SPIRIT OF ISLAM FEBRUARY 2018

6 Spirit of Islam Issue 62 February 2018 Spirituality is a creative phenomenon. It is the mind that creates spirituality, as it is the mind that gives birth to an idea. into a flower, so also is spirituality not a ready-made thing. It is a product of an intellectual process. It is the culmination of a process that occurs between the mind and external realities. If you want to experience spirituality, you need not visit any spiritual expert. Nor should you try to purchase it from shopping malls. Rather you must develop your own mind and soul in order to initiate the kind of process to produce the state of spirituality. There is no other way to attain spirituality. Every human being is like a spiritual factory but this factory must be looked at in terms of potential, for it is only you who can convert this potential into actuality. Spirituality is like milk. Any milking cow is a milk factory, but its milk does not as such exist in its body. The cow ingests food, then this food is processed in its body and after a complex mechanism, it is converted into milk. This is true also of spirituality. Spirituality is like a kind of non-physical milk. It is like aroma-milk and aroma are products of an inner process and are not extraneous entities. You must prepare such a cogitative, analytical mind as is creative and capable of processing your outer experiences. Once you have done so, you will be able to develop spirituality. Spirituality is a self-engendered thing. It is not something manufactured. It is a product of your own factory. Develop your creativity and you will be able to derive spirituality from every observation and experience. o Dr. Farida Khanam hub@the spiritofislam.org Grow Wiser One may be beset by most grievous handicaps in life, but it is always possible to rise above one’s handicap.