‘UBÛDIYYAH - عبودية

 

Literally: Servitude. Slavery.

Obeying Allah as an ‘abd. Submitting to Allah. The state of an ‘abd who knows and displays his impotence, poverty and deficiency before the grandeur of Allah and performs ‘ibâdah as he was commanded in the Qur’an and by the Prophet (asm).

 

In the face of the manifestation of the Ulûhiyyah of Ar-Rabb al-‘Âlamin1 , they responded with ‘ubûdiyyah, which consists of proclaiming their poverty within need, and their impotence within weakness, and with the salâh, which is the summary of ‘ubûdiyyah.

The Eleventh Word

 

‘Ubûdiyyah looks to the command of Allah and the acceptance and pleasure of Allah. The cause of ‘ubûdiyyah is the command of Allah and its result is the acceptance and pleasure of Haqq. Its fruits and benefits belong to the âkhirah. But, on condition that they are not the ultimate purpose and not intentionally sought, the benefits belonging to this world and the fruits that come about themselves and are given without being sought are not contrary to ‘ubûdiyyah. They rather become a cause for being preferred and incentives for the weak. If those fruits and benefits belonging to this world become the reason or a part of the reason for that awrâd or dhikr, it partly invalidates that ‘ubûdiyyah. It rather causes that beneficial and powerful awrâd to be fruitless and to produce no results.

The Seventeenth Flash - Thirteenth Note/The Second Matter