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Submitters PerspectiveDecember 2021Gratitude to God fills this Thanksgiving issue, with community members giving thanks for guidance, the Quran's mathematical code, family, and the death of a mother witnessed in faith. A reflection on creation and a family's financial hardship in Tucson urges appreciating present blessings, followed by Quran and Bible verses on appreciation and a reprinted piece on gratitude's benefits for body and mind.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveNovember 2021Thanksgiving opens with the proclamations of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, then gathers Submitters' accounts of the blessings they thank God for: guidance, the Quran, the contact prayers, Quran studies, their spiritual family, technology that kept them connected through the pandemic, health, nature, and beloved pets. One writer recounts surviving an Iranian death sentence and recovering from MS.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveOctober 2021Marriage according to the Quran: consent and maturity, which rule out child marriage, the dowry, arbitration and divorce, the husband as captain of the ship, and the equality of men and women, including condemnation of forced sex within marriage. A second article reflects on eyesight as a gift from God, its complexity, and the eyes bearing witness on the Day of Judgment. An invitation to join the weekly reminder email list follows.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveSeptember 2021Remembering God at all times, through the contact prayer dedicated to God alone, with its rewards and the consequences of forgetting Him. A member living far from her community during the COVID-19 pandemic asks whether listening to the Friday Prayer by phone counts as attending, and why she still prays the four units of the noon prayer. A closing piece urges listening, self-examination, and the Quran to resolve disputes.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveAugust 2021Steadfast perseverance as the Quran describes it: repenting and reforming after failure, seeking God's help, observing the contact prayers, spending provisions, and countering evil with good. A second essay treats happiness as a choice that follows from worshiping God alone. Also included are reflections on what God will ask us about and notice of the 36th annual United Submitters conference in Chicago, September 3 to 5, 2021.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJuly 2021Belief in God, the Last Day, and righteousness is presented as the common ground of submission, with Dr. Bruce Lipton's epigenetics and the placebo effect used to argue that perception and belief shape the body and that forgiveness frees us from the past. A second essay holds that God gave humans hearing, eyesight, and brains to verify His message, and that misusing them leads to Hell.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJune 2021Practicing the presence of God, drawing on Brother Lawrence alongside the Quran and the Bible, as a way of offering every daily action to God through the heart. A second essay presents freedom as a responsibility: choosing God's laws over Satan's illusory freedom, with no compulsion in religion and believers upholding righteousness even as a minority. The issue closes with an invitation to join the weekly reminder email list.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMay 2021Moderation in Submission is drawn from the Quran: true fundamentalism as kindness rather than fanaticism, balance in charity, eating and drinking, consultation, no compulsion in religion, and equivalence tempered by forgiveness, alongside God's control of all events. A second essay examines how the ego, especially a know it all attitude, hinders appreciation of God, followed by verses on appreciation and a Memorial Day poem of remembrance.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveApril 2021Ramadan and fasting as a path to salvation, drawing on 2:183 to 187 and verses on worship, charity, and striving in the cause of God. Members reflect on fasting as nourishment for the soul and on appreciating God's provisions through the Quran's accounts of food. The issue gives the Ramadan 2021 dates and the Night of Destiny, and sets fasting passages from Isaiah and Matthew alongside.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMarch 2021Common misconceptions drawn from abuse of the Quran, read against its verses: jihad and the ban on aggression, Abraham rather than Muhammad as the source of Submission, polygamy, divorce and women's rights, marking rather than cutting off a thief's hand, the absence of stoning, and the dress code. A second article explains, from personal experience and Quranic verses, why a Submitter rejects Hadith and Sunnah.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveFebruary 2021Kindness toward believers undergoing tests leads this issue, urging Submitters to offer support and encouraging reminders like those in sura 65 rather than blame. A second essay treats racism as an ego born with Satan's arrogance, affirming that all people descend from Adam and Eve. Parallel verses from the Quran and the Bible on God's sovereignty follow, along with letters of thanks from prisoners.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJanuary 2021Kindness as the difficult path of Sura 90 opens this newsletter, offered as an answer to the division culminating in the January 6 invasion of the Capitol. A collection of verses follows on treating one another in the best manner and disregarding opponents, then an index of 2020 articles and a parable of a king's four wives teaching that only the soul follows us beyond death.ICS

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