Spiritual Cleansing: Goodness, Prayer and Purification of the Soul
soline(EN)
Spiritual cleansing is not merely a ritual. It is an inner journey that begins with remorse, deepens through prayer, and is completed through acts of goodness. Sometimes this journey takes you to a village you have never seen, to the door of a mother you have never met.
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It Is Time for Spiritual Cleansing: Soline’s Morning
That morning Soline came into the garden looking sad. Liv was by her side.
“Ali, you couldn’t sleep again, could you? What are you getting up to at night?” she said.
“Never mind me — tell me why you look so sad and lost in thought” I said.
“I had a strange dream. That’s why I’m so lost in thought” said Soline.
I listened. I smiled.
“What a beautiful dream. Come on, have breakfast. After breakfast I’m taking you both to a village outside the city.”
Soline and Liv looked at each other with curiosity. I could tell from their eyes they wanted to ask questions. But I gave no answer.
“Soline, bring an envelope with money. We’re going to buy children’s clothes and food supplies. But with your own money. No questions — you’ll see everything for yourself.”
Soline puzzled, Liv curious. Both stayed silent.
Spiritual cleansing begins like this. One morning, with a gentle sadness, following the thread of a dream.
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The First Step of Spiritual Cleansing Rituals: Setting Out
Breakfast was done. We hit the road. We did the shopping. We reached the entrance of the village. I stopped the car.
“Soline, take a good look. This village, this fountain, this child… does any of it seem familiar?”
Soline looked out through the windshield. First she froze. Her eyes widened. Then she screamed.
“What happened, why did you scream?” said Liv.
“Liv… this village, this fountain, this child… everything is exactly like my dream.”
She jumped out of the car. She ran to the fountain. She held the little child so tightly — as though she had found someone she had known for years. Liv and I watched for a while. Then we took the child with us and walked toward the house.
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The Home of Those Seeking Inner Peace Through Prayer
It was an old house with a garden. A cow grazing calmly outside. About ten orange trees in the garden, their branches heavy with fruit. A girl of around nine sat under one of the trees reading a book — as though she had found the most peaceful corner in the world.
At the door stood a middle-aged, modestly dressed woman. She was bottle-feeding a small lamb. At her feet a cat was waiting — give me some too written all over its face.
When the woman saw us she ran over with worry. She checked the child first, then pulled him tightly to her chest. “My Mehmet” she said, her voice trembling.
Then she stood up. She smiled. “Welcome” she said.
I stayed to one side. The woman was devout — I did not want her to feel uneasy around me. Soline explained where she had found the child. Then she gently offered what they had brought, along with the envelope.
The woman stepped back. She was proud. She did not want to be a burden to anyone.
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Spiritual Cleansing and Surrender to Allah/God: Send From Your Treasury
It was time for me to step in.
“Please accept it. Are you not the one who prays to Allah/God every single day? Are you not the one who calls out every night — ‘My Allah/God, send me help from Your treasury — not for myself, but for my children’? Are you not the one who lies in bed weeping silently while the children sleep?”
The woman froze. Her voice trembled.
“How do you know all this? How could you possibly know? Who are you?”
Soline was stunned. Liv was stunned.
“Why are you surprised that I know” I said calmly. “Are you not a mother? Do you not say ‘I may live in poverty but I will never let my children live in sin’? You are a devout person. Of course you would ask Allah/God for everything with this prayer — as every Muslim does.”
The woman fell silent.
“You prayed. And Allah/God chose someone as a vessel to meet your need — and that was Soline. It could have been anyone. But Soline also needed to do something good for someone. She was also praying. This is how Allah/God brought you together. You needed help. She needed to give goodness.”
The woman slowly nodded. “This is true” she said.
Then she turned to Soline. Then to Liv.
“Are you… Christian?”
Soline answered hesitantly. “Yes.”
The woman looked at her for a moment. Then she pulled Soline into such a tight embrace that Soline could barely breathe. Soline stood there wide-eyed, her eyes shining.
She took Soline and Liv by the hand. She walked them cheerfully toward the table in the garden. The three of them sat down together — as though they had known each other for years.
Spiritual Detox: A Need That Goes Both Ways
I stayed to one side.
“Please don’t feel uncomfortable. We also need your help. We need a bag full of orange leaves. Think of it as — you give us the leaves in return for what we brought.”
The woman laughed warmly. “Oh, that’s very easy! There are so many trees in the garden. Let me send the children to pick some.”
