Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
All the Praise be to Allah S.W.T The Supreme Being, The God Almighty in the world and sky, The Only God and Everlasting even before the whole world has been created, until it is thoroughly created and being guided on how to maintain it by the most perfect guidance, until the world is over. He is (Allah) The Only God without the beginning or the end. Being existed with all creatures that must have the beginning and ending. While Allah is The Creator of the beginning and the end, hence Allah is never dependent on the words of beginning and end.

He is The Only One, The Everlasting S.W.T, “laysa kamitslihi syai’un” there is nothing like Him, He is incomparable. QS. Assyura: 11. And unite all the perfection within His Name, The Only God, Allah S.W.T throughout the periods of time. The more a man learns what the world has; he will understand further the secret of God’s Magnificence. The more he studies the sunnah of The Prophet S.A.W the messenger of Blessings, hence he will further understand how magnificent Allah Jalla Wa Alla and His lessons are.

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
Within this noble gathering, gathered as many servants whom souls are seen and noticed by Rabbul Alamin, The Most Observer towards each deepest feeling, The Most Watcher towards all things we have done in life, The Most Omniscient what will happen tomorrow and The Supreme Being Who is able to turn and twist our condition in the future. He is The Only God, Allah Allah Jalla Wa Alla The Most Eternal, Allah who is always glorified and always grand in the whole world, overseeing this World Kingdom with perfection.

Now we have come to the hadits of The Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. As written in Shahih Bukhari, one hadits that sounds trivial but indeed reveals the secret of nobility and perfection as well as modernity of the lessons from Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. He S.A.W declared, “idza waqa’adzdzubabu fi syarabi ahadikum falyaghmishu tsumma liyanzi’hu fainna fi ihda janahaiyhi da’an wal ukhra syifa’an” if a fly falls into your glass, drown it, because one if its wings has disease while the other wing has its remedy.

It doesn’t mean that we must do this all the time. What we are discussing here is indeed not about a fly falling down into the glass that must be drown, because what it means from this hadits is not a command, but something that may neutralize the water from the fly’s poison. This has been proved by our scientists, as they studied about the insects on earth. They found out the enormous marvels of those insects, that a fly flaps its wings 200 to 400X (times) each second. And each second, the fly moves its wings 200 to 400X movements. And for an animal called “Ganjur” even flaps its wings 1000X each second. The scientists studied 4 kinds of insects, they learnt about those creatures and said that they just studied 4 kinds of insects while there are still left approximately more than 10 million kind of insects in this world. And certainly, they found out many discoveries and miracles from those insects, and they said that in each of the wings of a fly, there are elevator and depressor functions, which meant as the function of elevating and lowering its wings. And it moves 200 to 400X each second, and the amazing movement of the fly which always moves in many minutes or even hours. Such fast movement of the muscles that moves the wings of such a tiny fly is amazing.

Allah S.W.T commanded “ya ayyuhannaas..” O’ humankind, has been given to all of you one example, thus listen to the example I have given, those who admit God aside from Allah S.W.T will never be able to create a fly although from naught, although all of them who are worshipped other than Allah gather together.” (QS Al Hajj 73).

All that are worshipped other than Allah gather together to create a fly, they will never be able to do it, they will never be able to create a tiny fly although they are all united.

A tiny fly, as explained by researchers from Australia, in one of its wings they found 1 RESILIN GENE, a gene that has 2 functions, an industrial function and health function. Function towards the industry is that this Resilin gene is much more powerful and enormous than all kind of rubbers found and made by humankind on this earth. The kind of rubber is taken from rubber trees or any other thing, while the Resilin gene found in the wings of a fly is much stronger and more powerful if used as rubber as it has the powerful capacity to push and press as well as the enormous capacity to bounce and these are all found from the wings of a fly and other insect that can vibrate until 1000X each second, like a creature called ‘ganjur’ or other insects.

And for the health function, the Resilin gene is a gene that can cure diseases found in the arteries and nerves. There are a lot of blockages or clogging in the arteries (blood vessels) and these Resilin genes from the wings of a fly can cure such disease. This shows the magnificent and perfection and the intelligence of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W.

If a fly falls into your glass, drown it. It means, the Resilin genes in its wings would be absorbed by the water that makes the water purified from bacteria found in the other wing.

Who informed The Prophet S.A.W that there is Resilin genes that can cure the clogging in the arteries or blood vessels while those genes are not even visible..?. We can see them through a microscope and it takes many years to study it, but The Prophet S.A.W knew that in the wings of a fly there are remedies and diseases, until the grains of the genes and cells of a fly’s wings had been discovered by Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W.

The more a person study about sunnah, hence the more perfect and modern his life would become. Ladies and gentlemen, this shows how magnificent it is our Prophet Muhammad S.A.W, whose guidance seemed to be trivial if we have yet to study it. Those who don’t understand would certainly laugh, how could a fly that already falls into the water, should be drown? But The Prophet S.A.W knew “..fainna fi ihda jana haihi da’an wal ukhra syifa’an” because on its wings there are disease as well as remedy. And in fact, our scientists prove it, the depth and sharpness of the awareness of Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W.

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
This is the perfection of Allah S.W.T in creating the sunnah of The Prophet S.A.W, as written in Shahih Bukhari, Rasul S.A.W declared “if you sleep, turn off the light.” So simple, we might think that turning off the lights meant that we would save the oil of the lantern, at that time. But actually it was not that simple, in fact the human body produces energy when they sleep and the energy comes out from the body will mend the broken cells in the body, and those energies would be disturbed by the presence of lights. This kind of thing has been discovered by Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W. If you sleep, turn off the lights. At that period of tiem, 14 centuries ago, they didn’t understand about body energy and such. The Prophet S.A.W has known it although at that era, people have yet to come to this kind of knowledge. The Prophet S.A.W taught it, follow His sunnah. Here comes the time to prove it that in fact The Prophet S.A.W knew that the energy which comes out from the human body when sleeping will be disturbed by the light. His command is clear, therefore if you sleep, please turn off the lights to make the energy in your body works well in mending your body. It shows the perfection of the lessons from Muhammad Rasullah S.A.W. and Rasul S.A.W declared “there is none of you (it means all of you) will face the Creator, the God and he will be standing alone, and nobody will accompany him” (when he stands up to face the Rabb) (Shahih Bukhari).

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
There are more than 10 million kinds of insects found on this earth and each of the insects has its own different kind of rules. Each insect has its own wing’s speed, ranging from 200 to 400X each second, or even could reach up to 1000X each second. While there are 10 million kinds of insects, then who controls this all? Could the insect systematize its own movement? Or other functions of its muscles and nerves? They could only live without knowing why they live. This is the nature of an insect, a bee with its own benefit, a fly or a mosquito, each represents the sign of the God’s magnificence. And all of them are under Allah’s willing. Recognizing this all, The Great Creator, He is Allah. Return to Him and not to the depth science on a fly or insects but study more on who the creator of it all is, Rabbul Alamin..Allahu Allahu Allahu.

