*💢 The Term Ibadaah*
Part - 8
❖❐ It should not therefore be difficult for anyone with even the least sense to understand that wherever the Qur'an speaks of the ibadaah of Allah, and it does not appear from the context that it is used specifically in one or other of its three different senses, it encompasses all the three, namely, bondage, submission, and worship, e.g.
💠"Verily, I am Allah; there is no ilah but I; therefore give your ibadaah to Me (alone)." [Ta-Ha 20/14];
💠"This is Allah, your Rabb; there is no ilah but He, the Creator of all that exists; therefore give your ibadaah to Him (alone), and He it is Who looks after every thing and its needs." [al-Anam 6/102];
💠"Say (O Prophet): O People, if you are in doubt as to what my din is, then let it be clear to you that I do not give my ibadaah to those other than Allah to whom you give yours instead, I give mine to Allah, Who causes you to die, and I have been commanded to be of believers (in Him)." [Yunus 10/104];
💠"Those to whom you give your ibadaah others than, Allah, they are nothing but things or beings whom your forefathers and you yourselves have, under false notions, come to believe as invested with divinity. Allah Himself has not sent down any proof therefor. To Allah alone belongs all Power and the Realm. Clearly has He ordained that to none but Him may one give one's ibadaah, and that (alone) is the straight path." [Yusuf 12/40];
💠"And Allah alone knows the realities unseen by man; with Him alone rests ultimate dispensation; therefore give your ibadaah to Him, and in Him alone place your reliance." [Huud 11/123];
💠"To Him (alone) belongs all that is on front of us or behind us or in between; nor is your Rabb given to lapses of memory; He is the Rabb of the heavens and the earth and whatever is in between; therefore give your ibadaah to Him alone, and keep steadfast in such ibadaah alone." [Maryam 19/64-65];
💠"So, whoso wishes to meet His Rabb, then let him do pious deeds, and not mix up the ibadaah of his Rabb with that of any other." [al-Kahf 18/110]
💢 There truly seems not the slightest reason for taking the word ibadaah as used in these ayahs to have only one or other of the three senses, of worship, bondage, or submission.
💢 Actually, the Qur'an puts its whole dawah and its import in ayahs like these and, obviously, its whole dawah is none other than that our bondage, our submission, and our worship should all be for Allah, wholly and solely.
💢 Therefore, the restriction of the meaning of the term, in the above ayahs, to just any one of the three senses amounts to placing a limitation on the dawah of the Qur'an
💢 and the logical result of this would be that those who embrace the Islamic faith with such a restricted understanding of the Qur'anic dawah will be able to achieve only a sub-standard compliance with its precepts and will remain defective in their iman.
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