NEW CREATION BOOK FOR MUSLIMS
by Phil Goble and Salim Munayer
?(c) Copyright 1989 by Phil Goble and Salim Munayer
Contents
1. Soiltesting
2. The Straight Path of the New Creation
3. The Prayer Life of a New Creation Muslim
4. The New Creation Confession
5. The New Creation Pilgrimage
6. How to Start a House Masjid and a Messianic
Madrasa for New Creation Muslims
Glossary
Notes
?OK 1?bsp; SOILTESTING
HOW WELCOME IS THE TRUTH IN YOUR HOUSE?
Are you like our father Ibrahim (Abraham)?
When three men came to his dwelling,
Ibrahim could see who they really were
--angels in disguise.
So even though his wife laughed like a kafir (dis-believer), our
father Ibrahim
opened his heart
to their message (1) [SEE END NOTE 1].
Ibrahim not only recognized the truth
but he also fearlessly welcomed it.
THE FARMER AND THE FOUR KINDS OF SOIL
Different people react in different ways to the truth,
just as, when a farmer plants his seed,
various kinds of soil react variously.
THE PARABLE (MATHAL) GIVEN
Imagine a farmer going out to plant seed.
As the farmer planted the seed,
some fell on the edge of the path,
and the birds came and ate those seeds up.
Others fell on rocky soil
where they sprang up quickly;
but as soon as the sun came up,
those that were rootless and shallow plantings
soon withered away.
Other seeds fell among thorns
which grew up and choked them.
Finally, there were seeds that fell on rich soil
and these seeds multiplied themselves
in the fruit they produced--
some a hundred times over,
some sixty times over,
some thirty.
THE PARABLE (MATHAL) EXPLAINED
The truth comes like seed from a farmer's hand.
The ears that hear the truth
are like different kinds of soil
receiving the farmer's seed.
Ears without understanding hear the truth
but Shaitan (Satan) comes
like the birds along the path
and carries the truth away
as soon as it is planted in the hearer's heart.
Ears with fickle attention hear the truth
and welcome it at first with joy;
but such a hearer has no unwavering root in himself
and he does not last;
when a crisis or a persecution comes
on account of the truth,
such a hearer falls away at once.
Ears with divided desires hear the word,
but the worries of this world,
and the lure of riches,
and the pleasures of life,
are like thorns that choke the truth
which produces in such a hearer absolutely nothing.
However, ears with understanding hear the word
like rich soil receiving seed.
Such a hearer yields a great harvest,
since a hundred or sixty or thirty times
as many hearers may receive the truth through him.
He who has ears to hear the truth
of the following mathal (parable), let him hear!
THE IBN DALL (SON OF ERROR)
There was once a hanif (one who desires true religion)
who had two sons.
The younger said to his father,
"Father, according to the wasiya (will),
let me have the fara'id (fixed share)
of the mirath (inheritance)
that is coming to me."
And the father divided his means and his property
between the younger and the elder son.
Now the elder son was a devout believer who prayed
regularly five times a day
and had made the Hajj (Pilgrimage) as many times.
No one was respected more among the townspeople
for his religious devotion than this elder son.
He was a man who performed his prayers
in the mosque with absolute perfection
and could read the Qur'an so well
that he would hold the audience spellbound.
THE YOUNGER SON GOES ASTRAY
It wasn't long, however, until the younger son
got everything he owned together,
and left for a far country.
There he squandered his money
in a dissolute life of fisq (sinfulness)
and moral depravity.
And when he had spent his entire inheritance,
and had not one thing left to remind him of his wonderful father,
there arose a terrible famine in that land;
and the younger son began to feel his loss.
So he hired himself out to a harbi (2)
who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.
The younger son would willingly have filled his belly
with the husks the pigs were eating
but he was treated worse than the swine,
for no one offered him even pigs' food to eat.
THE YOUNGER SON FORSAKES ALL PRIDE AND
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
He finally came to himself
and started thinking like an 'aqli (rational) being,
like a true son having the disposition of his father.
He said, "How many hired servants of my father's household abound
in food and I perish with hunger!
I will arise and stop straying from fasaqa (the right course) and
go to my father,
and I will say to him,
"Father, I have sinned against heaven
and in the presence of you.
