Let's show piety before the God who created us Tagiala! “And whoever fears Allah, He will arrange an outcome for him, and will give him food, from where he does not expect” . (at-Talaq, 2-3).
Yes, if you fear Allah properly, He will make it easy for you, and your food will come to you from where you did not suspect. But to fear Allah is not to sit trembling with fear. To be God-fearing means to be active in the fulfillment of His commandments, to move away from what He has forbidden.
Just as our joint prayer today is prescribed for us by Allah Tagiala, He calls us to work in order to earn property to support ourselves and our families. “And when the prayer (collective) is over, then disperse over the earth, and seek the mercy of Allah(start trading)". The same God encourages us to be active in both religious and temporal affairs.
The noble Prophet speaks of the same صلى الله عليه وسلم: “The best food for a man is food earned by his own labor”. After these words, he immediately gave an example: « The Prophet of Allah Daoud (peace be upon him) ate the food that he earned with his own hands». (al-Bukhari).
Moreover, the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم says that there was not a single prophet who did not feed the sheep. He himself also did this work when he lived in Mecca.
All this testifies to the fact that without zeal you cannot achieve good, without having worked, you will not regale yourself, without taking a step, no one will separate you your share of food.
“Indeed, it is better for any of you to take a rope and go to the mountains, bring a bundle of firewood on your own back.and sell it, and thus Allah will preserve his honor, than begging for alms, which may or may not be given., said our noble Prophet (al-Bukhari).
In the past, people worked hard, tirelessly. Despite this, the earnings of many of them allowed them to barely make ends meet. But they remained satisfied with their position, there were few complaints and more mutual love.
Nowadays, it has become possible to feed a family without making such hard efforts, moreover, it is possible to purchase various household items. It became possible to fulfill many desires. And the person, in fact, should have been more grateful for this state of affairs, be happier.
However, in reality, the more a person has, the higher his demands become - he longs to get even more, it seems to him that his property is insignificant, and his complaints about this do not subside.
This is confirmed by the words of our venerable Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم : “I am afraid for you not of poverty, but of the fact that you, like those who were before you, will freely enjoy the benefits of the world, and this will become a reason for conflicts between you and the cause of your death”. ( el-Bukhariy, Muslim).
But be that as it may, under any circumstances, a Muslim must remain extremely vigilant: do not sit idly by, but even if you are deeply immersed in work, do not forget to trust in God; be grateful for what you have, and when failure happens, remain content with your position!
You wake up on a peaceful morning in good health, and in the house you have food for your family for that day - this means that you do not lack anything. It's like giving you the whole world. This is stated in an authentic hadith. (Tirmiziy).
“Man's wealth is not in the abundance of worldly goods. True wealth is the wealth of the soul » , -says the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم . (Bukhari, Muslim).
A person rich in heart lives freely, breathes freely, does not envy other people's wealth and does not worry. Allah Himself loves such a person and people treat him with love.
O Allah, teach us to be content with what we have! Let there be no anxiety in our hearts due to the lack of some blessings! Give us the wisdom to look up to those who are better than us in matters of religion and worthily thank You, looking at those who are poorer than us in worldly life!
Once I got into the car, switched on the gear and poked into the concrete vat, that is, excuse me, the future flower bed, which the city landscapers erected for beauty right in the middle of the yard.
Replacing the tie rod, - said the mechanic, listening to the scream coming from under the hood.
All business for an hour.
A good guy, - the director of the car service sighed, - a mechanic from God. Golden hands. It's a pity, so all his life he will dig into other people's cars.
Drinking? I guessed.
Worse. You can stop drinking. And this is just fine. Doesn't want to grow.
I do not want, - confirmed the mechanic from God.
Sit, girl, here, now we'll do everything. He worked, humming a song about high-altitude fitters and occasionally referring to the car as "poor wounded girl" and "well, well, my beauty."
When everything was ready, the mechanic wiped his hands with a rag and said:
Come on, my dear, go to the mistress. You really try not to offend her anymore.
When you open your service, mind you, I'm your first client, - I joked, wanting to please the master.
What the fuck is my service? - the master was amazed.
Well, how about. If you were the boss, you would work for yourself ... You would have succeeded.
Probably, - the master shrugged.
But I don't need it. I'm fine as it is.
Does this suit your girlfriend too? I asked cheekily.
And this is a business. I do not care.
Doesn't want to grow up, I remembered. Everything suits him. What a pity ... Stop. You're a good cook, maybe you want to open a restaurant someday?
