Mother's Child

There was a mother who had a child.  The child was his/her mother's beloved and he/she was also in love with her.  The mother's arms were the true paradise for the child where he/she had no need and felt absolute serenity.

One day the mother put her child to a great test.  The child was separated from his/her mother.  During this loneliness and separation, the child faced countless problems and hardships.  He/she fell ill, his/her mind and heart were affected and his/her soul was afflicted.  Stress, distress, weakness and inability, fear and despair seized his/her being.  Since he/she was deprived of seeing his/her mother, his/her eyes were affected and could not see correctly.  His/her ears deprived of hearing the mother's voice lost the ability to hear properly.  Because of constant hunger, his/her heart seemed dead.  The mother's kindness and strokes were the child's heart nourishment...

Numerous difficulties and diseases surfaced in the child's existence.  In the absence of the mother's light, fear of darkness made him/her anxious and frightful.  His/her life was now transformed into a real hell.

Don't forget that the root and the main cause of these troubles and pain are being separated from the mother...

Likewise, man has numerous and various difficulties; however, the root of all these adversities is that man has been emptied of the Creator.

Now the mother toughens the trials.  The child has once claimed he/she loved and longed for her and wished to be uniquely with her.  Now if the child is definitely determined to return to his/her mother and tries to get closer to her at each and every moment, then all his/her claims reveal to be true; otherwise...

Consequently, the kind mother sent two persons to test her beloved child - one was "the Spirit of God" and the other was "Satan."  These two doctors offered different remedies.  The first one's treatment heals the child and brings him/her back to his/her mother.  However, Satan's treatment causes further separation and brings death and destruction.

The poor child puts his/her trust in Satan and he begins to cure.  His mission is to put all his efforts and to use all his deceits to get somehow the child farther from his/her mother and to empty his/her being from the presence and remembrance of the mother.  He is determined to use every possible means to make the child forgetful of his/her unique goal - the mother - and if possible to deny her. 

Satan asks the child, "O my principal enemy, O the most contemptuous being to my eyes, tell me about your difficulty and illness?...He then begins to write his deadly prescription - make the child forget his/her mother so he/she feels not the pain o f loneliness and separation.  He then recommends many games and toys to keep the child busy.

Satan says," Use all possible means to keep this man busy so he forgets himself and his God."

Satan uses his stratagems like affective, competitive, social, economical, political, cultural, individual and collective games.  He diverts man's attention by catching him in traps of the opposite sex, studies and university challenges, radio and television entertainments, spouse and children relations, drugs and alcohol addiction, identifying oneself with prevailing trends, treacherous friends, war and violence, technological break-through.

Despite all these games and toys, and an apparent forgetfulness of the mother, the child's soul is getting sicker and his/her spirits lower.   A nostalgic pain casts its shadow over the child's existence.  Life becomes cold and soul-less, its color turns ash-grey, it turns to ash itself...

Sometimes a bitter- lifeless smile may appear on the child's lips yet it is more bitter than his/her sigh and cry.

Such treatments make the child sicker and more suffering day after day.  The child becomes progressively an ambulant corpse and his/her being is transformed into a tomb.  A rotten malodor can be smelt from every corner of his/her life...

The child's appetite is imbalanced; anxiety is rooted in his/her being; his/her body is weak; his/her eyesight is decreased and his/her existence is stagnant.

Satan gives various advices," Take him/her to a nutritionist, to a psychiatrist.  He/she has to launch out into sports.  He/she has to marry to become a decent person.  To make him/her happy and to solve all his/her problems, he/she has to have enough money..."  There are also many other treatments and many other remedy substitutes.

Now let's go to the divine doctor and let's see what the Spirit of God suggests.  His words are God's words, his opinion the Most High Creator's opinion.  He says, "Since all these problems and difficulties have a common root, there is only one cure and not many ones."  The treatment is simple; since separation and distance are causes of all these illnesses and diseases, "the child must then get closer to his/her mother and finally be reunited with her..."  If the child forgets the pain of his/her loneliness he/she won't go back to his/her mother.  If he/she doubts about his/her mother's being, he/she will no more seek her.

Instead of all those antagonistic-contradictory and prescriptions, the Spirit of God offers just one recommendation, "Return."  He says, "The more the child pays attention to his/her mother, the closer he/she gets to her.  The child has to show his/her love to her and she'll come herself to him/her."

One hundred and twenty four thousand messengers came to preach these statements.  The mother's address is also mentioned in this divine prescription.  To reach her one should follow the path of divine guidance - the divine teachings, the very holy instructions of the Truth.

When the guide is the Spirit of God, when messengers and godly men are the leaders, this separation shall finally become union and this distance shall eventually turn to closeness...

Now the child has returned to home back to his/her mother's arms.  There remain no other problem, no other need, no other anxiety, pain or worry, no other wish or caprice.  Here is Paradise, the origin of Paradise.  Being with the mother is sheer serenity, unbounded bliss, the very deliverance.  Here every goodness and joy happens by itself; there's no need to try to bring it about.  The mother's being is the source of all goodness and pleasure.  Therefore, seek the true Paradise which is but closeness to the Lord and union with Him.    

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