Dynamic Faith Twinned With Action

Dynamic Faith Twinned With Action

Does faith mean just an abstract belief or thought? Is faith worthy of consideration as far as it is dynamic and decisive in shaping our life.

The Qur'an always associates faith with action and regards it a motivation for crossing the way to the desired destination. In many verses of the Qur'an rewards of this and the next world are dependent upon the faith twinned with action. Listen to the Qur'an and think about what it says here:

﴾O men, bow you down and prostrate yourselves, and serve your Lord, and do good, haply, and struggle for God as is so you shall prosper.

His due, for He has chosen you, and has laid on you no impediment in your religion, being the creed of your father Abraham'. He named you Muslims aforetime and in this, that the Messenger might be a witness against mankind.

So perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and hold your fast to God, He is your protector - an excellent Protector, an excellent Helper.(22:77-78)﴿

In the above verses the most important peculiarities of religious belief which are victory, success, superiority, leadership of human beings and, finally, the support of God, are dependent upon the dynamic faith twinned with action.

The following verse reminds us of actions resulting from faith and specifies the role of dynamic faith in an Islamic society:

﴾Those who believe, and have emigrated and struggled with their possessions and their selves in the way of God, and those who have given refuge and help-those are friends one of another. And those who believe, but have not emigrated-you have no duty of friendship towards them till they emigrate. (8:72)﴿

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