You are cordially invited to a Submitters planning meeting XXXXXXXXXXXXX for a future gathering/conference in the Autumn. In the Autumn Meeting, God Willing we will have some very specially invited guests who became Submitters and spent time with Rashad Khalifa.
this was the invite i had today, very much welcomed but then again i have to consider the rest of the statement and the following issues popped to mind
specially invited guests? invited by whom, for what purpose, and does it make any difference of they knew or did not know RK....
yes i want to attand a gathering of like minded people, whose goal is to worship God and devote religion to God alone... but i dont want to attend a gathering where people worship is starting to be a trend....
guests who became submitters - they are no longer guests but family. one family under God, devoted to God, trying our individual best to worship God alone....
they spent time wiht RK - is this required to be stated? does this make them more welcomed and their visit more anticipated/ well frankly heck no... i could nto give a monkeys if they knew him, ate with him or spoke to him.. these things dont matter..
we look to each person as an individual in their own right, who they know, may not know, have connections with should not be a focal attraction for any one who is saying they worship God alone....
it is from these that you get affiliations called "companions of messengers" - when the religion shifts from worshipping God and seeking guidance from God alone -
God guide us all to his path.....
then again, let us be clear - submission is not a new thing, it has always been and will always be - we humans just like to revamp - "worshipping God" and making it sound like a new path, a new religion, a new concept - when all along it is the same thing, that has been since the time of Abraham, all the way down here.
For the record, submitter is the english translation of muslim
some call it tomato( english pronounciation) some call it tomato( american pronunciation)
it is the same thing....
so it is not that they became submitters, but rather they discovered the path to worshipping God alone.... muslim, submitter, christain, whatever we all want to call and label ourselves... what is most important is worshipping God, devoting the religion to God alone, Salat and Zakat - Such is the perfect religion
God guide us all in his path
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