🎦 How should we talk to Aba al-Fazl al-Abbas (‘a)?

🔻Fix me or I’ll lose my reputation!

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📷 A Car without a Steering Wheel

Expertise without commitment is like a car without a steering wheel, which may fall off of any cliff. Knowledge without action is like a car without wheels, which doesn’t take anyone anywhere. Wisdom without love is like a car with the best options, but without gas, and so it will remain stopped forever. It won’t move except in a downward direction.

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📚 Part 12 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)

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📕 What should I do to enjoy praying?

📌The question, which many young people ask...
📌 Praying is not always enjoyable in the beginning of the way.

💠 Even if a person easily cries and grieves, this doesn’t mean that he is always in the mood for worshiping. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “Hearts are imbued with the power to advance and retreat.” (Nahj al-Balagha, saying no. 193) Therefore, sometimes a person is in the mood for worshiping, and sometimes he is not. This is why we should always pray our obligatory prayers, whether we are in the mood or not.

💠 It is obvious that for a worship act, which a person should do every day, five times a day, it is not necessary for us to definitely cry while doing that worship act. If it was compulsory for you to cry whenever you prayed, God would say, “Pray whenever you are in the mood.” Actually, the Almighty God has ordered us to pray in a way that disgruntles us too! This means that we must pray, even when it is hard for us. Therefore, praying a good prayer for us who are in the beginning of the way doesn’t mean at all that we must enjoy it. And, this is exactly the conversation I frequently have with young people:

🔸 -What should I do to enjoy praying?
🔸-So, when do you want to become a real human being?
🔸-What do you mean? What is the relation between not enjoying and becoming a real human being?
🔸-If a person wants to become a real human being, he should fight with his own will. And, this is not enjoyable in the beginning. God has designed and suggested a worship act for you, which you don’t enjoy! Naturally, the fact that prayer is repetitive eliminates its enjoyment. God wanted you to become a real human being, grow, and move up through the hardships and bitterness of this repetitive action. If you want to enjoy praying in the beginning of this way, you won’t grow.

[To be continued…]

📚 Part 12 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)

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📷 Trips

Going on trips helps a person to be unencumbered, and it rescues a human being’s soul from becoming like a swamp. It is much better if on each trip we are able to remember our last trip, which will have no return. Each time we pack our suitcases, we must pack for the Hereafter too, and become ready to abandon our homeland. We pray to God that our last trip will be a safe trip!

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🎦 I’m infatuated!

🔻The effect of actions is certain.

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📷 The Golden Key in Marital Life

Men want to be obeyed, and women want kindness. A man shouldn’t break a woman’s heart, and a woman shouldn’t break a man’s pride.

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📷 The Opportunity to Choose

Once in a while, we are given the opportunity to make a valuable choice. If we have worthless choices or if we don’t choose at all, worthless affairs will become imposed on us. At that time, we will be forced to use our life and existence for doing vain affairs. We should ask for God’s help for our choices.

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🎦 Resolve these misunderstandings!

🔻People should see the sweetness of worshiping in your eyes.

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📷 The Stages of Growth

At first, a person becomes aware of God’s existence, and then he believes in Him with his inner purity. After this, he becomes familiar with God by reciting the Qur’an. Next, by obeying His commands, he gets close to God a little. At that time, he becomes fond of God by praying and talking to Him. Then, he becomes dear to God by being humble and kind to the Friends of God and serving them. At that point, he falls in love with God

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📷 Sorrowful

If this world causes you to become sorrowful, don’t look for any special reason or someone to blame. As long as there is this world, it will be like this. Go to God with your sorrow. He has created the world like this, so He will welcome you. Say, “I don’t want to resolve my sorrow with this world. I want You to make me happy with Yourself. Oh God! Any heart that You are in won’t become sorrowful.”

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🎦 People to Govern

🔻Imam Husayn’s (‘a) training is the beginning of the way.

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📷 The Meaning of “Ziafah” (Banquet)

We should have understood some of the aspects of the Month of Ramadan’s (the Month of Ziafah) hardships from the term “Ziafah.” No matter how many benefits there are for a person in a banquet, he cannot be as comfortable as he is in his own home. Since he is a polite person, he is even more polite compared to when he is at home. No matter how much a person enjoys the banquet, he cannot behave in just any way that he wants. Depending on the importance and greatness of the celebration, more than thinking of his own comfort, he is thinking about gaining the most benefit.

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📚 Part 13 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)

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📕 God’s Cousins!

📌 God, I’m not in the mood for praying now!
📌 Allow yourself to become disgruntled with praying and train yourself.

💠Prayer starts making a person grow when he doesn’t enjoy it. Prayer removes the filth of a person’s soul when the sharp edge of prayer scrubs his soul.

💠For example, you’re busy playing, working or resting and suddenly you hear the sound of the Call to Prayer. You have to get up and pray. Naturally, it disgruntles you. But, it’s ok. Get up and pray right away, so that you can become a real human being. Let prayer prod you. Tolerate its bitterness, so that you can become a real human being.

💠 Some people become friendly with God very quickly, as if they’re His cousins, and say, “God, I’m not in the mood for praying now!” Did you think that it is like a soccer game for you to go towards it whenever you are in the mood? Have you ever thought about why God has ruined your nice, sweet sleep and ordered you to wake up at the time for the Morning Prayer and pray? It is because He wants to disgruntle you and make you grow. You must allow yourself to become disgruntled with praying and train yourself.

[To be continued…]

📚 Part 13 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)

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📷 Let’s not talk like this so much!

People like to describe their good points and also their pains for others. They also like to hear these things from others. But God likes us to gain eligibility for His companionship. That is why we have to reduce these kinds of talks with others! We shouldn’t be after improving our reputation in front of others and begging for their kindness. Then, God will fill our hearts.

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🎦 What are we supposed to gain from the divine tests?

🔻We should increase our capacity.

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