(April 2, 2017 at 12:24 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Brian, we are honored to be his servants, God gains nothing from us being his servants. We gain benefit from glorifying and praising God, he doesn't gain anything. When God creates, he does so to unlock our full potential, which each creation is the ultimate path. The ultimate path all Prophets were eventually guided to it, and Mohammad never swerved from it and was always that.
Part of the design for us to unlock our potential and honor us, is to be helpers of God and seek God's help and the help of his helpers in helping God and his Guardian.
To him ascends the good word (faith/testification) and the righteous action lifts, and all honor belongs to God and is his light given from him.
To love God is simply to know him if you truly know and testify to who he is, then everything that disconnects from him will be cut off, and everything that connects us to him, will be held on to.
UGGGGGGG, Islam just like Christianity and Jews love the idea of servitude failing to accept that when all three books were written they were written in an age of kings who had FORCED servitude.
I am nobody's "servant". I am entitled to think for myself. Please for just one second, can you take that hand out of your back and do the same? I think it is vile to think of myself as only being here to obey. In free open societies we CONSENT and cooperate, we don't have to merely obey.
If you want to call yourself a "servant" you are only speaking for yourself, you don't get to project your personal desires on me.
