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Khaberni - Islamic preacher Dr. Amr Khaled revealed three important effects of worship in human life; the most important is that it moves them from feelings of loneliness and weakness to a sense of inclusion, which is the meaning embodied by Surah "Maryam".
And Khaled said in the twenty-first episode of his Ramadan program "Guide - A Journey with the Quran", that worship does three things to a person:
First: Worship rebuilds and internally stabilizes you
When a person experiences a strong shock in his life (emotional crisis - betrayal - loss of loved ones - financial loss), he gradually loses internal coherence. Here, the role of worship is that it restores him to his original version, and it restores internal coherence, so he returns in the best form as he was. The month of Ramadan represents an opportunity to recover the original edition (the best form) through worship with excellence (mention recitation, devotion in prayer, supplication with feeling).
Second: Fix your flaws and mistakes
We all have flaws within us: personality flaws, such as haste, or anger, or sins (lying - not lowering the gaze - repeated sin), and the best way to treat these flaws and mistakes is to turn to God Almighty, and to worship Him. The varied acts of worship are due to the varied effects each act has in reforming yourself. The effect of fasting is different from prayer, different from Umrah, different from charity. And the role of each act of worship is to repair something inside you.
Third: Divine inclusion and psychological security
Humans have many needs, whether they are simple or complex. Eating and drinking, emotion, love, money, success, marriage, all these are needs. But there is one need, if you only possess it, it will suffice you, and that is inclusion and embracing, intellectually, spiritually, morally, and psychologically. Inclusion and embracing remove feelings of loneliness and weakness, or at least minimize them. When feelings of loneliness and weakness occur, the body secretes a hormone that acts like an alarm bell, signaling that it needs inclusion.
And between Khaled how God Almighty contains man through several methods: worship, prayer, prostration to him, Umrah, fasting Ramadan, night prayers, when you worship him he contains you and sends you from his servants those who contain you.
Surah Maryam and Divine Inclusion
And Khaled clarified that Surah Maryam gathered the three aforementioned things, describing Lady Mary as the symbol of divine inclusion for his servants when they feel lonely in life, saying: "Surah Maryam is not just a story of a prophet's mother but it is a divine call to every heart that feels loneliness, pain, and abandonment by people."
And he mentioned that divine inclusion in Surah Maryam either comes directly from above the seven heavens from God alone, or he sends someone to embrace your heart, as if a messenger from God to you in the form of humans, advising everyone feeling loneliness to read Surah Maryam as it is a divine promise: "I will never leave you alone, just worship me."
Maryam.. A model for women of the world
And Said Khaled that God Almighty summarized in Lady Mary all the pains of women in the world, their patience, and their ability to endure; thus, she is the lady of the women of the worlds. No man could understand what she had endured from pain; a woman is more capable of feeling that.
And he explained how Lady Mary, through worship, was able to protect herself from three things: loneliness, loss of coherence, personal flaws, as she often bowed and prostrated "And when the angels said, 'O Mary, indeed God has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the worlds* O Mary, be devout for your Lord and prostrate and bow with those who bow,'" and she is mentioned in the Quran 33 times, and the number of prostrations in our five daily prayers each day is 33 prostrations.
And from her acts of worship that Khaled mentions, as stated in the Quran:
-"And mention in the Book, Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the east": To watch the sunrise.
-"Then she placed a curtain to seclude herself from them": A privacy for prayer, two units of quiet prayer.
"Every time Zechariah entered upon her in the prayer chamber, he found with her provision": A symbol of prayer.
And said Khaled that when Mary worshiped and prostrated, divine inclusion began for her: "And when the angels said, 'O Mary, indeed God has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the worlds'," this inclusion increased for her: "Every time Zechariah entered upon her in the prayer chamber, he found with her provision. He said, 'O Mary, how is this for you?' She said, 'It is from God. Indeed, God provides for whom He wills without account'."
And he added that when her father and mother died, God sent her someone from humans to contain her, "And Zechariah took care of her," and this was after a competition over who would take care of her, "And you were not with them when they cast their pens [to decide] which of them should take care of Mary and not with them when they disputed," and he increased her containment when he gifted her with Jesus, peace be upon him.
The divine inclusion of four prophets
And Khaled pointed to that Surah Maryam is the only surah in which the name of the Merciful is mentioned 11 times, and it contains four types of divine inclusion by four prophets:
-"And mention in the book Abraham. Indeed, he was a man of truth, a prophet": His father expelled him at the age of 16, "He said, 'Do you desire gods other than me, O Abraham? If you do not desist, I will surely stone you, so leave me for a prolonged period.' He said, 'Peace be upon you. I will ask forgiveness for you from my Lord. Indeed, He is gracious to me'."
-"And mention in the book Moses. Indeed, he was chosen, and he was a messenger, a prophet": Alone facing Pharaoh, then divine support came to him: "And we bestowed upon him from our mercy his brother Aaron, a prophet."
-"And mention in the book Ishmael. Indeed, he was true to his promise and was a messenger, a prophet": Alone without his father Abraham, he was granted a family: "And he used to enjoin on his family prayer and zakah and was pleasing to his Lord."
-"And mention in the book Enoch. Indeed, he was a man of truth, a prophet": A teacher to the ancient Egyptians, employed by him, or from the planning line,.. "And we raised him to a high place."
And Khaled said that the message from that: "All of them, servants of God, he contained them and reassured them from their fears."
And Khaled listed manifestations of inclusion mentioned in Surah Maryam:
-Zechariah is contained by John after long patience.
-Mary is contained by Jesus after her painful loneliness.
-Abraham is contained by Ishmael and Isaac after his father's rejection.
-Moses is contained by his brother Aaron in confronting Pharaoh.
And he clarified that the goal of the surah: When you feel alone, read Surat Maryam and worship God, which reaches the summit of inclusion in the saying of God: "Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds, the Most Merciful will assign for them affection." And in its conclusion it says: "And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive"; be with God, he will contain you from birth to death to the Day of Resurrection.
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