This question relates to the 'evil eye' and why and how someone’s jealousy can have an effect on our lives. Why is it that when something good happens in your life and you tell someone, then sometimes you can loose that thing you want the most?? If God is so great and above all things, then surely he controls all things and surely someone’s jealousy and 'evil eye' should not be able to affect our lives at all?? If God only wants good for his followers and believers then why does he allow someone’s jealousy have a negative effect on our lives?? I was always told as a child, that if you wish something bad for someone, God will never grant that wish to come true, because God is merciful and only wants the best for his follower. If this is true then why does God allow someone's 'nazar' to affect your life??!!
2006-09-05 00:40:51 · 11 answers · asked by Eli 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God relies on our choice how to use our own free will. Think Adam and Eve - although God forbade them the friut of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he did not disable them for choosing to have it. It's still the same - we can call down evil on ourselves by our will.
And something as simple a good nightly prayer will protect you from such effects - as long as you let go of derminately using your will and grant that the choice should be not yours, but that of God.
Works for me. I just let go of my individual identity and give up my energy to the cosmic soul / God with love.
2006-09-05 00:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I rate your question as a good one. However, we tend to think that when something “good” happens in our lives that is due to our own efforts and we give credit to ourselves. When something “bad” happens then we tend to think that others are at fault or even we start to question the all-merciful nature of God Himself. You may be 1000 % sure that God is all-merciful and that whatever He does is for the best. But from our tiny, insignificant perspective (which is tinged by the illusion that we think ourselves to be the center of the Universe and our lives to be the best dramas ever) we very often do not appreciate how whatever happens is actually for our ultimate good.
So, for the case you mentioned here are few of morals we can derive from it:
1.This world is a temporary place of suffering, where everyone is a slave of lust, hatred, duality, jealousy, greed, vanity, etc. If you are in prison would you expect fine qualities from the other prisoners? So, welcome to the club! You are nobody special.
2.The real thing is to get out of this miserable place and go back home, back to Godhead where there is eternal life, full of knowledge and bliss. This is our home, not this temporary place of birth, death, disease and old age. God certainly wants us to go there, so if we get realizations that there is actually only suffering, this is actually a blessing for us to develop desire to get out of here.
3.Bad things happening to us are the effects of our past sinful activities. So, there is no one else to blame then ourselves. First we should be cautios that we do not harm others and always remain humble before God while tolerating the results of our past misdeeds.
2006-09-05 01:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by aumklim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if there is a God, he put us down here to watch us squirm in our mundane lives. At any rate, start taking responsibility for your own actions and stop looking towards some deity for protection from everything. If there was such a thing, there wouldn't be a spilt in opinion between Atheists and religious believers already.
2006-09-05 00:44:32 · answer #3 · answered by optimistic_pessimist1985 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Boy.
A Lot of people teach this from the pulpit but it is not in the bible.
If you are a Christian you will have troubles and hardships in this world. God will work it all together for good. The word "Christian? means "little Christ" we suffer as Christ did. God allows things to happen so we can learn. We are under a curse here on earth. Its gets better when we get home to heaven.
GOD bless ya!
2006-09-05 00:52:11 · answer #4 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In general I think what seems evil can be some result in a person, of trauma we haven't ourselves experienced. As to why any trauma originally happens all I can think of is God wants to make us stronger. A feather sitting on a post sits and gathers dust and rain and disappears; but a feather tossed and turned by the wind gets stronger before it disappears. Free will. Free will. Free will.
2006-09-05 00:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think someone`s nazar affect your life because you believe that it will affect your life..sometimes bad things happen in our lives but since we believe that it is related to someone else`s evil eye it hurts us but as soon as we believe that 'Ok there are bad things in life and I have to experience them'it won`t hurt you anymore.You see what you believe in...
2006-09-05 00:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by taqua_12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right. That would mean that we would only be doing good and the world would have been a heaven. Unfortunately it is not. Which means we have the autonomy to wish and do anything. And we will bear the consequences of it, good or bad.
God does not control every action of people. He only make them responsible for their actions.
2006-09-05 00:53:49 · answer #7 · answered by Mohan K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
..don't be so ridiculous...you're being paranoid..you have to come back to reality..your believes in God has nothing to do what you do to your life...get on the wagon of reality..you're watching too many movies...get out from behind that monitor...and see what the real world is about...before your time runs out...now go and experience life the way it should be....
2006-09-05 00:49:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may have. But not on my
2006-09-05 01:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by Melvin C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't let it have an affect on your life, YOU let it have an affect on your life.
2006-09-05 02:05:27 · answer #10 · answered by //*Sami*// 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