The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 80
80. Essence of Islam-III کس به کاربش زیان نه کند لطف او ترك طالبان نه کند 68 تافت آن رو که سرنتافته است بر که آن راه جست یافته است. The fifth step is to discard the ego altogether in the cause of God. This means to render back to God that which has been committed to one as a trust. At this stage a believer is required to modify his relationship to everything that is bestowed upon him as if all of it were a trust to be devoted to the cause of God. This is the meaning of the verse: وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لا مَنتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ . . A person's life and wealth and all his sources of comfort are trusts committed to him by God; rendering them back is obligatory on the trustee. The sacrifice of the ego, therefore, means that the trust should be rendered back to. God Almighty, and also that one's covenant of faith with. God should be duly fulfilled and the obligations that one owes to his fellow beings should be fully discharged as a true sacrifice, inasmuch as the complete fulfilment of all aspects of righteousness also amounts to a type of death. . In this context fulfilment means that when a believer spends his life in the cause of God and carries into effect all aspects of righteousness, Divine lights envelop his being and invest him with spiritual beauty, as the bones are rendered beautiful by being clothed in flesh. . . . Both 68 His grace does not forsake the seekers;. In His path no one suffers loss. . Whoever seeks this path, finds it;. Bright becomes the face that does not turn away from Him. [Publisher] 69 And who are watchful of their trusts and their covenants. '-AlMu'minun, 23:9 [Publisher]