Choose: are you going to fly or you put chains on yourself?
A businessman or someone who is active in public life focuses all his attention on the world he lives in. This is his space. It may be economic, political, cultural space, but in any case, earthly space, so rational one. I've written about rational and irrational spaces before, but now I'm going to step further.
Such a man is careful not to slip into a space he cannot explain to himself, where he does not see logic in it. The thing what he calls it logic at least.
However, there may be times can come when we fall out of the rational space. Like hospital, prison, old age etc. Even so, our brain wants to work, it wants to comprehend the reality with its own means of logic, but that reality no longer has the material benefits as the one had before. But another space opens up. This is the irrational space where interests and calculations are replaced by imagination and calmness. We call this faith, where God, Allah, gives us the feeling that makes us understand the importance of thinking in more than one world instead of thinking in one world. Obviously, we cannot acquire this space in order to be only ours because it exists in other cultures too. They get there by other methods, but the point is the same. Our method is prayer, meditation, remembering and imagination. These are approximately similar methods what made our great explorers, including Einstein, able to advance further in the discovery of universe.
Not everyone benefits out of the rational world. Some will be rich, but most will be not. But I have good news. In the irrational world, however, it is up to the individual to determine what his fate will be. Does he accept this world or not, does he find a place in it or not, does he feel comfort in it or not? If he finds comfort in it, the rational world will lose its significance. Loneliness will no longer be loneliness; material poverty will no longer be poverty. We find wealth somewhere else.
There are also "states" in this irrational world. When does a state exist in the earthly dimension? It will exist if it sets up its institutional systems, it has well-known boundaries and is recognized by other states. Let us call the other states UN for the sake of simplicity.
The situation is similar in the spiritual world. We have to create an inner order, a rule, and it is not enough to declare ourselves to be independent of the rational world, but the point is, do we get acceptance by God? If we find a home in this space, it will be not a half-room hut, but an infinite dimension in which we become soaring souls and not prisoners or servants anymore. This soaring is not often tolerated by the beings of the rational world. Because if you are free to fly, they cannot force you under the control of their regulations. That's why they change the system. The point where they can change it is the rules for creating your inner order and its external recognition.
This is where they pull you down to the human space and give you regulations how to organize yourself inside. This gives them tremendous opportunity for manipulation. The other issue is your recognition. They take away the right from God to recognize you and your belief. They are replacing God, playing the role of the United Nations and they give you a diploma or plaque indicating your affiliation. Instead of flying freely, a leash is attached to you to control the length of your flight path.
So far and no further. In the rational world, the only thing what is important: can you eat potato with some meat tomorrow or not. This is what your attention is distracted from continuously. The rest is only abracadabra, deception, garnishing
And keep thy soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and evening, seeking His Face; and let not thine eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp and glitter of this Life; no obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the remembrance of Us, one who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond all bounds. Quran 18:28)
The true servants of Allah are those whose hearts are turned to Him morning, noon, and night, and who seek not worldly gain, but Allah's Grace, Allah's own Self, His Presence and nearness. Even if they are poor in this world's goods, their society gives far more inward and spiritual satisfaction than worldly grandeur or worldly attractions.
Prison, hospital, old age, loneliness. Think it over what you need? Do you need someone in those situations to whisper nonsense in your ears? Or you choose the silence and start a dialogue with Someone Who gives peace for your soul. This Someone will be with you even the time when the others are gone and you will be lost in the obscurity of oblivion.