Ever since the beginning man has always questioned and asked for answers as for solutions to his dilemmas. When Adam was first created by Allah, Adam was given dominion over the earth. He was given the right to name the animals. He was given control over everything. Yet Adam wasn’t satisfied, he needed something else. And he said to Allah, “I’m different than the animals, I can’t know them, I need somebody like me so that I can truly know them; so that I can truly have a relationship where we can know each other.”
And Allah, who created Adam out of love and out of wanted a creation that could know Him, of course understood Adam’s need, and created woman so that there would be a creature that Adam could know.
Now you would think this would solve all of man’s problems. The first problem was solved, but it didn’t solve all of man’s problems. More problems came after that, and problems came continuously to man and woman. And man and woman have been constantly seeking solutions to their dilemmas.
And in His mercy, Allah has sent 124,000 prophets to explain to man the dilemma that man finds himself in. Even with all this it has become, and remains, difficult for man to respond to all of his dilemmas, to understand all of his problems, and to find answers to the problems.
And because when the prophets came, men came after the prophets, and the men who came after the prophets did not have the wisdom the prophets. They took what the prophets brought and made a religion out of it. They tried to codify it; they tried to make laws that would respond to what the prophets taught. But, in matters of truth, and in matters of religion, in matters of the deen, the way, the path, you can’t have too many laws because it’s not about laws; it’s about your heart.
And if you are constantly focused on laws, strange things begin to happen. The ones who impose the laws become very powerful, and power leads to corruption, and then difficulties arise in the relationship between the ones who enforce the laws and the ones who are supposed to follow the laws.
So, Allah sent more people. He sent Muhaiyaddeen’s. He sent those who bring the life back to the faith, because words that are written down don’t have the same life as words that come from a living being that come as a revelation from Allah.
So, there are no more prophets, but there was a continuation of the truth coming into this world, and that truth comes in order to revive the spirit of people; in order to help people answer their dilemmas, in order to bring people closer to the truth.
And how does the Muhaiyaddeen do this? How do the ones who bring truth back to the religion, to the faith, to the way, do this? They do it by bringing kindness and love into the world…
