Make us reach the month of Ramazaan Editor 2

Repentance for sins Ray of Hope bureau 3

Imaam Bukhaaree: the commander of Musarhad 5
Believers in hadeeth
And the long wait ended – II Ml Manaazir A Geelaanee 8

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 Imaam Bukhaaree: The Commander Of Believers In Hadeeth
By Musarhad
Early days
Muhammad bin Ismaa’eel bin Ibraaheem Al Bukhaaree (Bukhari), “the mountain of memory-power and
the

Bukhaaree
Extraordinary erudition
Heart-conquering conduct
Abnegation of worldly pleasures
Exertion in worship
Tragic end

(Sources: Mataa e waqt aur kaarvaan e ilm by Ibn-ul Hasan Abbaasee, Dars-ul Bukhaaree by Ml Muhammad Ishaaq)

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 And The Long Wait Ended – II
By Maulaanaa Manaazir Ahsan Geelaanee (Manazir Ahsan Gilani)
Jews: How they lost their book?
(Continued from page 8 of www.scribd.com/doc/33662884/RayOfHope-2010JunRayOfHope 2010 Jun.doc)

It was not long before the final bell for departure of the religion – that had come only to depart – rang.
The time for the departure finally came. The Assyrians were ruined while the Babylonians prospered. The fa-
mous king of this Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar rose like a gale, ascended like a cloud and came down like a thun-
der over these two remaining tribes of the Jews. Both the Israelite and the non-Israelite historians say this in the
‫( َف َف ُسا وا ِخ َف َف ِّد‬They penetrated the innermost parts of (your) country. – Qur’aan 17:5).
commentary of ‫اوال َف ِخا‬

“He got the entire community of Israel including women and children imprisoned, and plundered all the
wealth of Bait-ul Maqdis. The holy mosque of Solomon was razed to the ground and the city reduced to rub-
bles. The city wall was demolished and everything everywhere was set on fire.” 1
This was the misery that befell their city and country. What about the inhabitants – the last guardians of
the legacy of Moses and his book?

“The entire community of the children of Israel was imprisoned and deported to Babylon. Nebuchad-
nezzar also took with him the captured Jewish king Zedekiah. On reaching Babylon, his sons were killed before
his eyes by putting them through different forms of torture. After showing the king these heart-rending scenes,
his eyes were pierced so that he could no more see a pleasant scene!”2
The king of the Jews was blinded and though the Jews were allowed to live but what a miserable life
they lived!

“Their life was rigorous toil and drudgery. They could not help crying at their state of affairs. They had
been forbidden from performing their religious rites. Neither could they make a sacrifice nor observe fasts.”3
Practically, they had been prevented from performing even the basic rituals of Mosaic religion. As for
the literary heritage of the Jews, historical evidences are unanimous that:

“There was no trace of the holy Torah and ancient scriptures of the prophets as the storm of Babylonian
vandalism had destroyed their ancient history books and Israeli literary heritage.”4
Only these two Israeli tribes had remained as the last support for Mosaic religion. Now even they stood
humbled and crushed to smithereens.

No doubt, after a period of time, the Children of Israel (the Jews) were freed from this disgraceful life of
slavery and these ignominious days of imprisonment. But by that time, the first generation of prisoners had be-
come free from the chain of life itself. Now only those children remained who had opened their eyes in the
kingdom where their religious education had been banned and the performance of religious rituals had been
made unlawful. Anyway, amidst the wails and cries of their parents, they had been able to learn that they were
inheritors of some religion and custodians of the trust of some holy prophet.

