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Spiritual Journey

rate of say one per cent, but when he travels, he can add many
new dimensions to his personality, developing it at the rate of
possibly one hundred per cent.

For example, when you buy a return ticket from an airline,
you check it to make sure that it is actually a return ticket, and
that you can travel with the assurance that you will return to your
home. Then you remember death. Death is also a journey. But
on this journey, you have no return ticket. You will travel to an
unknown region that is beyond this world, with no guarantee of
returning to this world again. This is an example of tawassum. An
air ticket is a worldly item, but as a matter of tawassum, through
this ticket, you can be reminded of the world hereafter.

A believer’s journeying is a kind of ibadat on the
move, in the course of which his contemplation becomes
more profound, and he is able to expand his spiritual
experiences.

Then, if you visit a modern city, you will find that everywhere
there are activities of various kinds. Then you think of Paradise
and are reminded that Paradise is also a world of activity. In the
present world activities are material, but in Paradise they will be
of a higher spiritual and divine nature. That is the more refined
and perfect state of affairs.
Everything depends on the human mind. If you are a
materialist, your journeys will be materialistic, but if you are a
believer in God, then automatically your journeys will be divine,
and full of spiritual experiences. Prepare your mind in terms of
spirituality, then your travels will be elevated to a higher plane.
That is, they will take place in the world of spirituality.

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