Leading A Spiritual Life
English book, p. 26
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
It is also a law of nature that if you add a pinch of dye to a glass of water, all of the water becomes coloured. This principle is also applicable in the case of love. When a person has love in his heart for his Creator, at the same time he cannot resist showing his love to his neighbours. And in this electronic age, the whole world is one’s neighbour. One can say that love has two dimensions: theoretical and practical. In terms of the theoretical dimension, love means love of God and in terms of the social, love means love for all human beings. Divine Food While physical food gives you physical health, spiritual food maintains the health of the non-physical part of your personality. Jesus Christ once said: ‘Man cannot live by bread alone.’ (Matthew 4:4) What Jesus meant was that material provision does not suffice. All bread does is sustain us physically. Further to this, one needs divine provision, or spiritual food. Without receiving such food, the individual cannot develop his or her personality. The fact is that, in this world, everything has two distinct sides to it: the material and the spiritual. From the material things which surround you, you must be

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