You write well, are you thinking of writing a book? You have good fitness data, how do you intend to develop it? I hear this quite often. And most of the time people say it sincerely.
Well, except for a fitness guy who wants to sell me a bucket of supplements and a truckload of sports nutrition. Yes, we all hear this: you can achieve everything, you can achieve any goals, you will realize any of your dreams. A book, a restaurant, a Bikini Fitness competition at forty - nothing is impossible! Uh-uh, you say timidly, I don't need any of this.
I just bake pies, tell stories, and grow geraniums on my balcony.
But you can do more! You can make a career! Jump to the next level! You just do not believe in yourself, you just need to stop being afraid. Yes, I'm not afraid. I just don't want to go to another level - I'm not bad here. I love my life, my geraniums and my pies. There is no such law that everyone aspires to the heights. And what are these peaks anyway?
Who erected them and why do I absolutely need to climb them? Well really, why? It's not even a question of the price I will inevitably pay for social mountaineering. This is a question of common sense: why should I climb somewhere if I feel good where I am? The worst sin of modern society is to be satisfied with what you have. Lack of ambition and ambition is considered something like a social disability: how is it not to strive for more? Get the most out of your appearance. Realize your potential. Do you know anything special?
Go to motivation courses, try everything, find it, invent it, in the end, and then implement it anyway. Go ahead, overcome yourself, set goals for yourself and achieve them. Why do you still live in a small apartment on the outskirts and wear five-year-old sneakers? At your age, it's time to earn money for an expensive car, diamonds and Chanel! Didn't work? Are you focused on something else? On personal growth? For charity? On creativity? Not? So you are a stupid lazy cow with an empty, aimless life. You will never succeed.
No, of course, success is not necessarily money, power and fame. Anything can be a success if you work hard to be the best in your field. Okay, one of the best. Well, at least you're aiming for it. The main thing is not victory, the main thing is participation in the race up the social and professional ladder. You run - it means you are successful. If you try to achieve, then you are a person. I don't want to run. I don't want to achieve anything.
I want to pick strawberries, make jam and darn socks. I have no need for self-realization through a career, my ego is quite satisfied with a well-risen dough and successful pies. Yes, there are people who are trying to change the world.
They have dreams, ambitions, they are ambitious, they fall and rise, and they are the heroes of our time. Actually, they are heroes of all times. And there are others who just live.
Every day they go to work, go on vacation, fry kebabs in the country. They raise children. They buy cars on credit. And they have the audacity to be satisfied with their lives, which, in the paradigm of our society, seems to be not life at all, but just vegetation. No purpose, no motivation. Without a dream Loading... No, dear heroes. These people have everything. Go to the sea, pay off the mortgage, knit a sweater - why not? To be healthy and prosperous for those you love - why not a dream?
Why is it so hard to believe that someone doesn't need diamonds? That someone can be happy with their little apartment on the outskirts? What is enough for someone to be happy in that small, poor world in which he lives? You don't have to be the best to be happy. Sometimes just being is enough.
And who said that the gift of accepting this world and this life as it is deserves less respect than the gift of moving mountains and launching rockets? He just doesn't want to grow up, the auto repair director said of the guy who sang to my car.
And in my opinion, he just grew up - enough to honestly say: I will not run, just because everyone ran. I won't fix what isn't broken. I am happy here and now, and if someone thinks that this is wrong, well, this is the master's business. I do not care…
Friends, support our group on Facebook. Share this post with your friends or click the "Like" button! and you will always be aware of the latest posts of "Caprizulka"!
For you, we collect the best materials from all over the Internet from the world of beautiful, energetic, cheerful and healthy people - like you and me!
Let's talk about our desires. Is desire itself a sin? No. We can desire something strongly and still not sin. For example, wanting to do the will of God. Is it bad? “I desire to do Your will, my God, and Your law is in my heart”(Ps. 39:9) . But desire, or more precisely, the object of desire, may be chosen incorrectly.
To desire what belongs to another, while experiencing a strong feeling of annoyance, is called envy. It is not just a desire to have something, but a desire to have it just because the other has it. This is already a sin. Envy is something that can never be satisfied. You can be very rich, but want what the poor have. Remember the parable that the prophet Nathan told David about a rich man who spared his sheep for a stranger and took a sheep from a poor man (2 Sam. 12:1-4). Or another story about King Ahab, who, being rich, wanted a vineyard that belonged to another person, and because of this he went to murder (1 Kings 21).
