So, submission is sometimes mixed with love, and sometimes...

So, submission is sometimes mixed with love, and sometimes with fear and fright, though in every love there is fear, and in every fear there is love. The degrees of submission are according to the degrees of understanding the Greatness, Majesty and Beauty. Now as we, in our case, are deprived of the light of visions, we have but to indulge in acquiring submission by means of knowledge and faith [ īmān ].

Allah, the Exalted, says: “ Successful, indeed, are the believers who are submissive in their Salats.” [^2] Submission in the Salat is regarded as a sign of faith [ īmān ]. So, whoever is not submissive in his Salat , will, according to Allah's saying, be excluded from the faithful [ ahl-i īmān ]. Our Salat s which are not accompanied by submission are caused by a deficiency of faith or by lacking it.

Belief [ i'tiqād ] and knowledge are other than faith, our knowledge of Allah, His Names and Attributes and of other divine knowledge [ ma'ārif ], is other than faith. Satan according to the testimony of Allah, has information about the Beginning and the Resurrection, yet, he is a disbeliever.

He said: “ You have created me of fire, while You created him of dust,” [^3] So, he believes in Allah and in His being the Creator; and he says: “ Respite me until the day they are resurrected.” [^4] So, he believes in the Day of Resurrection, too. He knows about the Books, the Messengers and the angels. Nevertheless, Allah addresses him as a disbeliever, excluding him from the group of the believers [ mu'minīn ]. Thus, the people of knowledge are distinct from those of faith.

Not every man of knowledge is a man of faith. Therefore, after acquiring knowledge, one has to join the believers, and to convey the Greatness, Majesty, Brightness and Beauty of Allah, the Most Exalted and High, to his heart, so that it may become submissive, since mere knowledge does not result in submission. You can realize it in yourself: although you do believe in the Beginning and the Resurrection and in Allah's Majesty and Glory, your heart is not submissive.