The
Holy Prophet has said: “All the Muslims are like a man so
that if he feels pain in his eye or head his entire body gets
restless”. The Sunnah of the Holy Prophet says: “If
there is pain in one part of the body, there is stir and heart
in the entire body?. In this tradition the word awakening or stir”
and “heat or warmth” are special importance. This
means that the entire body gets ready to resist the pain and starts
working. Such type to unity among Musalmans has come to naught
centuries ago. Spain was being devastated, the ruling Abbasites
faced ruin and devastation. None came to help them. In India the
Mughal Empire gasped for breath but neither Iran nor Turkey came
to its rescue. The lion-heated Tipu Sultan met defeat after defeat
at the hands of British and his treacherous brothers and cried
for help and succour but not a single Muslim power sent him even
a file of ointment. The result was when Turkey was butchered by
the British there was not a single Muslim power which could come
to its aid. In reality the member of a group who do not have the
feeling for the pain and suffering of others have not the right
to claim themselves as a group. It is like a herd of sheep and
goats and the butcher can kill any one of them and the rest simply
look on. This did not happen in early days of Islam. If a Muslim
was afflicted the entire Muslim world used to get restless and
rose for his aid and succour. Caliph Abdul Malik invaded Sind
because few Muslims were persecuted there including a girl. The
girl beseeched the help of the Caliph. A Muslim who was a prisoner
there heard this. Anyhow he escaped and reached Damascus and informed
the Caliph. When the Caliph heard it he at once sent his army
for the help of the girl and thus Sind came under the suzerainty
of Muslims. Once a British soldier was killed in Iran. The public
in Great Britain became very much irritated and the British Government
sent war shops in the Persian Gulf in order to punish Iran. This
is due to the fact that when one part of the body gets afflicted
the entire system rises in its defense and protection. Whenever
such a spirit is generated among the people of a group, none of
its members thinks himself forlorn and helpless rather he has
perennial faith in the help and assistance of his group. This
means that every individual of the group has the strength of entire
group.
The Holy Prophet has the same kind of injunctions and orders for
unity and mutual love and affection as is for prayers and fast
and other kinds of prayers but unfortunately they extent to which
these injunctions have been ignored no other injunctions have
been ignored. Had it been prevalent among the masses only it could
be tolerated? But the tragedy is that literate people and those
well-versed in the teachings of the Quran and digging deep at
the roots of our unity and mutual love. They create difference
among themselves and try to give in to sectarian thoughts and
feelings to the detriment of Islamic unity and mutual love. Now
the third principle.
