Real Revolution — Page 79
75. Apart from palpable instances of shirk, in the days of Abraham the tendency had assumed an intellectual and philosophical form. It no longer involved simple bowing before idols. Having become capable of subtle manifestations of love and hatred, human feeling had made great advances, so that now it was possible for one to nurture shirk of an intellectual kind without in any way soiling himselt with its simple, outward forms. This is the reason why Allah never called upon Noah to submit أسْلِمْ) nor do we find him saying in response: اسلمت لرب العالمين i. e. , "I submit to the Lord of all the worlds". On the other hand, Abraham we find called upon to submit-not only in the sense that he would not bow before idols, but also in the far deeper sense that even the innermost processes of his mind would be set in devotion to Him, And Abraham in response said, 'I yield myself in the hands of the Lord of all the world". A far deeper and finer realisation of the unity of God is implied here; and in fact only that realisation deserves to be called the real spirit of unitarianism where a person feels truthfully impelled to say that all his lite, even the minutest details of his actions and behaviour, were directed to the attainment of the Divine purpose in life. . And the difference between the positions where