{"id":1089,"date":"2013-07-13T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2013-07-14T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T08:00:14","slug":"nourishment-of-the-body-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/13\/nourishment-of-the-body-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Nourishment of the body and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Masjid goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Masjid. &#8220;I&#8217;ve gone for 30 years now,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 Lectures. But for the life of me, I can&#8217;t remember a single one of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, I think I&#8217;m wasting my time and the Imams are wasting theirs by giving Lectures at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then someone wrote this clincher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to Masjid for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you are DOWN to nothing&#8230;. Allah is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank Allah for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Masjid goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Masjid. &#8220;I&#8217;ve gone for 30 years now,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 Lectures. But for the life of me, I can&#8217;t remember a single one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,52,42],"tags":[80,102,91,8,14,9],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deen","category-interesting","category-religion","category-shehrullah","tag-attitude","tag-deen","tag-gratitude","tag-islam","tag-positive-thinking","tag-shariat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}