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Submitters Perspective, June 2018
Earth as a minimum security prison where God offers us the chance to redeem ourselves, and our duty to invite others to worship God alone with compassion, wisdom, and neutral terms like Submission. A continuing series applies steps 5 and 6 of the 12 steps to the Quran: confessing our wrongs and becoming ready to let God remove our defects. Also lists Ramadan 2018 dates and the Dallas conference.
June 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, May 2018
Ramadan fasting as a path to salvation: a father's self-evaluation through sleepless days and lost patience, the pain and gain of 94:5-8 compared with Christian ideas of suffering, and fasting as self-discipline, submission and equality, with Biblical parallels. A reader recovering from compulsive overeating also links the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, idol worship and the contact prayers.
May 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, April 2018
Remembering and thanking God at every opportunity, through daily blessings, financial hardship, and the patience of Jacob, Abraham, and Ismail, leads this issue. A second part on building righteous habits offers practical steps for meditation, Quran reading, and reverence in the contact prayer. A piece on meditation as the goal of worship and a notice for the 33rd annual United Submitters conference in Dallas follow.
April 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, March 2018
Habits and self-reflection as tools for worshiping God alone, with a five-step method and a personal example about brushing teeth without reverence. A second article relates steps three and four of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps to Quranic verses on absolute devotion and moral inventory. Also includes a convert's letter, Ramadan 2018 dates and the Night of Destiny, and verses on the sky.
March 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, February 2018
Quranic guidance for peaceful debates with disbelievers: no compulsion in religion, God alone guides, kindness in argument, and proclaiming the truth without compromise or grief. A second article opens a series examining the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous through the Quran, treating Steps 1 and 2 as admitting powerlessness over idols and trusting God alone to heal. An index of 2017 articles follows.
February 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, January 2018
Quranic verses gathered by theme guide daily conduct: charity, truthfulness, honest trade, humility, patience, forgiveness, justice, honoring parents, and avoiding usury, intoxicants, slander, and division. Abraham's prayers from the Quran are presented as an example for believers, with his debates against idol worship. A New Year's reflection compares the dawn contact prayer, glorifying God Most High, to a continuous spiritual high.
January 1, 2018
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Submitters Perspective, December 2017
Life goals and priorities, read through Quranic verses on the purpose of creation and on putting the Hereafter and pleasing God alone above worldly ambitions. The Submitter community's 2017 Charity Water campaign is reported with totals, wells opened in Africa, and mathematical signs of 19 found in the figures. Also included are letters from new readers, one a prisoner, and a reflection on pausing to pray in hardship.
December 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, November 2017
Thankfulness to God, prompted by Thanksgiving, opens with a brief history of the holiday and a walk through the Quran's verses on thanks, from food and water to hearing, eyesight, and the brain. A second essay pairs Quranic teaching on appreciation with scientific studies on the benefits of gratitude. Closing pages gather Biblical and Quranic verses on giving thanks and eating moderately.
November 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, October 2017
Choices are weighed against God's commands, with a Submitter recalling how skipping Quranic study groups led him astray and urging repentance and refuge from Satan. A second article draws lessons about God's provisions and signs from travel, from foods and animals to seasons and the merging of the two seas. A third reflects on an aging dog and the predetermined time of death.
October 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, September 2017
Submission as devotion to God alone opens the issue, with a reprinted essay on who Submitters are, the minimum criteria in the Quran, Submitters within every religion, and how authorized messengers differ from anyone who delivers the message. A second article traces food waste in the United States against God's condemnation of waste and His call to be appreciative. A report covers the 32nd annual conference in Tucson.
September 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, August 2017
Justice in Submission takes the lead, with Quranic verses on equitable judgment toward enemies and kin, bribery, and the duty of those in authority. Also included are an excerpt from Appendix 36 on what makes a great nation, a reflection on human weakness and God as the giver of strength, and numerical evidence from Sura 74 and the code of 19 supporting removal of 9:128 and 9:129.
August 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, July 2017
The Quran as the source of knowledge, understanding and wisdom, from scientific facts such as the universe exploding into existence to the Great Feud, the age of forty, Jesus' death, and the messenger of the covenant. A second article defines real intelligence as recognizing the truth and worshiping God alone. For July 4, founding fathers' quotes recall our dependence on God.
