Take Divine Food from Everything

You take divine food from the world around, just as the honeybee extracts nectar from the flowers. This divine food is not anything mysterious. This is an essential part of intellectual awakening. If you are intellectually awakened, you will surely take lessons from everything around.

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When a person leads his life in this world, he faces various experiences, has many observations and must live in different conditions. If his mind is active on all these occasions, what will happen? He will make every experience a point of reference to do tawassum, or draw lessons. This will help him discover God, or attain marifat. The honeybee takes nectar from flowers. Similarly, in a much larger way, you have to take divine nectar, that reminds you of God, from everything around you. The Quran says: وَرِزْقُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَى (20.131) The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting. What is this rizq-e-rab? There is nothing mysterious about it. It means your faith has awakened you intellectually. Due to this enlightenment, you can extract divine lessons from everything. You take divine food from the world around, just as the honeybee extracts nectar from the flowers. This divine food is not anything mysterious. This is an essential part of intellectual awakening. If you are intellectually awakened, you will surely take lessons from everything around.

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