Mouood Mouood English Edition
There are untold numbers of people who although enjoying rationality, in their individual and social life, rarely act reasonably or rationally: they have eyes but they cannot read the simplest writings on the wall and lack the required insight; they have ears but seldom notice the warnings to reflect upon. According to the Holy Quran, “We have created for Hell many jinn and men; they have hearts, but understand not with them; they have eyes, but perceive not with them; they have ears, but they hear not with them. They are like cattle; nay, rather they are further astray. Those– they are heedless.”
These all boil down to the fact that, those that are endowed with reason and rationalism; thought and insight seem to reflect more upon divine values. They find religious teachings and Quranic necessities as prime bonds of serenity of mind as well as the means for their mundane and other worldly prosperity.
With this in mind, reflecting and abiding by divine values would lead one to the peak of oneness, unity and monotheism; freedom and broad-mindedness; and sincerity and serenity of heart.
With this connotation, the most beautiful manifestation and crystallization of all exalted divine values could obviously be seen in the behaviour of monotheists, those who speak with God, and those who rise to the call of blessing Muhammad and his House.
Obligatory Prayer
This is of the most exalted line of thoughts and some behavioural gratitude and a means of being worthy and capable of offering acknowledgement and thankfulness to the thresholds of the munificent Creator. It is considered as the fullest respond to the highest need of mankind – the need for self-flourishing and perfectionism.
This refiner of self, harmonizing element of Creator and the created, and the perpetual innate and mental need of man is a programme devoid of historical and geographical limits. It provides a chance to all learned human beings, the broadminded and godly people whom in the vast expanse of the world, at the identified time, when due to their feelings of need, stand on the platform of ascension to heaven and raise the melody of broadmindedness. They praise the merciful and compassionate God with an aim to thread the road to perfectionism.
Ablution
This process is both a prerequisite to performing prayer as it is a remarkable and admirable prelude to every godly pivoted and approved thought and deed.
It is a divinely refinement, an existential, mental, and spiritual freshness, which throws light on one’s path and objectives.
Ablution is not just a means of bodily cleanliness but a physical and spiritually related purification as it is for a transformation of mind and spirit. It is to clean all sensual pollution, as it is to be relieved from all forms of mundane attachments to qualify for heavenly exaltation and ascension. The instance we intend, in the process of performing ablution, to wash the face as a façade of our social personality, our thought and deed signify the fact that we wish to remove all signs of ingratitude and incorrectness off our face and socially assumed outside appearance.
Had we have been nursing impious approaches in our social wheeling and dealings; if we have uttered unjust and unfair words and if we have annoyed anyone with the impression of our face we, thus, exempt and glorify our social façade of all incorrectness and impious acts. When we cleanse our hands and make them pleasant with the water when performing ablution, deep down, we are declaring that we would never be enslaved with ungodly powers. This is because hand is the symbol of power and God the Almighty. Should we, even for an instant, employ the minutest part of our power or capability in the service of incorrectness or ungodly means to perpetrate an injustice or encroach upon others’ rights, with performing the ablution we decide to distant ourselves from such thoughts and capabilities. Hence, repenting from our heart’s core we prostrate ourselves before our idol to invoke with pleasantly clean raised hands.
When we wipe the head with the wet tip of our finger we insinuate believing the mind and thought to be the main source of all deeds. O Lord, if meanwhile, some unjust and impious thoughts find their way into our head, with wiping our head, we wish to cleanse all incorrect imaginations, carnal desires, self-pivoting and idolatry thoughts off our imaginative faculty and our power centre of conception and thoughts. We bow our heads at His majestic presence and touch the ground with our forehead, which carries no passion but Your thoughts in prostration.
At last, by wiping the top part of our feet, we connote that, O Lord; we repent neglecting our true self in the process of our individual and social life that made us fall short of the path of truth, truthfulness, and the straight path of worshipping. We regret to have forgotten our true aims and aspirations hence becoming entwined with passions of self-interest, helplessness, negligence, blunder, and distress. We are thus declaring openly that, we would not be moving unless in the way of truth to earn Your satisfaction, and never, for a minute, disregard our objectives any more, because You are the aim and the aspiration.
Fasting
This is another educational programme that prepares the ground for a desirable existential, mental, and social development of man. It is incumbent upon all pious and healthy people, wherever he or she may be, to participate in this public programme in the holy month of Ramadan, together and unanimous with other Muslims. The holy month of Ramadan is a divine camp, a school of self-readjustment and self-cultivation, the breaking of all existential, mental, and social habits with a will to arrive at the peak of salvation with self-determination and effort.
It is a programme for an individual transformation. It is an objective and effective move in the way of removing destitution , to maintain justice, health, and exaltation within the community.
As a shinning educational obligatory guideline with its reformatory aims in its various dimensions, the act of fasting serves to provide a chance wherein the bed of human existence similar to that of nature, upon a year of indulging in every form of benefits, faces a transformation – an opportunity for the growth of more blessed blossoms of life.
It is in this light that fasting is termed as a natural need to disinfect the body and soul in order to level man’s bed of growth and exaltation.
Hajj
In comparison with the two other educational programme, i.e., “Prayer” and “Fasting”, this is accompanied by two restrictions of time and place. In other words, one cannot turn into a Haji on every day or month or at any place by observing hajj rituals.
Throughout the educational and cultivation programme of hajj, we come across a historical and geographical unity. To this effect, similar to fasting but instead of one whole month, it is performed at a certain time and within a few days.
Unlike prayer and fasting, hajj is performed only at a certain location at a Holy Land, at the place of rendezvous of monotheism, and at a secure environment and historical resting-place.
Hajj is a purification of self in the ocean of existence. It is fighting idolatry to purify self and wash under the blessed divine rain, body and sole.
