Serving The Truth In The Face Of Obstacles
People on the path of serving the P truth must firstly accept the following reality. People with matred, envy and intolerance, because of cheir paranoid mood, will declare as enemies other circles of people who do not think like them. They will continually attack here and there and reveal their malice in various forms for he sake of protecting their illegitimate gains. However, devoted souls must constantly seek refuge in God. Despite obstacles, they should keep walking on the righteous path with a noble conscience to embraceall of humanity. While walking on this path, you may sometimes be betrayed by those you expected to be loyal; by utilising some new strategies, you should constantly seek to set higher standards in terms of the horizons of your conscience and immensity of your soul. Somany peonle set theirsights on worldly ambitions. Therefore, you may have difficulty in making others understand you correctly. They will view you as themselves, by projecting their own worldliness onto you. They might seek different intentions behind your coming into contact with the world, your opening of a school and cultural centres everywhere, your embracing the entirety of humanity with love, and your efforts to bring together and reconcile people of different cultural backgrounds. As every action they take is to gain some form of worldly return, they mightthink that youare also running after some worldly benefits Even some of the people who stand close to you, whom you love and hold in esteem, might be deluded by such apprehensions and anxieties. By interpreting your attitude and behaviours according to their own feeling and thoughts, they may derive different meanings from these and thus perceive you as a threat to themselves. However, without caring for any of these much, you must explain at every opportunity that you have no target except for gaining God's good pleasure and indicate this with your attitude and behaviours. Even if those who have fixed their sights on God's good pleasure with heartfelt dedication and have resolved to beautify the face of the world, cannot realise their plans of love and peace, they will be heroes of their own intentions and will be rewarded by God accordingly. As the noble Prophet once stated: deeds go by their intentions and everybody will be given what they intended. Therefore, the factor that will truly benefit someone is the sincerity and worth of their intention. God Almighty will reward a person with otherworldly returns according to his intention and immensity of conscience. People who are devoted to service the peace of humanity and do notthianything but God's good pleasuremunot seek any worldly positions for these of worldly gains. They should e not hasten to accept when they are of red such a position as being a ministethe prime minister, but consider first whether such an offer will be good fortheir ideals and then decide accordin Otherwise, in spite of having set fort order to seek God's good pleasure, thwill have adulterated their considerations on this path, personally destroy the possible influence they could ma others' hearts and lost the credit andtrust of people around them. Let alone seeking such administrative positions, they should see seeking worldly targets as a demotfor themselves, even if there is amaof being the world's greatest conqu(Abridged from fgulen.com with permission).
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Serving The Truth In The Face Of Obstacles
People on the path of serving the P truth must firstly accept the following reality. People with matred, envy and intolerance, because of cheir paranoid mood, will declare as enemies other circles of people who do not think like them. They will continually attack here and there and reveal their malice in various forms for he sake of protecting their illegitimate gains. However, devoted souls must constantly seek refuge in God. Despite obstacles, they should keep walking on the righteous path with a noble conscience to embraceall of humanity. While walking on this path, you may sometimes be betrayed by those you expected to be loyal; by utilising some new strategies, you should constantly seek to set higher standards in terms of the horizons of your conscience and immensity of your soul. Somany peonle set theirsights on worldly ambitions. Therefore, you may have difficulty in making others understand you correctly. They will view you as themselves, by projecting their own worldliness onto you. They might seek different intentions behind your coming into contact with the world, your opening of a school and cultural centres everywhere, your embracing the entirety of humanity with love, and your efforts to bring together and reconcile people of different cultural backgrounds. As every action they take is to gain some form of worldly return, they mightthink that youare also running after some worldly benefits Even some of the people who stand close to you, whom you love and hold in esteem, might be deluded by such apprehensions and anxieties. By interpreting your attitude and behaviours according to their own feeling and thoughts, they may derive different meanings from these and thus perceive you as a threat to themselves. However, without caring for any of these much, you must explain at every opportunity that you have no target except for gaining God's good pleasure and indicate this with your attitude and behaviours. Even if those who have fixed their sights on God's good pleasure with heartfelt dedication and have resolved to beautify the face of the world, cannot realise their plans of love and peace, they will be heroes of their own intentions and will be rewarded by God accordingly. As the noble Prophet once stated: deeds go by their intentions and everybody will be given what they intended. Therefore, the factor that will truly benefit someone is the sincerity and worth of their intention. God Almighty will reward a person with otherworldly returns according to his intention and immensity of conscience. People who are devoted to service the peace of humanity and do notthianything but God's good pleasuremunot seek any worldly positions for these of worldly gains. They should e not hasten to accept when they are of red such a position as being a ministethe prime minister, but consider first whether such an offer will be good fortheir ideals and then decide accordin Otherwise, in spite of having set fort order to seek God's good pleasure, thwill have adulterated their considerations on this path, personally destroy the possible influence they could ma others' hearts and lost the credit andtrust of people around them. Let alone seeking such administrative positions, they should see seeking worldly targets as a demotfor themselves, even if there is amaof being the world's greatest conqu(Abridged from fgulen.com with permission).
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Fethullah Gülen Vasudev views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Fethullah Gülen and Speaking Tree,Times of India