Bismillahirrahmanirrahiim.
ACCEPT ALLAH AS MASTER AND ACCEPT YOURSELF AS SLAVE.
"A lot of people have no hard time accepting Allah as The Creator. That’s okay. That’s not the hard part.
Or, accepting Allah as The Most Merciful, or as Wise, or as Powerful, or as One. All of that stuff’s easy. Because you know, if you accept Allah as one, there may not be any implications on you.
Allah as One; “That’s nice. I’m still gonna do what I’m gonna do.”
Allah is really Merciful; “Great! I still have my life.”
But if you say Allah as master; “Then what’s that make me?” That makes me slave.
And that put it in very simple terms. The difference between a free person and a slave person is very simple. It’s not a complicated subject.
The difference between a free person and a slave person is, a free person does whatever he or she wants. What does a slave do? A slave can not do what he or she wants, if a slave did what he or she wanted, then they would be considered free. The only thing that makes them a slave is they do what the master wants.
If you accept that, if you accept that your will comes under the will of Allah, your will has to be submitted like a slave’s before the will of the master.
It sounds very simple. It may takes five minutes to explained. But internalizing that is a lifelong struggle. A lifelong struggle. Subhanallah."
- Nouman Ali Khan on Tafseer Surah 114 part1
