Muhhamad

“Islam means ‘surrender to God’. When we surrender ourselves fully, there is nothing but God: not even a ‘there’, not even an ‘is’, not even a ‘God’”. This concept is mind boggling. To have such deep faith to be able to surrender like that is an amazing idea. To surrender would be to give up everything, all of your ego and thoughts, and focus in on just God. The passage seems that at that point, God isn’t even God, because its all that you know.

To me, trying to grasp these couple of sentences is like trying to understand how large the universe is….its just impossible. I have never experienced the will to surrender to something, so much to think that all else would become obsolete.

The reading goes on to describe God and how large, great, powerful, and almighty He is. I thought it was very beautifully written and depicts God as a truly profound deity. I thought this sentence was special, “He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden, and has knowledge of all things”. If you really think about that sentence, you begin to get a sense of how powerful God is to the people of this religion. God is everything and in everything and a part of everything, to make the whole.

Again, it is just amazing to sit back and think of a being this impressive and all-knowing as God. To have created everything and be the King of Heaven and Earth is a great power.