And we all will stand before Allah, the most significant moment. When we contemplate it, we will stand up as our name is called, and we will find as explained fulan bin fulan to come forward in the presence of Allah. As written in Shahih Bukhari, when one of the people came forward to face Allah, he was a person who longed for Allah the most when he was alive on earth. Hence when he was taken to the presence of Allah S.W.T, Allah S.W.T hid all his sins, invisible by other people on that mahsyar field and what they could see were only the rewards of his good deeds. Why? “Whoever covers the flaws of other person (Moslem’s) in the world, hence on the judgment day, his sins wouldn’t be seen”. (Shahih Bukhari) He had a lot of sins but all were hid by Allah, and not exposed to others, the way any good deeds in the majestic trial on mahsyar field would be checked. On so and so date, day, month, you conducted this, who is the witness? The witnesses are your hands, and legs. “his hands, legs, and all part of his body are the witnesses”. The earth will witness and the angels too, that this person performed so and so thing, and by that time all his offspring would see, all his friends would see, and his family and relatives and the whole people on earth would see it. But for those who always hide the flaws of other Moslems in the world, Allah will hide their sins. Also for those who come forward to the presence of Allah, those who love Allah and certainly still have sins, Allah S.W.T declared, “you conducted this and that, conducted sins on so and so day, date and in a certain place,..?”, “yes I did, O’ Allah”, “and look at this one?”, Allah would keep on questioning. And he said, “true, O’ Allah, it’s true O’ Allah”. Then Allah S.W.T declared “in the world I protected you, people who don’t know their sins. Now in the Judgment Day I pardon you”. (Shahih Bukhari). So magnificent Allah is, towards those who want to get closer towards Allah Jalla Wa Alla.

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
As written in Shahih Bukhari, about someone who always recites Surah Al Ikhlas and keeps on repeating it many times. This story has two versions, three versions in Shahih Bukhari and Shahih Muslim. Three different stories but with one meaning, the first story is the story of a person who, every time he finished reciting Surah Al Fatihah, would recite Surah Al Ikhlas and followed by other surah from Al Qur’an. (Al Fatihah – Al Ikhlas – other surah from Al. Qu’ran), and we have discussed this story many times.

The second story was from Sayyidatuna Aisyah radiyallahu anha, that someone performed the same thing when he was in war and when he was reported to Prophet S.A.W, Prophet S.A.W said, “ask him why did he do that?”, he replied, “I’m happy to recite it because in that surah, there are characters of Allah whom I love”, I love to recite the words “Allahu ahad” (Allah The Only God) in my heart, I will never bow down to others, no matter how many sins I conducted I will never bow down and worship other than Allah… only Allah, I am happy to call His Name….” When Prophet S.A.W came to know about this news, Prophet S.A.W said, “Please tell him that Allah loves him”. Why? Because he loves to call Allah’s Name, loves to recite the character of Allah, thus Allah also loves him. Ladies and gentlemen, the love towards Allah is the one certainly answered from all kind of love. We could love anyone, but the one that would be certainly answered is the love of Allah. If we love someone, it doesn’t guarantee that person loves us back, we love someone 100% and we cannot guarantee that he would love us 100%. But if someone loves Allah 100%, Allah will love him back 200%.

“Wa idza taqarraba ilayya abdi syibran taqarabbtu ilaihi dzira’an, waidza taqarabba ilayya abdi dzira’an taqarabbtu ilaihi ba’a,” when My servants get closer to Me one span, I will get closer to him one span of arm, My servants get closer to Me one span of arm, I will get even closer to him one fathom,” (Shahih Bukhari). This is a comparison that the love of Allah will be even bigger than our love for Allah. No matter how big your love and long for Allah is, His love towards us will be even bigger. Thus, who wants to refuse the love proposal from Allah and Allah’s desire towards us? Answer the desire of Allah S.W.T and the love of Allah towards us by loving and longing for Allah.

I am a sinner days and nights, and not qualified to long for Allah… In fact, the love and desire for Allah if comes from the sinners when they want to get closer to Allah and regret, Allah S.W.T will raise their level from the lowest rank to the most dignified rank. “Innallahu yuhibbu tawwabin wa yuhibbu muthathahirin, Innahu kaana tawwaaba” indeed Allah is The Most Gracious and Merciful. No matter how big the sins of the persons are, their request for forgiveness will be accepted by Rabbul Alamin.
As written in Shahih Bukhari, when Rasul S.A.W heard the news that his comrades said Sa’ad radiyallahu anhum declared, “Whoever dares to get closer to my wife and be together with my wife, I will behead them with this sword”. The comrades informed Rasul S.A.W, “O’ Rasulullah, this Sa’ad wants to make his own rules,” something like that. The Prophet S.A.W changed the topic of conversation into something gentle, while declaring “are you all confused about Sa’as being jealous and over protective?, I would even more jealous to you all compared to Sa’ad being protective towards his wife”. Sa’ad’s love towards his wife is far less meaningful compared to my love towards all of you and I am more protective to all of you, said Rasul S.A.W. What is the meaning? I would love and even more protective. For example, if Sa’ad saw other men together with his wife, he would attack them with a sword, hence Rasul S.A.W would never let us alone, there are many of his followers in hell, no matter how big their sins are, Rasul S.A.W would fight for them, fight and struggle for them all until there are none of his people left, as he will freed them all from hell. This shows how big it is the love and protectiveness from Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W towards all of us.

“Laqad jaa akum rasulun min anfusikum a’ziizun a’laihi maa a’nittum hariishun a’laikum bil mu’miniina raufurrahiim,” has come to you all, a Prophet who has deep thoughts about the catastrophes that all of you have, very protective to you all and he is very gentle towards faithful people. QS. At Taubah : 128.

As written in Shahih Muslim, when Nabiyullah Ibrahim a.s gave up on his followers who didn’t believe in Allah and Nabiyyullah Isa a.s gave up on his followers who didn’t believe in Allah and committed sins, the tears of The Prophet S.A.W fell down. Jibril (Gabriel) alaihis salam came down when The Prophet S.A.W cried while reciting, “ummatiy..ummatiy..”. Even in the book written by Imam Nawawi in Syarh Nawawi ala Shahih Muslim, Prophet S.A.W called “ummatiy..ummatiy”, it means Rasul S.A.W didn’t want to be separated from his followers. He S.A.W raised his hands and prayed to Allah “ummatiy..ummatiy..”, Jibril a.s came down to earth, “what makes you cry, O’ Rasulullah?”, Rasul said “all Prophets are free from duties and give up on their followers who committed sins while I don’t have the heart to let go my followers who committed sins, O’ Jibril”. Hence Jibril returned to Allah and reported “O’ Rabb, Muhammad S.A.W didn’t have the heart and could let go his followers who committed sins, always like that, he still want to defend his followers who are sinners”. Thus Allah S.W.T commanded Jibril to return to The Prophet S.A.W “kindly inform Muhammad, I will not disappoint him and will never make him sad”. Therefore The Prophet S.A.W will never have the followers who pass away as Moslem but committed sins, no matter how long they will be tortured in their graves and the fire of hell because of their sins, they will eventually arrive in heaven with the syafa’at from Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.

