🔻What should we do for our whole life to be enjoyable?
🔸A florist arranges bouquets of flowers many times every day. But, if one day he wants to arrange a bouquet for his #beloved, he will certainly work with a special enthusiasm and energy. And, he will enjoy doing it more than ever!
🔸If a person’s beloved tells him, “Give me a glass of water,” this person will have a very good feeling in doing this simple task! What is important is that for whom and in whose presence you are doing this. Now, imagine that you are in the presence of the greatest beloved in the world!
🔸What about us that we have not yet fallen in love with God? Do your deeds due to your “respect for God” for a while. Then, you will gradually #fall_in_love with Him! When you fall in love with God, you will have a wonderful life in which you will #enjoy each of its moments greatly!
🔸Do not wait for a special sweetness to come into your life for you to enjoy it. Do something so that you may gain vitality from your everyday life! Do even simple deeds “#because_of_God” so that you will enjoy it!
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🔸A florist arranges bouquets of flowers many times every day. But, if one day he wants to arrange a bouquet for his #beloved, he will certainly work with a special enthusiasm and energy. And, he will enjoy doing it more than ever!
🔸If a person’s beloved tells him, “Give me a glass of water,” this person will have a very good feeling in doing this simple task! What is important is that for whom and in whose presence you are doing this. Now, imagine that you are in the presence of the greatest beloved in the world!
🔸What about us that we have not yet fallen in love with God? Do your deeds due to your “respect for God” for a while. Then, you will gradually #fall_in_love with Him! When you fall in love with God, you will have a wonderful life in which you will #enjoy each of its moments greatly!
🔸Do not wait for a special sweetness to come into your life for you to enjoy it. Do something so that you may gain vitality from your everyday life! Do even simple deeds “#because_of_God” so that you will enjoy it!
#AlirezaPanahian
✅ @PanahianEN
📚 Part 27 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 Why did the light of spirituality shine so much among the soldiers?
📌 Being afraid of God, is the key to a loving relationship with God!
📌 Being afraid of God, is the result of believing in God’s Greatness.
💠 First, you have to believe in God’s Greatness and this should enter into your heart. You must obey God’s commands fearfully, and then gradually fearing God will become engraved on your heart. In that case, fearing God will gradually become sweet and enjoyable for you. This fear is the key to having a loving relationship with God!
💠 Do you know why during the time of the 8-year Holy Defence, the light of spirituality shone so much? Because, at that time death had come forward and could be easily felt. Death enters God’s Grandeur into a person’s heart. They told the soldiers, “Getting close to the night of the operation means getting close to meeting God. Do you know what this means?” Suddenly, God’s fear entered their heart. When God’s fear enters a servant’s heart, God embraces His dear servant and caresses him.
💠 Certainly, you have seen how a mother hugs her child who is frightened and caresses him. Similar to that mother, when God sees that His servant is obeying His commands fearfully, He starts caressing him and says, “My servant! Don’t be afraid!” He will quickly put His own love in His servant’s heart and make him taste His Kindness.
💠 This is called, a loving relationship with God and its key is in fear. A tradition says, “Nothing will correct a believer except fear of God.” However, we haven’t started talking about fearing yet. For now, we are saying that we have to obey God’s commands fearfully and believe in His Greatness a little.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 27 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📌 Being afraid of God, is the key to a loving relationship with God!
📌 Being afraid of God, is the result of believing in God’s Greatness.
💠 First, you have to believe in God’s Greatness and this should enter into your heart. You must obey God’s commands fearfully, and then gradually fearing God will become engraved on your heart. In that case, fearing God will gradually become sweet and enjoyable for you. This fear is the key to having a loving relationship with God!
💠 Do you know why during the time of the 8-year Holy Defence, the light of spirituality shone so much? Because, at that time death had come forward and could be easily felt. Death enters God’s Grandeur into a person’s heart. They told the soldiers, “Getting close to the night of the operation means getting close to meeting God. Do you know what this means?” Suddenly, God’s fear entered their heart. When God’s fear enters a servant’s heart, God embraces His dear servant and caresses him.
💠 Certainly, you have seen how a mother hugs her child who is frightened and caresses him. Similar to that mother, when God sees that His servant is obeying His commands fearfully, He starts caressing him and says, “My servant! Don’t be afraid!” He will quickly put His own love in His servant’s heart and make him taste His Kindness.
💠 This is called, a loving relationship with God and its key is in fear. A tradition says, “Nothing will correct a believer except fear of God.” However, we haven’t started talking about fearing yet. For now, we are saying that we have to obey God’s commands fearfully and believe in His Greatness a little.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 27 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📷 Devoutness
Although this world is the place of suffering, we should be able to not suffer and not be harmed by its tribulations. Life is hard but we should try not to take it hard. We should be able to be deeply happy without the trite tools of happiness, which give superficial happiness to a person. We can only gain this ability with devoutness.
