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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Concept of Servitude in Islam Servitude As a Must "Every one has a direction to which he turns; so vie with each other for good deeds. Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together.

Surely Allah is powerful over everything." Holy Qur'an (2:148) Thus, man must have in his life an object to worship, an entity to which he may submit and direct his will, as everyone of necessity needs a motive for the action and conduct he chooses during his life to which he proceeds. This goal of his is the force that moves him to be active and is the urge behind every act he chooses to do or not to do.

Hence, that goal or that principle becomes his object of worship to which he turns, though he may not admit it to himself. These goals and motives may be different according to man's conscience and choice. He may choose either to worship Allah or his desire. Allah the Exalted says: "Have you seen him who chooses for his god his own lust? Would you then be guardian over Him?" Holy Qur'an (25:43) Or he may take a tyrant from among the human beings for a god.

However, if his motive to action is Allah the Exalted, then his servitude will be to Allah only; if his motive be other than Allah, then his surrender will be to that other than Allah, that which is dominating his thought, feelings and deeds. [ 7 ] Accordingly, man's chosen path of submission can be of two kinds: 1.

PURE SERVITUDE TO ALLAH This is a servitude purely and entirely dedicated to Allah in all of man's acts so that his recognition of Allah is the cause of his acts, and the goal of his deeds, seeking no consent but Allah's, and motivated only by the love for Allah, whether in prayer, fasting, thinking or in intention, feelings and social connections. This is made manifest in his morals, politics, economy, judgment, love, hatred, consent, indignation . .

.etc., as well as in his relations with the universe, nature and the world around him. Actually, a believer starts from a fundamental principle, a basic mental foundation, which says: man and the whole universe are His alone; so he has to keep to the line of obedience and to merge in it, in fulfillment of absolute dedication to Him and in pure submission, clear of every trace of impurity that may effect its sincerity, i.e. hypocrisy, dissembling, flattery, . . .etc.