Allah’s Azaab Befell The Aalim

Hazrat Maalik Bin Dinaar (Rahmatullah alaih) narrated the following episode: “In Bani Israaeel, there was an Aalim who would give discourses to people. Men and women would assemble at his home where the Aalim would sit on a high platform to deliver his discourse. (In that time, it was permissible for men and women to attend such a gathering together. In our Deen, this is NOT permissible – Custodians of the Haq)

Once the son of this Aalim glanced at a beautiful woman in the gathering, and he made a sign to her. His father, seeing this, said: ‘My son, have patience!’ As soon as he had uttered this mild rebuke, he (the Aalim) fell from his platform, breaking some of his bones.

Allah revealed to the Nabi of the time to convey to the Aalim: ‘Never shall I create a Siddeeq (a person of a high statge of piety) in his progeny. For My Sake, he displayed such mild displeasure that he only said to his son: ‘O son have patience.”

Our comment: The lackadaisical attitude of the Aalim when Allah’s command was flouted by his son was intolerable to Allah Ta’ala, hence the severe punishment. It was expected of him, being an Aalim acting as the Representative of the Deen, to have adopted stern admonition to impress the evil of the misdemeanour of his son. This is the sacred function of the Ulama.

Much of the moral corruption in Muslim society is the consequence of abstention from Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahi Anil Munkar by the Ulama, as well as flagrant participation in evil and transgression by the Ulama. The examples are too many to quote.