Question:
I understand that if we want a boost in our spirituality, we should do our best to serve and please our parents, but why doI feel less spiritual when I am running around doing erands for them, as opposed to doing dua (supplications) and constantly communicating with God e.t.c?
Answer:
We all feel the same, because we have wrong measures of marking ourselves. We mistakenly assume that spirituality is by merely wheeping and crying, but that’s a very easy way (to sit at the corner of a mosque and keep reading Du’as), the harder way is by being obedient to His Commands even if I don’t get much senses out of it. Imagine, Prophet Ibrahim’s status was elevated when he willingly tried to slaughter his son (at God’s command), not by merely praying.
Answered by: Sheikh Mansour Leghaei
