The choice in the veil (and the allegory)

THE CHOICE IN THE VEIL (AND THE ALLEGORY)

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Being "Muslim" means you necessarily have the obligation to be subservient to Allah, not to have a choice between doing good and not doing good; if you even merely have the the possibility of a choice, and thus a possibility of a will to not serve, could one consider that you are even serving?

I am not talking about the choice to be muslim and to convert to islam or not to-- for here you do have the choice, between being muslim, and not being muslim. Nonetheless, if you have this choice presented to you, it means you are still not muslim, for if one were totally muslim then, by definition, there wouldn't be any "muslim-ness" to convert to more. This is where we realize that "choice" is the natural quality of the Kaffir, as in on a Kaffir can choose between heaven and hell, being muslim and non-muslim, good and evil, etc.

However, one must not stop here, because we have to understand that a "kaffir" is what "Allah"-- an egoist is what the Creator-- has made by default, meaning we cannot call an egoist inherently good, nor inherently bad, because this depends on perception (in the eyes of the Creator it is perfect; in the eys of the egoist it is interesting; and in the eyes of one who bestows it is evil). Nonetheless, one might ask himself, once he realizes the presence of his evil inclination, "What is the purpose of life"-- or, in other words, "Is there good-- let alone, what is good? And how do I attain it?"

Good does in fact exist-- for without it, there would be no creature, or even any creator-- it is the continuity of the choice that creates the total servance to God; i.e., the attainment of good. Indeed, the quality itself of good, the one mimicking God, is necessarily a choice, because one that is determined, egoist is not yet good-- such as one who is a Kaffir has not yet been converted to Islam, and one who is Muslim has one been a Kaffir. To be good, you have to overcome your egoist nature, by making a choice.

Furthermore, one who serves, i.e., forone who is like the Creator, it is a constant state of choice that he is in (hence he is "afraid of God" for he constantly yields towards God and avoids the evil inclination) -- hence, we say that one who is good, and subsequently happy, is ever-changingally happy, because God (the root he attained and has freely chosen) constantly changes his state.

One might ask "but if he chooses to do good all the time, how is it that he is free? Is he not imprisonned in constant state of choice?"
No, because the choice is in the roots; i.e., in his intention, therefore the choice itself is free and undetermined. It is not arriving through a process of egoist laws; it's arriving as an state above time and space in and of itself.

"And if he chooses to be totally good, and then cannot have a possibility to be "ungood", how is it that he made a choice that is free?"
Once again, the quality of the choice being "free" thus implies that it is in the roots, meaning that he is free because he made the choice for all of his roots and branches to be good-- he decided for his intention to be totally good, and thus not have a change. However, it does not mean that he is in a constant state of ascetism for "the greater good"; if anything, he is in a constant state of hedonism, because good (the quality of the Creator) is what opens the door for Ein Sof; infinity. Egoism is what limits us only to one choice -- the one that is beneficial (and this is why we suffer, because we cannot satisfy all of our desires the more we grow in a state of egoism) -- and egoism is not what serves God; egoism doesn't even exist for one who chose good and realizes that it was an illusion.