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Taareekh e Yahood by Sharar, p.16. (Also see Bible, 2 Kings, 24:13-16 – Editor)
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The above book, p.61. (Also see 2Kings, chapter 25 – Editor)
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The above book, p.61.
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The above book, p. 59.
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 The voices that they had heard amidst the wails and whines had their effect when the time came. As the
Israelites got freedom with the overthrow of Nimrod of Iraq by Cyrus of Iran, their first big caravan rushed to
the heap of ash which still remained in the plains of Jerusalem after the prayer-houses of David and Solomon
had been set to fire. The first days of this Israeli caravan were, in a way, devoted to lamentations and repentance
till finally that caravan of freed Israelites arrived which comprised Ezra, the youth filled with deep concern for
his religion. When he drew the attention of the people towards the long-lost Torah, they spared their precious
thoughts for the Book of Moses which, by this time, was neither to be found on the papers anywhere in the
world nor in any other form. In the days of bondage in Babylon, no Israelite had even a partial sketch of the
contents of the book in his mind. Preserving it in memory in toto was simply unthinkable.

The heap of ash was unravelled. And Ezra, according to the Jewish claim, succeeded in finding out a
copy of the Torah in some cellar under the heap of ashes. This was the copy which the remaining two tribes of
Jews had been safeguarding for generations. And strange was the method they adopted for this preservation!
The singular copy instead of being in homes was confined to Solomon’s Shrine. The Jewish children on turning
seven used to listen to this whole scripture in the same manner as the Muslims of every town and village nowa-
days solemnly listed to the whole of Qur’aan once a year in the course of Taraaveeh (the special night prayer of
Ramazaan comprising eight or twenty units or rak’ahs).

The Jews believe that it was this copy found under the ash-heaps which somehow – owing to Allaah’s
Might – escaped the overwhelming fire. The fire was so strong that it burnt down each and every bit and straw
of Solomon’s shrine. In short, it was this copy of Pentateuch (Torah) which later proved to be the original for all
other copies. This was the condition of the holy Jewish book which they later proclaimed to be the only way for
their redemption.

When all paths leading to Prophet Moses had shut up, a sole pass of this ashy copy of Torah came up.
Now, the Jews could, as far as possible, have a view of Moses once again. But to their misery, the times did not
let even this pass remain open for long. Not once but on several occasions, some tyrant would rise from Greece
or Rome and shut even this pass. The Jews would later open it on getting a respite. Antonius of Greece once
again hunted down the last remaining pieces of Torah and burnt them to ashes. He also tore down Solomon’s
Shrine and constructed Jupiter’s Temple in its place. Further, he issued the cruel command that whoever was
found in possession of even a leaf of the Torah be killed. Nevertheless, the Jews claim that during the reign of
the Jewish king Makaalee, they once again revived this Torah. After Antonius, the scourge of Titus rose like a
raging fire who put to death 1.1 million Jews. Solomon’s Shrine was incinerated by his soldiers and Torah was
once more put to fire and thus extirpated from this world. Yet the Jews maintain that they re-created it one way
or the other. This despite the fact that there used to be no copy of Torah anywhere except in the Shrine. After
Titus, Biderson, the Caesar of Rome slaughtered 500 thousand Jews and repeated the vandalism of his prede-
cessors with their holy Book. He also erected the statue of Jupiter at the site where Hazrat Solomon had once
constructed a mosque (shrine) for Allaah. He changed the name of Jerusalem to Eeliaa which remained the
name of this holy city till the early days of Islaam. When finally the arriver arrived, he sanctified the hoy men
and places of this world. And in the same vein, this city got the name Bait-ul Maqdis (the house of holiness).

Thus it went on. The series of vandalisms and destructions continued without a break. It can be easily
understood, how wide open this dark and narrow pass leading to Moses could remain in the midst of these
floods of disasters and catastrophes. Still, the Jews claim that even after separating from Moses, they have re-
mained attached to him. The world can decide about the mirror the Jews are holding: can it still display the true
form of Hazrat Moses and his sacred teaching, as it was in reality in his days? Can the structure of Mosaic law
(sharee’ah) constructed from the ash-heap ever be the true embodiment of the teachings of Moses? If the very
thirst for truth has got quelled in a person and instead of certainty, he feels cool rolling over the embers of doubt
and uncertainty, then let us leave him alone. But for the people who have a longing for truth and are in search of
the true joy of Faith, is it ever possible that they would enter these murky darknesses of doubts and ambiguities,

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and these terrifying dense forests of myths and superstitions? And on entering, should they ever expect to reach
the fountain of eternally successful life?

