Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 161
162 with everything given to God. And having acquired a new life from God they may spend rest of the days in the world as the best umma. The Promised Messiah as says in this context: “And the technical meaning of Islam which has been pointed in the verse is, 79 That is, a Muslim is he who submits his whole self to the cause of God, that is, he devotes his self to Allah in order to carry out His will and to seek His pleasure; and then he becomes firm in acts of virtue for the sake of Allah, and employs all the practical faculties of his self in His path. In other words, both in belief and practice, he becomes wholly of God. As for belief, he considers his entire self to have been created in order to recognize God, His obedience, His love and to seek His pleasure. As for practice, he carries out real acts of virtue corresponding to each of the faculties and God-given opportunities, solely for the sake of Allah, but with such enthusiasm, eagerness and attention as though he is seeing the face of his true Beloved reflecting in the mirror of his own obedience. ’ 80 The twenty-first objective was explained in (show us our ways of worship) and was pointed out that a shariah would descend on this promised Prophet which would satisfy all the true and realistic demands of human nature. Every aptitude