The only possible assurity on this level is the inner feeling of responsibility.

The only possible assurity on this level is the inner feeling of responsibility. This means that the person who practices worship is performing a duty which differs from any other social obligation or project when he borrows and pays back, or when he contracts and adheres to the conditions.

When he borrows money from others and he returns it to the debtor, he performs a duty which lies within the range of social supervision's monitoring; hence, his estimation of the predictment of social reaction dictates to him the decision to do so. The ritual duty, towards the Unknown, is one whose inner implication none knows except God, the Praised, the Omnipotent, for it is the result of the inner feeling of responsibility.

Through religious practices, such an inner feeling grows, and man gets used to behaving according to it. Through the medium of such feeling can we find the good citizen. It is not sufficient for good citizenship that a person is anxious to perform the legal rights of others only because of his apprehension of the social reaction towards him should he be reluctant to do so. Rather, good citizenship is achieved by the man who does not relax his own inner feeling of responsibility.

In Islam, we notice that it is often recommended to perform optional rites secretly, rather than publicly. There are even rites which are secretive by nature such as fasting, for it is an inner curb which cannot be checked externally. There are rites for which a secretive environment is chosen, avoiding the public stage, such as the nightly Nafl optional prayers whose performance requires after midnight time.

All this is for the sake of deepening the aspect of worshipping the Unseen, linking it more and more to the inner feeling of responsibility. Thus, this feeling gets deepened through the practice of rites, and man gets used to behaving on its basis, forming a strong guarantee for the good individual's discharge of his duties and obligations. Previous…