‘Innad deena 'indallahil Islaamu’
This means that the only religion that is correct in the eyes of God is the one in which you totally submit yourself to God.
Now, take a look at your religion - are you in total submission to God?
You have offered the prayers, you have performed the pilgrimage of Hajj, you’ve done all the rituals
and yet there’s no greater fraudster than you.
Which Religion is Truthful in the Eyes of God?
You see, there is a very delicate point here [in this verse]. It is very important to understand this delicate point.
For instance, ‘ikhlaq’ is Ikhlaq’s name but it also has a meaning.
Just as ‘faisal’ - generally, people do not know what faisal means.
Faisal means brick, rock and ‘faseel’ is the plural form of the word which means wall.
So now, if you do not know what faisal means since you’ve only heard it being used as a name,
whenever you hear the word, you will assume it’s used in reference to Faisal here.
For example, the word ‘naveed’. Naveed means glad-tidings.
Glad-tidings means good news.
However, his name is also Naveed.
Such as ‘anwar’. Anwar is the plural of noor (divine light), but Anwar is also a name.
Similarly, ‘mazhar’ - it is Mazhar Bhai’s name but it also has a meaning.
In a similar way, there is a word called ‘silm’ and [then there is] ‘islam’.
Now, the Muslim intellectuals and religious scholars went astray and they limited the word ‘islam’ to the religion of Islam.
So, what does ‘silm’ mean?
Silm means ‘supurdgi’,
which translated into English is submission.
To submit yourself to the will of God.
What is this entire act? Islam.
Just as, around 2,750-3,000 years ago, Moses said,
‘ana awwal min al muslimeen’.
Which means ‘I’m one of the first obedient individuals amongst those that are obedient’.
Therefore, ‘muslim’ means obedient.
‘Qalb e Saleem’ - the word ‘saleem’ has also been derived from [silm].
Similarly, the religion of Islam.
It is the name of the religion and since it’s about the name of the religion, it should be eponymous [therefore] a Muslim is one who is obedient to God.
So, the very first stage is ‘Islam’ which means you must submit yourself to the will of God.
But how you are supposed to submit yourself to God is not known.
You simply recite the Kalima ‘La Ilaha Illa Allah Mohammad Rasool Allah’ and consider yourself a Muslim.
Honest to God, that’s wrong.
‘Muslim’ means to submit yourself to the will of God.
And the practical meaning of this is to purify your lower self through the process of purification,
to kill your desires and fulfil the desires of God.
This is what it means to be a Muslim.
So the very first deed called ‘silm’ which is total submission to God,
it is the principle practise of every religion.
So what is God saying here [in this verse]?
‘Innad deena 'indallahil Islaamu’
This means that the only religion that is correct in the eyes of God is the one in which you totally submit yourself to God.
The religion in which you are in total submission to God’s will is the only correct religion.
Now, take a look at your religion - are you in total submission to God?
You have offered the prayers, you have performed the pilgrimage of Hajj, you’ve done all the rituals and yet there’s no greater fraudster than you.
Lies, deceit, cheating, indecency, showing off, fraud, dishonesty - this is the way of your life.
You earn unlawfully and feed your children, you use your unlawfully earned wealth for Hajj and to build mansions.
Your entire life is run on unlawful deeds and you call yourself a Muslim?
Who says you are a Muslim?
A Muslim in reality is one who has submitted the lower self to the will of God.
Which means he shall not act upon anything the lower self desires, he shall only do as God commands.
In fact, God said to Prophet Muhammad (s),
‘O Messenger of God, have you not seen the one who worships the desires of his lower self?’
There must have been such people amongst the companions of the prophet which is this is being said.
You believe they were all champions but take a look at this verse in the holy Qur’an.
So, the correct religion in the eyes of God - ‘Innad deena’, this is about religion [in general].
You must try to understand.
If this was about Islam then the word ‘deen (religion)’ would have been followed by ‘Islam’ but it is not.
So what does it mean? ‘Innad deena’
‘The [correct] religion in the eyes of God is the one which teaches you total submission to God’s will’.
‘Wama akhtalafal lazeena ootul Kitaab’
‘Later people conflicted with it within their own religions’.
When people were given their holy scriptures - this is about different religions - they were fine when they were given the books.
‘illa mim ba'di maa ja'ahumul 'ilm’
‘but those who came after them made alterations based on their knowledge’.
‘And they rejected the signs of God’
‘And God shall hold them accountable very soon’.
Now, God has began the sentence with ‘Islam’,
so why did he mention other religions immediately after if this was about Islam [alone]?
If this was about the religion of Islam,
then God would have mentioned Muslims only, he wouldn’t have spoken about various religions,
as he mentions ‘I bestowed knowledge to the people of various religions’.
