66 Preface ۞ قُل إِنّي نُهيتُ أَن أَعبُدَ الَّذينَ تَدعونَ مِن دونِ اللَّهِ لَمّا جاءَنِيَ البَيِّناتُ مِن رَبّي وَأُمِرتُ أَن أُسلِمَ لِرَبِّ العالَمينَYusuf AliSay: “I have been forbidden1 to invoke those whom ye invoke besides God,- seeing that the Clear Sings have come to me from my Lord; and I have been commanded to bow (in Islam) to the Lord of the Worlds.”All objects of worship besides God are mere delusions. To anyone who sees this clearly, through God’s Self-revelations, the only possible course is to give up everything else, which his own inner experience as well as outer Revelation tell him is false or of a temporary nature, and to bring his own will and actions into complete unison with God’s Will: for that is the meaning of Islam, bowing to the Will of God. When we bow to the Real and Everlasting, we are automatically saved from falling victims to the False and Evanescent. (R).