MUSLIM VERSUS MOMIN

49:14 - The Bedouins say, "We have believed." Say, "You have not [yet] believed; but say [instead], 'We have submitted,' for faith has not yet entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not deprive you from your deeds of anything. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."

Exegesis 1: 

The blabbering souls / deserted souls said: ‘We have believed.

Say to them: belief is not a word that the tongue utters; it is a state that dawns upon the heart.

Say: you have submitted, you have entered the circle of form 

but the spirit of faith has not yet breathed within you.

For Islam does not begins at the lips,

but in willing surrender,

faith begins when the inner self bows,

when the heart bends not to command but to empathy.

To be Muslim is not to wear a name and dress,

but to let your being melt into the Harmony of the One.

Exegesis 2:

This verse unveils the distinction between ritual Islam and inner Islam.

One may enter the fold when there is no other path but to yield before the will of circumstances - a verbal declaration made out of social necessity.

But becoming Muslim is an inner awakening - the moment the heart recognizes and aligns with the Divine Reality.

The first is submission born of compulsion; the second is surrender born of consciousness.

Only when the ego dissolves within the realm of the Divine Will does surrender transcend helplessness and blossom into a state of willing harmony.