It is truly pleasant to know and realize the degree of truth that is communicated in revelation. God says in the Holy Quran after Adam and Eve fell into the temptations of the devil (and ate from the forbidden tree):
"And God said, "Get ye all down hence, the one of you a foe unto the other. Hereafter shall guidance come unto you from me; And whoso followeth my guidance shall not err, and shall not be wretched: But whoso turneth away from my monition, his truly shall be a life of misery: And We will assemble him with others on the day of Resurrection, blind."
Source: The Holy Quran - Ta.Ha. 20:123-124, translated by John Medows Rodwell
The words used are few but the message is clear: Bless, care cand tranquility should you enjoy as long as you follow the Lord's guidance.
Let us move now to my recent observations:
It is Ramadan these days. Muslims fast from day break to sun set. We don eat or drink. There is something special about this month. Abstaining from food and drink strengthens the spirit, We follow the orders of God, so "you may reverence me" as He puts it in chapter number 2 of the Holy Quran.
Being a believer and doing that which God asks us to do (and abstaining from doing the things God dislikes), surely grants the heart a sense of inner peace that cannot be matched by any other mean. You simply walk upon the earth with a humble, light and pleasant inner peace. You know and feel God's care. You are attached deeply to the originator of all this existence. Then, Satan manages somehow to derive you off the straight line. I was waiting at the hairdresser for my turn. Grabbed a newspaper and started reading through it. Media at my society is conservative, but unfortunately the publishers are not particularly God reverent. People are preparing for the Ramadan and the photographer took the way to the market at a large city in this country. We can see people in the market. Among them, there is a woman. She covers her hair but her clothes detail her body. In a moment of weakness I stared at her in the image. I regretted that much. Surely for disobeying God but equally because that look a casted over her robbed the Godly sense of tranquility I was experiencing, I simply got distracted. My heart beat faster and I sensed an unease at the bottom of my heart. Happily Prophet Muhammad said one time something like: "The believer is the one who his single good doing pleases him, and whom his single wrong doing (makes him sad))"
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