۹ فروردین ۱۴۰۳ |۱۸ رمضان ۱۴۴۵ | Mar 28, 2024
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When man sees the greatness and magnificence of God, he unconsciously feels humble and weak before Him, just as a person who regards himself insignificant before a distinguished person and scholar, also honors and respects him.

Hawzah News Agency – The above mentioned book is organized into eight chapters. The author writes in the first chapter: “Man’s nature is such that he feels humble before some one upon whom he is dependent. Our very existence depends upon the will of God and we need Him all the time. This feeling of need and deficiency urges man to worship God—for only He is the Ultimately Perfect and Independent. It is stated in some ḥadīths that if there were no death, poverty and sickness, some people would never humble themselves before God.

Most of the Qur’anic verses related to worship invite people to the divine unity in worship [tawḥīd fī’l-‘ibādah] and not to the spirit of worship, because that spirit of worship already exists in man. It is like the desire for food which exists in every infant, but if it is not guided, he will eat mud instead of food and enjoy eating it!

Were it not for the leadership of the prophets (‘a), the direction of this instinct would be elsewhere, and instead of God, false and futile deities would be worshipped. Just as during the forty days of the absence of hazrat Mūsā (Moses) (‘a), the people through the temptation of Sāmirī started worshipping the golden calf.” …

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