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SALVATION:
2:135 - They say: "Become Jews or Christians if ye would be guided (to salvation)." Say thou:
"Nay! (I would rather) the religion of Abraham the true and he joined not gods with Allah." 134
134 Hanif: inclined to right opinion, orthodox (in the literal meaning of the Greed words), firm in faith, sound and wellbalanced,
true. Perhaps the last word, True, sums up most of the other shades. (2.135)
3:191 - Men who celebrate the praises of Allah standing sitting and lying down on their sides and
contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth (with the thought): "Our
Lord! not for naught hast thou created (all) this! Glory to thee! give us salvation from the
penalty of the fire. 498499
498 That is, in all postures, which again is symbolical of all circumstances, personal, social, economic, historical and other.
(3.191)
499 It is the thought of Salvation that connects all these glories with man. Otherwise man would be a miserable,
contemptible creature in these beauties and wonders of Nature. With his high destiny of Salvation he can be lifted
even higher than these glories! (3.191)
5:119 - Allah will say: "This is a day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are
Gardens with rivers flowing beneath their eternal home: Allah well-pleased with them and they
with Allah: that is the great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires). 833
833 Fauz = Felicity, happiness, achievement, salvation, the attainment or fulfilment of desires. What a beautiful definition
of salvation or the end of life!-that we should win Allah's good pleasure and that we should reach the stage at which
His good pleasure is all-in-all to us. (5.119)
6:16 - "On that day if the penalty is averted from any it is due to Allah's Mercy; and that would be
(Salvation) the obvious fulfillment of all desire. 848
848 We continue the implied dialogue suggested in n. 846. In verse 14, the objector might say: "But we have other
interests in life than religion and God." "No," says the man of God, "My Creator is the one and only Power whose
protection I seek; and I strive to be first in the race." In verse 15, the objector suggests: "enjoy the good things of this
life; it is short." The answer is: "The Hereafter is more real to me, and promises the true fulfilment of all desire;
happiness or affliction comes not from the fleeting pettinesses or illusions of this life, but from the power and wisdom
of God." In verse 19, the objector makes his final splash: "What evidence is there for all this?" The reply is: "I know it
is true, for God's voice is within me, and my living Teacher awakens that voice; and there is the Book of Inspiration.
God is one, and there is none other besides." (6.16)
9:20 - Those who believe and suffer exile and strive with might and main in Allah's cause with their
goods and their persons have the highest rank in the sight of Allah: They are the people who
will achieve (salvation). 1270
1270 Here is a good description of Jihad. It may require fighting in Allah's cause, its a form of self-sacrifice. But its essence
consists in (1) a true and sincere Faith, which so fixes its gaze on Allah, that all selfish or worldly motives seem paltry
and fade away, and (2) an earnest and ceaseless activity, involving the sacrifice (if need be) of life, person, or
property, in the service of Allah. Mere brutal fighting is opposed to the whole spirit of Jihad, while the sincere scholar's
pen or preacher's voice or wealthy man's contributions may be the most valuable forms of Jihad. (9.20)
9:111 - Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their good; for theirs (in return) is the
garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him
in truth through the Law the Gospel and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant
than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement
supreme. 13611362
1361 In a human bargain both sides give something and receive some advantage. In the divine bargain of Allah with man,
Allah takes man's will and soul and his wealth and goods, and gives him in return ever-lasting Felicity. Man fights in
Allah's Cause and carries out His will. All that he has to give up is the ephemeral things of this world, while he gains
eternal salvation, the fulfilment of his highest spiritual hopes,-a supreme achievement indeed. (9.111)
1362 We offer our whole selves and our possessions to Allah, and Allah gives us Salvation. This is the true doctrine of
redemption: and we are taught that this is the doctrine not only of the Qur-an but of the earlier Revelations,-the
original Law of Moses and the original Gospel of Jesus. Any other view of redemption is rejected by Islam, especially
that of corrupted Christianity, which thinks that some other person suffered for our sins and we are redeemed by his
blood. It is our self-surrender that counts, not other people's merits. Our complete self-surrender may include fighting
for the cause, both spiritual and physical. As regards actual fighting with the sword there has been some difference in
theological theories at different times, but very little in the practice of those who framed those theories. The Jewish
wars were ruthless wars of extermination. The Old Testament does not mince matters on this subject. In the New
Testament St. Paul, in commending the worthy fruits of Faith, mentions Gideon, Barak, and other warriors of the Old
Testament as his ideals, "Who through faith subdued kingdoms... waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens..." (Hebrews, xi. 32-34). The monkish morality of the Gospels in their present form has never been followed
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