From Aboo Sa'eed al-khudree, radiyallaahu 'anhu, &am
the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) who said: 'On the Day of Resurrection a caller will call out
that every nation should follow that which it used to worship. So none will
remain from those who used to worship others besides Allaah, idols and false
deities, except that they will fall into the Hell-Fire until none remain except
those who used to worship Allaah, the righteous and the impious, and the
remainder of the People of the Book. So the Jews will be called and it will be
said to them: 'Whom had you used to worship? They will say: 'We used to worship
'Uzayr, the son of Allaah.' So it will be said to them: 'You have lied, Allaah
did not take any wife, nor any son, so what do you want.' So they will say: 'We
are thirsty, 0 our Lord, so give us something to drink.' So they will be
directed: Will you not then drink? And they will be gathered and taken to the
Hell-Fire, which will be like a mirage, some parts of it devouring others, and
they will fall into it. Then the Christians will be called, and it will be said
to them: 'Whom had you used to worship?' They will say: 'We used to worship the
Messiah, the son of Allaah.' So it will be said to them: 'You have lied. Allaah
did not take any wife, nor any son.' It will be said to them: 'What do you wants
So they will be treated like the others, until none remain except those who used
to worship Allaah (alone), the righteous and the impious. The lord of the Worlds
will come to them in form closet to what they will except. Then it will be said
to them; 'Why are you waiting? every nation has followed what it used to
worship.' They will say: 'We separated ourselves from the people in the world
despite being in need of them. and we did not associate ourselves with them, and
we are waiting for our Lord whom we used to worship.' So He will say: 'I am your
Lord.' So they will say twice: 'We do not worship anything besides our Lord.' So
the point in question which is seen in both of the Aayahs and the hadeeth is
that the messages of Moosaa and 'Eesaa, two messages comprising Tawheed and
Eemaan were corrupted by the Jews and the Christians, by their worship of 'Uzayr
and 'Eesaa and their saying about them. So because of this they became idolaters
and Unbelievers, and these two messages due to their abominable action and their
foul distortions turned into false and idolatrous religions, which it is not
permissible to attribute to Allaah, nor to those two noble Messengers, even
though very many of the laws from the prescribed law of Moosaa and 'Eesaa still
remained.
So it will be clear to the reader that the 'Aqeedah of
Tawheed is the relation to all of the prescribed law system of the Prophets,
including the final Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) like the relation of the foundation to the
building. So the building cannot stand without the foundation, and it is like
the trunk of the tree, it cannot stand without it, Or like the spirit with
relation to the body, the body cannot live without the spirit. So the person
with intellect must compare and judge all other calls with these intellectual
and Sharee'ah proofs in order to see which of them are upon the way of the
Prophets and which are far removed from that. Then I wish to add three examples
which will increase our understanding of the prescribed ways laid down and
commanded by Allah and that the organisation and order found in them is
something required, and must be followed, and that it is not permissible to turn
aside from it.
FIRST:THE PRAYER. Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) taught the Prayer
by practical examples, and he said: 'Pray as you have seen me praying ' So he
(sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) began by standing, then the takbeer, then the recitation. then the rukoo',
then the sujood, and he did this in every rak'ah. He performed the second rak'ah
in the same way, followed by the tashahhud, then at the end of the Prayer the
final tashahhud, followed by salaam.
So if a Jamaa'ah now said that it is better in this age,
or that it is obligatory that we should begin the Prayer with the salaam and
finish it with the takbeer, or that we should say the tashahhud in the place of
Faatihah and vice versa, if this Jamaa'ah did this, or any of these things, then
would this Prayer be correct, and would it be Islamic?!!