Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.<\/p>\n
The Arabic term \u2018Islam\u2019 means to submit or to surrender and the root meaning, salima is to be whole and it\u2019s a cognate of the Hebrew word shalom, which is related to the same idea.\u00a0 Shalom in Hebrew means wholeness.\u00a0 The idea of peace is a wholeness and the idea of being in a state of submission is being part of a whole.\u00a0 Because what happens when we are out of sync?\u00a0 For instance, we feel pain and suffering in our body is when one part of our body is no longer working with the whole and so we experience pain and trouble.\u00a0 We also have the idea of conflict when one part is out of sync with the whole; or several parts within a whole are out of sync as well, just as you can have multiple illnesses in a body.<\/p>\n
You can also have multiple aspects of a society that are out of sync.\u00a0 If we look at the world around us, if we look at the natural world, what\u2019s most notable about it is order.\u00a0 There is order in the world and people can deny it but any casual observer over a period of time can see it.\u00a0 For instance, on March 21st we entered into spring, which is a season that comes every year.\u00a0 There is a cosmic event that occurs when our planet reaches a certain point in its orbit around the sun, and because of the tilt of our planet in relation to the sun.\u00a0 We have these four seasons as we move around the sun and there is an order so that trees know when to give fruit.\u00a0 They don\u2019t give fruit in the wintertime in the north.\u00a0 They give fruit, I\u2019m literally looking at a fig tree right now, and the figs are green on it, and by September they are going to be ready to be picked and that state that the tree is in is a state of submission to the natural order.\u00a0 And so that\u2019s why it\u2019s in a peaceful state; it is not conflicted in itself nor is it conflicted with the environment around it and if I come and I chop down the tree, then obviously, I\u2019m changing the state that that tree was in and if I do it for no reason, then it\u2019s really a criminal act against nature.<\/p>\n
Submission is about really getting in sync and if you look at children; children from early on, if they are allowed to progress naturally without a lot of interruptions, they know exactly what to do.\u00a0 They are in a state of submission in that they\u2019re following a natural order and pattern, just as when we were in the wombs of our mothers all our cells knew what to do.\u00a0 They knew\u2026the liver knew to become a liver and the heart knew to become a heart and our circulation knows how to circulate.\u00a0 Our body knows to stay within a homeostatic balance and keeps our internal temperature, irrespective of what the external temperature is, at around 98.6 \u00baF.\u00a0 When we get sick there is a disruption in that order and so in the same way we can see this order and disruptions in this order.\u00a0 Also in our associations in our communities, in our societies, if children are treated in certain ways it has certain effects on their behaviour and on their attitudes.\u00a0 If they\u2019re belittled and held in contempt as children, they respond with certain pathologies that are actually in many ways quite discernible and recognizable for people that are trained in those types of observation.<\/p>\n
So you know, submission to me is, I mean, we have this thing called Islam which has become a world religion and it identifies a category of people.\u00a0 But my understanding of Islam is that it\u2019s much deeper than that.\u00a0 It\u2019s really a state of being. It\u2019s not a sociological identity.\u00a0 It\u2019s a state of being and that\u2019s why the Quran says:\u00a0 Aslama man fis samaa waate wal ard.\u00a0 That everything in the heavens and earth is in that state of submission. That it is a state the trees are in, the sun is in, the moon is in and the human beings, because we have been given free will, we have this ability to be outside of that state.\u00a0 If you look, for instance, at these videos that are kind of emerging out of Iraq of Iraqi soldiers killing people, putting dynamite onto people and blowing them up and then laughing.\u00a0 You know, I don\u2019t care whether those people identify themselves as Muslims or not, as sociological category, they aren\u2019t in a state of submission to divine order.\u00a0 They\u2019re deeply sick human beings, and part of the problem and one of the real barriers for people to understand Islam or to have any attraction to it is that the Muslims themselves become the greatest barrier between Islam and the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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