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I remember, back in the 1960s, lying in bed as a child, eyes closed, reaching into the quiet darkness of my mind—trying to see the face of God. I’m not even sure where I got that idea. Maybe it was a verse we read or a song we sang in vacation Bible school. But I was drawn to it. There was a longing in me I couldn’t explain. A pull toward something holy. I didn’t know the scriptures yet, but my heart already knew what Psalm 27:8 would one day reveal: ‘When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my heart said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will seek.’’ And Psalm 105:4: ‘Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face continually.’ I recall closing my eyes so tight that little images would appear in the darkness of my mind and open up to vast worlds of swirling lines of light and I would try to imagine being in the presence of God, and I would talk to God, begging Him to let me in and see Him. I would do this every night lying in bed before falling off to sleep.
That longing I felt as a child—reaching into the darkness, trying to see the face of God—was the beginning of something deeper: the desire to know God. Not just to believe in Him, but to truly know Him. To understand His will, His mercy, His purpose for us.
But knowing God is not like solving a thousand-piece puzzle or mastering a difficult subject. It’s more like staring into the heavens with a heart full of questions. It’s going to take time. As human beings it is quite obvious that the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don’t know. This brings us to a deeper question—not just what we know, but how we’ve been taught to know. And who has shaped that knowledge.
I have been a submitter for 34 years, and as I seek to understand how to deliver God’s message,
I have learned that the objective, from a psychological perspective, is to reverse the ideas and concepts that have been programmed into the minds of people by the religious statements and church doctrines that have caused them to adopt a belief system that has resulted in their loss of contact with what is real, factual, historical, and spiritual.
When truth is buried beneath centuries of doctrine, uncovering even one lie threatens the entire structure. That’s why institutions often resist truth—not because they don’t know it, but because they fear what it will unravel.
So, what is Knowing God?
This is the paradox of seeking God. The closer we get, the more we realize how vast He is. How infinite. How beyond comprehension. And yet… He invites us to know Him. To seek Him. To worship Him. Not because we can’t grasp His entirety, but because He has placed within us the capacity to recognize His signs, to feel His mercy, and to align ourselves with His will.
This is the beginning of true submission: not claiming to know everything, but humbling ourselves before the One who does. The One who created knowledge itself. The One who speaks to us through His book, the Quran: [2:2] This scripture is infallible; a beacon for the righteous.
How to Spread God’s Message
[16:125] You shall invite to the path of your Lord with wisdom and kind enlightenment, and debate with them in the best possible manner. Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best who are the guided ones.
True worship begins not when we perform our Contact Prayers, but when we orient EVERYTHING —our knowledge, our intention, and our actions — toward GOD!
Each of us is a brick—not in isolation, but in divine formation of a wall.
When we align our intention with truth, we don’t just stand firm—we shine with light. And on the Day when all veils are lifted, our light will testify, flowing to our right, illuminating the path we chose: the path of worshipping God Alone.
God gives us a powerful reminder: Satan is your most ardent enemy! He lies; he whispers; he deceives; he makes false promises; and he is relentless. Satan injects spiritual interference raining down from all directions.
[7:17] ‘I will come to them from before them, and from behind them, and from their right, and from their left, and You will find that most of them are unappreciative.’
If Satan surrounds us with interference, then let us surround ourselves with remembrance. If he comes from every direction, then let our light shine in every direction. The Contact Prayer thus is not just ritual—it’s resistance. It’s how the soul realigns itself when distractions pour from all directions. When Satan lurks on the straight path, remembrance pulls us back to center. Salat isn’t our obligation—it’s our oxygen. And its purpose is exactly what God declares: remembrance.
The Contact Prayers (Salat)
[29:45] You shall recite what is revealed to you of the scripture, and observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), for the Contact Prayers prohibit evil and vice. But the remembrance of GOD (through Salat) is the most important objective. GOD knows everything you do.
[30:30] Therefore, you shall devote yourself to the religion of strict monotheism. Such is the natural instinct placed into the people by GOD. Such creation of GOD will never change. This is the perfect religion, but most people do not know.
Submission to God isn’t just a religion — it’s a recalibration of the natural instinct placed into our souls by GOD.
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