📷 A Person’s Taste
Liking vices changes a person’s taste and does not allow him to enjoy the goodness and the enjoyment, which is hidden deep inside the innate nature of a person. If a person’s taste becomes ruined, he will lose the possibility of being able to enjoy worshiping and the feeling of the sweetness of remembering God. In the same way, if a person’s taste reaches a higher level, he or she will not enjoy sinning.
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Liking vices changes a person’s taste and does not allow him to enjoy the goodness and the enjoyment, which is hidden deep inside the innate nature of a person. If a person’s taste becomes ruined, he will lose the possibility of being able to enjoy worshiping and the feeling of the sweetness of remembering God. In the same way, if a person’s taste reaches a higher level, he or she will not enjoy sinning.
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📷 Better than Freedom of Speech!
Freedom of speech is the least of the virtues of a society after the Reappearance (of the Savior (`a.j.)). The highest virtues in such a society include not saying vain words or misusing freedom of speech. The only way to prevent the misuse of freedom of speech is for the people to have insight. After people’s understanding increases, the Imam of the Time (the Savior) will not give respite to people who talk nonsensically nor to alluring abusers.
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Freedom of speech is the least of the virtues of a society after the Reappearance (of the Savior (`a.j.)). The highest virtues in such a society include not saying vain words or misusing freedom of speech. The only way to prevent the misuse of freedom of speech is for the people to have insight. After people’s understanding increases, the Imam of the Time (the Savior) will not give respite to people who talk nonsensically nor to alluring abusers.
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📚 Part 29 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 The answer to an important secret!
📌 Why should God’s Greatness become internalized in our Heart?!
📌 Which barrier is eliminated by this simple but very important function of prayer?
💠 The first adjective of God, which should become internalized in our heart, we should become fond of, and understand deeply, is God’s Grandeur and Greatness. If we pay attention for a while, pray our prayers correctly and adhere to the commands and rituals of prayer better, gradually God’s Grandeur will become internalized in our heart.
💠 Why should God’s Greatness become internalized in our heart? Because, the most important barrier to a person’s relationship with his God is the false imagination, which he has about God. The centre of this false imagination is the person “imagining himself to be great”. We usually don’t feel that we are small in front of God. As long as a person imagines himself to be great, he hasn’t understood this fact that he is small in front of God and he hasn’t understood God’s Greatness. All of his efforts to communicate with God will be fruitless and no useful relationship will be formed. There will be no effect. No prayer will be accepted, and nothing will be received.
💠 The simple but very important function of prayer is to eliminate this barrier, I mean a person’s arrogance. Hazrat Zahra (s) said, “God has made the ritual prayers obligatory so that a person may be purified from arrogance.” The obligatory rules of prayer have been designed in such a way that when we reiterate them repeatedly every day, they induce two key concepts in a person. These two key concepts are “God’s Greatness and Grandeur” and “a person’s humility before God.”
💠 A fundamental sentence of prayer is, “Allahu Akbar (God is Great).” In other parts of the prayer, many of the other sentences focus on God’s Greatness and Eminence too. The sentence, “Subhana Rabbi al-Azimi wa bi Hamdih (Pure and Immaculate is my God – the Greatest – and I praise Him) is again talking about God’s Greatness. The sentence, “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih, (Pure and Immaculate is my God - the Highest - and I praise Him)” is again talking about God’s Greatness and Eminence. There is both bowing and prostration in prayers, which are the highest symbols of obeisance. It is as if prayer is nothing other than the induction of God’s Grandeur in a person’s heart.
💠 Imam Reza (‘a) wrote the following in a letter answering the question of one of the companions, who had asked about the reason for praying, “Prayer is confessing to the Lordship of the Mighty and Glorious God, negating any partner for Him and standing in front of the omnipotent God, Whose Glory is Great, humbly, in poverty, with humility, confessing [to His Greatness], repenting for previous sins and putting our forehead on the dirt five times a day to respect the Almighty and Glorious God. Prayer causes a person to remember God, not forget Him, not to be ungrateful, be humble, and to be in pursuit of increasing one’s religion and this world. In addition, prayer prevents a person from sinning and helps him to remember the Mighty and Glorious God day and night so that he won’t forget his Master, the One Who plans, and his Creator. Furthermore, he won’t become disobedient. When a servant remembers His Lord and stands in front of God, this prevents him from sinning and from any corruption.”
