Are We Serving Slaves of the World

Anything you take for granted will gradually be taken from you.

Never take anything for granted. For what you have now is what you once would have given everything to have.

Imam Hussain (AS): People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.

Al-Qasas (The Narration) 28:15

وَدَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ عَلَى حِينِ غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا رَجُلَيْنِ يَقْتَتِلَانِ هَذَا مِن شِيعَتِهِ وَهَذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِي مِن شِيعَتِهِ عَلَى الَّذِي مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ فَوَكَزَهُ مُوسَى فَقَضَى عَلَيْهِ قَالَ هَذَا مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّهُ عَدُوٌّ مُّضِلٌّ مُّبِينٌ

And [one day] he entered the city at a time when [most of] its people were [resting in their houses,] unaware of what was going on [in the streets]; and there he encountered two men fighting with one another - one of his own people, and the other of his enemies. And the one who belonged to his own people cried out to him for help against him who was of his enemies - whereupon Moses struck him down with his fist, and [thus] brought about his end. [But then] he said [to himself]: This is of Satanâ's doing! Verily, he is an open foe, leading [man] astray!

Here is an example I’m sure you can relate to on some level. 

Say you really liked someone who doesn’t like you back. 

The focus of your whole being might be on their unwillingness to give you love. 

If their love is the only source of love you see, you won’t see the love that might be coming to you from family, friends, colleagues, and even potential love interests. Because you’re not looking for that love. You’re not seeing it as a source of love. 

So, indirectly, you are blinding yourself to the love around you. 

You might believe you’re not worthy of love, and you’ve supported that belief with evidence from your past, plus evidence from your current situation. 

If that’s the case, your mind is going to search for every piece of evidence that further proves the story you believe about yourself, or what you make something that happened mean about you. 

You might see that story referred to as the ego, which is simply the Latin word for I. 

From the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, your ego is looking for proof that reinforces what you believe about yourself. 

You walk around constantly trying to make everything mean something about you.

Mix soil and water into a thick mud. Add some sand, then mix in the straw, grass or pine needles. Pour the mixture into your molds. Bake bricks in sunshine for five days or so.

For them to see you shine, you must stay far way, for you are like the sun; when you’re too close, your light make them blind. And when you’re too far, they seek you. So let them seek you.

My mentor told me, 'Only if people of Toronto decide to walk on right path, we can change the world'.

Uber and other big corporations have worth more than bank reserves.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building an ark does.

Poisoned Society

http://www.holyquranschool.com/2016/02/poisoned-society.html

Grades of Human Beings

https://mhmb5.blogspot.com/2019/10/grades-of-human-beings.html