We perform silent prayer towards Allah S.W.T, may Allah S.W.T extend our longing feelings towards Prophet Muhammad S.A.W and Allah S.W.T. because after Prophet S.A.W said “I am more jealous (over protective) towards all of you, compared to Sa’ad” hence Rasul S.A.W continued his hadits “indeed Allah is even more protective that I am”. Allah loves us even more, therefore Allah created Prophet Muhammad S.A.W as the sign of His love towards us.

Ya Rahman Ya Rahim make our soul always respond towards the calls of Your longing feeling, we have heard Your statement O’ Allah “Man ahabba liqaa’iy ahbabtu liqa’ah, whoever long for meeting up with Allah, Allah also long for meeting them,” as written in Shahih Bukhari.

Rabbiy, grow the longing feeling within the soul of all Moslems, make our breath decorated with longing feeling for You, and make such longing feeling remove all sins, get rid of all catastrophes and bad luck, throw away all of our problems and troubles. Ya Rahman Ya Rahim kindly ensure all of our face will be brightened by the light of Your beauty on Yaumal qiyamah, those dazzling faces on Judgment Day, only staring at Allah Jalla Wa Alla. They are staring at the magnificence of Allah, the light of Allah’s beauty, light up their faces while there are empty and dark faces, they know that they will be returned to misery. Rabbiy kindly ensure that our face will be luminously bright with Your light, make sure that we extend our relationship with Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W, make sure we will be meeting up with The Prophet S.A.W at the palace of Rasulullah S.A.W, the most lavish palace in heaven, the palace of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W, the highest palace in heaven is the palace of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. Kindly ensure that we will always attend the noble majelis, majelis taklim, majelis maulid, and majelis shalawat. Kindly ensure that we will be together with Rasulullah S.A.W.

Ya Rahman Ya Rahim Ya Dzaljalali wal ikram, we light up the fire of love within our soul in which may You protect us from all disasters and catastrophes, pour on us the Blessing and Easiness, prosperity in the word and beyond, happiness in the world and beyond, easiness in the world and beyond, magnificence in the world and beyond, welfare in the world and beyond. O’ The Owner of the world and beyond, O’ The Creator of the whole world and beyond, O’ Thy who creates the world and ends it with Judgment Day, O’ The Owner of name since the offspring of Adam go through the world and beyond, kindly ensure our safety in the world and beyond.

Faquuluuu jamii’an (recite this together) Ya Allah, Ya Allah..Ya Allah..Ya Allah..

Faquuluuu jamii’an (recite this together) Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Muhammadurrasulullah.

Our program is followed by together praying for all Moslems, as mentioned in hadits written in Shahih Muslim, Rasul S.A.W declared “whoever prays for his Moslem brother, the angels recite “amin walaka mitsluh” amin and for you what you have prayed for your brother.”

We pray for the wellbeing of all Moslems, those who already passed away, and Moslems who suffer from tortures in their grave, may they be given easiness by Allah S.W.T. Those who are already comfortable may be given more pleasures, and for those are still alive on this earth, may Allah eliminate all troubles, sadness and catastrophes, and be given help by Allah S.W.T. Therefore ladies and gentlemen, we pray for all Moslems, and as big as the number of these Moslems, each of their good deeds will return to us. Hence may Allah answer our prayer and within this prayer there is a hope, requesting the authorities to bring wisdom and prosperity for all of us. The prayer requesting Allah, to give us the leaders who can demolish tyranny and help the weak, the leaders who love faithful people and fight for dignity and justice in this biggest Moslem country in the world.

Washollallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad Nabiyyil Ummiy wa Shohbihi wa Sallam.
Wassalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

(Majelis Rasulullah)

1. Elohim and Adonim, Hebrew words for God, occur in the plural. If this literally meant a plurality of persons, it would be translated “Gods.” But the Jews, being truly monotheistic and thoroughly familiar with the idioms of their own language, have never understood the use of the plural to indicate a plurality of persons within the one God. This use of the plural is for amplification, and is called a “plural of majesty” or a “plural of emphasis,” and is used for intensification (see note on Gen. 1:1). Many Hebrew scholars identify this use of “us” as the use of the plural of majesty or plural of emphasis, and we believe this also.

2. The plural of majesty is clearly attested to in writing from royalty through the ages. Hyndman writes:

The true explanation of this verse is to be found in the practice which has prevailed in all nations with which we are acquainted, of persons speaking of themselves in the plural number. “Given at our palace,” “It is our pleasure,” are common expressions of kings in their proclamations (p. 54).

Morgridge adds:

It is common in all languages with which we are acquainted, and it appears to have always been so, for an individual, especially if he be a person of great dignity and power, in speaking of himself only, to say we, our, us, instead of I, my, me. Thus, the king of France says, “We, Charles the tenth.” The king of Spain says, “We, Ferdinand the seventh.” The Emperor of Russia says “We, Alexander,” or “We, Nicholas” (p. 93).

The plural of majesty can be seen in Ezra 4:18. In Ezra 4:11, the men of the Trans-Euphrates wrote, “To King Artaxerxes, from your servants.” The book of Ezra continues, “The king sent this reply: Greetings. The letter you sent us has been read and translated….” Thus, although the people wrote to the king himself, the king used the word “us.” It is common in such correspondence that the plural is used when someone speaks of his intentions, and the use of the more literal singular is used when the person acts.

It is well known that Muhammad Rasulullah (peace upon him) was a determined opposer of the doctrine of the Trinity: yet he and Qur`an often represent God as saying we, our, us, when speaking only of Himself. This shows that, in his opinion and Qur`an, the use of such terms was not indicative of a plurality of persons. If no one infers, from their frequent use in Qur`an, that Muhammad Rasulullah was a Trinitarian, surely their occurrence in a few places in the Bible ought not to be made a proof of the doctrine of the Trinity .

3. Some scholars believe that the reason for the “us” in Genesis 1:26 is that God could have been speaking with the angels when he created man in the beginning. Although that is possible, because there are many Scriptures that clearly attribute the creation of man to God alone, we believe that the plural of emphasis is the preferred explanation.

4. The name of God is not the only word that is pluralized for emphasis (although when the plural does not seem to be good grammar, the translators usually ignore the Hebrew plural and translate it as a singular, so it can be hard to spot in most English versions)

After Cain murdered Abel, God said to Cain, “the voice of your brother’s bloods cries to me from the ground” (Gen. 4:10). The plural emphasizes the horror of the act. In Genesis 19:11, the men of Sodom who wanted to hurt Lot were smitten with “blindness.” The Hebrew is in the plural, “blindnesses,” and indicates that the blindness was total so Lot would be protected. Leviticus tells people not to eat fruit from a tree for three years, and in the fourth year the fruit is “an offering of praise to the Lord” (Lev. 19:24). The Hebrew word for “praise” is plural, emphasizing that there was to be great praise. Psalm 45:15 tells of people who are brought into the presence of the Messiah. It says, “They are led in with joy and gladness.” The Hebrew actually reads “gladnesses,” emphasizing the great gladness of the occasion. In Ezekiel 25, God is speaking of what has happened to Israel and what He will do about it. Concerning the Philistines, He said, “the Philistines acted in vengeance…I will carry out great vengeance on them” (Ezek 25:15 and 17). In the Hebrew text, the second vengeance, the vengeance of God, is in the plural, indicating the complete vengeance that the Lord will inflict. Although many more examples exist in the Hebrew text, these demonstrate that it is not uncommon to use a plural to emphasize something in Scripture.