💠 We are supposed to obey God’s commands fearfully, and one of the first steps is for us to carry out the rules and rituals exactly. If we are careful about this while praying, gradually God’s Greatness will enter our heart. As soon as God’s Greatness becomes internalized in our heart, the springs of His Kindness will flow forth too.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 29 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📌 Why should God’s Greatness become internalized in our Heart?!
📌 Which barrier is eliminated by this simple but very important function of prayer?
💠 The first adjective of God, which should become internalized in our heart, we should become fond of, and understand deeply, is God’s Grandeur and Greatness. If we pay attention for a while, pray our prayers correctly and adhere to the commands and rituals of prayer better, gradually God’s Grandeur will become internalized in our heart.
💠 Why should God’s Greatness become internalized in our heart? Because, the most important barrier to a person’s relationship with his God is the false imagination, which he has about God. The centre of this false imagination is the person “imagining himself to be great”. We usually don’t feel that we are small in front of God. As long as a person imagines himself to be great, he hasn’t understood this fact that he is small in front of God and he hasn’t understood God’s Greatness. All of his efforts to communicate with God will be fruitless and no useful relationship will be formed. There will be no effect. No prayer will be accepted, and nothing will be received.
💠 The simple but very important function of prayer is to eliminate this barrier, I mean a person’s arrogance. Hazrat Zahra (s) said, “God has made the ritual prayers obligatory so that a person may be purified from arrogance.” The obligatory rules of prayer have been designed in such a way that when we reiterate them repeatedly every day, they induce two key concepts in a person. These two key concepts are “God’s Greatness and Grandeur” and “a person’s humility before God.”
💠 A fundamental sentence of prayer is, “Allahu Akbar (God is Great).” In other parts of the prayer, many of the other sentences focus on God’s Greatness and Eminence too. The sentence, “Subhana Rabbi al-Azimi wa bi Hamdih (Pure and Immaculate is my God – the Greatest – and I praise Him) is again talking about God’s Greatness. The sentence, “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih, (Pure and Immaculate is my God - the Highest - and I praise Him)” is again talking about God’s Greatness and Eminence. There is both bowing and prostration in prayers, which are the highest symbols of obeisance. It is as if prayer is nothing other than the induction of God’s Grandeur in a person’s heart.
💠 Imam Reza (‘a) wrote the following in a letter answering the question of one of the companions, who had asked about the reason for praying, “Prayer is confessing to the Lordship of the Mighty and Glorious God, negating any partner for Him and standing in front of the omnipotent God, Whose Glory is Great, humbly, in poverty, with humility, confessing [to His Greatness], repenting for previous sins and putting our forehead on the dirt five times a day to respect the Almighty and Glorious God. Prayer causes a person to remember God, not forget Him, not to be ungrateful, be humble, and to be in pursuit of increasing one’s religion and this world. In addition, prayer prevents a person from sinning and helps him to remember the Mighty and Glorious God day and night so that he won’t forget his Master, the One Who plans, and his Creator. Furthermore, he won’t become disobedient. When a servant remembers His Lord and stands in front of God, this prevents him from sinning and from any corruption.”
💠 We are supposed to obey God’s commands fearfully, and one of the first steps is for us to carry out the rules and rituals exactly. If we are careful about this while praying, gradually God’s Greatness will enter our heart. As soon as God’s Greatness becomes internalized in our heart, the springs of His Kindness will flow forth too.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 29 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📷 A Thankful Prayer
Becoming thankful needs practice, and the common habit of ingratitude is hard to eliminate. Therefore, we should have a daily plan for thanking God. Prayer is the best plan for becoming thankful. Praying thankfully increases our prayer’s value. It also gives us a better mood. The more we become thankful, the less we will sin.