And I no longer think I am worthy to be called your son:
make me not like my elder brother who thinks himself worthy but
make me like one of your hired servants."
Then he arose and came to his father.
THE FATHER WHOSE LOVE MAKES THE UNRIGHTEOUS TO
BE RIGHTEOUS
Now it was the tenth day
of the month of Hajj (Pilgrimage),
but the elder son, having a self-satisfied heart,
had some time before decided to forego the trip.
But when the younger son was yet along way off,
his father saw him.
And greatly moved with love and compassion,
his father ran to the younger son
and clasped him in his arms
and kissed him with tenderness.
And the younger son said to him,
"Father, I have sinned against heaven
and in your sight,
and I am no longer worthy to be called your son."
But the father said to his hired servants,
"Bring forth the best robe
and put it on him;
and put a ring on his hand
and shoes on his feet;
and bring the calf we have been fattening and kill it;
we are going to have
a Qurban (Sacrifice) as on 'Id al-Adha (3)
such as has not been since the time Ibrahim
celebrated the redemption of his son.
Because this son of mine was dead
and has come back to life;
he was lost
and now he has been found."
And the great feast began.
THE ELDER SON REFUSES TO FORSAKE A
SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND PROUD RELIGIOUS SPIRT
Now the elder brother
had just returned from the mosque,
and, on his way back, as he drew near the house,
he could hear the sounds of the wisal (communion)
of the father and his younger son.
Calling one of the hired servants,
the elder brother asked what all this was about.
And the hired servant said to the elder son,
"Your brother has returned safe and salim (sound)
and your father has personally sent word
for the Qurban (sacrifice) and the festivities to begin."
Now the elder brother was furious
and refused to go in.
He would have nothing
to do with this sort of din (religious practice).
Would God act like his father? (4)
Would Allah bestow a matwaba (reward) on a son
with an innate qariha (disposition)
that was asin (rebellious)?
And not only that, one who had no tawab (merit)
because he had done absolutely no good deeds
or ihsan (right conduct)
--would Allah act like this sort of father?
The elder brother resolved to never be like such a one
and he sat down and brooded in the outer darkness.
FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THE WORD OF THE FATHER
Presently the elder brother
thought he saw another servant approaching.
But it was really his father
coming to give him a personal word (5)
in order that the elder son could start thinking
like an 'aqli(rational) being
and enter into the spirit ofthe whole jam'a'a (house).
So his father pleaded with him.
Finally the elder son answered the man:
"Look, all these years I have submitted (islam) (6)
to you as an abd (slave)
and I can boast without shame that
I have religiously obeyed all of the shari'a (laws)
of this whole jam'a'a (house).
Yet I return from the mosque
and I hear the sounds of the wisal (conununion)
between you and this mufarrit (prodigal)!
Am I now to humble myself
and enter a house with this sort of zamala (fellowship)?"
A COSTLY DEATH AND THE INHERITANCE OF
THE FATHER'S PERSONAL WORD TO HIS HEIRS
Then the father looked at him with anguished love
and said,
"You know the costly death a murith (testator)
must somehow undergo in order that his heirs
may receive all that he has.
And yet you seem to love me
more like a self-justifying slave
than a trusting and humble son."
The father put his arm around the man and said,
"Are you so far away from knowing me
that you cannot rejoice that the one
who strayed from the fasaqa (right course)
has found tajaddud (renewal)
and has been rashid (rightly guided)
to the marashid (salvation) of God?
For like you
your brother had a sajiya (natural disposition)
that was dead but now he has been jadda (restored)
to the abundant life of wisal (communion)
as an heir of his father's house." (7)
ARE YOU WILLING TO RECEIVE THE NEW CREATION HEART,
THE HEART OF A LITTLE CHILD,
THE HEART THAT RECOGNIZES THE TRUTH?
Have you not read what it says of Isa al-Masih
that he would "heal those born blind
and the lepers...and raise the dead?" (8)
Why did he do this for people?
Because it says in the Zabur (Psalms)
that God "would send his Word and heal them
and deliver them from the Pit of jahannam" (9)(hell fire). Have
you not read,
"The Messiah, Isa, Jesus son of Mary,
was the Rasul (Messenger) of God, and his Word" (10)?
God has always loved his Word
as a father loves his only son.
