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We should abandon ingratitude and be happy with Allah's system

We should thank Allah Almighty in every situation

By Afzal OthiPublished 11 months ago 14 min read

Let me tell you that in the world of block, people certainly know a lot about this new window we have opened, both in terms of literature and in terms of education, but very few people have been in such a situation that they have directly contacted the Babas and asked them something and gained knowledge. The people of the province have done such things, but this did not happen at our level. But one painful thing is that we, who kept going to them, could not fully satisfy them because I often fought with my Baba. Some of the assistance we received was in such a way that it hindered my worldly life. And even so, for 10 months, I never appeared in his service or went to ask him anything. There were big problems. Then the thing was that his way of thinking and his attitude towards life were completely different from our thinking and our jealousy, and it was very difficult to control him. Once, as we often complain about, people of Shaq sat in a tent there. They were complaining that look how painful Allah's system is that one person of great status rides around in a high-class car and another cannot even walk. A girl came there. She was married for a year but then she got divorced and her husband left her. There was another woman. She had boils on her, which we call boils, very big boils. And I used to ask them to do some treatment for her, but they would say, "Wait a minute, let's see." A day has passed, two days have passed. It was painful that no attention was being paid to it.

And there were many other things that we complain about all the time in our lives, days, months, weeks. He would also go there and ask, "Why is this happening? Why does Allah do this?" The only answer we got was his smile. But we wanted to be told specifically how Allah is kind to us. So they said, "Look, the thing that is extremely necessary for living, without which we cannot live." The vehicle of life cannot move forward and its fabric cannot be made. Allah has given it to all people, black, yellow, blue, white, fat, thin. The most important thing is oxygen. If for some reason a person has to go and get oxygen from the doctor's shop and every person wakes up in the morning and picks up their canisters, even for their three children, then the father who is at home will keep crying that we didn't ask the old man, we forgot my canister at home, so go and bring the morning canister and then give it to the people. Or we have such pumps installed here, like petrol pumps. If you go there and get your oxygen, life would have become a torment. But Allah has made such an arrangement that even if everyone doesn't want it, he keeps getting oxygen. If you take the pleasure above your head and drag your head inside it and make these efforts, then at once your reaction will be that you will pick it up and secretly take it to that circle where you can get oxygen, then it is free. It is a high-cost thing and the most valuable thing. There is nothing more valuable than it.

Then the second precious thing is water. Allah Almighty has arranged for water in such a way that a third of the planet Earth is covered with water. Clouds come and rain falls. Everyone gets this blessing easily without any cost and without spending any money. Every person benefits from it. And I think there is no person on this loan who has ever said that he is not familiar with the taste of water because it is a very expensive thing and only rich people can drink water. We cannot drink it. We have to bring it from far away. We have to bring it from near. We have to bring it with difficulty. The water that is there enters our lives in this way. Ladies and gentlemen, the bread that is there is also not that expensive. It is also easily available to an ordinary person. And really, no person can say that I have not tasted bread till today. What is its smell like? All these are injustices that have been done to the new human being. Other animals do not say anything to their own species against other animals. But man is such that he does not want a human being to taste it. If someone who is my brother, neighbor or relative benefits and he also enters the same state that I enter, then we think that if we consider this matter and look at it closely and we complain, we often become angry that why did Allah do this to us, then it will turn out that it is the human being who has behaved in this way towards us. The only thing left is the disease.

For example, every woman who comes to me was suffering from a strange and strange disease and I used to complain to Babaji that it has been three days and we did not know when to start treating her. He would say, wait, son, when I am in charge of her condition, I do not understand what the disease is, only then will I be able to treat it. I did not understand how a person becomes the owner of a disease. After four days, blisters started forming on his arm and his arm was almost swollen. Then he said, well, take it out and apply this ointment and see. Now they know what speech is like, what kind of pain it is and I am going through it, then I will apply it, my medicine, then I will know what is going on with it, what is the cause of the pain. So, well, his treatment started and we were happy that his condition started getting better, but he did not reduce the passion of our complaint, but the nature of the complaint and its volume did not decrease and he said the same and other such things because we were educated people and in those days, the phrase of Netshey was common in the language that God is a chat netshey. He has said that we also used to say such things that PM Half People, we used to translate it and tell them, they never took offense to it, but they definitely said one painful thing which made us angry with them and that relationship ended and I now regret why there was such a gap of 10 months. He said many times that those who live a life of poverty and regret and the previous group We live among humans and you and you know that many of their responsibilities fall on you. He asked me if I had any poor relatives. I said yes. They asked where they were. I said yes. It is an area in Lahore. We call it Misri Shah. You go there by crossing the two Maurya bridges.

