Why WE Prefer to Leave Peace of Mind for Material Gains?

Spiritual Peace and Nature

I am pondering on one situation that is so much common with modern man, and that is to switch from one place or job to another for the sake of material gains. It happens everywhere and at the cost of having a tough and hard life but we keep on doing that. I remember a long time ago when I was attending a sitting session with a great intellectual of our earlier times. He asked all of us being Representatives of Youth.

He asked us a simple question that was outwardly simple but carried a great Wisdom Path. He asked us all as if why we were losing our Precious Lives and Present Moment for the sake of gaining high salary jobs, and to upgrade our Social Status. Everybody tried to give answer but I was silent not because I had followed his hidden point, but due to the fact that I was always on the point to live a peaceful life, and if prosperity comes as ALLAH’s Will then we need to be thankful for it. But not to follow the blind path of Success that might lead us to distresses and depressions.

Now the question arises as why we are fighting this battle of hardships as to win some name, and to get more luxuries. Isn't it an irony that we do not know as if we would be alive on the very next day? But we keep on striving on this strange path of so-called glory and growth? Dreams and Desires are unlimited, and who will make a fine balance to let his or her SOUL all in Peace? Modern world with attractive gadgets all around make us all blindfolded to keep on moving on a path that might not be meant for us. Here I would tell you few harms of this unnecessary battle of Material and Social Growth!

Losing the Creative Self

Yes! We are losing the creative minds and the motivation to do something so awful that the world will remember us. We are only longing for comforts and luxuries and do not want to learn new arts, and to get into world of charismatic creativity for the sake of it any more!

Social Isolation and Increase in Psychological Issues

Now people don’t have time to spend with their loved ones as everybody says around “Time is Money”. But have you seen that the distraction and ignorance has caused a whole generation of direction-less Youth. Now old people live in Old Homes and nobody bothers the psychological and Soulful needs of another person!

Sense of Materialism Prevails on a Larger Scale

Now look at the motives and hidden truth behind all our moves. We want to be social in order to get any sort of benefit for future. We do not concentrate on agonies and pains of others, and just try to be friends for good worldly reasons.

I have highlighted some major issues that the whole world is facing in terms of Humanity and losing connection with Hearts, Minds and Souls of others. We have lost the true value of precious love that had an ability to bind us together in families, groups and societies for better reasons. Now we see the chaos all around, and people gather to protect their rights or to gain some negative motives. Spirituality and Mysticism has lost its value, and we can’t find any more people so easily who are having Divine Light with them, to heal our souls and to direct us towards Peace of Mind as well!

Friendship, Brotherhood and Bonding!!

We call friend to everyone who talks to us smoothly and helps us out in something. But does it really that simple I mean the definition of Selfless Friend does exist. Yes! It is here right in front of our eyes, and to keep us motivated and rejuvenated to do worldly tasks in a far better way. We need friends who can stay with us in difficult times, and have no prejudice or jealousy for any sort of gain.

I simply believe that a friendship as a spiritual bonding that is not relevant with age, places, race and distances. When we reach at a certain level of love and affection for others then we are forming brotherhood connection with that person. You might have heard or read that the worst of enemies in solitude and misery develop a comradeship or a brotherly bond.

In the same case we meet some people by chance and get so used to them that there is a feeling that we are living together for years or may be centuries. Actually it is all about soul connection and the matching Aura about which there are lots of myths and realities in Eastern Cultures. The close connections that are developed by hearts are not meant for material or worldly purposes, and it just come in our way as a routine matter.

But the twist in this tale comes when we lose such friend or brother. It is a disaster and a storm that you get through be yourself, and nobody around can see a glimpse of it. So the soul nourishes and agonizes in solitude, and it is one of the most difficult moment in the lives of those people who are mostly introvert. These kinds of people cannot form loose connections with everyone who comes in their way.

The brotherhood bond is vital if a friend is close to your beat of a heart. So this such solitude often leads to spiritual up rise, and saints emerge out of such ordinary situations. When you are able to form a direct contact with the Divine Light, and it may be due to the loss of a worldly relationship. You have not only lost a friend or brother but a part of yourself.

Now it is your will power and direction that might lead you to the new experiences of spiritual journey to boost as a human being or to get antidepressants as a regular part of your routine. You can make a loss to favour you in attaining something Really Great. If you are not able to do that then still you have formed a space in someone’s heat and mind that nobody can replace.

What to DO with Forbidden Desires!

Life makes it impossible for us to go on paths that we strongly desire to travel. We are lone rangers in a jungle of our inner self, and what we exhibit is a small proportion of what is best for us. I have had a desire to get myself recognized by this world, and to find peace with my disillusioned self. But what happened that Nature pulled me to those passages that were tiring and required me to consume every essence of spirit in it.

Here I am standing at a long trodden path where I don't know if I am really left with a desire or DREAM or it is all a forgone story. I feel rebellious enough to leave all worldly chores and move my head towards a long shadowless desert or a mountain that is filled with flowers, grass and tress. What is the use of all struggle when you are going to die sooner or later and everything will vanish with your non-existence from this World of Limited Vision.

We keep on living in memories and hearts that also will become non-existent one day. But the love and compassion that we have spread around will keep on sprouting new leaves, and will give strong desire for others to live and follow a path that is definitely hard but not impossible. If you have reached to ALLAH Almighty for you persistence, peace and for your lonely cries then you have done everything in a perfect manner. 

You have accomplished the most difficult part of life's journey with an ease. The wishful dreams will arise and will divert you to go for all material things, and to be lusty for worldly beauties. But keeping a Solid Goal of reaching there to ALLAH, and answer for what you did in return for a weeds of desires that grow in your heart. I am sure that you will never go astray, and if you feel so then ALLAH will Take you to HIS way is HIS own ways. Stay blessed and protected by the Divine Power, and keep on praying for yourself and for all weak Muslims like me!!