s power from day-to-day and getting weaker and weaker. Then there will be no
more power of faith and people will get into miseries and sufferings and never-ending problems. There will not be
enough power in our faith to bring the solutions to the Muslims. That is why the Muslim world is boiling like a pot. And
here and there the enemies of Islam are making everything against Islam and the Muslim world cannot do anything.
I heard that many thousands of Muslims here in Sri Lanka were sent away from their homes. Where is the Islamic
world? They are fighting and quarrelling with one another. Why is all this happening? Because our faith is getting
less. Allah Almighty has ordered us to be together, but we are separated. There is no value.
It is a pity for us. We are even fighting Islam within ourselves. Not only our enemies from the outside, no! Foolish
Muslims even fight inside.