📷 Calmness, an Introduction to Goodness
Calmness causes the buds of a person’s nature to blossom and his talents to grow. Calmness is a base for a person for his wisdom to spring forth. He will be able to gain knowledge and increase his love for goodness and the good people of the world. However, an artificial calmness, which is the result of neglecting the truths in the universe, does not have a deep effect on a person. A calmness, which is the result of paying attention to God, is an introduction to all goodness.
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Calmness causes the buds of a person’s nature to blossom and his talents to grow. Calmness is a base for a person for his wisdom to spring forth. He will be able to gain knowledge and increase his love for goodness and the good people of the world. However, an artificial calmness, which is the result of neglecting the truths in the universe, does not have a deep effect on a person. A calmness, which is the result of paying attention to God, is an introduction to all goodness.
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Part 8 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 Question: Isn’t our motivation insincere if we pray so that we can live happily?
📌 A prayer gives energy and happiness and is an indicator of purity in worship.
💠 Now, we should see what kind of praying helps us to obtain these valuable results and blessings? (These are the blessings, which were previously mentioned.) Which kind of praying helps us to reach to such an entranceway leading to energy and happiness? It is obvious that it is not just any kind of prayer, which has these effects. For example, a prayer, which is performed only due to our duty before God, or a prayer, which is done lazily, doesn’t have such effects. A lethargic prayer cannot remove a soul’s lethargy. Therefore, we need a good prayer. In order to start this discussion, we must have arrived at this question, “How can we pray a good prayer?” What can we do for our prayer to be a life spring and give us liveliness and vitality?
💠 Don’t say that if a person’s motivation in praying a good prayer is to gain a benefit for himself, I mean living happily, this is not a pure or spiritual motivation. Because, you can look at prayer as being something, which gives energy and happiness, without having a selfish outlook, and at the same time consider it to be an indicator of purity in worship. If your untainted heart really desires mysticism and purity, you probably know that a pure and spiritual worship act gives the most energy to a person and brings the most vitality. Make your prayer beautiful, not to have a happy life, but because a worship act is only valuable and brings us closer to God if it has been done nicely. Of course, it will also have such results as bringing a happy life filled with vitality.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 8 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📌 A prayer gives energy and happiness and is an indicator of purity in worship.
💠 Now, we should see what kind of praying helps us to obtain these valuable results and blessings? (These are the blessings, which were previously mentioned.) Which kind of praying helps us to reach to such an entranceway leading to energy and happiness? It is obvious that it is not just any kind of prayer, which has these effects. For example, a prayer, which is performed only due to our duty before God, or a prayer, which is done lazily, doesn’t have such effects. A lethargic prayer cannot remove a soul’s lethargy. Therefore, we need a good prayer. In order to start this discussion, we must have arrived at this question, “How can we pray a good prayer?” What can we do for our prayer to be a life spring and give us liveliness and vitality?
💠 Don’t say that if a person’s motivation in praying a good prayer is to gain a benefit for himself, I mean living happily, this is not a pure or spiritual motivation. Because, you can look at prayer as being something, which gives energy and happiness, without having a selfish outlook, and at the same time consider it to be an indicator of purity in worship. If your untainted heart really desires mysticism and purity, you probably know that a pure and spiritual worship act gives the most energy to a person and brings the most vitality. Make your prayer beautiful, not to have a happy life, but because a worship act is only valuable and brings us closer to God if it has been done nicely. Of course, it will also have such results as bringing a happy life filled with vitality.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 8 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📷 Change your tendencies!
Most people are in pursuit of meeting their needs and fulfilling their desires unaware that they should be in pursuit of changing their needs and desires. If a person is unable to deeply change and improve his needs, he will be crushed under the heavy load of unfulfilled desires and unmet needs.
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Most people are in pursuit of meeting their needs and fulfilling their desires unaware that they should be in pursuit of changing their needs and desires. If a person is unable to deeply change and improve his needs, he will be crushed under the heavy load of unfulfilled desires and unmet needs.
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📷 Lawful (Halal) Enjoyments
A person who rises at sunrise enjoys the blessing of sleep more. In addition to the Hereafter, God likes your enjoyment to increase in this world too. For example, He forbids the enjoyment of looking in an unlawful way so that your lawful enjoyment will increase. In addition to the enjoyment of the Hereafter, Satan can’t tolerate to see your enjoyment in this world either.
