Dear Distinguished Visitors,
The Gulberenk Educational Children’s Program, a service of the Gulberenk Values Education Association, was staged in Zonguldak on the last Sunday of August. Thus in Zonguldak we enthusiastically completed the last program of the season.
Through the program entitled “The Iced Sherbet”, we learned that our hearts, like our bodies need relief. Turns out we should get tired of doing good deeds and beneficial things instead of vain activities. Thereby, when one gets tired and thirsty, he/she should quench her/his thirst with useful and healthy drinks. Think about it; a nice and fresh sherbet made at home with our own hands, how refreshing would it be, right?
Not only the human body, but also the heart clearly needs to get refreshed. Thus the iced sherbet of the heart could be then prayers, patience and so worshipping. When we are bored with something, when we face a very difficult challenge, we open our hands and pray to our beloved Allah and relax. A Muslim would not feel relieved without prayers, patience and worship.
Everybody can sometimes get burned, metaphorically, from the inside. The orphaned children grief with a deep longing for their mothers and fathers, the Muslim mothers and fathers grief witnessing their children distancing themselves from worship and prayers, and there are those who grief and burn from the inside due to their fate that has them live in countries other than their motherlands. Thus, when a fire breaks out we have the firefighters, when our mouths dry out due to thirst we have the iced sherbet, and prayers and worshipping as a whole are there to rescue us from the so called heart burns.
A clever Muslim is the one who always does his/her prayers regularly and whose heart is always patient. Not even a day goes by without praying. And those who are vice versa, well, for them worshipping is not compulsory. Gulberenk Children care a lot for the thirst of hearts as well as the thirst of their bodies. For this reason, they learn Allah’s commandments and prohibitions thoroughly.
It is nice to get refreshed and refresh others; but many people do not know the value of this beauty without shrinking physically and spiritually. Our beloved Allah sometimes tests us with difficulties so that we can be thankful for times without troubles.
As you can see, we both contemplated and had fun at Gulberenk. We both cheered up and got thoughtful. On the way out, we were thankful to mother Emine while drinking her iced sherbets made by her from lovely fragrant roses. We felt the generosity of our beloved Allah while resting and feeling relief 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 were very happy to hear that. While we said goodbye to each other to meet up again in September for the “Meatballs in the Barbecue Program” we felt that our hearts did not really say farewell. We will never fall apart for sure! 🙂
