Belief

Imam Ali has said a beautiful sentence about belief: "The person who believes in water will never stay thirsty." Allow me to elaborate on this a little.

Imagine two men in a remote desert. They are very thirsty, but they have never drunk water in their entire lives. They have just heard that somewhere on this planet water exists, and if they find it, they will be able to quench their thirst. One of these men decides to believe in the existence of water and starts to search for it while the other one thinks why he should believe in something he has never seen? What if they have lied to him? What if this is all a joke? What do you think will happen? The man who simply believed in the existence of water will eventually find it and he will stay alive, and the other one…will die.

I think the very same rule applies to us. There are a lot of things we have not seen, but we are told to believe in them. We have to make a choice. We have to be one of those men. I do not know if what I am told is the truth. I do not know whether this path I have chosen will have a happy ending or not, but I know even if I do not find what I am looking for, hope will keep me alive.