Amal Al Khaleej

الأمل في الخليج

تعالوا لي يا جميع المتعبين والذين أحمالهم ثقيلة، وأنا أريحكم. احملوا نيري، وتعلموا مني لأني وديع ومتواضع القلب، فتجدوا راحة لنفوسكم. لأن نيري سهل وحملي خفيف.
عيسىا لمسيح في إنجيل متى 30-28:11
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My years in the Arabian Gulf have opened my eyes to see that many times, in the richest and most developed places, there are still so many depressed people who are hopeless. I want this site to be a place where people find hope. Where they find they are loved. I want to discuss depression and hopelessness and offer you good news.
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We feel as if God is very far - across a large Wadi no matter how we try to be good.
Dear friends in the Arabian Gulf, among all the wonderful things that Allah has blessed the Arabian Gulf with, we still see need and problems in many forms among even the richest. You, in you heart, sense that you are hungry or thirsty for spiritual things. You pray many times a day and you have done your best to please God. Maybe you have done Hajj and Umrah and for a few days those made you feel happy but it starts to go away and you are left with hunger. You know many friends who try to satisfy the hunger with parties or shopping but when they are left alone, they are still hungry and thirsty. Indeed, it feels as if you are on one side of a very deep Wadi and Allah (God) is on the other side. No matter what you try, it never seems you can get any closer.
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Our good works (Ajr) are like dirty cloth unless God forgives us.
Let me explain the problem to you. We have all done bad things and they separate us from Allah (God). This is why we feel like God is on the other side of a very large Wadi. We do good things because we have been told that will make God happy and it will make us good enough for Jenna (Paradise). My friend, God has told us that our good works (Ajr) are like dirty cloth (64 ﺃﺷﻌﻴﺎء) when we are compared to how perfect He is. So, our works will never be enough. They will never make us close to God, they will never make us feel satisfied - this is the foundation of why so many people are unsatisfied and it leeds to things such as bad behavior and depression.

But here is the good news!!

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The good news is that God has provided a "Bridge" so that we don't have to be separated from Him.
Are you ready for the good news! The good news is that Allah made a way for us to join Him, to repair the relationship that we have broken. This was not something we could ever do with our good works (Ajr). We could never cross the Wadi, but Allah made a bridge! We can cross it and join Him in the most satisfying relationship. Satisfaction that can never come from good rules, or money or more religion. My dear friend, I want to show you this Bridge. This website has videos or lessons to explain the path.

please click LESSONS for free lessons on how to find joy
please click VIDEOS for some short videos to introduce more ideas

Please contact me if you need more guidance. I would love to hear where you are in life and finding "The Bridge"!!