Why are we sometimes afflicted with psychological troubles, why do we get impatient and make our souls suffer with the feeling of being unable to do anything? We occupy ourselves with everything from our bodily health to economic situation, from our status in public to worldly desires; and when we do not solve these we become upset and uneasy.

Why do we go under the world rather than wander on it; and serve to the material that is supposed to serve us?

The situation of ours tires our souls and drains its strength. We cannot succeed in persevering against all these, because, as Bediüzzaman beautifully puts it, we distribute our strength of patience to the past and to the future; we no longer have strength in our patience toward the present and finally we are conquered by troubles and desperation.

When we go into the source of all these, we are faced with this mistake: “We have mixed satisfaction of the self with contentment of the heart.”

The one who sticks to the wrong way strains himself. This is the mistake that tires us, makes us suffer, and finally makes us desperate. The moment we abandon this mistake we will be heading for peace and bliss.