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Submitters PerspectiveDecember 2012Making God the priority of life despite its distractions, and striving with money and life to seek Him and the higher ranks. A prisoner writes that hard times are guiding him back to God, and the editor answers that a seeming disaster can be a blessing. A closing essay compares restaurant reservations with securing a place in Paradise through worshiping God alone and righteous works.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveNovember 2012Gratitude to God opens the issue, with George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation and Quran verses on thankfulness. A longer article on resurrection compares beliefs about the afterlife, rejects the myth of intercession, and stresses that each soul answers for its own recorded deeds. Articles follow on the earth's speed, atmosphere, and design as signs of God, along with verses on the moon.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveOctober 2012Contentment and appreciation of God's blessings lead the issue, drawing on the Quran and the Bible to argue for making God and the Hereafter our priority without giving up our share in this world. A reprinted article shows from 3:18 and 63:1 that the common Muslim shahaada adding Muhammad violates the Quran. A reader reflects on God as the doer of everything, and an answer addresses celebrating birthdays, including those of prophets.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveSeptember 2012The Quranic verses addressed to those who believe, gathered by theme: charity, fasting, the Friday prayer, justice, obeying God and the messenger, and warnings about Satan and distractions. A second essay pictures the Day of Judgment, where each soul holds only its own record written against the Quran, the fully detailed scripture. An anecdote urges verifying information rather than following tradition blindly.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveAugust 2012God's tests as a means of purifying the soul, with the examples of Moses and Abraham and a comparison between the race toward Paradise and winning an Olympic medal. A guide to Ramadan explains fasting, the lunar calendar, calculating start and end dates from the new moon, and the Night of Destiny for 2012. A report on the 2012 Anaheim conference and an invitation to the weekly reminder email list follow.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJuly 2012The meaning of family in the Quran: God's assignment of souls to genetic families, disbelieving relatives like Noah's son, fellow submitters as our real family, honoring parents, and families as tests. A sixteen year old in Sydney tells how she came to submission, believing in the mathematical miracle and the messenger of the covenant despite her mother's devotion to hadith. Ramadan 2012 dates follow.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJune 2012Submission to God alone as strict monotheism, a lifelong devotion of soul and body rather than a ritual religion, drawn from Quranic verses. Also an argument that the Quran's night and day verses imply the earth's orbit around the sun, Psalm 62, Ramadan 2012 dates, and a reflection on why big cats roar while small cats purr as God gives every creature what it needs.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMay 2012A former Christian examines familiar church phrases that humanize God, such as God resting on the seventh day or begetting a son, and answers them with Quranic verses like 2:255 and 59:22 to 24. The issue then explains the obligatory charity (Zakat) with a compilation of its verses, answers a reader's question on how and when to meditate on God, and offers free copies of the Quran translation.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveApril 2012The human being as the Quran describes it: the perfect body in prostration to God, the flawed nature we are warned about, and the virtues God guides us toward through the contact prayer, zakat and repentance. A second article weighs guidance from the messenger of the covenant against God as its only source, urging verification in the Quran. A Titanic anecdote and notice of the 2012 Annual Conference follow.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMarch 2012Justice and basic human rights as the Quran commands them, including fairness toward enemies and the duties of those in authority, lead this issue, drawn from a Friday khutbah in Mumbai. A reprinted article explains why people use drugs and argues that worshiping God alone overcomes addiction. Letters from Russian and English submitters follow, with notice of weekly email reminders and the 27th Annual Submitters Conference.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveFebruary 2012The first commandment, to worship God alone, as the universal message of all scriptures, with Submission as the one religion and human-made teachings such as Hadith blamed for sectarian division. A Jewish reader studying the Quran writes in, and the Charity Water drive's results are reported with a mathematical pattern of 19. A leap year reflection proposes four minutes a day commemorating God.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJanuary 2012Satan's pull toward idol worship and the myth of intercession lead this issue, with Quranic verses showing that Abraham, Noah, and Muhammad could not intercede for their own kin, and a call to return to God alone. Also included are verses on God's greatness, research on the magnetic sense in homing pigeons' beaks, and a note on the weekly email reminders with reader comments on predestination.ICS

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