Buzzard, p. 13

Farley, pp. 25-27

Hyndman, pp. 53 and 54

Morgridge, pp. 92-96

Snedeker, pp. 359-367

(Biblical Unitarian)

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1. It is imperative that the serious student of the Bible come to a basic understanding of logos, which is translated as “Word” in John 1:1. Most Trinitarians believe that the word logos refers directly to Jesus Christ, so in most versions of John logos is capitalized and translated “Word” (some versions even write “Jesus Christ” in John 1:1). However, a study of the Greek word logos shows that it occurs more than 300 times in the New Testament, and in both the NIV and the KJV it is capitalized only 7 times (and even those versions disagree on exactly when to capitalize it). When a word that occurs more than 300 times is capitalized fewer than 10 times, it is obvious that when to capitalize and when not to capitalize is a translators’ decision based on their particular understanding of Scripture.

As it is used throughout Scripture, logos has a very wide range of meanings along two basic lines of thought. One is the mind and products of the mind like “reason,” (thus “logic” is related to logos) and the other is the expression of that reason as a “word,” “saying,” “command” etc. The Bible itself demonstrates the wide range of meaning logos has, and some of the ways it is translated in Scripture are: account, appearance, book, command, conversation, eloquence, flattery, grievance, heard, instruction, matter, message, ministry, news, proposal, question, reason, reasonable, reply, report, rule, rumor, said, say, saying, sentence, speaker, speaking, speech, stories, story, talk, talking, teaching, testimony, thing, things, this, truths, what, why, word and words.

Any good Greek lexicon will also show this wide range of meaning (the words in italics are translated from logos):

• speaking; words you say (Rom. 15:18, “what I have said and done”).
• a statement you make (Luke 20:20 – (NASB), “they might catch him in some statement).
• a question (Matt. 21:24, “I will also ask you one question”).
• preaching (1 Tim. 5:17, “especially those whose work is preaching and teaching).
• command (Gal. 5:14, “the entire law is summed up in a single command”).
• proverb; saying (John 4:37, “thus the saying, ‘One sows, and another reaps’”).
• message; instruction; proclamation (Luke 4:32, “his message had authority”).
• assertion; declaration; teaching (John 6:60, “this is a hard teaching”).
• the subject under discussion; matter (Acts 8:21, “you have no part or share in this ministry.” Acts 15:6 (NASB), “And the apostles… came together to look into this matter”).
• revelation from God (Matt. 15:6, “you nullify the Word of God ”).
• God’s revelation spoken by His servants (Heb. 13:7, “leaders who spoke the Word of God”).
• a reckoning, an account (Matt. 12:36, “men will have to give account” on the day of judgment).
• an account or “matter” in a financial sense (Matt. 18:23, A king who wanted to settle “accounts” with his servants. Phil. 4:15, “the matter of giving and receiving”).
• a reason; motive (Acts 10:29 – NASB), “I ask for what reason you have sent for me”). [16]

The above list is not exhaustive, but it does show that logos has a very wide range of meaning. With all the definitions and ways logos can be translated, how can we decide which meaning of logos to choose for any one verse? How can it be determined what the logos in John 1:1 is? Any occurrence of logos has to be carefully studied in its context in order to get the proper meaning. We assert that the logos in John 1:1 cannot be Jesus. Please notice that “Jesus Christ” is not a lexical definition of logos. This verse does not say, “In the beginning was Jesus.” “The Word” is not synonymous with Jesus, or even “the Messiah.” The word logos in John 1:1 refers to God’s creative self-expression—His reason, purposes and plans, especially as they are brought into action. It refers to God’s self-expression, or communication, of Himself. This has come to pass through His creation (Rom. 1:19 and 20), and especially the heavens (Ps. 19). It has come through the spoken word of the prophets and through Scripture, the written Word. Most notably and finally, it has come into being through His Son (Heb. 1:1 and 2).

The renowned Trinitarian scholar, John Lightfoot, writes:

The word logos then, denoting both “reason” and “speech,” was a philosophical term adopted by Alexandrian Judaism before St. Paul wrote, to express the manifestation of the Unseen God in the creation and government of the World. It included all modes by which God makes Himself known to man. As His reason, it denoted His purpose or design; as His speech, it implied His revelation. Christian teachers, when they adopted this term, exalted and fixed its meaning by attaching to it two precise and definite ideas: (1) “The Word is a Divine Person,” (2) “The Word became incarnate in Jesus Christ.” It is obvious that these two propositions must have altered materially the significance of all the subordinate terms connected with the idea of the logos. [17]

It is important to note that it was “Christian teachers” who attached the idea of a “divine person” to the word logos. It is certainly true that when the word logos came to be understood as being Jesus Christ, the understanding of John 1:1 was altered substantially. Lightfoot correctly understands that the early meaning of logos concerned reason and speech, not “Jesus Christ.” Norton develops the concept of logos as “reason” and writes:

There is no word in English answering to the Greek word logos, as used here [in John 1:1]. It was employed to denote a mode of conception concerning the Deity, familiar at the time when St. John wrote and intimately blended with the philosophy of his age, but long since obsolete, and so foreign from our habits of thinking that it is not easy for us to conform our minds to its apprehension. The Greek word logos, in one of its primary senses, answered nearly to our word Reason. The logos of God was regarded, not in its strictest sense, as merely the Reason of God; but, under certain aspects, as the Wisdom, the Mind, the Intellect of God (p. 307).

Norton postulates that perhaps “the power of God” would be a good translation for logos (p. 323). Buzzard sets forth “plan,” “purpose” or “promise” as three acceptable translations. Broughton and Southgate say “thoughts, plan or purpose of God, particularly in action.” Many scholars identify logos with God’s wisdom and reason.

The logos is the expression of God, and is His communication of Himself, just as a “word” is an outward expression of a person’s thoughts. This outward expression of God has now occurred through His Son, and thus it is perfectly understandable why Jesus is called the “Word.” Jesus is an outward expression of God’s reason, wisdom, purpose and plan. For the same reason, we call revelation “a word from God” and the Bible “the Word of God.”

If we understand that the logos is God’s expression—His plan, purposes, reason and wisdom, it is clear that they were indeed with Him “in the beginning.” Scripture says that God’s wisdom was “from the beginning” (Prov. 8:23). It was very common in Hebrew writing to personify a concept such as wisdom. No ancient Jew reading Proverbs would think that God’s wisdom was a separate person, even though it is portrayed as one in verses like Proverbs 8:29 and 30: “…when He marked out the foundations of the earth, I [wisdom] was the craftsman at His side.”

