Sincerity From Meaningful Defeat in Victory

Sincerity From Meaningful Defeat In Victory

By: Jacob Ereste
Freelance Journalist

The victory of consciousness is a victory in the way of thinking that the essence of life must be interpreted with Divinity, humanity and a better and quality existence interpreting hablum minallah and hablum minannas. Because God clearly and certainly created the universe and its creatures with the concept of rahmatan lil alamin. So that humans deserve to be called khalifatullah — God’s representatives — on earth.

Therefore, a Sufi poet always sings his praise poems to God, an expression of the peak of gratitude that surpasses all forms of worship in any form without ever questioning the beliefs or beliefs of others in dialogue and conversation with God.

The praise poems full of gratitude are selected verses written in the sky that are blown by the wind in melodious whispers in between the rain wetting the earth. Then the plants also responded in amazement, growing with their flowers and fruits that ripen refreshing the sacred power of thought and reason in prostration of longing for the entire contents of the universe, without exception to himself when meditating in amazement mentioning the great name that is not burned until it is as small as an atom that is split by the eight winds.

Awareness of all God’s gifts, said Sri Eko Sriyanto Galgendu is a responsibility that must and must be accounted for. Achieving a similar understanding is part of spiritual practice. The same is true of the ability to conquer personal ambition and desire through stages that have reached the peak of the essence of fasting. Although not to be in a similar position is really not easy, it can be done by anyone who is interested and intends to achieve it.

Such are the stages of the essence of the meaning of fasting that exist in all religious teachings and guidance, to understand and realize one’s limits so as not to exceed the capacity of one’s abilities and rights that may and may not be done so as not to cause harm to oneself and perhaps also to others. Because the obligation must not exceed the right, and the right itself must not be enjoyed equal to the value of the obligation that has been given. That is the sincerity that can free everyone who realizes and understands and sincerely does it.

Megara Coffee, April 21, 2025

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