By A. Abdul Aziz.

According to the Holy Qur’an those who reject God the Exalted always meet with disgrace and humiliation and this is also proof of their falsehood, for God always brings victory for His believers and they enjoy ascendancy over their enemies. If God did not exist, where does this assistance and succour come from? Hence, Pharaoh said to Moses, peace be on him   Saying, ‘I am your Lord, the most high.’ So Allah seized him for the punishment of the Hereafter and the present world. (Holy Qur’an: 79:25-26)

That is, when Moses, peace be on him, asked Pharaoh to submit himself in obedience to God, he arrogantly replied: ‘What god? It is I who am god.’ So Allah the Exalted brought disgrace upon him in this life and in the hereafter. The episode of Pharaoh is a manifest sign which demonstrates how those who disbelieve in God are always humiliated and shamed. Moreover, no non-believers in the Existence of God, has ever succeeded in establishing a kingdom in the world [in any true sense]. On the contrary, those who have brought about great conquests in the world, reformed countries and created history, have always been those who believe in the existence of God. Is not the humiliation and misfortune of disbelievers and their failure to establish themselves as a nation in the world a matter of great significance?

Moreover, those who believe and have faith in God and are true in their convictions always achieve success, and despite the hostilities of others they are not afflicted by misfortune. Such individuals as (have been commissioned) to bring people to accept the existence of God have appeared in every country and have met with such an unrivalled degree of opposition that there is no parallel to it. And yet what harm was the world able to inflict on them?

Did those who banished Sri Ramachandra, peace be on hm, find any peace and what riches was Ravana able to attain? (An epic poem in the sacred Hindu text the Ramayana depicts the struggle between the divine prince Rama and the demon king Ravana).

 Did not the name of Ramachandra, peace be on him, live on for thousands of years, and was not Ravana’s name disgraced forever? Similarly, in what manner were the Kauravas able to profit by rejecting the claims of Sri Krishna, peace be on him —were they not destroyed in the battle of Kurukshetra? (The Kurukshetra War, also known as the Mahabharata War, is a battle depicted in the great Sanskrit epic of ancient India, the Mahabharata. The conflict was an 18-day dynastic succession struggle fought between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapurain.).

The Emperor Pharaoh, who forced the Israelites to make mud bricks, stood himself against a helpless man like Prophet Moses, peace be on him. Yet was he able to harm him in any way? Instead, Pharaoh drowned while Moses, peace be on him became a king. The manner in which the world opposed Prophet Jesus, peace be on him is common knowledge, and the prosperity that later came to him is also well established. His enemies were destroyed and his followers became the rulers of countries. Our Master, the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), excelled above all others in the world in his commitment to spreading the name of the Holy God. So much so, a European writer has commented that he was delirious in this, God forbid, and the name of God was all that escaped his lips. Seven nations opposed him, both friends and strangers turned against him and yet the treasures of this world were conquered at his hands. If God did not exist then who came to his aid? If all of this was caused by chance, there should have been at least one prophet who came to establish the eminence of God, but was disgraced by the world. However, all those who have come to elevate the name of God have met with honour and dignity. Allah the Exalted says in the Qur’an:

Those who take Allah and His Messenger and the believers for friends should rest assured that it is those who believe in Allah that must triumph”. (5: 57)