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Submitters PerspectiveDecember 2024Relationships as the Quran shapes them: with parents, relatives, friends, spouses, children, other people, the submitter family, and above all God, on whom every other relationship depends. A second essay likens our bond with God to a teacher and a student, urging repentance and trust instead of self blame for mistakes. The issue closes with the 2024 Charity Water campaign, which raised over 65,000 dollars from 76 donors.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveNovember 2024Choosing God over wealth and worldly distraction, drawing on Hobby Lobby founder David Green's decision to give up his company and on Quran verses about money and children as a test, the Friday prayer, and Solomon's preoccupation with horses. A second article treats gratitude to God as worship, shown in words and righteous works, and notes the Quran's repeated warning that most people are unappreciative.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveOctober 2024Acceptance as a path to serenity and submission leads this issue, drawn from a member's recovery from alcoholism and his arrival at Masjid Tucson. Further essays contrast good with evil and God with the devil, and urge gratitude for the hearing, eyesight, and brains God gave us, verifying information, and the contact prayers against distraction. Letters from prisoners thank the community for free Quran translations.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveSeptember 2024A Jewish convert named Khaleel recounts his path from Orthodox and Karaite Judaism, through doubts about the Talmud and the Torah and years of agnosticism, to the Quran and submission. A report covers the 39th annual United Submitters International conference in Tucson, with its 19 new submitters and a Charity Water campaign. An essay on divine etiquette draws Quranic guidance on patience, modesty, courtesy and cleanliness.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveAugust 2024Birds as signs of God and communities like us, singing His praises: how they communicate, the intelligence of parrots and ravens, and the hoopoe's report to Solomon, with Quranic verses throughout. A study of ibises sharing the lead of the V formation shows birds submitting to God's commands. Bible passages on birds, a poem, and quotations close the issue.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJuly 2024Freedom as a gift from God that carries responsibility and is fulfilled through submission to His laws, with free will, no compulsion in religion, Satan's illusions and addictions, and verifying information as the main threads. A second essay links war, peace and freedom to our choices in the Great Feud, citing the major commandments, the sanctity of life, and the Quranic rule never to aggress.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJune 2024God's limitless knowledge and flawless design, seen through the oceans: their unexplored depths, crushing pressure, deep diving creatures, long lived sea life, and the role of water in cooling the earth and supplying oxygen. Two essays pair these ocean facts with Quran verses on creation as proof that God alone is worthy of worship. A notice announces the 39th annual United Submitters conference in Tucson, August 2 to 4.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMay 2024Repentance leads, set against human weaknesses like ingratitude, haste, and stinginess, with Adam and Eve, Moses, and Jonah as models of admitting wrong and resolving to reform. A second article treats forgiveness as strength and as a duty toward others, and a third reexamines the motto God helps those who help themselves through 38:10 and 13:11, concluding that our only help comes from God.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveApril 2024Artificial intelligence draws on flawed human data and misleads people about God and His religion, while the Quran offers absolute truth from God; readers are urged to spread true content about Submission and to engage people with wisdom and care. A second article examines kindness through 90:11 to 18 and other verses, alongside psychology research linking kindness and giving to happiness and health.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMarch 2024Ramadan fasting as a reboot that strengthens and purifies the soul under God's control, and the submitter's fast from dawn to sunset kept for salvation as Quran 2:183 says. Writers answer non-submitters who doubt the fast is healthy or possible and describe using the month to curb the ego. A closing essay presents peace as one of God's names and the mark of His kingdom.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveFebruary 2024Finding the real goal in life through the Quran is the main theme: prioritizing the Hereafter over worldly success, perseverance, appreciation, and charity. A reflection on the year since the last Ramadan follows, on righteousness, the contact prayers, and staying centered amid chaos. Closing pages give the fasting verses of 2:183 to 187 and the Ramadan 2024 dates, with how to calculate them by the new moon.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJanuary 2024Reasons to pray open this January 2024 issue, with the contact prayers presented as direct nourishment for the soul God blew into us. It traces the Quran's eleven uses of that you may succeed as a New Year resolution, then turns to repentance and meditation, God's inclination toward mercy, and Sura 102 on hoarding, contrasted with gathering righteous deeds and thanking God for His blessings.ICS

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