Dear Distinguished Members,

The Gulberenk Educational Children’s Program, a service by the Gulberenk Values ​​Education Association, was staged in Adana on the last Sunday of August. Thereby, Adana completed its third program with full enthusiasm.

Through the program entitled “The Iced Sherbet”, we learned that our hearts, like our bodies, need relief. It has turned out then that we should get tired of doing good and beneficial things, rather than doing in vain activities. When we get tired and thirsty, we had better quench our thirst with useful and healthy drinks. Well yeah, a nice refreshing homemade sherbet made with our own hands, what a refreshing gesture!

Not only the human body, but also the heart seems to need relief. The iced sherbet of the heart is, metaphorically, our prayers, patience and worshipping as a whole. When we are bored with something, when we face a very difficult challenge, we should open our hands and pray to our beloved Allah and relaxed. Without prayer, patience and the sajdaa one would not feel relieved.

Each person gets burned at certain times. The orphaned children are longing for their mothers and fathers, the Muslim mothers and fathers burn from the inside when seeing their children not practising their prayers, there are those who have to live in far countries and so they have a burning longing for their homelands. When a fire breaks out firefighters come to rescue, when our mouths dry as a result of thirst and iced sherbet saves us, prayers and worshipping rescue us when our hearts burn of pain.

An intellectual Muslim always does his/her prayers, her/his heart is always patient, and spends his/her days with worshipping. Those who are mindless are not obliged to pray and/or worship. The Gulberenk Children give importance to the thirst of their bodies, as well as the thirst of their hearts. For this reason, they have learned and absorbed Allah’s commandments and prohibitions.

It is great to refresh others and refresh yourself; but many people do not know the value of this blessing without shrinking spiritually and/or physically. Our beloved Allah sometimes tests us with difficulties so that we can give be thankful anytime even when nothing goes wrong.

As you can see, we both were quite thoughtful and had fun at Gulberenk. We both cheered up and comtemplated. On the way out, we were very thankful to Mother Emine while drinking her sherbet made from fragrant roses. We felt the generosity of our beloved Allah while resting with His bounties.

Since this program is the last program of the 2018 – 2019 service season, Gulberenk Bees started to work for the new season without losing any time. We have been very happy to hear this. September will start with the program entitled “Meatballs in the Barbecue” program. Though we said goodbye until then, our hearts will be together. We never fall apart! 🙂