2. Most Jewish readers of the Gospel of John would have been familiar with the concept of God’s “word” being with God as He worked to bring His creation into existence. There is an obvious working of God’s power in Genesis 1 as He brings His plan into concretion by speaking things into being. The Targums are well known for describing the wisdom and action of God as His “word.” This is especially important to note because the Targums are the Aramaic translations and paraphrases of the Old Testament, and Aramaic was the spoken language of many Jews at the time of Christ. Remembering that a Targum is usually a paraphrase of what the Hebrew text says, note how the following examples attribute action to the word:

• And the word of the Lord was Joseph’s helper (Gen. 39:2).
• And Moses brought the people to meet the word of the Lord (Ex. 19:17).
• And the word of the Lord accepted the face of Job (Job 42:9).
• And the word of the Lord shall laugh them to scorn (Ps. 2:4).
• They believed in the name of His word (Ps. 106:12). [18]

The above examples demonstrate that the Jews were familiar with the idea of God’s Word referring to His wisdom and action. This is especially important to note because these Jews were fiercely monotheistic, and did not in any way believe in a “Triune God.” They were familiar with the idioms of their own language, and understood that the wisdom and power of God were being personified as “word.”

The Greek-speaking Jews were also familiar with God’s creative force being called “the word.” J. H. Bernard writes, “When we turn from Palestine to Alexandria [Egypt], from Hebrew sapiential [wisdom] literature to that which was written in Greek, we find this creative wisdom identified with the Divine logos, Hebraism and Hellenism thus coming into contact.” [19] One example of this is in the Apocryphal book known as the Wisdom of Solomon, which says, “O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy who hast made all things by thy word (logos), and by thy wisdom hast formed man…” (9:1). In this verse, the “word” and “wisdom” are seen as the creative force of God, but without being a “person.”

3. The logos, that is, the plan, purpose and wisdom of God, “became flesh” (came into concretion or physical existence) in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the “image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15) and His chief emissary, representative and agent. Because Jesus perfectly obeyed the Father, he represents everything that God could communicate about Himself in a human person. As such, Jesus could say, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father” (John 14:9). The fact that the logos “became” flesh shows that it did not exist that way before. There is no pre-existence for Jesus in this verse other than his figurative “existence” as the plan, purpose or wisdom of God for the salvation of man. The same is true with the “word” in writing. It had no literal pre-existence as a “spirit-book” somewhere in eternity past, but it came into being as God gave the revelation to people and they wrote it down.

4. The last phrase in the verse, which most versions translate as “and the Word was God,” should not be translated that way. The Greek language uses the word “God” (Greek = theos) to refer to the Father as well as to other authorities. These include the Devil (2 Cor. 4:4), lesser gods (1 Cor. 8:5) and men with great authority (John 10:34 and 35; Acts 12:22). At the time the New Testament was written, Greek manuscripts were written in all capital letters. The upper and lower case letters were not blended as we do today. Thus, the distinction that we today make between “God” and “god” could not be made, and the context became the judge in determining to whom “THEOS” referred.

Although context is the final arbiter, it is almost always the case in the New Testament that when “God” refers to the Father, the definite article appears in the Greek text (this article can be seen only in the Greek text, it is never translated into English). Translators are normally very sensitive to this (see John 10:33). The difference between theos with and without the article occurs in John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with “the theos,” and the Word was “theos.” Since the definite article is missing from the second occurrence of “theos” (“God,”) the usual meaning would be “god” or “divine.” The New English Bible gets the sense of this phrase by translating it, “What God was, the Word was.” James Moffatt who was a professor of Greek and New Testament Exegesis at Mansfield College in Oxford, England, and author of the well-known Moffatt Bible, translated the phrase, “the logos was divine.”

A very clear explanation of how to translate theos without the definite article can be found in Jesus As They Knew Him, by William Barclay, a professor at Trinity College in Glasgow:

In a case like this we cannot do other than go to the Greek, which is theos en ho logos. Ho is the definite article, the, and it can be seen that there is a definite article with logos, but not with theos. When in Greek two nouns are joined by the verb “to be,” and when both have the definite article, then the one is fully intended to be identified with the other; but when one of them is without the article, it becomes more an adjective than a noun, and describes rather the class or sphere to which the other belongs.

An illustration from English will make this clear. If I say, “The preacher is the man,” I use the definite article before both preacher and man, and I thereby identify the preacher with some quite definite individual man whom I have in mind. But, if I say, “The preacher is man,” I have omitted the definite article before man, and what I mean is that the preacher must be classified as a man, he is in the sphere of manhood, he is a human being.

[In the last clause of John 1:1] John has no article before theos, God. The logos, therefore, is not identified as God or with God; the word theos has become adjectival and describes the sphere to which the logos belongs. We would, therefore, have to say that this means that the logos belongs to the same sphere as God; without being identified with God, the logos has the same kind of life and being as God. Here the NEB [New English Bible] finds the perfect translation: “What God was, the Word was.” [20]

5. It is important to understand that the Bible was not written in a vacuum, but was recorded in the context of a culture and was understood by those who lived in that culture. Sometimes verses that seem superfluous or confusing to us were meaningful to the readers of the time because they were well aware of the culture and beliefs being propounded by those around them. In the first century, there were many competing beliefs in the world (and unfortunately, erroneous beliefs in Christendom) that were confusing believers about the identities of God and Christ. For centuries before Christ, and at the time the New Testament was written, the irrational beliefs about the gods of Greece had been handed down. This body of religious information was known by the word “muthos,” which we today call “myths” or “mythology.” This muthos, these myths, were often irrational, mystical and beyond understanding or explanation. The more familiar one is with the Greek myths, the better he will understand our emphasis on their irrationality. If one is unfamiliar with them, it would be valuable to read a little on the subject. Greek mythology is an important part of the cultural background of the New Testament.

The myths were often incomprehensible, but nevertheless, they had been widely accepted as the “revelation of the gods.” The pervasiveness of the muthos in the Greco-Roman world of the New Testament can be seen sticking up out of the New Testament like the tip of an iceberg above the water. When Paul and Barnabas healed a cripple in Lystra, the people assumed that the gods had come down in human form, and the priest of Zeus came to offer sacrifices to them. While Paul was in Athens, he became disturbed because of the large number of idols there that were statues to the various gods. In Ephesus, Paul’s teaching actually started a riot. When some of the locals realized that if his doctrine spread, “the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited, and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty” (Acts 19:27). There are many other examples that show that there was a muthos, i.e., a body of religious knowledge that was in large part incomprehensible to the human mind, firmly established in the minds of some of the common people in New Testament times.

Starting several centuries before Christ, certain Greek philosophers worked to replace the muthos with what they called the logos, a reasonable and rational explanation of reality. It is appropriate that, in the writing of the New Testament, God used the word logos, not muthos, to describe His wisdom, reason and plan. God has not come to us in mystical experiences and irrational beliefs that cannot be understood; rather, He reveals Himself in ways that can be rationally understood and persuasively argued. [For further study read Can we really know God?]

6. In addition to the cultural context that accepted the myths, at the time John was written, a belief system called Gnosticism was taking root in Christianity. Gnosticism had many ideas and words that are strange and confusing to us today, so, at the risk of oversimplifying, we will describe a few basic tenets of Gnosticism as simply as we can.