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A person who rises at sunrise enjoys the blessing of sleep more. In addition to the Hereafter, God likes your enjoyment to increase in this world too. For example, He forbids the enjoyment of looking in an unlawful way so that your lawful enjoyment will increase. In addition to the enjoyment of the Hereafter, Satan can’t tolerate to see your enjoyment in this world either.
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🌺 Congratulations on the anniversary of the birth of Imam Husayn bin Ali ('a) and his brother, Abbas bin Ali ('a)!
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📷 Hope
The human being is a hopeful and wishful creature. This means he always likes to live with hope and aspirations. His fondness of hope is so great that sometimes he gives himself hope with his imagination. However, we should know that all the hopes in this world will be lost except for the hope for God’s Mercy and Generosity. Moreover, no hope warms a person like the hope for God.
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The human being is a hopeful and wishful creature. This means he always likes to live with hope and aspirations. His fondness of hope is so great that sometimes he gives himself hope with his imagination. However, we should know that all the hopes in this world will be lost except for the hope for God’s Mercy and Generosity. Moreover, no hope warms a person like the hope for God.
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📷 The human being is a weak creature.
The human being is a weak creature. He is weak in facing many problems, and the only power, which respects a human being’s weakness, is God. God likes His servant to get help from Him. He doesn’t become tired by the requests of His servant. He is kinder than a mother is to His weak servants, even at the times when he remains silent in front of the requests of His servant.
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The human being is a weak creature. He is weak in facing many problems, and the only power, which respects a human being’s weakness, is God. God likes His servant to get help from Him. He doesn’t become tired by the requests of His servant. He is kinder than a mother is to His weak servants, even at the times when he remains silent in front of the requests of His servant.
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📷 Life means…
Life is more like a race to win than it is a battle to stay. Life is not an attempt to escape from being destroyed. It is a struggle to win. Life is a struggle to make the best choice. It is not standing between life and destruction, unless we ourselves put ourselves on the verge of destruction. Otherwise, God’s tests are to determine who are the best ones.
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Life is more like a race to win than it is a battle to stay. Life is not an attempt to escape from being destroyed. It is a struggle to win. Life is a struggle to make the best choice. It is not standing between life and destruction, unless we ourselves put ourselves on the verge of destruction. Otherwise, God’s tests are to determine who are the best ones.
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📷 The First Companion
The Kind God never leaves us alone and He is with us at all moments. Even when we are sleeping, He is awake, sitting above our heads, and watching over us. This companionship is due to His Kindness and not because He is trying to catch us doing some wrong action or due to some hostility. He is completely aware of us but we are neglectful about Him. We are very weak without God. However, with God, we will be the most powerful creature in the world.
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The Kind God never leaves us alone and He is with us at all moments. Even when we are sleeping, He is awake, sitting above our heads, and watching over us. This companionship is due to His Kindness and not because He is trying to catch us doing some wrong action or due to some hostility. He is completely aware of us but we are neglectful about Him. We are very weak without God. However, with God, we will be the most powerful creature in the world.
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Part 9 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 We must correct our way of looking at prayer!
📌 First, we have to change our expectation from a good prayer to a reasonable and achievable expectation!
📌 Some of the things, which people say to promote praying, make us totally hopeless!
📌 At this point, we are not able to pray with fear of God in our heart, nor are we able to pray with love. For now, we have to pray a “good prayer”!
💠 How can we pray a good prayer? If we want to give value to our prayer, pay more attention to it, and do it in a better way, what should we do? First, we have to “fix our way of looking at prayer.” Then, we can try to pray a good prayer.
💠 A common belief about a good prayer is that a good prayer is a way of praying with love, which we have heard described when talking about the “friends of God.” Many think that a good prayer is a prayer where you cry from the beginning to the end. They think you must have fear of God and tremble because of this throughout the entire prayer. As soon as someone talks about a good prayer, many people think that he means a prayer in which a person talks to God directly, sees God, says hello to God and His friends, and hears their response. However, this is not what we mean by saying a good prayer, and the criteria of a good prayer are not these things.
💠 Usually, when people want to give advice to us, they tell us, “Why do you pray like that?! Do you know the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), used to go pale when it was praying time due to his fear of God and the way he felt?” Sometimes this way of promoting prayer makes us completely hopeless. We tell ourselves, “I’ll never become like this.” As soon as people talk about a “good prayer,” we start thinking about the prayer of the “Friends of God.” However, the good prayer of the Friends of God is a tall height. In order to move towards that peak, we must first reach the stage of praying a good prayer.
