Amir Almomenin
Ali (p.b.u.h.) prescribes in defining Islam: “Islam
means being submitted to the reality.”
The most
fundamental condition for health of heart is to be submitted against
truth. Submission has three stages: bending to body, bending to
wisdom, bending to heart. When two parties struggle and one feels
defeated, he might submit. In such cases, usually the defeated one
takes up hands and stops fighting. He acts in the same way his party
orders. In such a submission, body and physics bow, but not the
thought and mind. He is disobeying and thinks how to find an
opportunity to defeat the party again.
The second stage
of submission is that of mind and thought. A power which might make
wisdom submit, is the power of logics and reasoning. Thought and
reasoning capture mind and make it submitted. If there is enough cause
to be presented to mind and to understands it, it will submit, even if
all the powers of the world prohibit it!
It has been
narrated that when Galileo was tortured for his beliefs in movement of
the land and centralization of sun, he repented being frightened of
fire, but he wrote down something on the same moment. He wrote: “Force
might make the man take out his words, but mind of man is never
submitted, except if it encounters the power of logics and reasoning.
The third stage
of submission of that of heart and the reality of faith is
submission of heart. If
submission of tongue, mind, or intellect are not accompanied by
submission of heart, it will not serve as faith. Submission of heart
is equal to submission of the whole body of man and negation of any
challenge. Some one might be submitted to a thought, even logically
and intellectually, but his soul will not submit.
When somebody
challenges for his being prejudiced, or when he does not agree with
reality for his personal interests, his mind, thought, and intellect
are submitted, but his soul disagrees and does not submit, so, he
lacks faith. Because reality of faith is the same as submission of
heart and soul.
Almighty God
prescribes in Sura: Baghareh, verse: 208: “Those
Who are converted! Enter the castle of submission and do not follow up
the steps of Satan. Do
not let your soul fight with your intellect. Do not let your senses
fight with your comprehension.
The story of
Satan mentioned in Koran is a sample of the case when heart is
blasphemous but intellect submits. Satan knew God and believed in
resurrection and acknowledged to the rank of prophets and Imams, but
God called him blasphemous and prescribed that
he was among the blasphemous
(sura: Baghareh, verse: 34). In fact his heart rebelled against his
comprehension and denied to accept the reality and his heart did not
submit.
The real Islam is
when one is submitted to
reality
through his heart, when he opens the doors of his heart to the
reality, so that he accepts the truth and takes action according to
it.
Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.)
was asked how a faithful man is known? He prescribed: “He is known by
his being submitted to Almighty God and by being satisfied with the
troubles imposed on him.”
The soul of
obedience is a means of deporting and as long as man has not
obeyed, he will reach
nowhere. The sing of being a slave of God is when one is released of
his self and when he destroys self upon his Imam’s instructions and
obeys his creator. Such a creature is like all the others who are all
obedient of God. When Almighty God prescribes:
There is no one in the sky and on the land, except if he is obeying
God.
(sura: Maryam, verse: 93).
An obedient
creature does not expect anything but satisfaction of Creator and
joining him. Sadness and happiness, health and disease do not make any
difference, as long as self-governing has not been destroyed and the
good state of health of soul
is replaced.
I have come
towards you, poor, tired, seeking mercy!
I seek nothing
but your kindness
Last night in the
bar I heard:
Be satisfied! Do
not escape your destination.
There is no
obstacle between the lover and the beloved
Except you,
yourself, so, stand up.