God and His Creation Plan

Is being too optimistic in life a bad idea? T here is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ when it comes to optimism. Being optimistic is a part of life. You must always live in hope; this is a teaching of Islam. Optimism is a part of nature and a part of the creation plan of God. How do I measure whether I am progressing in spirituality or not? T here is a simple criterion: when you do not become happy with people praising you and do not feel bad on being criticised, it implies that you are gaining spirituality. How would one get God’s help if one feels completely helpless? T he state of helplessness makes you competent to pray. When a person is in the state of helplessness, he calls out to God with prayers that invoke divine help. How could one achieve a high level of spirituality? S pirituality is interwoven in the nature of a human being. What really deviates a person from spirituality is distraction. If we are able to save ourselves from distractions, what would prevail is spirituality. How can we develop a strong personality that God shall like? I have a formula I follow: ‘If you have a good excuse, don’t use it.’ This is the formula for building a strong personality. When you take an excuse, it develops a weak personality while not taking an excuse builds a strong personality. What is the Plan of God for the mentally disabled people? A s a young person when I started working, I used to see often see written in places ‘For Disabled Persons’, but now we come across the words ‘Differently-abled persons’. It has been found out that disability is not disability alone, rather one who is disabled in a certain way