Let us not being fooled and deceived: Sheikh Eshref Efendi

Let us not being fooled and deceived. “Without any doubt life on earth is a life full of game, fun and deceptions. » Many people come and ask: “What is the meaning of the life on earth? What are we looking for? ”

And Allah (swt) gives us the answer in the Quran so clearly and so simply.

“Life on earth is enjoyment of disillusion (3:185). » And don’t be fooled! He says… Everything that comes must go again. Everything what is new becomes old again. Everything that appears will be extinguished. Then what is left in this world?

Our memories stay for a while and then our memories also disappear. We look at so many people with whom we have been with for years. And thirty years, twenty years, 40 years. And because I never look at myself in the mirror … I am horrified when I see my friends from 40 years ago, whom are old and broken. After twenty years I see my brothers and sisters and friends and I am horrified. And get scared. You have become old.

My memories were very different. And I don’t dare to look in the mirror. This is also a solution: that you don’t get older. You never feel old if you never look in the mirror.

“But Moomin, the believer, is the mirror of the other Moomin, believer » says the gentleman. So the believer is the mirror of the other. “May I not have met him,” I think then. He looks so old. I don’t want to know what I look like. And then we ask: “Where did your youth go? Are you the same? “” Yes. “But where did the youth go? That was 30 years ago. It was 20 years ago. It was 10 years ago. It was.

If we didn’t look in the mirror and feel weak, we would forever think we were still the same. The soul does not get old. But the body, yes. Then there must be two personalities. Two of us. One is deception and the other is reality.

What is deception is disappointing. But our Soul remains, then we have to hold on to something that ages and decays, or whatever stays, and is forever, and therefore: all the prophets who have come and gone and all the saints: in the name of the prophets who keep coming and remember us… and recommend that this world is fleeting and that everything that goes with it will decompose and then dissolve.

That we should look for the truth. First of all in ourselves. From the truth we come – towards the truth we go. What is then this rest area? Between the two truths? Innalilahi wa innailayhi rajiun. You come from me – you return to me.

But what is this rest stop here? If we come from truth and go to truth – where have we rested? And then the Lord explains to us: You are in a hallucination. Landed in a mirage.