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Becoming thankful needs practice, and the common habit of ingratitude is hard to eliminate. Therefore, we should have a daily plan for thanking God. Prayer is the best plan for becoming thankful. Praying thankfully increases our prayer’s value. It also gives us a better mood. The more we become thankful, the less we will sin.
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🔻Your Response to Our Invitation
🔸A Follower from Australia
🔸I am from Australia and I am a physiotherapy student.
🔸Agha Panahian takes people from knowing that Allah is kind towards actually experiencing Allah's kindness through developing a relationship with Allah. A relationship that is built through talking to Allah from one's heart, through loving him, through trusting him, through remembering him, and through obeying him.
🔸Moreso, Agha Panahian portrays Islam as what it truly is which is peace, pleasure and enjoyment. The peace comes from trusting Allah, the pleasure comes from connecting with Allah and enjoyment comes from obeying Allah's commands that are actually for the benefit of the person himself.
👉🏼Share your opinion with us!
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🔸A Follower from Australia
🔸I am from Australia and I am a physiotherapy student.
🔸Agha Panahian takes people from knowing that Allah is kind towards actually experiencing Allah's kindness through developing a relationship with Allah. A relationship that is built through talking to Allah from one's heart, through loving him, through trusting him, through remembering him, and through obeying him.
🔸Moreso, Agha Panahian portrays Islam as what it truly is which is peace, pleasure and enjoyment. The peace comes from trusting Allah, the pleasure comes from connecting with Allah and enjoyment comes from obeying Allah's commands that are actually for the benefit of the person himself.
👉🏼Share your opinion with us!
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🌺Congratulations on the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Jesus ('a) to all Christians, Muslims and all his followers!
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🔸 #tweet | God blessed Hazrat Mary ('a) because of the sincere prayer of her mother. God gave her Jesus, her son, with His extreme kindness and by way of a miracle due to her purity and spirituality. God granted Jesus luminosity and fame due to his struggles and the oppression that he suffered.
This shows that the world's affairs are in God's hands that we hear Jesus' name in different corners of the world.
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This shows that the world's affairs are in God's hands that we hear Jesus' name in different corners of the world.
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📷 Ingratitude, the Factor behind All Sins and Bad Moods
Ingratitude is the factor behind all sins and bad moods. The uglier we consider ingratitude to be and try to keep our distance from it, the more we will automatically be rescued from many sins, gain much goodness and have a better mood.
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Ingratitude is the factor behind all sins and bad moods. The uglier we consider ingratitude to be and try to keep our distance from it, the more we will automatically be rescued from many sins, gain much goodness and have a better mood.
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🔻We are a young couple. Are we ready and able to train children?
🔸A young couple, who were university students and studying for their masters, came to me in Tehran University. They said, “It is a few years that we have been married. We want to have children. However, we don’t know if we are really ready to train children and are able to take on the responsibility of training children, or not?!”
🔸I laughed and said, “How hard do you think training children is?!” They said, “We’ve heard that it’s a very heavy responsibility!” I said, “Training children is very easy. You were very wrong to have missed your youthhood – when a person’s affection is naturally more - and didn’t gift your affection to your children at that time. Now, it’s a little late that you are thinking about having children. I will tell you two or three techniques for #training_children. Go and observe these few principles.
🔸First, along with all of his good points, a father should give priority to this issue that he should never break the mother’s #heart (at least in front of the children), and he should be kind to her. A mother should never break the father’s #pride (at least in front of the children), and she should respect him. In addition, the father and mother should advise their children to #obey both of their parents. In particular, the father should teach the child not to break the mother’s heart, and the mother should teach the child to keep the father’s respect and not to break his pride. In this situation, a child who is raised in such a family will be raised well.
🔸If we observe these simple principles in our behaviour in the #family, training children will not be difficult at all. Of course, some people who have not been involved with issues about training children (and the relationship between a man and a woman in the house) may feel that this is a complicated thing to do. However, if one looks at the discussions on this topic, he or she will gradually understand that by observing a few important and key #techniques, one can train good children.”
