Why Do I Call This Booklet “Al-Wasiyyat’ (The Admonition, The Injunction)?

The answer to the above question, “Why do I call this Booklet “The Wasiyyat’ is simply because all of us have a duty to admonish and guide each other towards the Truth of why we are here on the earth and whether there is any purpose for us to be here in our earthly lives.

I was meaning to write a small, not too complicated and easy to read and understand booklet, something like this, for quite some time now. My only concern was that what I write should not be based on just the theories but based on the whole truth so that it never could be challenged and or proven to be untrue by anyone. Any such write-up that is the Sure Truth could then be used as the fundamental and the sure Belief to guide us to success in our earthly lives. And as a result, achieve Success in the Hereafter.

Theories can change in time, not the Truth because the Truth is eternal. And for mankind the true Guidance and the whole Truth as we will discover in this Booklet is the Qur’an. This booklet will show you some scholars and thinkers who challenged the Truths in the Qur’an and were astonished when they found out that the Qur’an not only reveals the clear Truths but also contains historical accounts, it contains the present truths and gives us clear accounts of the future events that will occur. When some non- Muslim scholars took up the study of the Qur’an with the intention to prove that the Qur’an was wrong, they were totally astonished to find that not only they could not show anything in the Qur’an wrong but they felt themselves guided by the Qur’an.

They decided to publicize their experiences and to declare their conversion to Islam. They decided to publish their experiences so they could guide others. I have captured their experiences later in this Booklet.

What is wonderful about these scholars is that they are not scholars of religious studies. Some of these individuals are thinkers. They are biologists, scientists, physicists and mathematicians. You will see some of their names in this Booklet; and if you do little research yourself you will be amazed to come across in your research people in all walks of life and in all traditions who have discovered the Truth from the Qur’an and have converted to Islam.

This Challenge in the Qur’an is open today in the 21st century as it was opened in the previous centuries, to be precise, this challenge exists from the 7th.Century, CE.

It is because readers can find out for themselves what I have stated above that I have included in Part One of this Booklet my Resource Paper, Qur’an: The Authentic Book of Allah. This will be the First Part of this Booklet.

In Part Two, I have included my message to all my family members and all who will take direction from this Booklet to build for themselves and their families a successful earthly life and in the process earn with Allah’s Blessings a successful life of the Hereafter. This should be the goal of our life, to use our earthly existence as the farmland given to us in order to till and sow the seeds of eternal success in the Hereafter. Rasul Allah (S) is reported to have said:

الدنيا مزرعة الآخرة

The Duniya is the farmland for the Hereafter.

How do we do this? By shunning the world? No, not at all! That will be a total waste of life and would mean absolutely nothing. It is like a farmer who has the most beautiful piece of land, fertile and ready to grow all kinds of sustenance and has wonderful climate and yet the farmer does nothing on it except just admires it. As you will see in this Booklet how the A’immah of the Ahl al-Bayt (as) have expanded this beautiful hadith from Rasul Allah (S) to show that Duniya should not be shunned. Our earthly life is the Truest Blessing if it is used to build our Aakhirah.

It is only when we use it and not abuse it that we can leave most amazing footprints for others to follow. And even long after we have passed, others can find the Path of success following our footprints, foot prints of those who understood the success is not following the man-made or cultural rituals but through the truest, unchallenged teachings in the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Rasul Allah (S) as transmitted by the chosen A’immah from the Ahl al-Bayt (as).

May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala give us the Tawfeeq to achieve the Success both in the Duniya and the Aakhirah through the clear prescription shown in the Qur’an and the true Sunnah of Rasul Allah (S). Let me end this Preface with the following Du’a:

وَمِنۡهُم مَّن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِنَا فِى ٱلدُّنۡيَا حَسَنَةً۬ وَفِى ٱلۡأَخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً۬ وَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ أُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ لَهُمۡ نَصِيبٌ۬ مِّمَّا كَسَبُواْ‌ۚ وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلۡحِسَاب

And there are men who say: “Our Lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter and save us from the torment of the fire!” To these will be allotted―what they have earned, and Allah is quick in account. (2:201, 2:202)