But, briefly, ‘Eman’ is of two kinds: ‘Eman-bil-Qalab’...

But, briefly, ‘Eman’ is of two kinds: ‘Eman-bil-Qalab’ (believing in from the heart) and ‘Eman-bil-Lisan’ (superficial iterating from the tongue). For example, during the time of Prophet -saww , hypocrites would only accept faith out of fear of the sword, in the state of depression as well as to avoid alienation; although their hearts were not with their tongues.

Thus, only the ‘Eman-bil-Qalab’ is acceptable to Allah -azwj , whosoever has entrusted all his affairs in the Guardianship of Allah -azwj , will never ever disobey Him -azwj . Similarly, Iblis’s refusal to bow down to Hazrat Adam -as or several nations’ rejection of accepting commands of the Prophets -as , which were sent down for their guidance. They, therefore, neither got any benefit out of accepting the ‘Tauheed’ nor did Iblis -la by performing long prostrations to Allah -azwj .

Indeed, one of his -la prostrations lasted longer than 4,000 years, during which his mind never got distracted by the attractions of the world and beauties of life. Thus, offering prayers and giving alms for the just cause, will never be of any help, without accepting ‘Guidance [58] ’.

Allah -azwj does not take into account the excuses of the masses after revealing His -azwj ‘Symbols’ and sending down His -azwj Prophets -as , so they cannot put forward any justification for their actions to Him -azwj , after listening to His Prophets -as . However, this earth has never been or ever will, be without the Divine teachers -asws and on them -asws ; people are dependent for the knowledge but these ‘Teachers’ -asws are always very few in number.

Allah -azwj has mentioned about them -asws to the previous nations, to whom His Prophets -as were sent and has, therefore, exemplified them -asws for all the people to come later on. An example of this, is the nation of Noah -as , where with the exception of a few, most of his -as people did not accept ‘Eman’.

And Allah -azwj also Says about those who embraced ‘Eman’ from the nation of Moses -as , ‘ And among the companions of Moses there have been people who would guide [others] to the ‘Just Path’ and act justly in its light. [59] Allah -azwj Says: When one of the companions of Isa told the nation of Israel, Who is Allah’s devotee? Then only the (true followers) replied, we are the devotees of Allah, we firmly believe in Him and give evidence that we are Muslim!