💠 It is true that when the members of the Household of the Prophet (‘a) would start to pray, all of the parts of their body would tremble due to their fear of God. They would also turn pale because of their enthusiasm for their Lord. But, for now we can’t pray like this. Maybe we won’t be able to pray like this till the end of our life. Therefore, it is logical that a “good prayer” for us is a different kind of prayer.
💠 We are still in the beginning of the way. Praying with love or praying with fear of God in our heart is not reachable for us for now. A person doesn’t fear God five times a day that easily. Maybe we haven’t feared God once in our whole life. Experiencing this verse, “However, those who have feared their Lord…” (Qur’an 79:40) is for the “Friends of God.” Fearing God’s eminence is different from fearing God because of our sins.
💠 For now, we are not able to pray with fear of God in our hearts and we are not able to pray with love. For now, we have to start praying a good prayer. In order to do that, we have to change our way of looking at prayer from the beginning. We should change our conception and expectation of a good prayer to a reasonable and attainable expectation. A good prayer is not necessarily accompanied by crying and moaning, or with fervour and passion. So, what is a good prayer?
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 9 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📌 First, we have to change our expectation from a good prayer to a reasonable and achievable expectation!
📌 Some of the things, which people say to promote praying, make us totally hopeless!
📌 At this point, we are not able to pray with fear of God in our heart, nor are we able to pray with love. For now, we have to pray a “good prayer”!
💠 How can we pray a good prayer? If we want to give value to our prayer, pay more attention to it, and do it in a better way, what should we do? First, we have to “fix our way of looking at prayer.” Then, we can try to pray a good prayer.
💠 A common belief about a good prayer is that a good prayer is a way of praying with love, which we have heard described when talking about the “friends of God.” Many think that a good prayer is a prayer where you cry from the beginning to the end. They think you must have fear of God and tremble because of this throughout the entire prayer. As soon as someone talks about a good prayer, many people think that he means a prayer in which a person talks to God directly, sees God, says hello to God and His friends, and hears their response. However, this is not what we mean by saying a good prayer, and the criteria of a good prayer are not these things.
💠 Usually, when people want to give advice to us, they tell us, “Why do you pray like that?! Do you know the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), used to go pale when it was praying time due to his fear of God and the way he felt?” Sometimes this way of promoting prayer makes us completely hopeless. We tell ourselves, “I’ll never become like this.” As soon as people talk about a “good prayer,” we start thinking about the prayer of the “Friends of God.” However, the good prayer of the Friends of God is a tall height. In order to move towards that peak, we must first reach the stage of praying a good prayer.
💠 It is true that when the members of the Household of the Prophet (‘a) would start to pray, all of the parts of their body would tremble due to their fear of God. They would also turn pale because of their enthusiasm for their Lord. But, for now we can’t pray like this. Maybe we won’t be able to pray like this till the end of our life. Therefore, it is logical that a “good prayer” for us is a different kind of prayer.
💠 We are still in the beginning of the way. Praying with love or praying with fear of God in our heart is not reachable for us for now. A person doesn’t fear God five times a day that easily. Maybe we haven’t feared God once in our whole life. Experiencing this verse, “However, those who have feared their Lord…” (Qur’an 79:40) is for the “Friends of God.” Fearing God’s eminence is different from fearing God because of our sins.
💠 For now, we are not able to pray with fear of God in our hearts and we are not able to pray with love. For now, we have to start praying a good prayer. In order to do that, we have to change our way of looking at prayer from the beginning. We should change our conception and expectation of a good prayer to a reasonable and attainable expectation. A good prayer is not necessarily accompanied by crying and moaning, or with fervour and passion. So, what is a good prayer?
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 9 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📷 Looking from Above
Looking from above means to see the past and the future of a reality and not be limited to the present. It means to look at the long-term results of each happening and to understand its deep roots. Looking from above means to realize what the processes are and to draw the path of movement. If we don’t look from above, our drowning in details will deceive us.
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Looking from above means to see the past and the future of a reality and not be limited to the present. It means to look at the long-term results of each happening and to understand its deep roots. Looking from above means to realize what the processes are and to draw the path of movement. If we don’t look from above, our drowning in details will deceive us.
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