PREFACE
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The holy Prophet in a tradition said:
The one who recites Surah Al-Qasas (a chapter from Quran) will be given ten rewards as many as the number of all those who assented Moses and those who rejected him, and there is no angel in the heavens and the earth but he will attest to his rightfulness in Hereafter.
Majma‘-ul-Bayan, the commentary
Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, the eighth Ahlulbayt, in another tradition says:
The one who recites Surahs Al-Qasas, An-Naml, and Ash-Shu‘ara by the night before Friday, he will be of the friends of Allah, will be nigh to Him, and will be supported by Him; and in this world he will not encounter a sever poverty, insecurity and disquiet, and in Hereafter Allah will bestow on him so much merits that he will be pleased and even more than being pleased.
Thawab-ul-’A‘mal,
according to the commentary of Nur-uth-Thaqalayn
It is to be remembered that rewards are not given merely for reciting a Chapter or verse, as most of us are in habit of doing. Rewards are for those who not just recite but contemplate its content, and fulfill them accordingly. Let us study what the Chapter says so as to understand why such high rewards are prescribed for reading this Chapter.
Lessons are to be taken by true believers from the life of Moses, who when confronting with difficulties, did not kneel before the enemies nor accepted the disgrace of submission. On the other hand, God created a situation where the one who was to vanquish the Pharoah and his forces was made to grow up in the Pharoah’s own palace.
After Moses was appointed to prophethood, Pharaoh told him:
…‘Did we not cherish you as a child among us, and you tarried among us for (many) years of your life?
This shows that Moses had lived in the castle of Pharaoh for several years.
It is understood from the Quranic commentary of Ali-ibn-Ibrahim that Moses remained in the castle of Pharaoh with utmost honour until the period of his puberty, but his theistic statements made Pharaoh very inconvenient, so much so that he decided to kill Moses.
Surah Qasas, verse 14 says:
And when he reached his full strength and was ripe, We granted him wisdom and knowledge; and thus do We reward the good-doers.
This verse clearly states that wisdom and knowledge are granted by the Divine Self. It is courtesy sincere striving and purity of self. And revelation and prophethood, which came later, is the next higher stage of purity of self, upon attaining wisdom and knowledge. The verse is talking of bestowing wisdom and knowledge when Moses was still a wayfarer. It shows that even wisdom and knowledge to find the right path and ways and means to tread on it are courtesy the Divine Forces. Awareness, clear sightedness, the ability of correct judgment too is bestowed by Divine Forces for chastity, veracity, righteousness and sincere pursuit; pursuit has to be ours, with sincerity.
When Moses was face to face with Pharaoh with signs from God and the Pharaoh called his miracles as sorcery, Moses told him that his Lord knows best from where he sends His guidance.
“And Moses said: ‘My Lord knows best who comes with guidance from unto Him, and whose end will be best in the Hereafter, verily the unjust will not prosper’.”
Quran, Surah Qasas, 37
The story of Moses in Quran is to show that the source of guidance to Moses or to Mohammad was one and the same, just as we have seen in Part-I of the BOOK that the source of guidance to Indo-Aryans too was the same. Quran confirms that even Mohammad was not a witness when Moses was given the revelation and guidance on Mount Tur.
And indeed We gave Moses the Book (Torah) after We had destroyed the earlier generations (as a means) of insight for mankind and a guidance and mercy that haply they might receive admonition.
Quran, Surah Qasas, 43
And you were not on the western side of (Mount Tur) when We passed to Moses the commandment, and you were not one of the witnesses.
Quran, Surah Qasas, 44
And you were not on the side of the Mount Tur when We called (unto Moses), but (this revelation is) a mercy from your Lord that you warn a people to whom no warner had come before you, in order that they may receive admonition.
Quran, Surah Qasas, 46
In one of his sermons, Ali (as) says:
Verily Allah sent Muhammad when none among the Arabs read a (heavenly) Book or claimed prophethood. He guided the people till he took them to their (correct) position and reached them their salvation.
Nahj-ul-Balaghah, sermon 33
The true lesson from Surah Qasas is in the following verses:
And were it not that there should befall them a calamity for what their hands have sent before, they would say: ‘Our Lord! Why did You not send to us a messenger so that we might follow Your signs and so be of the believers?’
Quran, Surah Qasas, 47
This shows that God’s way of treatment is based on the fact that He should not punish any nation for their sins before sending a Prophet or guide to them. When we study Gita, we find Gita too confirms that Divine Avatars have come in various regions and ages, wherever evil surmounted goodness.
As Surah An-Nisa, No. 4, verse 165 of Quran says:
(We sent) messengers as givers of glad tidings and as warners, so that people might have no argument against Allah after the (invitations of) the messengers, and Allah is the Mighty, the Wise.
We must remember that Rasool [Messenger] is one who has been sent with an express purpose. And Avatar is one who has come down [descended] with an express purpose. Naturally, only one that has been sent (from a place i.e. the highest heavens) will descend (to a place i.e. the earth). We must remember that this descent was not in physical form. We have read in Part I of this BOOK about the devatma-sakti which divided to form 7 or 14 devatma [Noorani Roohs or Lighted Spirits]. It is these 7 or 14 who have chosen pious and pure human bodies to work as office during all ages and times. From Christian and Jewish sources we found that they are talking of 7 spirits coming (avtarit) to the earth at the onset of creation. The Upanishads talk of 7 and 7, but not 14, and we have concluded that there are originally 7 Noorani Roohs, which upon a time descended on earth in 14 bodies; but the 7 Noorani Roohs were performing the task of guidance and leading us to subjugation and worship of God individually at various places and in various regions. Unfortunately wherever the Messengers [Avatars] came with truth, people denied it and found one or the other excuse not to follow the teachings.