And his Word has always been
the sirr (secret) of the mind of Allah,
as a son is the likeness of his father.
What blasphemer would breathe the name of Mary here?
She was nothing but a loaner of flesh,
for Allah has no wife and no mother and no partner
nor did He need any human being at all
to be what He has always been,
the one and only God.
ONLY A CHILD-LIKE HEART RECOGNIZES THE TRUTH
Now the story goes that Isa who is Allah's Word
had been healing many people in Muqaddasa (the Holy Land). And
when he sat down,
each talib (seeker) also brought unto Isa
his walad (little child)
in order for him to pronounce the baraka (blessing).
And so, with tender love, Isa,
who reverberates the love of the heart of God,
picked each one up
and placed the walad (little child)
one at a time on his lap.
Just then his hawari (disciples)
impatiently interrupted him and told the parents
that they would have to leave.
But Isa loved little children who, as everyone knows,
humbly and whole-heartedly receive what is given to them.
Little children accept everything as a gift
with awestruck gratitude as if from the hand of God,
and not with any tendency
to think they deserve God's favor on the basis of merit,
since in their own small eyes
they wisely know themselves too little
to have done any good deeds.
Isa said,
"Allow the little children to come unto me
and forbid them not.
For it is to people with hearts like these
that the Malakut (Kingdom) of God belongs.
In very truth I say to you,
whosoever shall not welcome
the Malakut (Kingdom) of God
like a walad (little child)
will never enter it." (11)
THE TRUTH HAS NOT BEEN LOST IN TRANSCRIPTION SINCE
EVEN LITTLE CHILDREN CAN RECOGNIZE
THE FATHER'S PERSONAL WORD OF TRUTH
Isa had difficulty with his people,
because many suppressed the correct interpretation
of the Scriptures that spoke of his coming.
However, those who did attempt to "conceal
Allah's revelations in the Book" (12) did not succeed
as a Muslim child proved in 1947
when he discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Extremely ancient parts of every book (but one)
of the Hebrew Bible were found there in manuscript form,
greatly discrediting the skeptical scholars
who had attacked its infallible
accuracy and reliability. (13)
ARE YOU WILLING TO READ THE ANCIENT PROPHETS WITH
THE HUMBLE HEART OF A LITTLE CHILD? (14)
?OK 2?bsp; THE STRAIGHT PATH OF THE NEW CREATION
ALLAH KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE
and so do Shaitan and the evil jinn (demons).
This was proven to a man of God
in modern times.
This is a true story.
A PRAYER IS MIRACULOUSLY ANSWERED
The man of God was calling out to Allah one morning
to bring more people to the jami' (congregation).
He was on his face before Allah
and he was supplicating du'a (free-prayer) very loudly
alone in a tiny apartment.
This was the only masjid (place of prayer)
the people had for their meetings
because the godless leaders,
more sensitive to politics than to Allah,
had thrown the congregation
out of a public meeting hall.
But praise be to God who hears and answers
when we call on Him!
There is none like the Lord our God,
praise be unto Him.
He says somewhere,
"Before they call I will answer,
and while they are yet speaking I will hear."
In fact, the request of the man of God
had been answered weeks before he made his petition.
HOW GOD HAD BEEN PREPARING TO ANSWER PRAYER
Here is the true story:
A young man and his wife
had been travelling for several days
looking for the man of God.
Allah had led them on a spiritual pilgrimage,
for Allah foreknew both the prayer and its answer,
which He was now effecting.
We will call these two muridun (aspirants)
Isha and Ahmad.
They had long heard of the spiritual 'ilm (knowledge)
of the man of God,
though they had never met him personally.
And so they went out like Ibrahim (Abraham),
"who by faith obeyed
when he was called to go out to a place
which he was to receive as an inheritance;
and he went out,
not knowing where he was to go."
Like Ibrahim, the man and wife wanted to seek
the straight path,
the path of the just,
and they sought to do this under the huda (guidance)
of the man of God.
The man and woman wanted to submit their lives to Allah
and find the path of life in His Word,
as it says,
"Make me to go in the path of thy commandments,
for therein do I delight."
However, Isha and Ahmad did not know in which village
the man of God lived,
nor the street location of his dwelling.
But praise be to God
for it says,
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path."
