The Real Meaning of Religious Services

Three things are searched for in religious services: cause, important matter, real meaning.

Causes are related to the reasons of services, importantmatters are related to their benefits, and realmeanings are related with their purposes.

There can be no religious service without a real

meaning, because:

1. Allah does not get occupied with futility. The Koran says in this regard: “Or do you think that we created you in devoid of meaning and purpose? 23:115 A remuneration of futile in the Koran is “superstitious”. “They think about the creation of the skies and ground and they say: Our Lord you did not create these without meaning and purpose.” He has created everything with prerogative (righteously). To create something with prerogative is to create on the construction of a meaning and a purpose.

2. Services become services because of intentions. Intention is a state of consciousness. Consequently intention adds purposefulness and meaningfulness to services. No mention of intention can be made in a place of meaninglessness and purposelessness. This is valid for the sacrifice service. Intention designates the “real purpose” of a service.

Real meanings are sometimes confused with nuisances and sometimes they are confused with important matters. However reasons arerelated with purposes. Because reasoning is to “conclude” by way of judgment or it is to “adjudicate”. A reading oriented on the verses which say that books and hidden causes were given to prophets makes us reach the definition of “a reasoning that will put the book to life”. The reason for a service is to “connect” it somewhere. In other words it is to discover its meaning and purpose. It is to determine the part it plays in the realization of man. Maybe it is to determine where a human being is connected or to determine where it connects a human being. The reasons of religious services can be known sometimes with the open and constructive guidance of the dogmas commanding them and by way of circumstance presumption and sometimes by way of reasoning and induction. The hidden reason of the sacrifice service is contained in the verses 36 and 37 of the Pilgrimage section of the Koran which is the only part in the Koran explaining the purpose of Sacrifice.

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