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Is It Possible for Us to Give Enough Thanks to God for Even a Morsel of Food? |
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Prayer and Worship
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Written by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006 |
If only the picture of a bunch of grapes had been shown to us, could the whole of mankind produce it, even if they worked in close cooperation? Whereas God nourishes us with all those bounties of His for nothing and in return demands from us almost nothing.
How can we pay the thanks for each limb of our body? When we see the ill and crippled in hospitals or when we are ill, we can understand how valuable health is, and how can we pay the thanks due for our health? The worship, which God Almighty orders us to do, is, in fact, for our benefit, for our spiritual refinement and a good personal and collective life. Furthermore, if we believe in and worship God, He will reward us with infinite happiness and bounties in an external world, in Paradise.
In sum, we see that almost everything we have is given to us for nothing our part in the bounties we enjoy in the world is quite negligible. Like this, the will power we have is equally negligible when compared to the consequences, which God Almighty creates as a result of our use of it. However weak it is and however difficult it is to understand its true nature, God creates our actions according to the choices and decisions, which we make through our will power.
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Prayer
“‘O’ God! by thy most particular attributes by Thy powerful glory, by Thy Great names, by infallibility of Thy prophets, by the light of thy friends, by the blood of Thy Martyrs, by the ink of Thy learned personalities, by the supplications of thy pious persons, and by the invocation of Thy needy persons we beseech Thee for the increase in knowledge, health of the body, increase in the life tenure, for thy obedience, abundance in the sustenance, repentance before death, ease at the time of death, forgiveness after death, the light in the grave, redemption from the hell fire, admission in the paradise and rescue from all calamities of the world and punishment of the next world by the grace of the Prophet and his best, pure and infallible progeny.” --Forgiveness and Protection from Hell Fire
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