between God and man. Man surrenders to God his life and
possessions, and God in return awards Jannah to him. How could
this exchange take place? Where to contact God? How can life and
possessions be handed over to Him? On the question of contact
with God, the answer is simple. God is in fact in communication
with us when we recite and understand what He has revealed in the
Qur'an. That is how we come into contact with Him.
As regards the question of delivering the goods, a satisfactory
answer can be given only in the context of the Order of Rububiyyah.
This order is designed to help man to develop all his potentialities
and build up such a wholesome and integrated personality that it can
withstand the shock of death and survive physical dissolution. Man
can achieve this end not in seclusion but in a society of like-minded
persons and through mutual help and cooperation. Such a society is
the embodiment of the Order of Rububiyyah. It is organised on a
contractual basis and its membership is open to all who care to enter
it and associate themselves with its aims and ideals. Only a bold ideal
nursed with conviction gives meaning to life. In the absence of an
ideal, human life becomes impoverished, humdrum, desultory and
meaningless. The more lofty the ideal, the more excelsior is the life.
So, when man shares the high ideal of his society, and the society is
animated by the spirit of the Order of Rububiyyah, his personality is
enriched and its progress stimulated. In this accelerated
development, he recognises such an advantage that he is motivated
to keep up the Order – the vehicle of his progress – at any cost,
even, if need be, at the cost of his life and all that he possesses. It is
then that the bargain is struck and covenant fully implemented.
Muhammad (PBUH), the bearer of the last Revelation, was the head
of the society embodying the Order of Rububiyyah. The men who
put their lives and possessions at his disposal were really selling
these to God, in the terms of the Qur'an:
Surely those who swear allegiance to you do but swear allegiance to
Allah; the hand of Allah is above their hands (48:10).
It is the society which gives concrete expression to the Order of
Rububiyyah, and the head of that society is, so to say, the "representative"
of God in the sense that he takes upon himself the stupendous task
of discharging the responsibilities which belonged to God in
respect of His creation, for example, providing them with means of
subsistence and of enforcing His Laws in the land. They are thus
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