Liberatory Obedience

We're not talking about a human master. In fact, we're talking about the only master that you can serve that isn't a human master. Do you understand me? Because the truth is if you are not serving Allah, if you're not serving God, then you are definitely serving some other slave pretending to be a master. You're either serving them or you're serving your own self, and either way that's a humiliating situation for you.

It's a humiliating and misguided situation. No. You're serving the highest master. You're serving the best master. You're serving the master, whom it is an honor to serve.

And in doing that, you are rejecting every other claimant, every other so called authority that tries to make you a slave. I am a slave to one and only master, one and only master, and everyone other than him, everyone other than him is nothing but a slave just like me, and I prove that this is my one and only master. How? By obedience. By obedience to him and him alone.

It means not to your own self, not to anyone else. It means if disobeying my own self is required in my obedience to him, then I'll disobey myself. I'll disobey my own self. And when you obey him in disobedience to your own self, that's when you will know without a doubt who is the master and who is the slave. Because whatever he tells you to do, whatever his orders are, whatever his commands are, whatever his instructions are, it's always going to be better for you than whatever you might tell yourself, whatever you might command yourself, whatever you might instruct yourself to do.

So you see, was disobedience to your master and obedience to yourself or obedience to other than him that led you into the humiliation and into the self betrayal of wrongdoing in the first place. And the only way out of that, the only way back from that is obedience. That's the only way.