My precious readers,
The start of the nearness to Allah is certainly the start of the belief.
The respectable erudite Imami Rabbanî states at his work named "Mektubat" that, when a person said "Lailahe illallah - There is no God, but Allah" by knowing its meaning, a mote of the belief emerges in his heart.
This instant in which a mote of the belief emerged in heart is a very much important and very much valued moment.
How, for a narcotic addict, the moment in which he took the first drugs, is the start of all the unexpected troubles and all the malignancies that will bring him to death; likewise, for a believer, the moment which a mote of the belief emerged in heart, is the start of all the goodness to bring him a true belief and to open him the door of a perpetual happiness.
After emerging of this belief as little as a mote, the light of the belief begins to shine in heart. The thing named the belief's light is the love and attachment to Allah, in the fact.
It is talking at Qur'an about increasing and decreasing of the belief. The meaning in here is figurative. A man either belives or not. There is not middle of this. In short, the belief doesn't increase and decrease. The thing increasing and decreasing is the light of the belief; in other words, is the nearness to Allah, is the love of Allah (Muhabbetullah)
THE SOURCE OF ALL GOODNESS
This belief fact and this love of Allah in a heart is the main source of all the benefits and goodness, and also the nearness to Allah.
This love emerging in heart towards Allah, towards the believers and lovers Him after believing, is the light of the heart, and is the start of the every maturity and all the goodnesses. After shining this belief's light in the heart, amazing and shocking alterations occur at behaviours of that man.
I compare this case to the case of a fanatic beginning to support a new football team.
After he has begun to support this new team, a love emerges to the captain of team, players, and fans of this new team in his heart. He goes to all matches of this new team. He follows all news about this new team. Similarly, a love emerges towards Allahu taala, towards all His prophets and whole muslims, in the heart of a person who has newly begun to believe.
Every thing changes after emerging this belief phenomenon and this love in heart. That person begins to listen to every thing coming from his God and tries to internalize them. He begins to research the realities of the rumours.
After beginning to shine this belief's light in heart, the doors of the heart become open to the divine knowledges, to the divine recommendation and advices, and to the divine advances.
BEFORE AND AFTER BELIEVING
While person tries, beforehand, to change the subject by being bored of being talked about Allah as if it is being talked about a simple thing; after this a mote of belief, person is all ears when talked about his God, and tries to be a more respectful and a more decent man towards his god, Allah.
Beforehand, while a lot of exemplary events happen around him and he doesn't draw a lesson from any one of these; after believing, he begins to value them from a different point and to hold up as an example of those.
Before belief, when anybody wants to caution him about any subject, he doesn't give ear to these and he is angry at these advises by reason of his arrogance. But after believing, he begins to be all ears for these advices and cautions.
These changes emerged after believing and beginning to shine the belief's light in a person's heart are countless.
The reason of these changes is closely connected with whether a man be subject to his ego's desires or he is subject to his own God's wills.
After belief, a man begins also to take the Allah's wills into consideration near his own ego's desires at all works he did. So, he is gone into the education of his God.
In other words, the Rabb attribution (Rabb means educator in Arabic) of Allah begins to appear on that man.
My dear readers, this a mote of belief is so very much important for a man that person firstly accepts his God's will, by going beyond his own weak and impotent existence and by climbing over his own ego. When he says "Lailahe illallah - There is no God, but Allah" by accepting it's meaning, person begins firstly to be subject to Allah's will, by abandoning his own ego's endless desires, one by one. It is called as "ibaadat". "Ibaadat" means to be servant, slave, to serve for Allah, in Arabic. In other words, this a mote of belief is the start to serve, to be slave for Allah, from the point of this person. In fact, not being a servant and a slave, but it is the start of the liberation and the salvation from the desires and wishes of ego, which they make person a despicable and dishonorable man at everywhere and every time. This "being slave for Allah" will slowly slowly take away him from the hegemony of his ego to the peak of the divine maturities, and will be the basis of the world and afterdeath happinesses. Man will appreciate this in time and will know increasingly the value of this, as long as complete his salvation from his ego, later.
My dear readers, this completing process is called as Islam. Islam is to submit and to be subjet to the will of almighty Allah, who is only one, He has not a partner, a cooperator, an assistant, and nothing is an equal and similar to Him; He has created all the thing (takwin) in certain measures (taqdir), has ordered, arranged and organized them at his will (tanzim), has programmed them (qadar), and He is realizing this programme when its time comes (Qazaa), and He is managing all the worlds at his will. Briefly, Islam is to obey the will of Allah, not his own will.
While a man be his own man and be subject to own low desires of his ego before belief; after belief, he begins willingly to be subjet to the will of his Creator. In fact, here, man doesn't renounce completely from his own desires and wishes, but he limits his desires with the boundaries established by Allah, and tries to not go beyond these boundaries.
(be continued)