THE MIRACLE OCCURS
On the very night before the miracle happened,
Ahmad and Isha happened to take a room in a hotel
a very short distance from the place
where the man of God dwelt.
On the very morning
when the man of God
was petitioning Allah so earnestly to send more people,
Isha had taken her baby for a walk
and she was going down the street.
She was walking along,
and when she came to the building
where the man of God was on his face
crying out to God
(even though there was no sign on the building
nor any way in the world to know
the man of God was inside)
Isha stopped and asked a lady passer-by
if she knew of any jami' (gathering)
for du'a (free-prayer) in the area.
The lady passer-by happened to be a murid (novice believer) who
belonged to the persecuted flock of God
that met in the dwelling of the man of God.
Not only that,
the women happened,
in the providence of God,
to pass each other
right in front of this very house masjid (place of prayer)!
"The Lord orders the steps of a righteous person"
is the saying.
Many err with their doctrine
knowing neither the Scriptures nor the power of God,
nor the love of God, which passes all understanding.
What Allah foreknows He forewills
"to work together for good for those
who love Allah, who are called according to his purpose,"
who are blessed, because they "are not offended at His Word."
At this exact moment, then,
just as the man of God finished his petition
with the words, "Send us more people, Lord"
--there was a knock on the door!
The man of God had no idea who Isha was.
"Do you know where my husband and I
could find a congegation?" Isha asked.
"Yes," the man of God said, flabbergasted.
"Praise to Him," Isha said,
"because we've been seeking
to find a certain man of God,"
and then she gave his name.
"Do you know where I could find him?"
"I'm he," the man of God said.
"Oh..." Isha was shocked.
So the man of God saw his prayer
answered so suddenly and miraculously.
God had led the woman to the man of God.
Al-Hadi (The Guide) knew where he lived!
For Al-Hadi is Al-'Alim (The All-Knowing).
Right after that the congregation started to grow again,
despite the opposition of the godless.
And both Isha and her husband Ahmad
submitted to the death ghusl
of New Creation Islam in the ocean,
calling on Allah to cleanse their inner being
with "the wudu (washing) of tajaddud (regeneration)
and the renewing of the Eternal Spirit of Allah."
That was nearly ten years ago.
Then the man of God moved to another place.
YEARS LATER ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENS
Would it take a miracle
to show you the difference
between a true Islamic teacher
and a pseudo-Islamic teacher?
Very recently Ahmad called the man of God
long distance on the telephone to tell him
that Isha wanted a divorce.
They had been having marriage problems
and she had turned to a man for help,
a fraud who claimed to be a good murshid (spiritual guide) but
who was in reality
a pseudo-Islamic shaman
trafficking in the realm of spells
and charms and sorcery,
witchcraft, talismans and familiar spirits,
divining, saint worship, and demons,
fortune-telling, incantations and the evil eye.
It says somewhere,
"Acquaint now thyself with Him (God)
and be at peace;
thereby good shall come unto Thee."
But some people want to get more acquainted
with jinn or demons rather than the Word of Allah,
as it says,
"My people perish for lack of knowledge of Thy word,
for they have rejected the knowledge of thy Word."
The haram (forbidden) demon procurer
whom Isha consulted
promised her peace
and even dramatic out-of-the-body psychic experiences;
he claimed to offer her direct access
to "Spiritual Masters" who make their appearance
as "light-being entities."
Such counterfeit guides, as this man, are like
the devils with whom they commune.
They are unclean religious peddlers
disguised as servants of Allah.
There is nothing unexpected about such frauds
if, as it says,
"Shaitan himself goes disguised as an angel of light
seeking whom he may devour."
THE MAN OF GOD DECIDES TO TEACH ISHA AND AHMAD
ABOUT MARRIAGE IN TERMS OF THE KINGDOM
"Blessed be He in whose hands is the Kingdom......" (15)
And blessed indeed are the hands of Him
into whom all the power of the Kingdom
is given: the Word of Allah.
Yet the Kingdom of God
is not in word,
but in power
--not the words of dying men,
nor the might of fleeting worldly power.
Did not the living Word of Allah himself declare,
"My Kingdom is not of this world;
if my Kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight jihad." (16)
The Kingdom of God is in the power of His Word.
And what does His Word say?
The whole story swept through the mind of the man of God...