The desire to have wealth is not a sin. It is bad when a person thinks that happiness and joy lie in earthly wealth. Jesus warns his listeners: “At the same time, he said to them: look, beware of covetousness, for the life of a person does not depend on the abundance of his estate”(Luke 12:15). The writer to the Hebrews warns: “Have a non-money-loving disposition, being content with what you have. For I myself said: I will not leave you, I will not forsake you.”(13:5). Envy is a matter of the flesh. We cannot deal with the flesh in our own strength, but God will help us deal with the flesh. “For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body then you will be alive"(Rom. 8:13). Without the Holy Spirit, the flesh cannot be dealt with. If only the Spirit of God lives in you. Pray and ask God for help from the temptation of envy. “Likewise, the Spirit strengthens us in our weaknesses; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings inexpressible.”(Rom. 8:26). Humble yourself and the Lord will strengthen you. "God! You hear the desires of the humble; strengthen their heart; open your ear"(Ps. 9:38) .
It happens that a sincere desire to help a neighbor turns into sadness and pain for the one they want to help. An example can be seen in the book of Job. Three friends of Job, Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar (old men in age) sincerely wanted to help Job. They told him the right words about the punishment for sins. About what should turn to God, repent and God will bandage the wounds of Job. Good, right words, a sincere desire to help, console. But the cause of Job's suffering is not his sins. In the eyes of God, Job was a blameless, righteous man. “And the Lord said to Satan: Have you turned your attention to my servant Job? for there is no one like him on earth: a man blameless, just, God-fearing and moving away from evil "(Job 1:8).
God tested Job's faithfulness, this is the reason for his (Job's) suffering. Friends, with their "correct" advice, only increased Job's suffering. “Are you inventing speeches for reproof? Let your words go to the wind. You attack an orphan and dig a hole for your friend. But I beg you, look at me; will I speak lies before you?”(Job 6:26-28).
For all our actions, for all our words, we will give an answer to God. Are we giving advice wisely or are we stupid? And from stupidity at hand to sin: "The thought of stupidity is a sin..."(Prov. 24:9). So, not every desire is a sin. Our problems begin when we do not control our desires, but our desires control us. "Contemplate the path for your foot, and let all your paths be firm"(Prov. 4:26).
Igor Olefira
° Immoderate appropriation and consumption of material magic harms the improvement of the soul.
Gluttony, greed, money-grubbing are manifestations of the lower nature, the development of which leads to the loss of the soul. Luxury is a disgrace created by indefatigable selfishness and self-indulgence. A person tries to fill the spiritual emptiness with earthly riches and pleasures, striving for external joys.
° Try not to burden yourself with useless, unnecessary things.
To be able to distinguish things necessary (things that support life and tools) from things that are not important for human life. Anything in excess becomes redundant.
In life there are things that are necessary, it is difficult to do without them, and things that are constantly needed. And there are superfluous things that a person can easily do without and live without noticing them.
á Compare bread, candy, chewing gum, knife, saucer, coffee cup; paper, toy, pencil sharpener; bed and carpet; apartment and garage.
° You have to be happy with what you have.
Being content with a little is better than chasing a lot. Increased demands do not lead to good, they push for actions in the name of selfish desires, and the counter resistance of the environment excessively develops and tempers the negative properties and traits of a person. Know how to restrain yourself, not engage in self-indulgence. People very often want to think about what they don't have. It seems to them that something is missing, they cannot calm down from this, they always want some new thing or toy that they saw. Learn to appreciate what you have now and think less about what you don't have. If you think that you do not have much, then it is useful to remember how homeless children live in basements, in cold and hunger. Then you will understand who really feels bad, and distinguish the real need from the apparent one.
°† A certain lack must be accepted as a blessing to one's soul. Lack of knowledge and intelligence is worse than lack of money.
obesity of the heart
Alina had not just a lot of toys, but too many. Well, just a huge amount. Toys were scattered all over the huge room. They lay under the bed, cupboards were filled with them and drawers in the table were clogged. Even new toys, in order not to trip over them, had to be dumped anywhere and stuffed in different corners. In general, everywhere you look, toys stick out from everywhere. No matter which door you open, something will fall out.
Do you think that Alina was the most joyful and happy in the world? You are wrong. She often went in a bad mood. She wanted more and more toys, she could beg and demand them for hours, now capricious, now crying, now offended, now angry.
