Ali Reza Panahian 🇵🇸
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🔻Ali Reza Panahian
Popular speaker & teacher. Expert in education & ethics. Strategist & theorist. Head of a seminary. Author.

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🔻Why don't you dress well at home?!

The most important place to "be the best" is when you are with your family. The first priority is for you to behave well with your family. Good behavior, caring for others, expressing love, and all good behavioral and spiritual traits must first be shown with the family.
Why don't you dress well when you are at home? Do you only wear good clothes when you want to leave the house? Imam Khomeini would iron his pajamas when he was at home. Why don’t you dress well in front of your spouse? Dress well in front of your wife.

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Wisdom and love

If a person is not in love, he will soon grow old and lose the pureness of youthhood. And if a person does not use his wisdom well, he will be late in maturing and will remain in the ignorance of childhood. Misplaced love ruins the intellect, and misplaced intellect destroys love. Misplaced intellect means constantly thinking about the world, and misplaced love means being interested in others besides God.

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The beginning of life

Dawn is a time to be awake and it’s the beginning of life. If we do not start our day from dawn, we will not be completely awake and alive throughout the day. Similar to when we are sleeping, not all our senses will work. Dawn is the time for reflection. The Friends of God cry at dawn and this is the result of their reflections.

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🔲 I can’t pay attention to God because there are too many things in the world that cause me to become neglectful!
🔲 The question is, “Can’t I even pay attention to God’s Kindness?”


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God can’t be seen. If we only pay attention to what can be seen and don’t have the ability to control our mind, we can only remember God in fleeting, rare, special moments.

It is hard to do pay attention to a God that can’t be seen, especially for a long period. God’s rewards or punishments aren’t given to us quickly. One of the ways to control our mind is thinking. One should spend a part of his life thinking about God. [Al-Khisal, vol. 2, p. 525]

Among God’s different names, paying attention to His Mercy can give us the ability to pay attention to Him for a longer period. This is because kindness is sweet for us and compatible with our nature. Furthermore, God likes us to pay attention to His Kindness.

If one says, “I can’t pay attention to God since there are many things that cause me to become neglectful,” we will say, “You can’t pay attention to God’s Kindness either?! Paying attention to God’s Kindness is easy and you need His Kindness in each moment. Even if you don’t pay attention to God’s Mercy, can’t you pay attention to Imam Husayn (as)?! Don’t live without Imam Husayn (as). Imam Husayn (as) means God’s Kindness.”

Why is it recommended so much to say, “In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful” when starting to do anything? Because we truly need to pay attention to God’s Kindness. This sentence reminds us of God’s Kindness two times, once with the word “Beneficent” and once with the word “Merciful.”

If we neglect God’s Kindness, we’ll become wretched! The Qur’an says, “And whoever turns himself away from the remembrance of the Merciful, We appoint a Satan so he becomes his companion.” [43:36]

Let’s agree to constantly remember God being Merciful and Kind. Let’s start each of our movements and actions by saying, “In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.” The Household of the Prophet (as) has given us this general guidance to start everything with saying, “In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.”

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🌱 God is more of a mom than a mom is!

🔸When a mom sees her child is successful, she becomes happy.

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Where are you looking to gain spiritual rewards?

God has made it much easier to increase spirituality when a person is among his family than in any other place. For example, it is said, “If a man makes one of the women of his intimate family happy (his aunt, sister, daughter, etc.), God will arrange a special place for him in Heaven close to Himself.” [Kafi, vol. 6, p. 6]
For example, take some fruit for your sister on your way home. Say, "I knew you love this kind of fruit, so I thought I would bring you some." God will bestow great blessings on you for the joy that you’ve created in your sister's heart in that moment. Knowing this, where do we usually go to seek spiritual rewards?!

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💞God honors marriage.

👉🏼 Ask the bride and groom to pray for you.

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🔲 Being thankful is a kind of practice in controlling our mind and thinking positively.
🔲 When you remember God’s blessings, you are thanking Him.

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One of the most important mental abilities is being able to set a "point of view" for oneself and getting used to looking at everything from that angle, just as we can get used to a special way of talking, eating or dressing. If one becomes accustomed to having a correct outlook, he can control his mind.

If people abandon their mind, they will start thinking negative thoughts. If we do not want to keep thinking about the things we don’t have or to regret the past and to worry about the future, we must practice "thanking God" as religion has told us.

Being thankful, which is highly rewarded, helps to change our perspective. Let’s accustom ourselves to always seeing the half-full glass. Focus on what you have and think about how it was possible that God hadn’t given you these things.

Many talk about thinking positively in the world today, which is welcomed warmly too. But there is some deception in this, because they eliminate the role of God and what He has destined for His servants. Even a leaf does not fall without God's permission, so how will my situation change without God's permission?!

Being thankful to God is a practice in controlling the mind and accustoming it to positive thinking. It is very difficult to distract our mind from evils and negative thoughts, but it is easier to turn our mind to positive thoughts. According to the traditions, when you remember God’s blessings you are thanking Him. [Wasa'il al-Shi'ah, vol. 7, p. 40]

If we practice and accustom our mind to this positive, thankful outlook, we will grow even in doing our everyday actions. According to the traditions, a grateful believer eats and drinks, but he is rewarded as a person who is struggling on the way of God while fasting and even more! [Kafi, vol. 2, p. 94; Mahasin, vol. 2, p. 435] It is said that the reward for being thankful is more than for being patient. [Mishkat al-Anwar, p. 258] The most commandments in the Qur'an about remembering are about God’s blessings. [Qur’an, 35:3]

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If it wasn’t for God’s kindness…

If it wasn’t for God’s kindness and forgiveness that is showered on us all the time, we would have seen that a single sin is enough to take a person close to being destroyed and to start the domino of one’s downfall.

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Single people are missing something!

A single person is missing a lot, because he cannot gain many easy spiritual rewards that are gained at home! For example, it has been said in the traditions that if a father buys gifts for his family or something from the market that makes them happy, it is as if he is giving abundant charity to a group of needy people. [Amali Shaykh Saduq, p. 577] This tradition does not mean that families are in desperate need of their fathers' gifts. Rather, it shows the importance of a small gift for the family. How can a single person receive so much blessings by buying a small gift?

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🔴 Just look at Me

👉🏼 I argue with others. I’m bothered. I’m depressed. I bother others…

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The height of one’s outlook

When a person becomes older, he looks at things from a higher level. He sees that time is short and the earth is smaller than what he thought. If his outlook reaches its highest level, he will see the Hereafter too. It is as if when one looks at things from a higher level, he himself flies and moves up. Such a person will feel the enjoyment of flying.

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