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Hajj, because then the pilgrim is dominated by his (or her) heart, and
in the heart everything is a Remembrance of God, and nothing else
matters. The Prophet Muhammad indicated this precisely with
his words:
“The circumambulating round the Holy House, the passage
to and fro between Safa and Marwah, and the throwing of
pebbles were only ordained as a means of remembering God” .25
Finally, this explains why the sincere pilgrim’s sins are forgiven:26
in returning to one’s own true heart, one leaves behind one’s old ego
and its sins, and finds ‘the soul at peace’ (‘al-nafs al-mutma’innah’).
(b) IMAN
(1) Faith (Iman) as such
We have already cited God words:
The Arabs of the desert say: ‘We believe (amanna)’. Say
you [Muhammad]: ‘You believe not’, but say rather ‘we
submit (aslamna)’, for faith has not yet entered your hearts.
Yet if you obey God and His Messenger, He will not withhold
from you any reward that your deeds deserve. Verily God is
Forgiving, Merciful. (Al-Hujurat, 49:14)
Thus faith (Iman) differs from mere submission (Islam) in the
sense that it is not primarily an act of the will, or of wanting to
believe, but rather of actually sincerely believing in God in one’s
(subtle) heart (qalb), as mentioned earlier. To a certain extent,
faith also engages the intelligence, the memory and intuition in
the worship of God—for the six articles of faith must be borne in
mind and thought about—but its real import is that the soul not
25 Sunan Al-Tirmidhi, Kitab Al-Hajj, no. 64.
26 The Prophet Muhammad said:
“He who makes the pilgrimage to the House—avoiding indecent and immoral behavior—emerges
like a newborn babe”. (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Kitab Al-Hajj; Sahih Muslim,
Kitab Al-Hajj.)
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