Gnosticism took many forms, but generally Gnostics taught that there was a supreme and unknowable Being, which they designated as the “Monad.” The Monad produced various gods, who in turn produced other gods (these gods were called by different names, in part because of their power or position). One of these gods, called the “Demiurge,” created the earth and then ruled over it as an angry, evil and jealous god. This evil god, Gnostics believed, was the god of the Old Testament, called Elohim. The Monad sent another god, “Christ,” to bring special gnosis (knowledge) to mankind and free them from the influence of the evil Elohim. Thus, a Gnostic Christian would agree that Elohim created the heavens and earth, but he would not agree that He was the supreme God. Most Gnostics would also state that Elohim and Christ were at cross-purposes with each other. This is why it was so important for John 1:1 to say that the logos was with God, which at first glance seems to be a totally unnecessary statement.

The opening of the Gospel of John is a wonderful expression of God’s love. God “wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4). He authored the opening of John in such a way that it reveals the truth about Him and His plan for all of mankind and, at the same time, refutes Gnostic teaching. It says that from the beginning there was the logos (the reason, plan, power), which was with God. There was not another “god” existing with God, especially not a god opposed to God. Furthermore, God’s plan was like God; it was divine. God’s plan became flesh when God impregnated Mary.

7. There are elements of John 1:1 and other phrases in the introduction of John that not only refer back in time to God’s work in the original creation, but also foreshadow the work of Christ in the new administration and the new creation. Noted Bible commentator F.F. Bruce argues for this interpretation:

It is not by accident that the Gospel begins with the same phrase as the book of Genesis. In Genesis 1:1, ‘In the beginning’ introduces the story of the old creation; here it introduces the story of the new creation. In both works of creation the agent is the Word of God. [21]

The Racovian Catechism, one of the great doctrinal works of the Unitarian movement of the 14th and 15th centuries, states that the word “beginning” in John 1:1 refers to the beginning of the new dispensation and thus is similar to Mark 1:1, which starts, “The beginning of the Gospel about Jesus Christ.”

In the cited passage (John 1:1) wherein the Word is said to have been in the beginning, there is no reference to an antecedent eternity, without commencement; because mention is made here of a beginning, which is opposed to that eternity. But the word beginning, used absolutely, is to be understood of the subject matter under consideration. Thus, Daniel 8:1, “In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me AT THE FIRST.” John 15:27, “And ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me FROM the beginning.” John 16:4, “These things I said not unto you AT the beginning because I was with you. And Acts 11:15, “And as I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us AT the beginning.” As then the matter of which John is treating is the Gospel, or the things transacted under the Gospel, nothing else ought to be understood here beside the beginning of the Gospel; a matter clearly known to the Christians whom he addressed, namely, the advent and preaching of John the Baptist, according to the testimony of all the evangelists [i.e., Matthew, Mark, Luke and John], each of whom begins his history with the coming and preaching of the Baptist. Mark indeed (Chapter 1:1) expressly states that this was the beginning of the Gospel. In like manner, John himself employs the word beginning, placed thus absolutely, in the introduction to his First Epistle, at which beginning he uses the same term (logos) Word, as if he meant to be his own interpreter [“That which is from the beginning…concerning the Word (logos) of life.” 1 John 1:1]. [22]

While we do not agree with the Catechism that the only meaning of beginning in John 1:1 is the beginning of the new creation, we certainly see how the word beginning is a double entendre. In the context of the new creation, then, “the Word” is the plan or purpose according to which God is restoring His creation.

8. To fully understand any passage of Scripture, it is imperative to study the context. To fully understand John 1:1, the rest of the chapter needs to be understood as well, and the rest of the chapter adds more understanding to John 1:1. We believe that these notes on John 1:1, read together with the rest of John 1 and our notes on John 1:3, John 1:10, John 1:14, John 1:15, and John 1:18 will help make the entire first chapter of John more understandable.

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Broughton and Southgate, pp. 238-248

Buzzard, pp. 111-119

Morgridge, pp. 107-109

Norton, pp. 307-374

Robinson, Honest to God, p. 71

Snedeker, pp. 313-326

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Yohanes 1:1 (Logos)

Rasulullah S.A.W teaches a glimpse of his prayer when performing silent prayer at night after his shalat tahajjud.

Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,
All Praise be to Allah Almighty, The Sustainer of the World and Sky, The Supreme Being, the Only God, The Eternal. Calling into existence, each soul to the peak of nobility, inviting His servants to always be within happiness in the world and beyond, with the guidance of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. All Praise be to Allah The Almighty in the whole world, who spreads the whole the skies from zilch, who creates the widest sky and earth and makes them chant tasbih glorifying the name of Allah.

Ladies and gentlemen, as explained by the scientists that in fact the planets in this realm of nature are not only sun, moon and stars but the earth is one part of Milky Galaxy. This galaxy is a cluster of stars and planets which consist of more than 200 billion stars. The earth is one of the 200 billion other planets. And in fact, ladies and gentlemen, galaxy is not the only thing on the sky, there is another galaxy or a group of stars which is close from our galaxy (galaksi bimasakti) which is called Andromeda Galaxy.

Andromeda galaxy has its length from a cluster of billion planets in it, and its width reaches 220.000 years of light. If we go through the 220.000 years of light, it goes from one edge of andromeda to the other edge. This show how broad the millions of planet in the andromeda galaxy is, until its width reaches 220.000 years of light while the speed of light is 300.000km/second. 300.000km/second of speed light, while the distance between the earth and the andromeda galaxy is 2.000.000 years of light. Hence 2.000.000 (2 million) years of light is equal to (300.000 km/second X 60/minute, which means X 60/hour or X 24 hours X 365 days X 2.000.000 years).

Hence the shape of andromeda that we see tonight, right now is the shape of andromeda 2.000.000 years a go, because the shape of light would only reach the earth after 2.000.000 years and in fact there are not only one galaxy, there are andromeda and millions of other galaxies have been found by our scientists and this is only on the first level of sky.

Ladies and gentlemen, He is Allah Jalla Wa Alla, The Greatest Creator of the outer space with all His light. But the centre of all nobility and all of such greatest creations is the earth. And from all that had been created by Allah, such creatures including trillions of planets in this world and on the first sky, the noblest creature is Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. Not in andromeda, not in other places but on earth of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. As written in Shahih Bukhari, when he S.A.W passed through the first sky, the angels said “marhaban bihi wa ni’mal majii’u Jaa’a..” welcome to him, the most dignified one has come. This is the most dignified mankind who passed through the first sky, reached the second sky, the third until the seventh sky and up to sidratul muntaha. Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W is my guru and the guru of all of you, my idol and the idol of all of you, the brightest soul with the light of Allah. If the light needs time as long as 2.000.000 years to reach from one galaxy to another, the light of prayer and silent prayer in a wink of an eye goes through the seven skies until Hadratullah Jalla Wa Alla. This is the speed of prayer, much faster than the speed of light. The speed of light needs millions of years from one galaxy to another, and still on the first sky. While the speed of silent prayer, the speed of calls, calling the Name of Allah, is way much faster than the speed of light.