ALLAH HAS ACTED MIGHTILY TO BRING US TO HIS KINGDOM
From the good beginning
mankind has swerved
from the straight path
of Allah and his Word.
From the first commandment
given beneath the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil
mankind has acted shadily
toward Allah and his Glory.
And what is Allah's Glory
if not the Word of his Power?
And what is his glorious Power
if not the Word of his Presence?
One of your prophets has said rightly:
"The Messiah, Isa, Jesus son of Mary,
was the Messenger of Allah, and his Word
that he bestowed on Mary." (17)
But His Word that He bestowed on Mary
went forth from His mouth
at the creation of the world.
For in the beginning
was the Word
and the Word was with God
and the Word was God. (18)
The Power and the Presence was
Allah's Only Eternal Word;
and everything was made
by the Word,
and without the Word
was nothing made.
Then the Word
came on the scene
as a human being
who is true Man
on the straight path
to the tree of life.
And his disciples beheld his glory,
glory as of the only
personal and eternal Word of Allah,
full of grace and truth. (19)
What blasphemer would breathe the name of Mary here
as one of the "gods in derogation of God"? (20)
Are you so slow in understanding
that you think we believe Allah got married?
What blasphemy!
Who could believe that Allah would take a wife?
Do you think we mean that the Word of Allah
is His Son in that literal sense?
Not at all!
Mary was nothing but a loaner of flesh! (21)
For Allah has neither wife nor mother nor partner
nor did He ever need a human being at all
to be what He has always been--one!
God always existed with His Everlasting Word
and His Everlasting Spirit as tawhid (one).
What blasphemer would assert otherwise?
Would you be so foolish as to say
that Allah once existed without His Eternal and Living Word and
without His Everlasting Spirit?
Would you have Allah at one time mute
and unable to utter a living Word?
Would you have Him at one time Spiritless,
without His Eternal Spirit?
Such blasphemers would do to the imaginary God they worship what
they would not dream of doing to themselves
--namely, cut out all living utterance and life
to be left with a mere speechless, lifeless being.
If only these dreamers would wake up from such nonsense
and shut their mouths to save their souls!
Instead they pride themselves
that their speechless, Spiritless deity has no 'partners'!
When Allah speaks His mind He speaks His Word,
for His Word is the revealed mind of Allah.
And we can have His mind in all things
if we die to our own way of thinking
and come alive to His living Word.
The man of God reflected on Isha and Ahmad
and how they must learn
to think the thoughts of the mind
revealed to us in the sacred pages of the Word.
For it was in His image that we were created
and it is from His glory that we have fallen,
having become futile in our thinking
and darkened in our senseless minds.
But if we are now more like brute beasts
(because of the ignorance that is in us
and the blindness of our hearts),
it is not because He made us so.
For God gave us not an animal mind
but a mind like His,
a rational and a creative mind
capable of communion with Him in Holiness.
OUR RELIGION CLOAKS OUR DARK GUILT
However, our sinful nature has separated us
from our Holy God
and, obeying the voice of the Evil One,
we ourselves have become evil,
though we love to hide our guilt
under the cloak of religion.
But Allah is not mocked.
All things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of Him
with whom we have to do.
He who made the eye,
can He not see?
And even the scoffers know
that we are of our father the devil
if the lusts of our father we do.
Only the Word of God
can speak into our hearts
a new creation nature!
As long as we place our trust
in anything apart from the living Word,
that "anything" becomes our real god
and we become its slaves.
No matter how religiously
we observe religious rules and laws,
that idol "anything" has usurped
the living Word's place in our hearts
and will lead us to corruption.
Now religious do's and don'ts
were the rudimentary guardians
of our spiritual childhood, it is true.
But the time has come
for us to outgrow the tutelage
of mere religious formalism
and to receive the spiritual adoption
of mature heirs.
When the living Word
takes up residence within us,
we receive a filial spirit of obedience;
we become the spiritual people of Ibrahim,
and God becomes our Father.
For God sent his living Word
into our hearts to restore us
in his likeness and for his fellowship,
that we might walk naturally with Him as our Father,
and not hobble like aliens under the cold prod of laws.
THE MAN OF GOD THINKS ABOUT HOW TO SAVE ISHA'S
MARRIAGE
The man of God thought about Isha
and how she must learn to understand God's forgiveness.
