Bismillah,
How many of us feel like religion is sacred? How many of us feel like we're not good enough?
Some of you reading this are thinking how stupid that sounds. "Oh, what a petty excuse!", you might be thinking, right?
Well, for one, I don't believe in calling peoples emotions and thoughts and feelings stupid or acting as if they are less then. And secondly if this is the way people feel, it needs to addressed - with a solution, not a complaint.
Think about it - Allah is perfect to the point that no imperfection can come near to Him. And He is the one who tells us to pray and fast and wear Hijab, right? So these things are pretty important. They are definitely sacred.
And me, you - well we're just not so sacred. We sometimes do bad things, say bad things, think bad things. If you think about it, some people would say we're just bad people... right?
But lets think about it ----
When you have a headache - what do you do?
Do you dump all of your Tylenol and Motrin down the toilet and run into a room full of screaming children?
I mean, I guess its possible that some person or another might do that... but any person with even an ounce of common sense would not do that. They would avoid the noise to the best of their abilities and probably take a Tylenol or two, right?
Do you see where I'm going with all of this?
If you have an illness - you seek to fix it... You take the medicine. You take the prescriptions given to you.
Well same with life, same with our spiritual/religious ills. When we are feeling lost, when we're feeling low, when we feel like we're losing touch with Allah - these are all sicknesses. And we have prescriptions, to heal us.
Don't turn away from Allah during your times of hardship, but rather turn to Allah. Allah gave us prayer as our medicine. Allah gave us fasting as our medicine. Allah gave us the Qur'an as our medicine. Allah gave us our hijab as our medicine. Take the medicine Allah has given to you - don't flush it down the toilet.
Salaam Wa Rahmah
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