July 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, June 2017
Remembering God constantly, day and night, through the contact prayers, mentioning His name over food, saying God willing, supplication, and meditation before and after sleep, with Ramadan as a time to keep God foremost. Science on awe and its shrinking of the ego is set beside Quranic verses on reverence. Also includes a letter from a prisoner and notice of the 2017 Submitters Conference in Tucson.
June 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, May 2017
Ramadan is presented as a time to implore God, with supplication as a form of worship that helps the faster pass God's tests of hunger and thirst. Other pieces read the loan of righteousness as a possible increase in righteousness itself, call Submitters brand ambassadors for Submission, and retell the fable of the peacock and the crow on contentment. Ramadan 2017 dates are included.
May 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, April 2017
Water as a gift and sign of God opens the issue, with Quranic verses on rain, Moses and the twelve springs, and why humans cannot cheaply make water. A second article argues that true jihad is a struggle within the self, citing verses on tolerance, self-defense, and protecting places of worship. Ramadan 2017 dates by region and the 32nd annual Submitters conference in Tucson follow.
April 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, March 2017
Trust in God anchors this newsletter, drawn from Quranic verses, a personal story of a rejected promotion, and scientific definitions of trust. Further articles explain what it means to commemorate God frequently, contrasting commemorators with transgressors, and describe the tongue and sense of taste as God's gifts meant for good words. A closing piece pairs Psalm 1 with the Quran's parable of the good tree.
March 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, February 2017
America's founding faith in God, drawn from Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, is set beside the Quran's call to worship God alone and give thanks, with a warning that ingratitude brings retribution. Reflecting on the 2016 presidential race, a second essay urges readers to build a righteous home and lead quiet change. A third explains why believers heed God's warnings while disbelievers ignore them.
February 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, January 2017
Steadfast perseverance in worshiping God alone, observing the contact prayers and the Quran's commandments through tests, mockery, rejection and emigration opens this issue. Two essays then draw lessons from India's sudden November 2016 invalidation of 500 and 1000 rupee notes: death comes without warning, worldly value vanishes, sincere small deeds and intention count, and wealth must not become an idol.
January 1, 2017
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Submitters Perspective, December 2016
The obligatory charity (Zakat) is explained: what it is, why Submitters give it, and how, at 2.5% of net income on the day it is received, to parents, relatives, orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien in that order. A second article warns against showing off and extravagance in December giving. Also included are thanks for the Masjid Tucson food pantry, an index of 2016 articles, and a weekly reminder sign up.
December 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, November 2016
Prostration as God's invitation to kill the ego, drawn from Sura 32 and its physical and spiritual benefits, leads this newsletter issue. Further articles cover marriage as a solemn pledge and a tool for growing the soul, the design of the eyebrows, eyelids and eyelashes as protection for the eyes, a poem on holding a special place for God, and love for God and how to earn His love.
November 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, October 2016
Submission as the universal religion of God alone, with the Quran as His intact, mathematically proven word for all peoples, set against the idolatry that has crept into traditional Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Further pieces reflect on appreciating God through the design of the human body and gather Quranic verses on the contact prayer. A prisoner writes asking how to pray without mentioning Muhammad.
October 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, September 2016
Gambling, seen through a submitter's lessons in Las Vegas and a past life in horse racing, with the Quran's prohibition in 5:90 to 5:91 and a comparison between worldly gamblers and submitters who stake their souls on righteous works. A report follows on the 31st annual United Submitters International conference in Vancouver, covering its sermon, talks, zikr, and public seminar.
September 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, August 2016
Imploring God alone leads this issue, with a reading of 40:60 on arrogance, the contact prayers, and why some prayers seem unanswered. Further articles hold that the dead cannot hear or help, so help comes only from God, and give three Quranic reasons that so-called radical Islam is anti-Islamic: no suicide, no aggression, and no compulsion in religion. A closing piece reflects on God's design of hair.
August 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, July 2016
Striving in the cause of God anchors the issue: why strive, how it earns higher ranks in Paradise, keeps believers guided, and helps them through the test, with night meditation and reading the Quran as extra credit. A piece warns that criticizing others feeds the ego, and closing items offer a reflection on gratitude and a letter of support from someone helped by the food pantry.
