THE WORD OF GOD

Anti-self thinking means constantly reassessing your activities, constantly revising your own plan. It is said that ‘to err is human.’ This being so, it is a must for everyone to discover his errors and concede to having made wrong judgments. So, anti-self thinking is a self-correcting process. It means finding out where you went wrong, how you missed the bus. It is often said that a person engrossed in spiritual issues is not very concerned with success in the material world. What is your comment on this? I cannot subscribe to this notion. You know, Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual person but was totally involved in national politics. So, there is no contradiction between these two areas. On the contrary, spirituality may help to achieve great success in fields other than that of spirituality. For spirituality makes you a mature person, and a mature person is in a better position to deal with the affairs of life. So, is spirituality then a human need? Yes, spirituality is our greatest need. Spirituality being a tool for normalizing a situation, it enables one to think positively and to live as a tension-free person. Spirituality makes one a mature person, one capable of taking healthy decisions. Is science supportive of spirituality? In a direct sense science cannot support spirituality, but in an indirect sense, it can very well do so. It can be a great supporter of spirituality. In every scientific discovery there are some implied spiritual lessons. By pondering over these discoveries, you can find the spiritual aspects of the lessons they teach. Could you give an example? For example, science has discovered that the heart is an organ for pumping blood and that this pumping is directly controlled by our unconscious mind. If it were up to me to cause the heart to pump by applying my conscious mind, I certainly would become so busy that I would have no time for anything else. This makes us realize the great gift of nature. It has made our conscious mind free. So, spiritual aspects in the discoveries of science are implied. Please send your questions to askmaulana@thespiritofislam.org