It is not that we love God and serve him with such grace
that we can be assured of forgiveness
based on what we have done for God.
No, it is that God loves us and has served us with such grace
that the Judge of sin has taken the whole weight
of our guilt and condemnation upon Himself.
The Word of Allah's eternal Judgment became also
the Word of His eternal Mercy!
But how?
In the person of His Word, Isa al-Masih.
Thus it is that we can be assured of forgiveness,
based on what God has done for us
in giving us a new mind with His Word,
and a tender conscience with His Eternal Spirit.
Allah has always reflected upon Himself with His wisdom,
and His wisdom is His Word. (22)
Isa al-Masih Himself is that Word!
He is the everlasting Word
whose words will stand forever. (23)
The Kitab (Book) of Isa is Genesis to Revelation,
infallibly accurate in its teaching about him,
and Isa is the hidden source and subject of each sura (chapter)
for those who can read with the eyes of the Eternal Spirit.
As a word reveals the hidden mind of a father,
so Allah intended this mind to be in us
that was also in his Word. (24)
But the mirror of our reflection of His holiness
has been shattered,
and the whole human race has distorted itself
in mocking pride and rebellion
against the humble and obedient Word.
As a sin-fallen race
we still possess a vestige of the mirror of conscience.
Like a looking-glass before the mind,
the conscience tells the human race
how good we might have been
had Man not warped himself
in the refractive beams of Man's proud self-love.
Therefore, we are without excuse when we reject
any measure of truth we receive.
Our sin-prone race is like someone
who once was commanded to peer
at his Ideal in a full-length mirror
and then disobediently walked away
and forgot what he looked like.
Isa the Word of Allah is that Ideal.
And the fatherly heart of Allah
out of whom the Word spoke in the beginning
has been stirred to speak again
to the lost family of Adam:
"I reared sons, I brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me."
For the Word became
the One who was to come,
the heavenly Son of Man,
the Bar Nasha (Aramaic for Son of Man). (25)
The prophet Daniel saw him
in the clouds of glory and wrote:
"After this I saw in the night visions
and, behold, one like the Son of Man
came with the clouds of heaven...
and he was given ... a kingdom...
that all people, nations, and languages
should serve him." (26)
The Word that was in the beginning with God,
the Word that was God,
this same Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us,
telling his disciples,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Hereafter you shall see heaven open
and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.,,(27)
For the Word of Allah had come
to speak into a new existence our dying humanity.
And just as Man had gone down to death
in the Garden of Eden
as one conquered by Satan and sin,
so now Man may ascend again to life from the empty Garden tomb
through One who overcame for us,
through One who conquered as our imam (leader),
our representative,
our exemplar,
-a human being who is that
and yet more than human,
sharing in the wholly other quality of God,
the eternal personal Word of Allah,
God the Word from God the Lord,
Light from Light,
Very God from Very God.
Since this is true
-that the Word who is
and was
and is to come,
the Word who is
the express thought of God,
the perfect image of God,
the creative voice of God
-since this very Word
descended so that He might dwell
in our hearts by faith
and make us like Him,
restoring us in the image of His Father
that we might call on His Father as sons,
that we might ascend with Him,
passing beyond the angels
(Do you not know that we shall judge angels?)
-since this is true,
should it not teach us that,
denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live sober,
righteous, and godly lives
in this present world?
Since the Word Himself revealed to us
perfect surrender to Allah and
total submission to His will,
only through Him and His iman (faith),
once for all delivered to the holy ones,
do we know what is possible to man
in the path of obedience to the one true God.
Thus the man of God reflected on the straight path
and on Isha and Ahmad and
on their battle against Shaitan.
ALLAH BOUND UP THE EVIL ONE
The man of God knew that the Kingdom of God
is an ummah, (community) (28)
a house to be entered
by the narrow gate and the narrow door,
But a "strong man" has usurped power in God's House.
Iblis (an evil prince) has held men captive
in the house of God,
and Iblis must have his goods plundered
before men can be set free from his sway.
The power of Iblis is death,
for all men who are tempted and sin
die as punishment.
Sin pays its fearful wage--death.
Death is the fearful wage of all those
whom Shaitan has led to work for him in sin.