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🔸A young couple, who were university students and studying for their masters, came to me in Tehran University. They said, “It is a few years that we have been married. We want to have children. However, we don’t know if we are really ready to train children and are able to take on the responsibility of training children, or not?!”
🔸I laughed and said, “How hard do you think training children is?!” They said, “We’ve heard that it’s a very heavy responsibility!” I said, “Training children is very easy. You were very wrong to have missed your youthhood – when a person’s affection is naturally more - and didn’t gift your affection to your children at that time. Now, it’s a little late that you are thinking about having children. I will tell you two or three techniques for #training_children. Go and observe these few principles.
🔸First, along with all of his good points, a father should give priority to this issue that he should never break the mother’s #heart (at least in front of the children), and he should be kind to her. A mother should never break the father’s #pride (at least in front of the children), and she should respect him. In addition, the father and mother should advise their children to #obey both of their parents. In particular, the father should teach the child not to break the mother’s heart, and the mother should teach the child to keep the father’s respect and not to break his pride. In this situation, a child who is raised in such a family will be raised well.
🔸If we observe these simple principles in our behaviour in the #family, training children will not be difficult at all. Of course, some people who have not been involved with issues about training children (and the relationship between a man and a woman in the house) may feel that this is a complicated thing to do. However, if one looks at the discussions on this topic, he or she will gradually understand that by observing a few important and key #techniques, one can train good children.”
#AlirezaPanahian
✅ @PanahianEN
📚 Part 30 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 Prostration is very beautiful…
📌 Try to make your prostrations longer.
📌 A person practices becoming extremely small in front of God in prostration.
💠 The part of the prayer, which we should lengthen and pay more attention to if we want our prayer to have more effect on us, besides carrying out the rules and rituals during the entire time that we are praying, is “prostration”. A long prostration with awareness is very effective in destroying our pride and causing God’s Greatness and Grandeur to enter our heart.
💠 Since God knew what amazing results and positive effects come from prostration in praying and how close His servants are to Him in prostration, He has put two prostrations in each cycle of prayer. From the beginning of the prayer when you say “Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest),” wait eagerly for the moments when you go into prostration. Say, “So nice! I will bow now, and then I will go into prostration.” When you get up from the first prostration, it is as if your heart is coming out of your chest. That is when God says, “Wait My dear. Do another prostration again.” When you want to get up from prostration, it is as if you can’t breathe anymore. You love prostration very much!
💠 After the second prostration, you can’t get up anymore. You say, “O God, I don’t want to get up from prostrating before You.” God replies, “Give Me your hand My dear. I know that you can’t get up anymore. I know that you don’t like to raise your head from prostrating towards Me. I know how much you love prostrating. I will help you Myself.” That is why in praying you say, “Bi Howlillahi wa Quwwatihi Aqumo wa Aqud, (I stand up and sit down with God’s Help and Power.)”
💠 It is because of this amazing effect of prostrating that we can repeat the words for prostration three times or more. Try to lengthen your prostrations. Don’t say, “I should finish my prayer sooner so that I will be able to do that job!” Don’t say, “I should go to my store. It’s late. I will lose my customers!” Don’t worry. Lengthen your prostration and the customer who will bring much profit for you will come. He will come two minutes later. Everything is in God’s Hands. Imam Sadiq, (‘a) said, “If a servant hurries (and gets up quickly) to pursue his needs, God will say, ‘Doesn’t My servant know that I am the One Who provides his needs?!’”
💠 Prostration is very beautiful. A person practices becoming extremely small in front of God in prostration. However, this practice doesn’t bring about a revolution in one’s heart from the beginning. When I have done this action beautifully for a while, God knows that there is no love, mystical feelings, and these kinds of things in my heart. But, He sees that I have held myself and am saying, “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih, (Pure and Immaculate is my God - the Highest - and I praise Him.)” I say “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih” again, and my will tells me to get up because that’s enough. When I say this sentence one extra time, I am disgruntling myself. On the other hand, God is looking at me too. God says to His angels, “Look at My servant. He is just in the beginning of the way. But, see how he is doing extra for Me.” Whoever spends some time and puts himself to a little extra trouble, God will welcome him so much that he can’t even imagine.
