Life is the product of an Unconditionally Generous Creative Force. Creation came into being and we are given life out of nothing at all. We are given life before we do anything to earn or deserve it.
The self comes from this unfathomable Generosity. Unconditional Generosity which can also be called Love, is the very essence of Existence, of the self. It is our very nature.
A wholesome self is a generous self; it spends itself in unconditional service. It gives of itself without regard to self-interest.
An unwholesome self, which misuses and withholds itself and acts selfishly, will eventually destroy itself because it is going against its nature.
Unconditional generosity is never painful or onerous. If giving feels onerous or painful then the self is giving for its own sake; it has a conditional motive. Unconditional generosity - giving to give away - is exhilarating, joyful, freeing. It feels right in the bones.
Spending the self unconditionally is joyful because it is Homecoming. It is fruition. It is the fulfillment of an original promise. It is like the Sun shining and the rain pouring down on saint and sinner alike, because that's what they are, that's what they do.
and AllahuAlim
