What is in our heart: creation or creator.
Writer: Malik kumail
We love the blessings that beautify our lives .we love our parents, children's, health, we love our friends. We love all our gifts. But what happens when a gift becomes more than a gift? what happens when a want becomes a need .a favor becomes a dependency. Actually, a gift is something that didn't come from us .we are not the original owners of a gift .we love to receive gifts __but they are not necessary to our existence .we don't depend on them .but the matter is that, yet, the gift is still not where we place our dependencies, nor do we die without them.
We can hold something in two. places :in our hands or in our heart. Where do we hold a gift ?A gift is not held in our heart .It is held in our hands .But our problems begin when we put the gift in our heart ,and god in our hand .ironically we believe that we can live without God but if we were to. Lose a gift, we crumble and can't go on.
As a result we can easily put God aside ,but our heart cannot live without the gift.in fact, we can even put God aside for the sake of the gift. This happens because the gift is in our heart ,while Allah is in our hand And what is in the hand can be put aside easily. What is in the heart, we cannot live without.
So we need to ask ourselves what it is that we really worship: the gift or giver? the creation or creator.
We all have needs and wants .our suffering begins when we turn our wants to needs, and our one true need(God)into a commodity we think we can do without .our true suffering begins when we confuse our means and end. God is only the med .Every others things are the means.so we will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the end and get lost in the means.
Gifts will be means to bring you closer to God __as long as they remains a means ,not an end .Gods' gift will remains a means to him, so long as they are held in hand ,not the heart, Remember that whatever in the heart controls you.it becomes what you strive for and are willing to sacrifice anything to have and to keep. It becomes what you depend on at a fundamental level. It therefore ,be something eternal, that never tires, and never breaks. It must, therefore be something that never leaves. Only one thing IA like that: The Creator.
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