July 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, June 2016
Ramadan fasting as decreed in 2:183 to 187, with reflections from Submitters around the world on its blessings for the soul, its flexibility for the ill and traveling, its health benefits, and plans for spiritual growth. Submitters also describe the Night of Destiny from Sura 97. New moon times set the 2016 Ramadan dates for each region.
June 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, May 2016
Protection comes only from God, illustrated by the preserved banana, natural calamities, guardian angels and the owner of the two gardens, with prayers for refuge from Satan. A second essay defines success through Qaroon's story, the contact prayer and the Hereafter. A Florida prisoner asks for help learning the contact prayer, followed by notice of the 2016 Vancouver conference.
May 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, April 2016
Human rights decreed by the Quran lead the issue, set out right by right with supporting verses, from life, equality and freedom of religion to the rights of women, orphans, the poor and slaves. An essay on accountability asks how we spend the time, money and energy God measures out to us. The story of Jonah closes the issue, alongside new moon times for Ramadan 2016.
April 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, March 2016
Intoxicants and drug abuse take up most of the issue: why people use drugs, the main drug classes and dependency rates, and the Quran's prohibition in 2:219 and 5:90 to 91, with worshiping God alone as the remedy. A second article sets US costs of alcohol and drugs beside the Quran's teaching. Also included are a year of the Masjid Tucson food pantry and plans for the 2016 Vancouver conference.
March 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, February 2016
Leading by the power of example rather than the example of power, contrasting Pharaoh and Hitler with Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela, and God's command to Moses to speak nicely. Further essays argue that God's love is conditional, listing whom He loves and abhors, and describe certainty as a lifelong striving through worship, the contact prayers, and devotion to God alone.
February 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, January 2016
The believers' Shahadah takes center place, drawing on Quran verses showing that every messenger, from Noah and Abraham to Muhammad and Rashad, proclaimed there is no god except God, while only the hypocrites of 63:1 add another name beside His. A second article on ravens connects their black color, intelligence, and lifelong mating to the Quran and Bible as proof that God provides for all creatures.
January 1, 2016
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Submitters Perspective, December 2015
Whether God has abandoned our generation, answered through the Quran's mathematical code based on 19 as a miracle meant for the computer age. Further articles link the web crawler, called an ant or spider, to suras 27 and 29, trace the Quran's consistency across its topics, styles and tones, and gather verses where the Quran describes itself, with an index of the year's articles.
December 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, November 2015
Color as a gift and sign from God opens the issue: camouflage, warning, pollination, mating, nutrition, and human skin color and language, ending with a call to unity across races. Further essays weigh conscience, reasoning, and desire in telling right from wrong, using Joseph and Cain, and teach that receiving help lets others earn God's blessings too.
November 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, October 2015
Studying the whole Quran guards against Satan and against the dividers who accept it only partially, and the believers are urged to unite around it. A second article contrasts God's attributes with Satan's as a path to nearness to God, stressing moderation. A member recounts a conference resort that recalled Paradise and a sudden storm that recalled the illusion of this life.
October 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, September 2015
Awareness of God and of the Hereafter leads this issue, with essays on our pledge before coming to earth, the Quran as enlightenment, personal accountability without intercession, and verses showing God is never unaware of anything. A report on the 30th annual United Submitters International conference in Tucson follows, along with a poem of thanks to God alone.
September 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, August 2015
Praising God opens the issue, with reflections on Alhamdulillah, the account of King Jehoshaphat's singers from 2 Chronicles 20, and Psalm 145. An essay on modern idol worship treats worry, dependence on others, and misplaced love as subtle idols. A closing piece finds multiples of 19 linking 9:33, 61:9, and Sura 110 to God's promise that Submission will prevail.
August 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, July 2015
Studying the Quran daily to increase knowledge leads the issue, with verses on its dynamic, easy to learn character and the duty to verify information. Further pieces present memorizing verses as healing for the brain, evolution as a divinely guided process within species, and keeping the gains of Ramadan, with the date of the Night of Destiny. A prisoner's letter thanks the Tucson Masjid for a Quran.
