Irfan (Volume 2) IRFAAN 2

151-152

In construing the argument in favor of the killing of Nafs , these poor Outward Seeing people have joined the earth with sky but what a far off position it is where they have fallen in wake of their ignorance against the reality of the Nafs that Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) had ordered to tie the hands of those thousands of people the children of Israel and to make them sit stern who had by mistake, worshipped the calf for a few days only and instructed those, who had not worshipped, to behead their brothers who had worshipped. Then at the same time such a dark wind blew on them that nothing could be seen by anyone so that no one could face hesitation in killing his relatives and kinsfolk. In this way homicide of hundreds of thousands of human beings was done with sparing none.

It should remain clear that the Noble Quran is such an all-inclusive Word that every common, proper, lower, higher, the People of Outward and the People of Inward can fetch meaning that they need and follow it and can get the Beneficence and success according to their respective capacity and ability as the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam has said that 'I have been given a comprehensive Word'. Both Quran and Hadis have been indicated here.

'Islam' means 'accepting' and the Islam alone is the religion of 'submission and resignation' and Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam is the one who was the founder formation of it and he gave this religion this name of 'Islam'.

Allah Almighty says: and has not laid upon you in religion any hardship; the faith of your father Abraham (is yours). He named you Muslims (22:78)

In short, 'Muslim' is called that person who unconditionally surrenders his head before the predestination of Allah Almighty and never complains against His desire and (happily) bears every Will of Allah with due patience and forbearance. Hence, this Religion is free of every kind of hardship and pain. Contrary to this, the priests, monks and clerics of other religions like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism etcetera have made these religions very hard and painful by introducing their hypocritical and cunning self-devised exertions and toils in worship which are unnatural. Wherever Allah Almighty has addressed Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam in the Holy Quran, He has acknowledge his quality of 'confiding his cause unto His Will and Raza' as Allah Almighty says:

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When his Lord said unto him: Surrender! He said: I have surrendered to Lord of the Words (2:131)

(This is called Raza and Tasleem).

Surrendering to the Will and Raza of Lord is a very vital a significant Station in the Inwardly Course of the Salook. At another place Allah Almighty says:

Who is better in religion that he who surrenders his purpose to Allah while doing good (to men) and follows the tradition of Abraham, the upright? (4:125)

At another place Allah Almighty says:

And lo! of his persuasion verily was Abraham when he came unto his Lord with a whole heart (37:83-84)

Allah Almighty says: Our Lord! And make us submissive unto You and of our seed a nation submissive unto You (2:128)

(Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam and Hazrat Ismaeel Alaihis-Salaam prayed Allah Almighty the above prayer at the time of erecting the building of the Holy Ka'ba)

Allah Almighty says: Then, when they had both surrendered (to Allah), and he had flung him down upon his face, We called upon him: O Abraham: You have already fulfilled the vision (37:103-104-105)

Here the words 'and he had flung him down upon his face' clearly mean surrendering the neck of Nafs and prostrating it before Allah's Will and Resignation (Tasleem and Raza ). In short, Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam had proven an embodiment of the Surrender before the Will and Resignation of Lord and by virtue of this quality of his Surrendering and Accepting Allah's Will, he was declared the Guide of the Course for the entire Islamic Folk as Allah Almighty says:

And (remember) when his Lord tried Abraham with (His) commands, and he fulfilled them, He said: Lo! I have appointed you a leader for mankind (2:124)