If someone could look into Alina's soul, he would immediately see what a great misfortune happened in her heart. Because of gluttony and greed, her heart became fat and greatly suffocated her heart's joy. Because of this, Alina could no longer rejoice with all her heart and feel real joy within herself. She could only rejoice with her mind, receiving joy only from new toys and entertainment. But the joy of the mind was very different and short. Toys amused and pleased for a short time. As soon as such joy passed, Alina again felt longing inside herself, in her heart, and plunged into a joyless mood. So she had to, not having joy inside herself, all the time to look for it in toys and entertainment.
Doctors have not yet found a cure for heart obesity, and is it possible to cure insatiability with pills. They only advise to have more joy in yourself and not depend on things and entertainment. Joy gives pleasure to true beauty. A person who feels beauty and strives to admire it will never have a fat heart.
[? ] - Have you noticed the difference between heartfelt joy (for example, when helping someone in need) and mental joy (when receiving something)?
How long do you usually enjoy a new toy?
When do people seek joy for their minds? (When they stop and do not know how to rejoice with their hearts).
- What do you think the cure for "fatty heart" should consist of? (See directions of the conversation).
And for some it's not enough
Animals are always content with only what is important and necessary for them to live. They carry a warm skin with them, they have only one hole from the rain, and they get exactly as much food as they need for strength and health. But among the animal world, sometimes there are those who like to collect and hoard useless things or extra food. The story will go about them now, and you will find out what love for the unnecessary, the passion for hoarding the superfluous and the desire to have more can lead to.
A white shark swam in the blue sea. She, like all her relatives, was very fond of beautiful, but absolutely unnecessary and useless objects for her. But the Shark had nowhere to hide these items, because she had neither a house nor a fur coat with pockets. And then one day a clever idea came to her mind about swallowing everything she liked into her big stomach. You can’t imagine better, because you can hardly find a safer place than your own stomach. From that moment on, Shark began to collect everything that she considered beautiful. Either he will swallow a floating bottle with a shiny label, then he will bite off a float he likes from a fishing net as a keepsake, or he will bite off a piece of an oar. But once she was very lucky. The wind drove a large children's rubber ball from somewhere far away. It was real luck. It is difficult to find something more beautiful and interesting in the sea. Shark was frightened that someone else would get the ball and quickly decided to hide it in her stomach. As soon as she swallowed the ball, she suddenly felt that someone was pulling her up all the time. As soon as the shark goes down to the bottom, it immediately begins to emerge, as if someone had caught it on a bait. The Shark could not understand what was the matter, only soon she completely lost her strength and floated to the surface of the sea. She swam on the surface of the sea until the fishermen saw her fin sticking out above the water. Two days later, Shark ended up in a fish store, and the fishermen gave the ball that was taken out of her stomach to their children.
Magpies love all sorts of completely unnecessary things. One such Magpie adored everything shiny and therefore collected in her nest a whole bunch of glass, coins, bottle caps. Magpie's nest also had an earring with a red pebble, and shiny buttons and colorful candy wrappers. In general, Soroka collected a lot of unnecessary junk and useless little things and began to worry about her good and protect it from her envious thief neighbors. Magpies have no quiet life because of the collected wealth. All the birds flutter and fly merrily in the sky, wherever they please, and the Magpie is circling around the nest, guarding its little things, and looking after new ones. Soon so many things have accumulated in the Magpie that it is about to start falling out over the edge of the nest. Soroka thought and decided to complete her nest: make the edges of the nest twice as high. Magpie began to carry sticks and complete the nest. But the branches could not bear such weight. They bent, cracked, and the Magpie, together with its unfinished nest, flopped into the mud. The Magpie had no jewels, no nest, everything sank in a deep dirty puddle. How much time Magpie lost in vain, how much she worried about her trinkets and stuck out near the nest, and in the end she was left with nothing. It would be better to fly like everyone else, travel and enjoy life.
And here is another story. The hamster lived next to the man, and every day, all year round, he fed plenty in the man's barn, because the grain there was visibly invisible. And everything would be fine, but one day a misfortune happened to him. Somehow, the Hamster decided to make a supply of food in his hole, so that the grain would be considered his personal, and at the same time, so that his neighbors, the Field Mice, could boast and impress them with his wealth. The hamster crawled through the narrow gap in the corner as usual into the barn and began to gnaw on the grain. At first he ate on his own, and then, due to the lack of pockets in his skin, he began to stuff the grain by both cheeks in order to transfer it to his hole. As soon as the Hamster stuffed in the last grain and went back to the crack in the corner, when suddenly on the way he met the Cat, which sometimes came to guard the barn. The Hamster began to run away from the Cat, ran to the crack in the corner, but he could not squeeze through it, his cheeks were swollen painfully. While the Hamster was spitting out grain, he ended up in the Cat's claws. All his life he could have lived in clover, feeding in the barn, but his gluttony and the desire to have more and superfluous let him down.
