Rang-o-Noor (BY SA'DI)

DELIGHT AND GRIEF

Allah has made this world the place of tests and trials where there is delight as well as grief, blessing as well as misery, smiles as well as tears and union as well as separation. The Believers should remain ever ready to face every situation and safeguard their Belief. A radio flash just two minutes ago that a caravan of vehicles to receive Maulana Abu Jundal is present at Bahawalpur Toll Plaza. The Maulana is about to reach within a few minutes. Allah-o-Akbar!

May Allah bless the Muslims with such delights again and again! Maulana has come after captivity for fifteen years. There was captivity of the Polytheists, dark torture cells, dirty jails, horrible persecution, poisonous biting taunts, defective foods, intensity of the surroundings and apparent helplessness. The news of a few days that the Maulana is in Jodh pur Jail. Now he is in Jammu for trial. Now he is ill. Now he is under the grip of massacre attacks. Today, the news is that the Maulana is reaching Bahawalpur and the conquerors of the Ummah with tears is their eyes are standing to welcome him. Just now the phone bell has rung telling me that the Maulana has reached Bahawalpur. How great the Lord! Allah is, no doubt, All-powerful over every thing. The heart is beating in gratitude and whispering, "O Allah, when will our Aaffia sister come?" You are All-powerful over everything. O Allah, when will concealment of Hazrat Ameer-ul-Momineen come to an end? O Allah, You are All-powerful. O Allah, when will the captives in the jails of Kashmir, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan be released? O Lord, You are very kind. I have been observing the cool and sweet scenes of Your blessings near the Bahawalpur Toll Plaza from a very long distance. How will a tired traveller of the true path be embracing his comrades? Then after a short while, the Jaami' Masjid Usmaan-o-Ali in Bahawalpur will be resounding with the Belief-provoking slogans, if Allah wills. He may reach Masjid when I am still busy in writing and my phone may inform me of it. Then I shall join the readers also in my delights. At present, the faces of many other captive brothers are shining in front of me with a very wonderful resplendence. I shall not take down their names lest some hindrance should be created in their release but we pray to our Kind Lord mentioning their names for their honourable and safe release. How pride-worthy are the captives who went to get their captive brothers released but were captivated there. Salutations to the greatness of them all. How oppressed and great are the captives who have been arrested by their own rulers! What is the guilt of Brother Umar Sheikh? Khalid Sheikh, a leader of Al-Qaidah in the American court has himself confessed that he killed "Daniel Pearl." Then in which murder case is Umar Sheikh in the Jail? A few days ago, a sadist wrote me the letter. May Allah forgive him!. He wrote "You have had got Umar Sheikh arrested." May Allah pardon! May Allah pardon! I was very greatly pained and shocked at this horrible blame. It is unlawful to help the Pagans against the Muslims. Allah's curse falls at the people who hand over the Muslims to the Pagans due to their Deen and Jihaad. Umar Sheikh is in Jail. You can yourselves know the situation of his arrest from him. A short while ago, he was in the Haiderabad Jail. Then he was shifted sometimes to Adiaalah and sometimes to Karachi. Denial Pearl's wife and the Jews of the entire world are striving to get this Youth sentenced to death. There is no ground with our rulers to keep Umar Sheikh in Jail but the glamour of the dollars is making them do everything.

Lo! See! The bell of the telephone is ringing. The Maulana has reached the Markaz. There is a great echo of slogans and tears of gratitude. Congratulatins to you on this eve of delight. Now, there will be speeches and then supplications. Lo! See! My phone is giving me another news. The Muhaahideen have made the Indian "Tranga" on the soil. The Maulana has enterend the Masjid trampling over it. "Tranga" is the three coloured Indian flag. It is actually a practice for the future. The land of the holy saints is persuading the conquerors again. In the light of traditions, the holy saints have foretold that the swarn of the Mujaahideen of Afghanistan will enter India through Pakistan. These are not emotional and catchy slogans. What is the harm if they are catchy emotional slogans? A Muslim should be full of holy emotions about Deen and Belief. Islam is advancing to victory and the world is moving to Caliphate. The Caliphate will certainly be established before the Doomsday but all this is gained through sacrifice. Now, there is the time of sacrifice for the Muslims. Let's see, who are accepted for sacrifice now.

