Iman And Aiming Mental Peace
@Irfan76 sir there’s a thought I want to share. when it is said Iman is to understand something to be true. So Islamic Iman is to have those thoughts/understandings in mind i.e Allah is God (all the attributes of him), His Sunnan, His angels and books (and their respective details). So this understanding in mind is what we call Iman. Now it is human nature that whenever someone talks to us, we show by different actions to them (nodding, saying ‘yes I understand) that whatever they are saying, we are listening and understanding that thing . so that they feel respected, they feel feel satisfied and happy that they are listened/understood. we do this often aiming their pleasure by making them realize that we are listening to them, and understanding them. we do that in both worldly conversation and religious conversation too. My question is that, sometimes a colleague or an elder when they are talking about some concept of Iman. In an example… an elder is explaining to Arif. “Allah is the Lord of worlds, He created you and me. you understand?” and Arif spontaneously replies “yes yes I understand”. Here what Arif had aimed by saying yes was that, he wanted the elder to think that yes he understands in his mind this thing (that Allah is Lord etc). so that when his elder would know that he understands/beliefs this thing to be true, then the elder would feel satisfied and then he’ll move on forward in conversation. Here sir didn’t he use the notion of his İman (his understanding that Allah really is true Lord), as a means to make his elder satisfied and then move on to next conversation? because after his uncle asked “do you understand? (do you have the thought in your mind that this thing is true?)”, now until his uncle doesn’t receive an affirmative answer, he won’t feel satisfied and won’t continue conversation forward. So for both of these things to happen, Arif said yes yes. so that his elder would think that he understands this (ie has Iman about this). and then both these aims would happen, satisfaction of uncle and he moving forward… can you explain me is it wrong? as here his Iman is being made a source to achieve these two worldly things.