💠 The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “If a person who is praying understands what a blessing from God has surrounded him, he will never get up from prostration.” It has been narrated that sometimes a single prostration of Imam Kazim (‘a) lasted until morning. God knows that if pious people have time, what they will do when standing before God.
📚 Part 30 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
#AlirezaPanahian #How_to_pray_a_good_prayer #prayer
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📌 Try to make your prostrations longer.
📌 A person practices becoming extremely small in front of God in prostration.
💠 The part of the prayer, which we should lengthen and pay more attention to if we want our prayer to have more effect on us, besides carrying out the rules and rituals during the entire time that we are praying, is “prostration”. A long prostration with awareness is very effective in destroying our pride and causing God’s Greatness and Grandeur to enter our heart.
💠 Since God knew what amazing results and positive effects come from prostration in praying and how close His servants are to Him in prostration, He has put two prostrations in each cycle of prayer. From the beginning of the prayer when you say “Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest),” wait eagerly for the moments when you go into prostration. Say, “So nice! I will bow now, and then I will go into prostration.” When you get up from the first prostration, it is as if your heart is coming out of your chest. That is when God says, “Wait My dear. Do another prostration again.” When you want to get up from prostration, it is as if you can’t breathe anymore. You love prostration very much!
💠 After the second prostration, you can’t get up anymore. You say, “O God, I don’t want to get up from prostrating before You.” God replies, “Give Me your hand My dear. I know that you can’t get up anymore. I know that you don’t like to raise your head from prostrating towards Me. I know how much you love prostrating. I will help you Myself.” That is why in praying you say, “Bi Howlillahi wa Quwwatihi Aqumo wa Aqud, (I stand up and sit down with God’s Help and Power.)”
💠 It is because of this amazing effect of prostrating that we can repeat the words for prostration three times or more. Try to lengthen your prostrations. Don’t say, “I should finish my prayer sooner so that I will be able to do that job!” Don’t say, “I should go to my store. It’s late. I will lose my customers!” Don’t worry. Lengthen your prostration and the customer who will bring much profit for you will come. He will come two minutes later. Everything is in God’s Hands. Imam Sadiq, (‘a) said, “If a servant hurries (and gets up quickly) to pursue his needs, God will say, ‘Doesn’t My servant know that I am the One Who provides his needs?!’”
💠 Prostration is very beautiful. A person practices becoming extremely small in front of God in prostration. However, this practice doesn’t bring about a revolution in one’s heart from the beginning. When I have done this action beautifully for a while, God knows that there is no love, mystical feelings, and these kinds of things in my heart. But, He sees that I have held myself and am saying, “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih, (Pure and Immaculate is my God - the Highest - and I praise Him.)” I say “Subhana Rabbi al-A’la wa bi Hamdih” again, and my will tells me to get up because that’s enough. When I say this sentence one extra time, I am disgruntling myself. On the other hand, God is looking at me too. God says to His angels, “Look at My servant. He is just in the beginning of the way. But, see how he is doing extra for Me.” Whoever spends some time and puts himself to a little extra trouble, God will welcome him so much that he can’t even imagine.
💠 The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “If a person who is praying understands what a blessing from God has surrounded him, he will never get up from prostration.” It has been narrated that sometimes a single prostration of Imam Kazim (‘a) lasted until morning. God knows that if pious people have time, what they will do when standing before God.
📚 Part 30 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📷 The Major Role of Parents
The environment for the growth of efficient managers is a good family. Each father or mother who struggles to improve his or her family has in fact done something major and has taken a step forward for the society’s progress and well-being.
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The environment for the growth of efficient managers is a good family. Each father or mother who struggles to improve his or her family has in fact done something major and has taken a step forward for the society’s progress and well-being.
#AlirezaPanahian
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🎦 The Psychological Differences between Men and Women
🔻What is important to men and women?
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🔻What is important to men and women?
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