See what Surah Qasas says further in verses 48-50:
But when the truth came to them from Us they said: ‘Why has he not been given the like of what was given Moses?’ (But) did they not believe also in what Moses was given aforetime? They said: ‘A pair of sorceries supporting each other’. And they (also) said: ‘Verily we disbelieve in all’.
Say (O’ Apostle Muhammad): ‘Bring you then a Book from Allah that gives better guidance than both of them (i.e., Torah and Qur’an), (that) I follow it, if you are truthful’.
But if they do not answer you, then know that they only follow their own low desires, and who is more astray than he who follows his own low desire without any guidance from Allah? Verily Allah does not guide the unjust people.”
These verses of Quran confirm the teachings of Gita and Upanishads to its full. Impurity of self and attractions to sensual charms come in the way of accepting Truth and Guidance. Thus, the relation between these two is explicitly stated in this verse, and even the most aberrant people are introduced as those who have taken their own sensual desire as their leader and they have never accepted the Divine guidance. Sensual desire comes as a thick curtain before the eyes of man’s intellect. Sensual desire attracts the man’s attention to a subject so much that he often loses the ability of understanding the facts because the condition of understanding the fact is an absolute submission for realities, leaving any aversion or attachment, and to be unconditionally submissive unto whatever outwardly exists, whether it is sweet or bitter; it is alongside our innate wishes or opposite of them; it is on the way of our personal interests or against them; but sensual desire is not consistent with these principles.
Guidance is sometimes found in the heavenly Book, sometimes in the person of Prophets and their way of imparting teachings, sometimes through immaculate divinely appointed vicegerents, and sometimes in the logic of intellect and wisdom. The important thing is that man does not follow his own sensual desires and has attuned his self towards accepting Divine guidance, so that he can enjoy the rays of guidance.
As verse 56 of Surah Qasas further says:
Verily you cannot guide whom you like, but Allah guides whomever He pleases, and He knows best those that are guided.
Guidance is from God but if you truly seek it then you have to ensure that your senses are subdued, you are seeker and supporter of justice and your pursuit is sincere and in the right direction. Then leave it to God to shower His bounties of knowledge and wisdom upon you!
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INTRODUCTION
Messengers/Avatars came in various regions and time. Souls which were obedient followed their path and attained salvation. Those who remained on earth were those couldn’t come out of their sensual afflictions to tread the path of spiritual excellence and salvation.
The Manifest Self (Paramatma) and its agents [Noor Rooh] are ceaselessly trying to take wheat grains out of the husk. With this aim in sight, there was to be a time in future when all the Divinities who were formed from the one Noor of Brahma, descended in human bodies, one after another, in the desert of Arabia. This was supposed to be a big event, cherished by all the previous Messengers/Avatars. That is why all of them were foretelling their coming, so that followers of each of the previous Messengers do not fail to cognize the Divinities when they would come. When all the 7 Lighted Spirits descended on earth, they were called Ahlulbayt, who were 14 but having 7 names.
We have seen all this in Part-I of this BOOK. It is time now to see from the lives of these Divinities whether they are indeed the ones for whom the entire world was waiting for and who were being invited by people in nearly all regions of the world to come from heavens to live in human bodies. .
When you read more about them and their lives on earth, you will also know that 13 of these 14 have already left after showing us the path to lead a life of piety and supplication to God. We know for sure that lives of all of them after Mohammad was cut short by those who called themselves followers of Mohammad. Those calling themselves Muslims couldn’t learn the very first lessons of Islam which revolved around supplicating our self to the will of Allah. They engrossed themselves in outward supplications in a ritualistic manner and thus true guidance and knowledge eluded them. Only the last of the 14 Ahlulbayt remains to come and is awaiting the Will of God when He is ordained to come. He is the Kalki Avatar of Hindus, the Messiah of Jews, the Quetzalcoatl of Aztecs, the last of the Soshiants of the Zoroastrians, the Son of Man of the Christians and the Mahdi of the Muslims. He has been described as Baqiatullah [the remaining portion of (the Self of) Allah].
Says the Quran, Surah Qasas, verse 5 and 6:
And We have intended to bestow (Our) favour upon those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them leaders (in faith) and make them heirs.
And to grant them power in the earth, and to show Pharaoh and Haman, and their hosts, what they were dreading from them.”
It is the way of God that He supports those who have been oppressed on earth. There is no doubt that when God’s Will is issued for a thing to occur, that thing will certainly be performed and no barrier can hinder it.
As the Quran says:
Verily when He intends a thing, His command is, ‘Be’, and it is!
Surah Yasin. 36. 82
Surah Qasas cited above is giving glad tidings upon the field of triumph of the truth over the untruth and faith over disbelief. Though the aforementioned verse is talking of God’s Will regarding the triumph of Moses and his followers and annihilation of the government of the Pharaoh, the verses are also giving glad-tiding for all free men who seek and stand for truth and justice and endeavour to wipe away the injustice and cruelty that has filled the world.
A bigger example of this will be the coming of the Messiah, who is not the messiah of one religion but the awaited one, as per all the divine scriptures on earth, even though their followers may have deviated from the true teachings to the extent that they do not even know the identity of the Messiah. That will be the time when Justice and Truth will prevail, walls of all man-made religions will crumble and the content of all scriptures from God will come true, be it the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, Old Testament, Bible or Quran.
But first let us search for the true path and see whether the 14 Manus or Devatas are actually the 14 Ahlulbayt and see from their lives whether the description of their nature and character befit those of Divinities described in Upanishads and other scriptures of Indo-Aryans.
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