July 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, June 2015
Ramadan fasting during the long, hot days of a northern summer, as a way to remember God and those less fortunate, opens this issue, followed by a call to focus the month on breaking bad habits and growing the soul. Further pieces cover purity of body and soul through ablution, avoiding backbiting, intoxicants and arrogance, God being closer than the jugular vein, and the new moon dates for Ramadan 2015.
June 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, May 2015
God's testing of believers through both adversity and blessings, drawing on the trials of Abraham, Job, Solomon and other messengers, with Quranic guidance on steadfastness and the contact prayer. A second essay compares life to an open book exam for the soul, and a third reflects on hearing, eyesight and the brain as gifts from God. An announcement for the 30th annual Tucson conference follows.
May 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, April 2015
The human body serves as an allegory for the soul: remembering God is its breath, the contact prayer its food, and insensitivity to pain a picture of souls that wrong themselves unaware. Further articles cover meditating on God and the science of focused attention, holding steady in submission without wavering, and April Fool's Day as a reminder of how Satan dupes humanity.
April 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, March 2015
Remembering God through daily practices, the contact prayer, Zakat, fasting, and seeking forgiveness, drawn from a khutba by the late Mike that also borrows tools from Alcoholics Anonymous. Zakat and charity as God's system of economic welfare, with the Quranic order of giving. Trusting God as the prophets did, and the dates of the 30th annual submitters conference in Tucson.
March 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, February 2015
Loving God the most, timed to Valentine's Day, and how love for children, spouses, prophets or money can become idolatry, with the Quran's lists of whom God loves and does not love. A second essay presents submission as a whole way of life built on the Contact Prayers and commemoration of God. A mother recalls raising eleven adopted children on the message of God alone.
February 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, January 2015
The Contact Prayers (Salat) as meals that nourish, purify, and strengthen the soul for closeness to God, why Submitters pray five times a day, and why the prayers must be devoted to God alone without mentioning any prophet. A second article offers practical ways to cultivate appreciation of God's blessings. Also included are a statement on Submission and the newsletter's history, and an index of 2014 articles.
January 1, 2015
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Submitters Perspective, December 2014
The traits of believers as the Quran lists them lead this issue: belief in the unseen, the contact prayers, charity in bad times, suppressing anger, remembering God frequently, and night meditation. Further pieces catalog the devil's tools with Quranic references, draw lessons in submission from water and mountains, and urge contentment amid holiday consumerism, alongside a prisoner's letter of thanks for the Final Testament.
December 1, 2014
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Submitters Perspective, November 2014
Giving thanks to God is the theme of this Thanksgiving issue, which treats caring for the earth and conserving its resources as the practical form of gratitude. Other pieces reflect on the provisions of Sura 16:65 to 69 (water, milk, dates, grapes, and honey), recall a vanishing cloud seen on a morning walk, and collect Quranic verses on appreciation, with an invitation to join a weekly email reminder list.
November 1, 2014
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Submitters Perspective, October 2014
Charity and the obligatory Zakat as the Quran presents them: who should receive it, giving from what we value, privately and without insult, and moderation in giving from the excess. A second article asks how submitters can grow righteous traits such as patience and honesty with God's help, and a former Orthodox Christian describes the change becoming a submitter brought to her life.
October 1, 2014
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Submitters Perspective, September 2014
Steadfastness in tests leads this issue, with Quranic examples of tested prophets and steps for submitting to God through hardship. Further pieces compare a life distracted from God to a derailed train and draw business practices such as planning, honesty, and respect from the Quran. It closes with a report on the 29th annual United Submitters International conference in Reston, Virginia.
September 1, 2014
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Submitters Perspective, August 2014
God as the only Protector of the earth, drawn from a Time magazine article on asteroid tracking, the undetected 2013 meteor over Chelyabinsk, the Titanic, and the Challenger explosion. Further articles treat jealousy as a disease that becomes an idol beside God, God's fairness in unequal provision, and why God is worthy of faith when life makes no sense.
August 1, 2014
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Submitters Perspective, July 2014
God as the light of the heavens and the earth, drawn from a reading of verse 24:35, opens this issue, followed by reflections on submission as strict monotheism and devotion of every moment to God alone. Other pieces weigh the soul against the body on the Day of Judgment, offer a recipe for a happy Submitter, and gather verses on light, with notices on Ramadan 2014 and the Washington DC conference.
July 1, 2014
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