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Don-t Follow the Dog Culture

spiritual lines. Physical food gives you physical health, while
spiritual food makes the non-physical part of your personality
healthy.

For example, let us consider a glass of water. When you
hold a glass of water in your hand, the material content that
you extract from this observation is that water is a combination
of two gases—Hydrogen and Oxygen. The spiritual content of
this observation is to ponder over the fact that in the external
world water is a combination of two material elements, but when
water enters the human body it becomes a part of it and helps in
maintaining its functions. When you discover this compatibility
between water and your body, you will obtain spiritual food for
your thinking. Because, this discovery will lead to the realization
and appreciation of God’s wisdom, in that He created water in
such a way that it is completely compatible with the human body.
Discoveries of this kind from various material events around will
give you unlimited solace and contentment.
If you want to live as a spiritual person, learn the art of
extraction. You have to extract the spiritual content from material
things. This will give you spiritual food, and in this way you will
be able to develop yourself as a spiritual person.

Don’t Follow the Dog Culture

eware of dogs’ is a common phrase used as a warning to
‘Bindicate that there is a dangerous dog within. But, there is
another problem that may be called the ‘dog culture’. Dog as an
animal is not a problem, but the dog culture may prove to be very
fatal for a human being.

This phenomenon is mentioned in the Quran in the chapter

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