The Prophet S.A.W in his silent prayer, recited “Allahumma lakal hamdu anta nurussamawati wal ard wa lakal hamdu anta qayyimussamawati wal ard wa lakal hamdu anta rabbussamawati wal ard wa man fiihinna” O’ Allah for You all the praise, and You are the One who shines the whole world and sky, O’ Allah for You all the praise, You are the One who builds and raises the whole world and sky, O’ Allah for You all the praise, You are the One who manages and takes care of the whole world and sky, He is (Allah S.W.T) who shines the whole world, shines the skies, creates the light and makes it and builds it from nothing and takes care of it until the end of the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, He is The Supreme Being in the sky and earth, The God Almighty. How small and worthless we are on this earth, in the middle of a wide ocean of stars in the sky, the earth is like a dust in the midst of ocean. Ladies and gentlemen, The Owner of the ocean of sky and earth is Allah Jalla Wa Alla and such noble gathering like this is glorified by The Supreme Being of the world. This is the gathering for those long for Allah, this is the gathering being very much loved by God Almighty in the world and sky because within this gathering many of His servants return to Him and leave their sins in the hand of His and within this gathering has been assigned the angels especially to take notes and witness the audience and pray for them with this prayer “allahumma shalli a’laihi allahummarhamhu” O’ Allah kindly pour shalawat for those who attend, O’ Allah kindly love them. This is written in Shahih Bukhari, on those who attend Mosque.

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
The Owner of the noblest authority, The Owner of Power and The One who can change any situation who becomes the guidance of all The Prophets and the shalihin and faithful people. They count on the power of Illahiyah (God) which cannot be predicted or cannot be surpassed by the power of any creatures. As the last sentence said by Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihis salam when the fire of namrud was about to lit, hence Ibrahim alahis salam said “hasbiyallahu wani’mal wakiil” enough for me Allah. And He is the noblest and the best place to run for help from all problems. Problems that cannot be handled by any creatures, the problem with fire is that it always burn and it always happens as long as this world still exists and the nature of fire is to burn. But when this sentence is read, “hasbiyallahu wani’mal wakiil” enough for me Allah, and the most dignified place for tawakkal (trust in God) hence Allah commands the fire “kuuniy bardan wa salaaman ala ibrahim”, O’ fire, be cool and tame and bring safety towards Ibrahim a.s. QS. Al Anbiya 69. Hence that fire becomes cold, why? Because the power of Illahiyyah that comes from the soul and generates from the Light of Allah S.W.T will conquest all kind of power in the world, turning the state of fire that burns into the fire that is cold. There is never a cold fire unless the fire of Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihissalam. Allah who creates fire and its characteristic, Allah makes that fire hot and burn, Allah is also able to make it cold with His decision. This is Jalallahu my God and the God of all of you, who loves me and loves you all and the proof of His love is our attendance tonight as one of the proofs of the love of Allah towards all of us.

A Moslem understands that he is one of the people being loved by Allah. If Allah hates him then Allah might turn him so that Allah doesn’t want him to bow down for Him. If Allah hates us then we are not able to bow down for Allah, will not able to call the Name of Allah, if Allah hates His servant, how that servant could move his own lips to call the Name of Allah? But Allah still allows us, in order that we can be even closer towards Him with the love of Allah S.W.T towards us. Answer the love of Allah.

As written in Shahih Bukhari, Sayyidatuna Sarah alaiha salam (the wife of Nabiyullah Ibrahim a.s), when Allah ordered Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihis salam to test his wife (Sayyidatuna Sarah) to be left in one tyrannical country. A country where there was no Moslems, and ruled by a cruel king and authority. “Leave your wife there”, Prophet Ibrahim said “sami’na wa athana ala amri Rabbiy” I hear it and I obey the command of my God. “O’ my beloved wife Sarah, I was ordered to leave you here alone”. Why? Because Allah wants his wife to have her own faith, doesn’t always depend on her husband, instead she should always trust in Allah. Hence his wife replied “O’ Ibrahim, am I here alone?, this is the tyrannical country..!, the king is a tyrant.!”. Prophet Ibrahim said, “this is the order from Allah”, hence he (Prophet Ibrahim) left his wife. Not long after, the king saw Sayyidatuna Sarah, a beautiful woman and he wanted her to be taken to the palace. “Take her to my palace”, she was taken by the troops. Indeed Sayyidatuna Sarah was a weak woman, couldn’t defend herself, thus she was taken to that king.

And indeed she has known the bad intention of that tyrant king, in which if she refused his will, it means she will risk her life, what if she died while her husband Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihissalam hasn’t returned?. Then what did Sayyidatuna Sarah do?, while taking wudhu (ritual washing) she prayed, “O” Allah if indeed You trust and You know that I am faithful to You O’ Rabb hence don’t give power to that tyrant king, if my faith is true, You admit that I am a Moslem that never be hypocritical about You and admit Prophet Ibrahim is Your messenger (because of that era) hence don’t make that king overpower me”. Hence when she met with that king, suddenly that king saw Sayyidatuna Sarah and with trembled knees, that king fell down with no reasons whatsoever, because he was subdued by the power of Allah S.W.T. The king said “take out this woman, release her…release her!!”. When I faced her, I felt like facing the powerful lion that would tear me down. As if tens of lions protected her, take her out from my presence, I couldn’t face her anymore. A tyrannical king was subdued, while the fragile woman has the power of Illahi. Where is your power, all subdued with the power of Rabbul Alamin. The God Almighty in the world and sky, He is Allah S.W.T.

Allah declared, “sari’u ilaa maghfiratin min rabbikum wa jannatin ardhuhaassamawati wal ard” rush you all towards forgiveness from your God, reach His forgiveness soon, reach and get all His Love and heaven that is wider than the whole sky and world. QS. Ali Imran: 133. Reach it after you all receive My forgiveness, reach the heaven, said Allah.

Just now we learnt how wide this world is, how wide the sky is, and it is only the first sky, and only as far as human knowledge can reach. Perhaps it is 1000X or even 1.000.000X much bigger than what has been known by human at this time, the width of the sky as we have yet to find the sky’s edge. As long as they still study all kind of possibilities and not yet find the edge of the sky, either go up or down to the left or right, they will keep finding space which is even further, and this is the extension of Allah on the first sky. And the heaven is even wider than the whole sky and earth. Allah offers it to all of us, the true valley of happiness and pleasure, here we can find the palaces of God’ Blessings in which Allah built especially for His servants the followers of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W.

Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
Rasul S.A.W is the most perfect mankind and his teachings are the gentlest guidance. As written in Shahih Bukhari, when a young man came to Rasul S.A.W to tell about his sins, Rasul S.A.W didn’t answer it, but Allah is the one who answered, as declared by Allah “innal hasanaat yudzhibnassayyi’at” that the merits (of good deeds) will wipe out the sins.

For those who are filled with sins, hence increase the merits. I have unfortunately committed many sins, thus multiply the good deeds because those who increase his good deeds will be forgiven all his sins and be guided towards dignity. My tongue has many times talked about or hurt people’s feeling, how could I make my tongue stop from talking about others? Increase your time to recite Alqur’anulkarim, heal your lips with the kalamullah Jalla Wa Alla, multiply dzikrullah. This is how to mend sharp tongue.

“I have committed many sins with my hands,” hence increase good deeds with your hands. If you make sins with eyes thus increase good deeds with eyes. “innal hasanaat yudzhibnassayyi’at” indeed the merits (of good deeds) wipe out sins. Mend our sins with merits. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the magnificence of guidance from Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. This shows how magnificent Allah is.