Ho strange and illogical the things are! For about two thousand years, they have had only translations of
the ashy Torah, error-prone renderings, even translations of translations in currency. They frequently include
incidents and names which certainly belong to the times after Moses’. Oh, the surprise of all surprises, their To-
rah which they flaunt as “the Book of Moses” even contains the report of his death and funeral! (Deuteronomy,
chapter 34) Who can have that much capability of tolerating falsehood that in spite of all of this, he would still
call it the Book revealed to Moses ‫ !عليه السالم‬Maybe there is no place for logic in religion, but should this be so
to the extent that this book with all its inanities be called the Book of the Supreme God, the Lord of Holiness.
This is the book that accuses God’s holy messengers of drinking and boozing and – how shameful – of adultery!
The man of fortitude and god’s noble prophet, Lot is depicted defiling himself with his daughters! Oh God, a
prophet is accused of incest!! The so-called words of God are found loaded with abuses and filthy language, the
kind of which even the street hooligans would not bring to their tongues! The god of this “Book” regrets and
cries! Can it in any way be called the Book of the Supreme God, the hymns of Whose holiness and praise Mos-
es and later prophets had sung before the world!?

How true the words of this Roman Catholic priest are, though written in a fit of polemic! Nevertheless,
his words addressing a Protestant Christian are true beyond doubt. He says:
“Now I would like to ask a Protestant can he rely for his salvation upon a book which he can never
prove to be the Word of God. It’s a book which the ignorant and the infirm read to ruin themselves, a book
whose major portion has been lost, which has been corrupted with errors aplenty and debased, and which does
not contain all the necessary requirements for salvation. Can such a book ever become the holistic principle of
faith and the perfect path for salvation!?”5
When the people (Roman Catholics) who claim this Book as the fountain of their religious law, testify
thus; why should it not be concluded that the time had come for the book from God to disappear as it was the
book that had appeared to disappear only. That’s why it is asserted that it was not due to some unpredictable
fate or due to mismanagement, but it happened in accordance with the Divine predisposition that the Book came
and then went back forever to where it had come from. And just as the ten tribes of Hazrat Israael6 could return
to Hazrat Moses and his teachings after they got separated, almost the same way the remaining two tribes also
lost the teachings of Moses. It’s another matter that they are still living under the misconception that they have
found his teachings.
(The writer (b. Sep 1892~Safar 1310) retired as the Head of Theology department, Osmania University in 1949. He left
for his heavenly abode on 24 Shawwaal 1375 (=5 Jun 1956). His important books include Tadween e Hadeeth, Hazrat
Aboo Zarr Ghifaaree, Sawaanih Hazrat Maulaanaa Naanotvee, etc.)
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From The Ray of Hope bureau to the READERS:

1. This monthly journal will be posted at www.scribd.com/musarhad on the first of every lunar month, in shaa
Allaah.
2. While the sub-editors and the contributors are students of Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and
Technology (MJCET), Banjara Hills, Hyderabad; the editor is Secretary of Darul Uloom Sabeelus Salam,
Hyderabad. He is the founder and first chief editor of this journal (Feb 2002).
3. Readers may ask any kinds of questions related to Islaam by emailing them to sshislam@yahoo.com. We
will try to answer them in our next issues.

5
Turjumaan-ul Qur’aan, article by Zauqee Shaah Saahib, citing the book Mir’aat-us Sidq authored by Father Bedley, translated by Mr
Nicholson.
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Israaeel, also called Jacob. His descendants are the Children of Israel, Banoo Israaeel, Yahoodees, or the Jews.
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