The Religion is Submission
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
سُوۡرَةُ
آل عِمرَان
إِنَّ ٱلدِّينَ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلۡإِسۡلَـٰمُۗ .. (١٩)
The religion before Allah is submission to His will ... (Surah Ali ‘Imran:19)
On this verse, Shaykh
Muhyi ad-Din Abu Muhammad ibn Abu Swalih ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (q.s.) said,
haqiqah, the reality. of lslam is istislam, submission and
obedience; that which is required of us is tahqiq, actual practice, of
Islam, and then the actual practice of submission and obedience. We must purify our zhawahir, outer
natures, through islam, and we must purify our bawathin, inner
natures, through submission and obedience. We must sallimu, surrender, our own selves
to our Lord. And we must be content to
accept His Management. We must give up our
own power in exchange for the Power which our Lord has Decreed. Whatever qadr, destiny, may bring, we
must treat it as something to be welcome.
Our Lord Knows us better than we know ourselves. We should respond to His Words with good
pleasure. We must greet His Commandments
and His Prohibitions with readiness to comply. We should offer a hearty welcome to the
hardships He Inflicts upon us and prove that we have the courage of our
convictions, by wearing our badge on our sleeves.
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