TWO TYPES OF PSYCHE
Differentiate Between Them
EVERY person acts according to his psychological make-up. This is true for Muslims, too. All of a person's actions will reflect the psyche that has been developed in his personality. This psyche can be of two types. These two types can be explained briefly as:
‘Islam is true’ and ‘I am true’.
There appears to be a difference of just one word in these two phrases. The first phrase contains the word ‘Islam’, while the second contains the word ‘I’. But in this seemingly minor difference is hidden the entire story of the rise and fall of Muslims. When Muslims are on the right path, they perceive and know Islam to be true. But when they fall victim to degeneration, they think it is they themselves who are true. The first conception engenders the fear of God. The second promotes a false sense of superiority.
When Muslims are on the right path, they perceive and know Islam to be true. But when they fall victim to degeneration, they think it is they themselves who are true.
Islam is, without any doubt, the true religion. When someone realizes the truth of Islam, an enormous transformation takes places within him. He becomes the epitome of virtues. He develops a passionate commitment to communicate the message of Islam to everyone else.
Archimedes discovered only a law about water, and when that happened he was so overwhelmed that he rushed out naked from the bath, crying out ‘Eureka! Eureka!’ (which in Greek, means ‘I have found [it]!’).
That being the case, if one were to discover the greatest truth about the universe, one can imagine what his condition would be!
The Islam that one discovers on the basis of God-realization is obtained directly from God. That is why a person whose Islam is of this sort is suffused with the attributes that emerge within someone who has seen and experienced God. He trembles on witnessing God’s glory.
His awareness of God’s perfection divests him of his tendency to defy God’s will. In contrast, someone who receives Islam as an inheritance considers it as a matter of communal pride or ancestral prestige. As a result he develops a false sense of pride.
One who receives Islam, as an inheritance considers it as a matter of communal pride or ancestral prestige. As a result he develops a false sense of pride.
If sea-water evaporates, what is left is just salt. The case of Muslims is somewhat similar. If they lose the fear of God in their religion, what remains of it is only salt, which only makes the religion unpalatable to others.
