11 September 2011

The Art of Doing

Far too often, we abuse the concept of 'tawakal'.

When faced with a difficult situation, we tend to just do the same thing over and over again, sometimes not even doing anything about it except that pray to God to push us through it. Instead of praying for strength to take on the challenge, we pray that God would take care of it for us, while we wait till the storm's over and pick up when the mess is all cleared up.

Of course, God could have granted our prayers, it would be far too easy for Him to do that, but then we wouldn't have learned anything from the experience. And what's the point of God putting hardship on our way in the first place?

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