Talk:C1.V5.

I prefer the word "realize" here for the concept "عبد". to realize is a bilateral concept in english meaning both [try to] understand and to make a potential happen in reality. realizing Allah means realizing all his attributes that are potential in our nature/consience, like honesty, justice, etc. while the concept "to serve" means to obey without a sufficient cognition. the concept is mostly become dominated because of the dominance a traditional conception of allah as a master out there who must be merely obeyed by us, the servants. this conception would have been easily translated ito our life, serving god = serving his successors on the earth, i.e. the mullas and sultans. عبد in arabic also means the paving [the way](this is a very old and original meaning). paving the way for the realization of all attributs of allah, the essense and the ultimate of life and creation.