Since we are people of status, we have never met them. Since they were our poor relatives, they used to come to us out of compulsion to greet us on Eid. Very close ones, that is, my maternal uncle's son and the entire family of my distant aunt, we do not go to meet them because we consider them bad. We do not have time and our busyness is such that we cannot spend all that time with them. So they said, "Look, the thing is that the salary you get is not all yours because your poor relatives or your poor colleagues or your prosperous neighbors are not as worthy as you are. Therefore, this responsibility falls on you. You are an intelligent person. You are an intellectual. You are a famous and respected person. You are the best of the best. And Allah also knows that you are more likeable and intelligent than them. Therefore, considering them less intelligent, their share of the money is given to you. Since they are poor and do not know how it happens, then yours is yours. How much is my salary at that time? My salary was nine thousand rupees, which they said was absolutely right. If it is seven thousand, then yours is two thousand. May Allah give you more every month.

You are a wise, worthy, honest, and sensible person. Your relatives who live on this side of the Maurya River are not so worthy. So, this two thousand of their money was given to you. Please give it to them. This was very painful. In those days, I had written to my Central Government and Ministry of Education that my salary has been under-calculated. It should be increased by ten thousand. My boss assured me that your claim is correct and we have sent it. It is stuck in the Ministry of Finance. They raise such objections there, but it will be given to me. I was a respectable person and thought that I was robbed. I was beaten. My salary is so low that it should be increased. My father was telling me that. He was so proud and boasted that out of the nine thousand rupees he was getting, seven thousand belonged to him and two thousand belonged to those foolish people who cannot manage the money. Since you are managing it, give it to them. Now tell me, sir, this is a matter of common sense. It is a painful matter. And I said, Sir, Assalamu Alaikum, I am not ready to come to this place. You are a fool. The rest of the people are right. You are inciting people towards monasticism. People often say, "Narji, this is monasticism and run away from here." People should not have been inciting people towards monasticism. What is this? You have started a reverse process. So, that gap came in my life. I wanted to mention it today.

In your service, it was quite painful. And I could not achieve many things that could have been achieved within this unseen, within this space, within this vacuum. Therefore, the words of these people, which are found in books or other means of communication, are now being grateful. There were some people who used to come to us and who knew the art of being grateful. Now the art of being grateful is a very difficult art. Our granddaughters, granddaughters, girls, especially, used to have a big fight. These girls have come up with a great idiom for "Wai Me".

Why is this happening to me? I am such a strong girl and such a great writer. I have done MA English and I have taken first vision. I have done second vision. So please tell me why this happened to me. What did I do? She said, "I have a pimple on my nose." I said, "Oh, it's all coming out." She said, "No, look, I have such a beautiful nose and a nice face." I said, "If it has come, it will go away." What's the point of being scared? She said, "This doesn't happen to other people. Why is this happening to me?" She said, "This is not the journey of gratitude that is taught. It is either something we study or something that enters our lives. It is not intentional. It is because of our environment, because of our surroundings, because of our training. But I have seen some people like this. They may not be physically ugly in their lives, but then there is a color of peace and tranquility on their faces. How do they achieve this? Let's take this as a very difficult task which I could not manage in my life. Once, many years ago, when we opened a radio station in Gilgit, since I was one of the old people, I went there and selected a place and it was a nice open garden. You will see if you go there sometime. We were accommodated in two rooms. We had to face some difficulties to run a small station there. We found a person there for a temporary employee. Banaras Khan was a Pathan. He impressed me a lot.

I have a problem that I am very easily impressed by other types of people. A very educated person does not impress me that much. But if he is higher and more experienced than me, I am intimidated by him. Along with this, I also have this curiosity that I should go near him and find out from him. It is probably not my destiny to become a money maker. One quality of Banaras Khan was that whatever work was assigned to him, he would do it with joy and then it would not be a burden on his nature. He used to work and he is doing the work that was given to him. It is not that he was killed. Then he came from the morning. He did not get bread till six o'clock. I asked him, "Banaras Khan, you are not a hard worker. You do not complain." He said, "Sir, I used to complain a lot. It was a part of our life. He left his house and came here. He complained that there is nothing in the quarters here. We worked here. So I said, "You do not complain now." He said, "Yes, I have come here in search of peace. I wanted to live a very prosperous life. I tried very hard. I met great people. I went to the poor and the poor. Sir, we are looking for peace. But we did not get it. One day, while eating in the evening, I decided that I had a morsel in my hand. I put it down. I said, "Sir, let me get rid of peace." What should we do with it? We will live without peace. It does not matter. We keep on searching like this. From that day on, I started getting peace. So I said, "You have talked about earning this. How did you think?" He said, "It is from Allah." It came to my mind, I said, "It's good that you stopped running after peace and made a compromise with yourself, but how did this happiness come to you? I want to know." He said, "Yes, this was also a very difficult task."

