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cy is always open to us, but His Mercy is also open to our enemies
and to those who seem to us to be His Enemies. Thus Allah is the
only One we worship, and the only One we supplicate (beg and
pray to) for help.
By saying that we worship Allah alone, we are saying that we
know our nature is to give ourselves to something or someone as
servants and slaves, and that we choose to give complete obe-
dience to Allah as His Slaves. The Holy Qur'an tells us that Allah,
The Most Generous, has bought the believers, and no one else can
buy them.174 No one else can pay a price equal to the Blessings of
Allah. We should offer complete devotion and absolute submis-
sion to the Will of Allah. A man may submit to other men, to a
woman, to his children or to his job or field of study, but the mo-
ment he becomes a slave by giving himself to anything else, he is
guilty of associating it with Allah and His Rule.
Allah told Prophet Muhammad Sg to say, "Truly, my prayer
and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are [all] for
and to those who seem to us to be His Enemies. Thus Allah is the
only One we worship, and the only One we supplicate (beg and
pray to) for help.
By saying that we worship Allah alone, we are saying that we
know our nature is to give ourselves to something or someone as
servants and slaves, and that we choose to give complete obe-
dience to Allah as His Slaves. The Holy Qur'an tells us that Allah,
The Most Generous, has bought the believers, and no one else can
buy them.174 No one else can pay a price equal to the Blessings of
Allah. We should offer complete devotion and absolute submis-
sion to the Will of Allah. A man may submit to other men, to a
woman, to his children or to his job or field of study, but the mo-
ment he becomes a slave by giving himself to anything else, he is
guilty of associating it with Allah and His Rule.
Allah told Prophet Muhammad Sg to say, "Truly, my prayer
and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are [all] for