The Mahdi Times February Issue | Page 13

T H The highest of worldly desires is the desire to seek worldly knowledge for the purpose of attaining authority or even control.  No matter how hard we strive as long as our focus is on satisfying the false ego through seeking fulfillment of our worldly desires, we are never relieved, neither can it bring happiness for more then a moment. If you are thirsty and you drink, it is only for that moment when the thirst is quenched that we are satisfied, and no matter how much we keep drinking it will not satisfy us anymore. This is the condition of our false ego no matter which of these desires one tries to fulfill, it is short lived and we look for more of that feeling of fulfillment, yet it can never be more then temporary. It is like sand in the palms of our hands that slips away from us, the energy disappears and we are left again, empty and unfulfilled. Yet there is another desire that is borne from our willing and peaceful surrender to our Lord that is not a worldly desire, i Ё