He said, "Yes, this is a problem for us. In our place, we used to sleep on four beds. Every person in the world sleeps and wakes up in the morning. I also used to wake up in the morning like other people. Before putting my feet down from the bed, I said, "My friend, Banaras Khan, you have to put your feet down. Why should you put your feet down in hardship? Why not spend your days in happiness?" Throughout the day, whenever I went to any place, to eat bread on the stove, to meet friends, or to go through trouble and hardship, I would remember that today I have decided that I will not spend this day in hardship, I want to rest. After that, it became a habit. If a person makes this decision and decides on it and sticks to it, then it is not such a difficult task." I said, "My friend, you did not stick to it with us." They said, "You did not make this decision." He was talking about greeting me after 1500, 15, 16 years. Then I was asked to go there again. It happened in Gilgit, so I asked Banaras Khan, and I found out that he was not here. I said, "He is here, our great teacher, our guru, our peer. I will get strength from him." He said, "Yes, he is here, but now he cannot work." I said, "Take us to his camp. We will go up." So I came to his service. He was in the field, but he was a great laborer and was in pain. His bell had fallen off and he was tied up and was sitting on a cot. He was very happy to see me. I said, "How is Banaras Khan?" He said, "Thank God." I said, "I heard that he has fallen ill." He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You are thanking me." He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Why are you thanking me?" He said, "Because my knees are strong. My knees are mine. If I did not have my knees, where would the bells be?" Then it is a great mercy of God that I have knees. Sir, if I did not have them, If I had been cut off somewhere, then where would I have the bells? I am very grateful to Allah. He has been kind to me.

Despite hearing all these things and understanding them, it does not become a part of our present. Our fathers used to say that generally, a person who is not obsessed with the past and is not afraid of the future is called a companionable person. He lives according to the present that has been given to him and is happy and lives with great desire. As long as he has been given his gift, he carries it with him. But unfortunately, we have such a time that, although it is not incompatible in itself, it has turned our thinking and our behavior into many incompatibility. And I believe that when we reach this part of life, unless Allah is with us and Allah is not accepted in the way that he has the right to be accepted, not only in a bookish way, for example, my mistake is that I confess it honestly and I am also very sad that I am killing Allah, but in a bookish way, my My mother used to say, "Pray," but I never intended or expected that I would establish a relationship with him. Our father says, "The word God is not God. God is something else. What is written or what we sing, what we call God's name on TV, is something else. And experiencing it, experiencing it through life, is something else.

I can tell you this with a guarantee because I am very privileged to you people. I am in a high position because I have met such a person and I am experiencing, observing and studying them and they are very great people. These are the people in whose place kings consider it a privilege to take off their shoes. That is, what is great? It is not that they have money or wealth or an artillery. There is nothing of any kind. It is something else. It is a fact that I met Alexander the Great with a heart as big as a giant. And I have probably mentioned it before. On the beach, I was playing ball games in the hot sand. Alexander went and said, "O master, I want to do you some service." He said, "What will you do for me? Leave the sun and stand." The sun is setting. He stood aside and said, "Sir, you are a great philosopher of our time and a very great man. The way you are having fun, playing ball games, I also want to play." He said, "You are a very incompetent man. Take off your clothes and start playing tricks. There is such a big beach. What is he talking about with me?" Alexander said, "I beg your pardon. I am Alexander the Great, the emperor of Macedonia. At that time, I have conquered half the world and I have to conquer the rest. I am sure of it, and my gods have said that you will conquer that world too. So, sir, when I conquer that half of the world, then, God willing, I will play tricks with you." He said, "How unlucky are you? I am playing tricks without conquering half the world. If you go, you will go and conquer half the world. Then you will do the same." Ladies and gentlemen, this is not as difficult a task as it seems. May God grant you ease and grant you the honor of distributing ease.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran11 months ago

    Hey, just wanna let you know that this is more suitable to be posted in the FYI community 😊

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