As written in Shahih Bukhari, Rasul S.A.W noticed Nuaiman radiyallahu anhum drank alcohol. It was when the verse on prohibition of drinking alcohol (khamr) was released, hence those who still drink alcohol would be punished. Nuaiman drank alcohol, he was punished. Not long after, he got drunk again, and punished again, and just few days after that, he would drink alcohol again, until the comrades said, “alaihi la’natullah” the curse of Allah. kept on drinking alcohol, kept on going drunk. Rasul S.A.W declared “indeed all of you, don’t curse Nuaiman because I know, in the name of Allah he loves Allah and His Rasul”. To a drunkard, Rasul said “in the name of Allah he loves Allah and His Rasul”. This news was delivered to Nuaiman, “you keep on drinking, just now Rasulullah said that in the name of Allah you love Allah and Rasul”. Upon hearing this, Nuaiman radiyallahu anhum cried, “Rasul said I was loved by Allah and Rasul?” hence I repented towards Allah S.W.T. How magnificent it is, the guidance of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. Saying 1,2 sentences that shivered the stubborn soul which was not cured by laws, but surrendered with 1,2 beautiful sentences coming out from the most magnificent soul, from the light of Allah The Most Magnificent. This is the guidance from Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W.

The comrades of Rasul S.A.W said “kunna nasma’ tasbihuttha’am wa nahnu na’kul” as written in Shahih Bukhari. When we were eating, if Rasulullah was eating together with us, we often heard the voice of tasbih (praise of God) from the food being touched by the fingers of The Prophet S.A.W, we could hear the tasbih and dzikir when that food was touched by the hand of Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W. Those foods recite tasbih and we heard it. This is how Allah made the magnificent of The Prophet S.A.W and things around The Prophet S.A.W. And those who love The Prophet S.A.W is the ones with the most perfect faith.

As written in Shahih Bukhari that on the Judgment Day, on that time, when people are in trouble, everyone is asked his or her responsibilities towards each of letter he has once said, when all humankind is interrogated on each of his breath, when each dust stepped by him becomes the witness, on that time, being lifted maqam mahmudah (the praised degree) for Nabiyyuna Muhammad S.A.W. All in the mahsyar field praises the magnificent degree of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W at that time.

We perform silent prayer towards Allah S.W.T, may Allah S.W.T make our days filled with the light of longing for Allah S.W.T, O’ The Most Magnificent, O’ The God Almighty who built the kingdom of sky and earth from nothing to something, O’ The Sustainer of The World who takes care of the whole world, kindly take care of our bad behaviors and change them all, replace them with noble behaviors, kindly change our bad actions with the light of Your beauty, and our days which are filled with problems, kindly replace them with happiness. O’ The Supreme Being, The Possessor of all situation, O’ The Cherisher who poured down happiness from era to era, O’ The Most Gracious who gives pleasures towards each kind of life, O’ The Possessor of each of His servants’ breath, O’ God Almighty who sees all souls of Your servants, we gather tonight and You Are The Witness each of our intentions, all of our problems, all of our difficulties, all of our sins and mistakes, we run towards Your door of merciful The God Almighty, we run towards Your door of generosity The Cherisher, we run towards Your door of magnificence The Most Magnificent, O’ Allah The Most Gracious who gives Happiness in the ocean of prosperity that is never ending, call His Name, call the Name of Allah Jalla Wa Alla, call the Name of Allah, shiver your lips to call His Name The God Almighty, may these lips can always move to call His Name in the calls of longing for Him. O’ Rabbiy shine our souls with Your light, shine each of our breath with Your light, we understand this whole world belongs to You, we know that this earth You are the owner, we understand that You are the owner, hence kindly straighten Your servants from all kind of humiliation, reorganize Your servants from all kind of destruction, clear up Your servants from all troubles and problems.

Faquuluuu jamii’an (recite this together) Ya Allah, Ya Allah..Ya Allah..

Faquuluuu jamii’an (recite this together) Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Muhammadurrasulullah

Not to forget, we pray for our guests. Our beloved father Habib Musthofa Al Aththas and Habib Musthofa, may being blessed by the Blessing from Allah and to other habaib who come together with us tonight. KH. Djamaludin from Pengadegan, KH. Abdul Khair from Pengadegan and Mr. H. Yusuf and H. Ashraf Ali and all of our guests may they all are blessed in dhahiran wa bathinan. And for all of us who come, Rabbiy Rabbiy kindly make all of our face to be seeing the beauty of Your Essence, Rabbiy. And our days will always be in longing for You and make our days beautiful always an always long for Your magnificence. Ya Rahman Ya Rahim. We continue with praying together, praying for all Moslems with our prayer Ya Arhamar Rahimin Farij A’lal Muslimin, as written in Shahih Muslim, Rasul S.A.W declared “to those who pray for his Moslem brother/sister, the angels will recite “amin walaka mitsluh”, if we pray one good thing for our Moslem brothers, thus the angles say “amin dan untukmu kebaikan itu”. If we ask for help for all Moslems, countless the number of Moslems in this world who are in trouble, who are sad, who are in difficulties, all will be touched by our return back to us.

Washollallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad Nabiyyil Ummiy wa Shohbihi wa Sallam.

Wassalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

(Majelis Rasulullah)

Say: He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him. [Al-Ikhlash]

In Islam, God is Life and never die. God’s Life isn’t a gift from the other and not created by the other. He never experience the death. Because God is One and Unity. The death need two things to devide, soul and body. God cannot devided by anything nor anyone.

Luke 23:46 Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father! In your hands I place my spirit!” He said this and died.

1John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for our brothers!
In Islam, God is Unity and not Trinity. It’s different with Christian and Hindu beliefe. But it’s same with Unitarian Christian in the unity concept. Islam claim prophet Isa as a messenger of Allah. He isn’t god in Islam. Unitarian Christian can accept this. They also claim that Jesus is a man, he isn’t god.

What we say is not to attack Christian’s beliefe. But we want to introduce what Qur’an say about Isa. We hope you understand.

Then, in Islam, God is the begining of everything. He isn’t borned nor created by anyone. He isn’t die and never experience the death, that is why He don’t need to born someone. Without born someone, He can still exist to manage the universe. He is different with Adam who need to born someone to still ‘exist’ and do his job, to manage the earth.

God is mercifull. If you do a bad deed, you just need to istighfar (ask for god mercy). We don’t need to sacrifice something or someone. Muslim sacrifice a gout not because they do a bad deed nor because origin sin. There is no origin sin in Islam. They do sacrifice to get closer to God.

God is independent while the other depending to God. God don’t need His creature. He don’t need food because He is the source of power and life. He never sleep nor tire. He never take a rest. He always listening His creature and manage them.

Mat. 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

God don’t have any god. God is Almighty. Face is the symbol of honor. But in front of God, we put our face to the ground. It is symbolize of our lowness and our weakness in front of God. That’s the why Jesus do that. Jesus said, “for my Father is greater than I.” [John 14:28]

If you want to get more knowledge about God in Islam, may be we can discus this over here.