The news of arrest of a very big saint of the time i.e. Hazrat Mulla Abdul-Ghani is in the air. Some people falsify this news. May it be so but the sad news is often true because our deeds are also not appreciable. Mulla Abdul-Ghani often remained in Afghanistan. He was the deputy, the secretary and near relative of the Ameer-ul-Mu'mineen. It is very much possible that he may have visited Pakistan at times. What is harm in it? If the people of the Black Water can come to Pakistan, an Afghan Mu'min also has the right to come here. Mulla Brother is a high ranked saint. Seeing him, Allah comes to the mind. Why have the Pakistanis arrested him? Torturing a holy saint of Allah is like inviting Allah's wrath. How unlucky and unfortunate are the people who have disgraced so great saint and Mujaahid of his time? If only they had died before committing so heinous crime! What harm has Mulla Brother caused to Pakistan? He kept stopping the Mujaahideen to operate in Pakistan. If he had allowed it, the attacks in Pakistan would have increased three hundred time. I recall the following Tradition of the Holy Prophet at this point:

The Messenger of Allah says:

"Avoid oppression because oppression is one of the darknesses (Punishments) on the Day of Judgement. And avoid avarice because avarice has killed the people before you. It persuaded them to shed blood of one another and term the unlawful as lawful." Would that someone may tell this tradition to the rulers! These people have crossed all boundaries of oppression and avarice. They are desertising their own country in love for American aid and American dollars. They are arresting their Muslim brothers and killing them. They are putting their own country into fire. When I read about the visit and commanding of the American Ambassador Halbroke with Pakistani rulers, I was filled with hatred and abhorrence. It seemed that I would soon vomit with blood. May Allah forgive! May Allah forgive! How much bashless scenes and immodest talk! The American Ambossador said, "We are operating in Halmand." Our rulers expressed delight at it. Woe is to us that the dagger of the cross is slaughtering the Believers! The so-called Muslims are expressing delight at it. The American Embassador said, "This operation will be the decisive and final one." The Pakistani rulers said, "Keep it in mind that no one may flee from there and come to us." If a man has as much belief in him as the mustered seed, he cannot talk thus. If, Allah forbids, Pakistan has arrested Mulla Brother Akhund, keep it in mind that it is a very disturbing news of ill-luck for Pakistan. It is the harbinger of punishments and earthquakes. The actual secret in it is that some saints of Allah are very dear to Him.

When those saints are tortured, the earth and the sky begin to tremble out of fear of Allah's torment. The rulers will not grasp my point. They will regard it as a threat and will suggest ever new operations. They should do it with pleasure. No one can guide those whom Allah puts into deviation and misguidance. However, they should ponder over my request. All the Muslims should repent of sins and pray to Allah the maximum they can. They should pray for the safety of the Ameer-ul-Momineen, for the success and safety of the Mujaahideen of Khashmir, Afghanistan and Palestine and for the honour, respect, release and safety of Mulla Brother. The news is that Maulana Abu Jundal has been welcomed well. Thousands of Muslims have welcomed him with belief-provoking and passionate slogans. The Ulama have recited new poems in his honour and the poet of Islam of this age Professor Anwar Jameel has also showered fresh Couplets at him. May Allah accept this sitting and make it a source of goodness! Both happiness and misery come and go in this world. Do not be so habitual of happiness that we may begin to show ingratitude at the time of misery. There are piles of spoils and captives on the one hand and the pieces of the bodies of the martyrs on the other hand. It is the duty of the Mu'min to regard victory and defeat as Allah's favour and offer thanks to Him and observe patience regarding defeat and misery as Allah's lot. Success lies neither in delight nor in misery, neither in victory nor in defeat. Success lies in Belief and fidelity; fidelity with Allah, the Holy Prophet and Deen. That's why; it was said to the killed ones and the injured in the Battle of Uhud, "You will have the upper-hand if you are Believers." The situation has reached the decisive point. We Muslims should remain ready for every kind of situation. O Allah, bless us with complete Belief and bless us with perseverance to Belief! 

Translated by: Abdullah