Faith And Its Responsibilities

According to the verses mentioned previously true faith is inseparable from action. Profiteers do not consider the responsibilities of faith as an obligatory promise. They accept these responsibilities as far as they are in harmony with their personal interests. Otherwise, they would not take care of these responsibilities at all.

In the culture of the Qur'an these people, who may have some sincere faith in their hearts, stored for the days of distress, are called faithless and disbelievers. The Qur'an promises salvation, prosperity, victory, superiority, to the faithful who, under all conditions, are attentive to the responsibilities of faith.

The following verses are the clear voice of the Qur'an in this regard:

﴾Now We have sent down signs making all clear, God guides whomsoever He will to a straight path. They say, 'We believe in God and the Messenger; and we obey.' Then after that a party of them turn away, those-they are not believers. When they are called to God and His Messenger that he may judge between them, lo, a party of them are swerving aside, but if they are in the right, they will come to him submissively. What, is there sickness in their hearts, or are they in doubt, or do they fear that God may be unjust towards them and His Messenger? Nay, but those-they are the evildoers.

All that the believers say, when they are called to God and His Messenger, that he may judge between them, is that they say, We hear, and we obey; those-they are the prosperers. (24:46-52)﴿

And finally, in the following two verses, the Qur'an gives the pleasing promise of establishing the Divine government and ideal Islamic society over the world to those true believers whose deeds are decent and tied with faith:

﴾God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make you successors in the land, even as He made those who were before them successors, and that He will surely establish their religion for them that He has approved for them, and will give them in exchange, after their fear, security: 'They shall serve Me, not associating with Me anything.' (24:55)﴿

* THE GENERAL PATTERN OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN THE QUR'AN. By: SAYYED ALI KHAMENEI. Translated by: Alireza Anoushiravani