We Need Water But We Want Coca-Cola

[muthmainnah]

We Need Water But We Want Coca-Cola
Zayn Al-Abdeen


In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower Of Mercy
This is the problem with desire. Our natural desire to live well and enjoy life is
co-opted by the consumer system and turned into something enslaving. If we
could just extinguish consumer desires and stop shopping, we would get a lot
closer to every day. Simply because we would not have to do so much work.
The key is not to renounce all pleasures but to be a master of them. When it
comes to pleasure, we seem to oscillate between bingeing and abstention. Is it
possible that somehow we are encouraged to binge and abstain because that
does the double-job of keeping cash flowing through the system and keeping us
docile through self-adulation and guilt.
It is important to distinguish between the physical pleasures provided by drink
and food and the promise of pleasure produced by the marketing of mass
produced objects.
We desire things. We are attached to things. We believe that things will make us
better and this desire produces a restless craving, which leads us into the world
and schemes for betterment but of course, things have a built-in disappointment
factor. Think back to the last time you bought a “thing.” Did it live-up to the
expectation that had been created by its expensive TV advertising campaign?
The fact that things are disappointing leads us not to abandon things, as it
should, but to buy more things in the hope that the new and improved thing will
not disappoint like the previous thing.
This is how capitalism works through a constant stream of disappointments,
which encourages the spending of more and more money.

The statement of
Allah:

“And the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment. “ (57:20)
“O mankind! Be afraid of your Lord (by keeping your duty and staying away
from the prohibited), and fear a Day when no father can avail aught for his
son, nor a son avail aught for his father. Verily, the promise of Allah is
true: let not then this (worldly) present life deceive you, nor let the chief
deceiver (Satan) deceive you about Allah. Verily Allah, with Him (Alone) is
the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that
which is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow,
and no person knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allah is All-Knower,
All-Aware.” (31:33-34)​

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[hassana elkoussi]

How true! Gazak Allah khair .

 

[Almeftah]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Jazaki Allahu Khair sister...

This is why we need to control our desires, We may like something which turns out to be bad for us, or hate something which turns out to be good for us..

We can desire to do good, and we try and try, but sometimes it seems to be impossible, because we werent meant to do it. So we quit but not right away, because we always have to try.

Trying and succeeding (in doing good) has its reward, Also theres a reward for just trying even if not successful ( Only with good intentions and good deeds).

We have the will to chose and try doing something, good or bad. but there's a stronger will that makes us succeed in whatever we do. It is the will of Allah.

May Allah guide us to what he loves and pleases.