Therefore, this is not about the religion of Islam.
What’s surprising to me is even those who have a great understanding of Arabic,
and even those who read and recite the Qur’an so well are dumbfounded when it comes to these matters.
Perhaps they do it on purpose.
Now, if we consider the explanation [of this verse] given by contemporary scholars,
then we reject all of the other religions that have been established by other prophets and messengers.
If you say that this [verse] means that only the religion of Islam is considered a correct religion in the eyes of God and all other religions are useless - really?
So why did God send 124,000 prophets?
If nothing except Islam is to be considered then why must you believe in Adam, Abraham, [Moses] and Jesus?
Why must you believe in all the celestial books if there is only one religion.
The deceitful clergy are giving you the wrong information when they say that Islam is the one and only religion in God’s eyes…
oh, come on, man!
He sent 124,000 prophets and messengers. How can God himself reject all the prophets and messengers that he has sent?
God sent the Torah and the Bible, so if God were to say, ‘I only consider Islam a true religion’
Even if no one questions God today, he will be questioned on the Day of Jugdmenet for making such a statement.
Jesus will ask him, ‘What did you mean by that?’
If truly there was no other religion in God’s eyes except Islam, then what are Moses, Jesus, Adam and Abraham going to do?
They will say, ‘Why are we standing here on the Day of Judgement?
We don’t even have a religion’, and they’ll say to their people, ‘All you followers, go to hell’.
These wretched clergymen who say that Islam is the one true religion in God’s eyes, they should be asked, ‘Really?
If Islam is the one true religion then what did all the other [prophets] come to do? Waste their time?’
This is not what [this verse] means!
It means that God only considers that religion to be correct which teaches its practitioners to become obedient to God.
Those whose religions cannot teach them to become obedient to God - such religions are futile.
In the contemporary times - I’m not just speaking about Muslims, look at the Hindus and Christians as well,
look at any religion (and its followers); who among them are true practitioners?
Hindus are wandering here and there, they too cannot find Bhagwan anywhere.
Forget about the Christians, they’ve already forgotten [the essence] of their religion.
They’ve just built churches and let people come and go as they please.
The same is the case with the Jews - well, they were already worse than [Muslims].
Prophet Muhammad (s) said, ‘The Jews are divided into 72 sects and my nation shall be divided into one more than them’.
So they had already been divided into 72 sects prior to the advent of the Prophet (s) - they were already in hot waters.
Therefore, there is no religion today (whose followers) are obedient to God.
No religion teaches its followers to degrade the messenger of another religion.
Neither Hinduism or Christianity teaches this, nor Islam.
Islam does not tell you to malign the messengers of other religions,
nor does Hinduism teach its followers to malign the messengers of other religions.
Satan is behind all of this.
Hindus, Muslims, Christians - they’re all inhabited by Satan who makes them utter statements against each other and keep them fighting with each other.
All religious people exalt the messenger of their own religions, they do not consider the messengers of other religions.
Although, the messengers of other religions have also been sent by God.
You have faith in the messenger God sent in your religion,
but you don’t believe in the other religion, the messenger of which has also been sent by God, so do you think God would be pleased by that?
You have to believe in them all. You have to respect all religions.
Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians. You must respect them all.
If someone today insults the messenger of another religion, then it is that person who is to blame, so do not insult his religion,
because there is no religion that teaches its practitioners to malign the messenger of another religion.
Neither Hinduism nor Islam.
In fact, Islam has something so beautiful in regards to this.
What does Islam say? Islam says,
‘O Muslim, do not malign one’s false God lest they malign your true God’.
This is written in the Qur’an.
Despite knowing that the one they’re worshipping is a false God, the Qur’an commands you not to malign them.
So this is about generosity.
You are to believe and practise what your religion mandates,
do not adhere to what the clergy say, they will lead you astray.
They will make you quarrel with each other.
They tell you to fight with the Hindus and in turn [the Hindu gurus] tell them to fight with the Muslims.
Enough of this bloodshed. Enough of this mischief.
Enough of this hatred.
You must no longer fight in the name of religion.
You must no longer spread hatred in the name of religion.
There has been too much carnage. No more now.
Now, it is the era of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi.
Now everything is coming to light.
The darkness of ignorance shall no longer prevail.
Now, all the Hindus will learn what Islam is and all the Muslims will learn the truth about Hinduism.
When Hindus know about Islam and Muslims know about Hinduism, there shall be nothing left to fight about.
The colloquial term for face in Karachi is ‘thobra’.
What do we call it? Thobra.
‘Go fix your thobra’ (we say).
And in Punjabi, they call it ‘boothi’.
So should we fight about it?
It’s like saying, ‘If you talk about my boothi, I’m going to break your thobra’ [joke].
It’s just a difference in names, otherwise it means the same thing.