“You ladies talk. Give the children their gifts — they’ll be so happy. I’ll gather the leaves” I said.
Soline looked at me with curiosity. *”Why do you want the leaves, Ali?”*
“Soline, in your dream the child held out a branch with orange leaves toward you. That dream was showing that the leaves from these trees — right here — would be good for the mother’s stomach. Leaves from anywhere else won’t do.”
Soline looked at me for a moment. Then she smiled quietly.
I left them to themselves.
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The Most Beautiful Moment of the Spiritual Cleansing Journey
I watched from a distance.
The children had put on their new clothes and shoes and were running around the garden. They kept looking at each other and laughing, then looking down at their shoes and laughing again. They didn’t know what to do with themselves from joy.
The three women had fallen into deep conversation. As though they had known each other all their lives. They laughed and laughed. Every now and then they pointed toward me and talked.
They called out to me. “Come, have some tea.”
I went over. Questions came one after another. Every sin carries a price I told them. You pay that price first through remorse and repentance. Then through an act of goodness, you allow the trouble that came with the sin to leave. Trouble is the punishment of sin. It leaves through repentance, prayer and goodness. In short — this is spiritual cleansing.
The woman suddenly laughed.
“Ali, you and Soline suit each other so well. Soline is a wonderful girl — don’t let her go. Marry her soon.”
At that moment I had just taken a sip of tea. It went down the wrong way. I started coughing, caught off guard for a second. “If it is meant to be” I said, trying to recover.
Soline laughed. I turned to her.
“Soline, come tomorrow and ask for my hand from my mother. Look — many wanted to marry me, my mother said no to all of them. I want my weight in gold — I don’t come cheap, know my worth, act accordingly” I said.
Laughter filled the air.
The woman smiled and turned to Soline. “The groom seems quite valuable too — wants a lot of gold, and apparently has many admirers.”
Soline laughed and wrapped her arms around my neck.
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Forgiveness, Healing and Spiritual Cleansing: The Sadness of Goodbye
It was time to leave. We said our farewells to the family — short acquaintances sometimes carry the weight of years. It was a bittersweet goodbye.
On the way back Liv suddenly asked.
“Are you two… together?”
I answered. “Soline is my one and only love. But we are not a couple.”
Liv looked confused. Soline turned to Liv.
“No, we are not a couple. We are like siblings. But we are each other’s love.”
Liv looked even more lost.
“Don’t — you’re going to completely blow Liv’s circuits” I said laughing. “Liv, our love is like siblings. Not like the love between a man and a woman. I am like her older brother.”
Liv just smiled. Then she added:
“I am in awe of how well you work together. Ali, I’m so glad I came here — I found peace. It was a natural therapy. That betrayal I lived through, the damage from the twin flame — it didn’t even cross my mind. I feel completely clean, like I’ve had a natural shower. I experienced spiritual cleansing.“
Liv turned to Soline and laughed.
“Does Ali have a twin? Or can we clone him — I want one too.”
Soline laughed.
“Ali is an original. The copyright belongs to me and I’m not giving it to anyone. He is my dream interpreter, my listener, my spiritual guide, my older brother — he is my everything. I breathe with him.”
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What Is Spiritual Cleansing? The Cycle of Repentance and Goodness
Spiritual cleansing rituals are not complicated. In the Anatolian tradition and Islamic perspective, the essence of this process is:
Sin → Remorse → Repentance and prayer → Goodness → Purification
Purification of the soul happens when this cycle is complete. Faith in hard times is what keeps a person standing. Surrender to Allah/God is the deepest expression of that faith.
That mother wept every night. Soline prayed every day. Allah/God brought them together in the shade of an orange tree.
Spiritual detox is sometimes exactly this.
What should be done for spiritual cleansing?
Repenting with genuine remorse, sincere prayer, and then a concrete act of goodness. These three steps together form the foundation of spiritual cleansing rituals
Why do shadow entities come?
Sins and mistakes create weakness in the spiritual field. This weakness opens a door to negative entities. Purification of the soul closes that door.
What is the meaning of unanswered prayers?
Prayers are not left unanswered — they are fulfilled at the right time and in the right way. Sometimes Allah/God fulfills your prayer through the hands of another — just as that mother’s prayer was answered through Soline.
How long does spiritual detox take?
It varies from person to person. What matters is sincerity. A single genuine act of goodness can sometimes lift a weight that has been carried for years.
Soline’s journey continues. Stay with Secret Warden for the next chapters of the series.
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