The Qur'an illustrates the spirit of servitude to Allah by saying...

The Qur'an illustrates the spirit of servitude to Allah by saying: "I have turned my face towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, as an upright, and lam not of the polytheists." Holy Qur'an (6:79) On this basis there came the sayings of the Prophet (s.a.w.) explaining the idea of being pure and sincere in thought and action, and calling to a unified direction towards Allah the Exalted.

It is said that a bedouin came to the Prophet (s.a.w.) and asked him: Who does good or gives alms and likes to be praised and rewarded for that? The Prophet did not answer him and kept silent, until a glorious verse was revealed as a complete answer, clarifying the way of salvation, and gratitude to Allah alone: "Say: surely lam only a mortal like you. It is revealed to me that God is One God.

And whoever yearns for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous deeds, and let him associate none with his Lord in serving Him." Holy Qur'an (18:110) Thus, the answer of the Qur'an came rejecting polytheism and clarifying the direction between the love of praise and love of getting nearer to Allah the Exalted.

The believer is commanded to release himself from this polytheism, the sharing of oneself with worshipping Allah or [ 8 ] from combining one's desires to have both the reward from Allah as well as the praise of people.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: "Blessed be the one who turns in his worship and invocation directly to Allah, and who did not engage his heart with what his eyes see, and who did not forget to remember Allah through what his ears hear, and who did not bring sorrow to his breast because of what the others have."1 Such is the call of Islam.

It stresses that man should maintain human, coherent conduct, with a unified direction and goal, founded on the idea of the Oneness of Allah, with pure sincerity to Him alone. All of this is done for the sake of freeing man from worshipping the self and defying the ego.

In order that personal desires and selfish whims do not become the cause of actions contrary to Allah's will and that human conduct does not center round these grave and selfish motives, which destroy man through diseases of his morality such as egoism, hypocrisy, two-facedness, lust, indulgence in pleasures, etc. Moreover, by sincere obedience Islam wants to express a universal truth, the truth of the real relation between Allah and man.