GET RID OF DEPRESSION — Discover The Creation Plan
Spirit of Islam, Jan 2015, p. 40
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
GET RID OF DEPRESSION Discover The Creation Plan D EPRESSION is a phenomenon of discontentment. Why does this phenomenon exist? The reason is that every person is born with an unlimited desire for enjoyment. But, everyone has very limited capacity of fulfilment. It is this gap in human nature that makes people live in unrest. Is this phenomenon due to a defect in nature? Not at all. It is due to man's unawareness of himself that creates this problem. Selfawareness is the key to a contented life, while unawareness leads to all kinds of discontentment and restlessness. To explain this phenomenon in the right way, we have to discover the scheme of this world as devised by the Creator. According to the creation plan, the domain of fulfilment in the material world is very limited; while, the domain of spiritual or intellectual fulfilment is so vast that words fail to express its endless boundaries. Even greater than the scientific pursuit is the spiritual pursuit. If you want to achieve the state of fulfilment in the material world, then very soon you will discover that the scope here, is very limited. Food, clothes, fame, marital life, entertainment: each of these facets is associated with boredom. Even going on a holiday cannot give you fulfilment. A person goes on a holiday with hopes of de-stressing, but instead returns with 'holiday stress'. This phenomenon of lack of fulfilment pertains to your physical being, but your spiritual being is free of such bindings. Man has a dual personality; physical and spiritual. In physical terms, man's body measuring no more than a few feet is very limited. Due to this limited being, man develops boredom as far as his physical domain in concerned. But, his spiritual or intellectual being has no limits. Your mind travels in an unlimited space. It travels by means of thinking, and there is no boundary for the thinking process. It continues its journey unfettered, by crossing all kinds of barriers.

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