Real Revolution — Page 161
161 i. e. O ye Muslisms. you sometimes recite the. Kalimah and then rest satisfied that you were real Muslims. This is altogether wrong. In the first place to merely recite the Kalimah is nothing,. But even if it were, always remember that faith and belief embrace more than seventy parts, it being incumbent on you to act upon them all. The expression bizun wa sab'oona is an. Arabic idiom which denotes great plurality. We have similar expressions in Urdu as well. When we say: "I have said this a hundred times", what is sought to be emphasised is not the particular number one hundred, but very frequent repetition of what was said. This saying of the Holy. Prophet thus means that Faith embraces a large number of aspects, all falling in different grades, some being higher, others lower, one among the most elementary being an act like removing a thorn or an obstacle from the wayside. Faith and belief is thus a composite state of the mind which has inumerable aspects and hundreds of actions:. Islam is not the name of any one thing or one state of mind. For instance, Islam means faith in the unity of God; faith in Qaza and Qadr (Divine decision and estimate in regard to the nature and behaviour of all things, animate and, inanimate, which from ignorance many people confuse with what is believed to be implied in Pre-destination:):