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863. Here is a hadith: Abu Jahl chased the Rasulullah (Sal.) and his followers from Mecca to Medina and then wanted to chase them away from Medina as well. He disguised one of his men and sent him to Medina to kill the Rasulullah (Sal.), promising him a large reward. The man hid where the Rasulullah (Sal.) and his followers were praying. Gradually, he crept up to the Rasulullah (Sal.), who was in meditation. Taking up the Rasulullah (Sal.) sword from the ground, he said, “Muhammad, you sorcerer, don’t make a sound. You are a magician and a deceitful person. You say your God is in an unknown place. Tell that God of yours to come and save you now!” The Rasulullah (Sal.) softly replied, “He will come!” “Tell him to come!” sneered the man, struggling to raise the sword. But he found he could not. He sweated and shivered, and the sword dropped to the ground. “The Rasulullah (Sal.) picked up the sword and said to the man, “Now you tell your gods to come and save you.” The man fell at his feet and cried out, “Oh please, you must help me!” The Rasulullah (Sal.) lifted him up with both hands. “You and I are brothers. What fight is there between us? The fight is between truth and falsehood. You came to kill me with my own sword and challenged me to call my God, who is in an unknown place. He came. Though God is in a place unknown to you, He knows everything and He is everywhere. He came immediately. Your thirty-three million, forty-eight thousand gods are nearby, in Mecca. I told you to call them, but you are holding onto my feet instead. This is the only difference between us; my God came, your gods did not. The fight is about that failure.” The man said, “O Rasulullah, I realize my fault. Please teach me the Kalimah. I will have faith.” The Rasulullah (Sal.) embraced him and taught him the Kalimah, the word of God. The sheikh says: Son, if we look at the Prophet’s (Sal.) words, we will see that the real war is against the inner forces and energies which try to rule us and separate us from God. Islam is to believe that these forces must be stopped from attacking us and from keeping us away from God. To merge with God is Islam. Islam does not advocate man cutting man; Islam advocates cutting away the many tens of millions of so-called miraculous energies and forces within us. This is Islam. This is what the Rasulullah (Sal.) has shown us in this hadith. For each of us to cut away the evil within us is Islam. It is Islam for people to live as one and merge with God. For anyone to be hostile to anyone else is not Islam. There is no other holy war, no other jihad. The only holy war is to cut away the energies and forces and evil within ourselves. This is jihad. The battles are within the self. This is the meaning. Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh, revised edition. Philadelphia: The Fellowship Press, 1981, 2006. p. 387-388.
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