In autumn, a young Hedgehog settled near a wild apple tree. He chose a secluded hole for himself and decided to spend the winter in it. To sleep softer and warmer all winter, he dragged dry leaves, fluffy moss into his hole and made a cozy place to sleep. Soon delicious apples began to fall from the apple tree, and the delighted Hedgehog began to drag them into the hole on his needles. Very quickly, the hole was filled with apples to the very top, so that even the Hedgehog himself had no room left in it. Then the Hedgehog decided to live until winter, while it was still warm and there was no snow, in a pile of dry leaves, because during this time he would eat some of the apples and free up space in the hole. And so he did. He himself began to spend the night in the leaves and eat the collected apples every day. But the closer to winter, the more unpleasant smell from the hole goes. It turned out that the lower apples in the hole had deteriorated, rotted and turned into a smelly red gruel. Already winter is on the nose, and the Hedgehog has neither a soft bed nor a warm hole left. And so the Hedgehog, because of his excessive love for apples, had to spend the winter under the snow, in a pile of dry leaves.
The stories you have just heard are far from the only ones. Sometimes, in some other animals, a passion for hoarding and a desire to have something superfluous and unnecessary also awakens. But none of the animals can even come close to compare with people who are so in love with things that they serve them, work hard for them and even carefully create beautiful houses for them. Yes, yes, because bags, pockets, drawers, cabinets and even huge warehouses - all this was invented by people for their most beloved, main and important things in the world.
[? ] - Love for what things let Shark and Magpie down? (To the unnecessary and useless)
- Why did the right food let Hamster and the Hedgehog down? (We wanted more and more than was required to sustain life).
- Which love is more sublime: for things or for people and for everything in nature?
– Would you like your parents to love some things more than you?
Whose love is fuller and stronger: that of the one who loves entirely only another person, or that of the one who loves both a person and things at the same time?
– Would you like mom to share her love between you and some thing?
- If it is ugly to love things, then how should one treat the necessary things? (Calmly, indifferently).
– What did people come up with for the safety of their favorite things, and how do they serve them? (wash, clean, repair, etc.).
contentment
After Moses left Egypt, he enjoyed living with Raguel:
21 Moses liked to live with this man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
(Ex 2:21).
« Liked"is the translation of the Hebrew word ya'al with the meaning "to be pleased with (something)".
Moses heard something and approved:
20 And Moses heard and approved.
(Lev 10:20).
« Approved" in this text is a translation of the Hebrew word ayin, which means "eye" and, by analogy, eyebrows, face, facial expression. The meaning of Leviticus 10:20 is that Moses raised his eyebrows in approval of what was being said.
A jealous person will not be satisfied even with many gifts:
34 For jealousy is the wrath of a man, and he will not spare on the day of vengeance,
35 will not accept any ransom and will not be satisfied, no matter how much you multiply gifts.
(Proverbs 6:34-35).
« Satisfied' in this verse is the translation of the Hebrew word abah, which literally means "to yearn (for someone - or something)"; “hope”, and figuratively - “wish”, “agree”.
It is very difficult to please a jealous person with gifts or actions to overcome his jealousy. In the New Testament, Paul often spoke of the need to be content and satisfied. About himself, he said that he had learned to be content in any state or position:
11 I say this not because I am in need, for I have learned to be content with what I have.
12 I know how to live in poverty, I know how to live in abundance; I learned in everything and in everything, to be satisfied and endure hunger, to be both in abundance and in lack.
(Phil 4:11-12).
« Satisfied" is the translation of the Greek word autarkes(autos - "self"; arkeo - "satisfied"; "sufficient"). This word can be defined as "self-sufficient"; "sufficient in itself."
This does not mean that Paul was self-sufficient without Christ and God. The context of this passage clearly illustrates Paul's next thought. He did not worry about life's circumstances, because he was with the Lord. He could do anything in Christ:
13 I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.
(Phil 4:13).
No matter what obstacles stood in the way of Paul, he did not worry, but showed contentment and satisfaction! The same root word is used in 1 Timothy 6:6, where Paul said, “It is a great gain to be godly and contented (autarkeia).”
When a person has godliness, that is, lives in accordance with the commandments of God, he can not depend on circumstances. He can not worry about what is happening in the world around him, because he relies on God!
8 If we have food and clothing, let us be content.
(1 Tim 6:8).
