Nihmath, God's Favor - Explanation

Maulana Syed Muhammad Razaulhaq Aleemisha Aamiri speech
Muslim Murasu, October 2011

I am wearing a ten gram gold ring in my finger. It is not the weight of the ring. The weight belongs only to the gold. Ring does not have any weight on its own. But we will tell as ten gram ring.
“Va akeemul vazna bil kisthi valaa thukhsirul meezaan” – Surah Rahman, 55th Surah, verse 9.
Weight belongs to the original material. It does not denote the appearance. Pay proper regard to originality and appearance. Give correct value to the gold and to the ring. Don’t mistake one for the other.
When a human being helps another person, he will share or part away what he owns. This is the ehsaan (help) that a man can do. We can help with education, dress and food. When Allah helps a man, He gives from Himself. He has scattered His Divinity in this world that is pleasing and appealing to us and from within us, He creates desires and needs to consume them. And so God questions us – “Which of the favors of your Lord that you will deny?”.
It is man’s ignorance that he calls some materials as worthier than others. Materials of significance and insignificance, these are opportunistic terminologies. Truth is, gold is a favor from God and so is mud. God’s blessing that is found in gold is found also in mud to the same extent. We thank God if we get gold. Wife, bungalow, children and money, these are not the only blessings on earth. It is the same One who created gold and mud. To our eyes some things are glittering and attractive while others are uninteresting. But in God’s view, everything has a value. His blessing pervades everything. You don’t have any right to debase any of His favor.
“He created man from sounding clay”- verse 14. Jinns were created out of fire. It has the property to go upward. Proudful, arrogant behavior is inherent. Shaitan displayed proud and arrogant behavior. True servants of God won’t be arrogant or feel proud. One day someone will wash your body and you will lie helpless. Have that in your mind.
“Lord of the two easts and Lord of the two wests”. Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But here ain (two) is referred. People know one east and one west. But Quran points out to two easts and two wests.
“He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together” – verse 19. Bahrain – two seas. They don’t just meet. They flow together. Meeting is different, traveling together is different. Two seas – one is God and another is man. Yanthakhiyan. Man meets God and God meets man. Between them is a barrier which they do not transgress. They don’t cross their boundaries. God won’t become man and man can’t become God.
Pearls and Coral come from both the seas. Zaath, Sifath, Afwaal, Asaar, both God and human beings possess these four qualities. Everything on earth will perish (faani).
One who prays is Musalli, one who is dead is Mayyath, one who rejects is Kaafir, one who has faith is Moomin. These words do not point to future. Only God’s presence will last for ever. “Kullu man alaiha faani”. Everything on it will perish. Here faani does not refer to future. They are already uncertain and destructible. What is eternal is only God’s Presence, His Majesty, His Favors. “Vajhu Rabbika”. God’s Mercy is eternal.
One should not give discourse without attaining a certain haal (state of mind). It will be a sin. Prophet has said that Quran has an outward facet and an inner facet. It is Rahman (Most Gracious) who has taught Quran. Seek Rahman inside Quran. Strive to know and understand Quran.