Looking thoroughly at our daily\nactivities, we understand that we conduct most of them subconsciously and\neasily at definite periods. However, sometimes we like to extend them or to\nmake their effects last permanently. Devotion and submission to our kind\nCreator is one of such activities that, in fact, faces many ups and downs\nduring our lifetime. Such submission takes a special flavor during the holy\nmonth of Ramadhan. But making it last and the development of its effects to the\nentire lifetime remains for some of us as a hope or even an untouchable dream.\nHow can we really make such devotion and submission enduring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basically, the tasks that we logically\ncontemplate and ponder on to realize their true meanings, and do them\nknowingly, will become more permanent and continuous. Therefore, with pondering\non the meaning and the truth of devotion and submission, we might be able to\nfind the golden key to making this devotion long-lasting. What does really the\ndivine devotion and submission mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acknowledging the unique Creator as\nthe most perfect being with the most perfect traits, pure from any sort of\ndeficiency, and the realization of our relation to him, as the creator and the\ncustodian of the world, leads to a reaction in us which is referred to as\ndevotion and submission. The recognition of the Almighty as the sole source,\nand the sole possessor of everything, obliges us to not to associate any\npartner with Him in worship. Therefore, the Holy Quran stresses numerously that\nthe act of worship must be exclusive to Allah (SWT), and that no sin equals\nassociating things with Him. Now, let us see what the worship which is\nexclusively for God is and what the kind of this relationship can be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some acts of humans are void and empty\nfrom any inner meaning, and are not signs or symbols for other matters, and are\nconducted for the sake of their direct natural cause. For example, a farmer\nperforms the set of tasks pertaining to farming, in order to harvest the\nnatural result of those set of tasks. Therefore the farmer does not perform\nthose tasks as a symbol or as expressions of a set of motives and emotions.\nSimilarly, when we commute to the university, in our effort, we do not follow\nany cause other than reaching to the university. We are not seeking to reach\nany other cause by that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, some actions are conducted as\nthe signs of certain purposes and expressions of certain emotions. For example,\nas an expression of confirmation we nod, or as a sign of humbleness we sit on a\nlower place, and as a sign of showing respect, when someone approaches we stand\nbefore him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of our actions fit in the first\nkind, and least of them in the second; however, in any case, some part of our\nactions are those which are performed for the expression of certain causes, and\nimplying certain inner emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that these two introductions are\nunderstood, we say that worship is a meaningful action. What the human\nexpresses in worship and devotion are states such as praise, admiration,\nglorification, thankfulness, submission and complete obedience. All these\nstates are exclusive for God, and that means that there is no partner for Him\nin that sense. No self is pure from loss except Him, there is no any other\nsource for affluences except Him that deserve being thankful to, there is no\nother being except Him who deserves being fully obedient to (except those He\nHimself has bade us to obey). This is the reaction that is proper for a being\nin front of his creator, and except in front of the unique God, in no other\ncase, is correct or eligible. This is what we can accomplish by worship when\nfollowing the Infallible Imams (PBUT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These points are unchangeable truths\nand consistent meanings for all lifetime. These are the facts that if they are\nunderstood, we can possibly preserve the results of worship, more and more, and\nto make such state permanent in order to prevent negligence from making us\nforget devotion, after this month that because of the special atmosphere of\ngrace and mercy of God, and imprisonment of the devils, we were more submissive\nto the divine realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that, in gratitude of this month\nof servitude, we have made the ceremony of Fitr and return to Him, let us\npromise Him to always keep prostrating before His realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Selection taken\nfrom the book \u201cMonotheistic Ideology\u201d, by Mortada Mutahhari (with some changes))<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On behalf of Roshd website, we\ncongratulate all Muslims and especially you, dear friend, on the arrival of Eid\nal-Fitr, the day of returning to Allah (SWT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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