Trust God but you know, tie up your camel We pray and trust in God but we must do everything humanly possible by way of thinking, tackling and solving problems than leaving it all up to God to deal with our problems and we lazy about. There was once a man who was on his way back home from market with his camel and, as he’d had a good day, he decided to stop along the way and offer his thanks to God in a prayer room along the way. He left his camel outside untied and went in the prayer room and spent several hours offering thanks to God, praying and promising that he’d be a good man in the future, help the poor and be an upstanding pillar of his community. When he emerged out after prayer, it was already dark and lo and behold, his camel was gone! He immediately flew into a violent temper and shook his fist at the sky, yelling: “You traitor, God! How could you do this to me? I put all my trust in you and then you go and stab me in the back like this!” A passing Sufi Dervish heard the man yelling and chuckled to himself; Listen, he said, “Trust God but you know, tie up your camel.” This is the classic answer for those who believe that their faith alone will carry them through life. Innocence can indeed be a valuable shield but there are basic measures that have to be taken just as a matter of common sense. If you leave the jar of honey open, by morning it may be full of ants. No amount of belief is going to change the basic facts of living in this world.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:37:19 +0000
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