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True Muslims are those
submitted to Allah's Will to commence Resurrection!
From: "jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:44 am
Subject: True Muslims are those submitted to
Allah's Will to commence Resurrection!
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—- In
shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com,
"jagbir singh"
<adishakti_org@y...> wrote:
>
> We have to understand that His Ruh (Adi Shakti) Shri
Mataji was
> thus sent to announce and explain the Last Judgment
and Al-Qiyamah
> in detail to all, and the technique to attain
Self-realization.
> That is why we humans are now able to comprehend for
the first time
> in history the relationship between the Islamic
Resurrection,
> Christian Last Judgment and Vedic Sanatana Dharma. It
applies to
> all traditions and none (of the faithful) are accorded
special status,
> regardless of what religion they follow. Those who
have surrendered
> and submitted to Allah's (SWT) Will to commence the
Resurrection
> are the true Muslims.
>
Islam: Submission to God
President of Bosnia 'lija 'li Izetbegovich
[Author is the President of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzevogina.
This
essay is excerpted from his 1984 book Islam Between East
and West,
American Trust Publications, second edition, 1989]
"Nature has determinism, man has destiny. The acceptance
of this
destiny is the supreme and final idea of Islam. Destiny
—does it
exist and what form does it take? Let us look at our own
lives and
see what has remained of our most precious plans and the
dreams of
our youth? Do we not come helplessly into the world
faced with our
own personality, with higher or lower intelligence, with
attractive
or repulsive looks, with an athletic or dwarfish
stature, in a king's
place or in a beggar's hut, in a tumultuous or peaceful
time, under
the reign of a tyrant or a noble prince, and generally
in
geographical and historical circumstances about which we
have not
been consulted? How limited is what we call our will,
how tremendous
and unlimited is our destiny!
Man has been cast down upon this world and made
dependent on many
facts over which he has no power. His life is influenced
by both very
remote and very near factors. During the Allied invasion
of Europe in
1944, there was, for a moment, a general disturbance in
radio
communications which could have been fatal for the
operations under
way. Many years later, the disturbance was explained as
a huge
explosion in the Andromeda constellation, several
million light years
away form our planet. One type of catastrophic
earthquake on the
earth is due to changes on the sun's surface. As our
knowledge of the
world grows, so does our realization that we will never
be complete
masters of our fate. Even supposing the greatest
possible progress of
science, the amount of factors under our control will
always be
insignificant compared to the amount of those beyond it.
Man is not
proportional to the world. He and his lifetime are not
the measuring
units of the pace of things. This is the cause of man's
eternal
insecurity, which is psychologically reflected in
pessimism, revolt,
despair, apathy, or in submission to God's will.
Islam arranges the world by means of upbringing,
education, and laws.
That is its narrower scope; submission to God is the
broader one.
Individual justice can never be fully satisfied within
the conditions
of existence. We can follow all Islamic rules which, in
their
ultimate result, should provide us with the "happiness
in both
worlds"; moreover, we can follow all other norms,
medical, social and
moral but, because of the terrific entanglement of
destinies, desires
and accidents, we can still suffer in body and soul.
What can console
a mother who has lost her only son? Is there any solace
for a man who
has been disabled in an accident?
We ought to become conscious of our human condition. We
are immersed
in situation. I can work to change my situation, but
there are
situations which are essentially unchangeable, even when
their
appearance takes a new look, and when their victorious
power is
veiled: l must die; I must suffer; I must fight; I am a
victim of
chance; I get inevitably entangled in guilt. These basic
conditions
of our existence are referred to as "the border
situations."
Sure, "man is bound to improve everything that can be
improved in
this world. After that, children will still go on dying
unjustly even
in the most perfect of societies. Man, at best, can only
give himself
the task of reducing arithmetically the sufferings of
this world.
Still, injustice and pain will continue and, however
limited, they
will never cease to be blasphemy."
Submission to God or revolt—these are two different
answers to the
same dilemma.
In submission to God, there is some of every (human)
wisdom except
one: shallow optimism. Submission is the story of human
destiny, and
that is why it is inevitably permeated with pessimism:
for "every
destiny is tragic and dramatic if we come down to its
bottom."
Recognition of destiny is a moving reply to the great
human theme of
inevitable suffering. It is the recognition of life as
it is and a
conscious decision to bear and to endure. In this point,
Islam
differs radically from the superficial idealism and
optimism of
European philosophy and its naive story about "the best
of all
possible worlds." Submission to God is a mellow light
coming from
beyond pessimism.
As a result of one's recognition of his impotence and
insecurity,
submission to God itself becomes a new potency and a new
security.
Belief in God and His providence offers a feeling of
security which
cannot be made up for with anything else. Submission to
God does not
imply passivity as many people wrongly believe. In fact,
"all heroic
races have believed in destiny." Obedience to God
excludes obedience
to man. It is a new relation between man and God and,
therefore,
between man and man.
It is also a freedom which is attained by following
through with
one's own destiny. Our involvement and our struggle are
human and
reasonable and have the token of moderation and serenity
only through
the belief that the ultimate result is not in our hands.
It is up to
us to work, the rest is in the hands of God.
Therefore, to properly understand our position in the
world means to
submit to God, to find peace, not to start making a more
positive
effort to encompass and to overcome everything, but
rather a negative
effort to accept the place and the time of our birth,
the place and
the time that are our destiny and God's will. Submission
to God is
the only human and dignified way out of the unsolvable
senselessness
of life, a way out without revolt, despair, nihilism, or
suicide. It
is a heroic feeling not of a hero, but of an ordinary
man who has
done his duty and accepted his destiny.
Islam does not get its name from its laws, orders, or
prohibitions,
nor from the efforts of the body and soul it claims, but
from
something that encompasses and surmounts all that: from
a moment of
cognition, from the strength of the soul to face the
times, from the
readiness to endure everything that an existence can
offer, from the
truth of submission to God. Submission to God, thy name
is Islam!"
Islam: Submission to God
President of Bosnia 'lija 'li Izetbegovich
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