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Your feelings...

they are not something that you can trust hundred percent.

What you feel, or what you see, or what you hear, your senses and all your experience, you cannot trust that hundred percent too. Who is telling us not to trust it hundred percent? Who, which Prophet is telling us, not to trust it hundred percent? Which Prophet? Hz Ibrahim (AS)!

He saw the sun rise with his senses, and he’s understanding the sun, in so many different cultures they worship the sun, no, because without the sun there is no life. Did he read any books? Did he do any research? Did he Google? No, he knew that immediately, the source of life. He says, ‘that must be Lord.’ But the sun sets, and he says, ‘no, that’s not my Lord.’ He didn’t trust his senses, or his intelligence.

The moon rose, and if you still don’t understand the importance of the moon, and how without the moon's gravitational pull this whole world will be in disaster, then I cannot say too much, but he’s saying, when the moon is rising, ‘this must be my Lord.’ Then the moon set, and he says, ‘no, my Lord doesn’t rise and set.’ No matter how important, how big, how powerful the thing is, it doesn’t rise and set.

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And showing us from that time, six thousand years until now, with all your intelligence, with all your ilham, with all your inspiration, with all your openings, you understand, not just intelligence but all your heart openings, you cannot trust it a hundred percent, you need a guide.

You need a guide.

Then, you will be a little more balanced.

Because then, you understand what is right and wrong, according to the lens of belief, according to the vision of Allah, not according to fashion, or what the world is saying, or what the political ideology is saying, what economics is saying.

Because this is a big deal.

If you live in the capitalist democratic West, your understanding of things is completely different.

If you live in a communist country, your understanding is different, you even smile differently. If you live in a country that is totalitarian, and they squeeze all their citizens, and they have no hope, even if you take those citizens and put them in a place of hope, they will still have that scar.

It takes some time to get rid of it.

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Whether individual groups...

or whole nations...

whatever you have gone through, there is still a scar.

Which means, that you have to go through some sort of spiritual therapy, you understand, you cannot just take them out and put them over there. That means there has to be a guide, there has to be someone talking you through it.

They’re going to say, ‘No, no, no, I don’t trust.’ 

You say, ‘No, this person is not like that.’ 

‘I don’t trust!’ 

‘No, this person is not like that.’ 

You have to talk.

You have to spend time.

Thát was, what the Prophets they were doing.

That’s what the Saints, they were doing.

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Everyone is scarred.

Everyone is broken, yes?

Everyone has gone through experiences.

What are they doing, these Prophets and Saints?

They are putting faith back into these broken hearts to your Creator.

You think that’s an easy thing, when a person gives up on this life, gives up on all of humanity, they have been taken advantage of, they are broken, and they are abused. And Allah is still calling, and they’re still running. And when they find someone who can help them, they are so grateful.

But it’s not an easy work, to patch up a heart.

How do you do that?

That, you have to look at how the Prophets and the Saints they’re doing it.

You cannot find it in books.

Definitely.


~Lokman Effendi Hz~