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Although this world is the place of suffering, we should be able to not suffer and not be harmed by its tribulations. Life is hard but we should try not to take it hard. We should be able to be deeply happy without the trite tools of happiness, which give superficial happiness to a person. We can only gain this ability with devoutness.
#AlirezaPanahian
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🔻Your Response to Our Invitation
🔸A Follower
🔸I came across this page a few months ago and spent a whole night just listening to these lectures ❤️ They are so reassuring and peaceful.
I had also developed a very bad habit of blaming myself for even a slight misfortune or inconvenience. I saw a lecture about the same topic and it made me rethink about what I have been doing and how wrong it is.
👉🏼Share your opinion with us!
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🔸A Follower
🔸I came across this page a few months ago and spent a whole night just listening to these lectures ❤️ They are so reassuring and peaceful.
I had also developed a very bad habit of blaming myself for even a slight misfortune or inconvenience. I saw a lecture about the same topic and it made me rethink about what I have been doing and how wrong it is.
👉🏼Share your opinion with us!
#AlirezaPanahian
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📷 Think about yourself!
The more you circle around yourself, the more you will become far from yourself. The more you circle around God, the more you will become close to yourself. A lonely person is one who is far from himself, and a well-known person is the one who is familiar with himself. Wretched is the one who is bad with himself, and prosperous is the one who is good with himself. A humiliated person is humiliated in front of himself, and an honorable person has dignity in front of himself.
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The more you circle around yourself, the more you will become far from yourself. The more you circle around God, the more you will become close to yourself. A lonely person is one who is far from himself, and a well-known person is the one who is familiar with himself. Wretched is the one who is bad with himself, and prosperous is the one who is good with himself. A humiliated person is humiliated in front of himself, and an honorable person has dignity in front of himself.
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📷 Propagating
A person who propagates religion should not just relate traditions, recite the Qur’an, and explain their meaning in the end. Along with each tradition, he should increase understanding. And along with each recitation, he should offer a thought about it, so that he won’t get his audience used to thinking shallowly. The danger of being shallow in religion is not less than the danger of being irreligious, and such a person is exposed to various deviations.
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A person who propagates religion should not just relate traditions, recite the Qur’an, and explain their meaning in the end. Along with each tradition, he should increase understanding. And along with each recitation, he should offer a thought about it, so that he won’t get his audience used to thinking shallowly. The danger of being shallow in religion is not less than the danger of being irreligious, and such a person is exposed to various deviations.
#AlirezaPanahian
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🔻What should we do for the Imam of the Time (‘a.j.) to appear in our hearts?
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🔻What should we do for the Imam of the Time (‘a.j.) to appear in our hearts?
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📚 Part 28 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
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📕 How should we generate God’s Greatness in our heart?
📌 …then, God says, “Why are you torturing yourself in trying to come towards Me for a few minutes? Go away and be comfortable! Relax!”
💠 We said that fear is the key to having a loving relationship with God, and that fear itself is the result of believing in God’s Greatness. Now, how should we believe in God’s Greatness?
💠 In this world, a person himself generates God’s Greatness. This means that you yourself should generate God’s Greatness in your heart. Now, how should we generate God’s Greatness in our heart? By obeying God’s commands fearfully. By being polite in praying. When you carry out the rules and the rituals of prayer more completely and in a better way, it shows that you have obeyed God’s commands fearfully. In this way, God will become Great in your heart. With whoever you are more polite, his grandeur will become internalized in your heart. Don’t you like God’s Grandeur to become internalized in your heart?
Some people say,
- Sir, I am not afraid of God. What should I do?
- Certainly, God doesn’t have Grandeur in your eyes. You probably haven’t prayed your prayer well. You have probably been scratching your head while praying! Certainly, you haven’t been polite while praying and your attention has been other places. You probably haven’t said the recitations of your prayers carefully.
💠 God can easily punish us severely for us to learn to fear His power! But, God is Kind and gives us time. He says, “My servant should understand this himself and do this action correctly.”
💠 If your fear God’s Power when praying, God’s Greatness will increase in your heart. Then, there is no need for God to shout at you. He says, “My dear, I don’t like you doing this.” And, you reply, “Ok, I won’t do it.” This is how servitude is. Otherwise, it is useless for a person to try to convince and force himself to do simple things. For example, he tells himself, “Don’t do that, or do this!” God says, “Why are you torturing yourself in trying to come towards Me for a few minutes? Go away and be comfortable! Relax!”
💠 God keeps some people so busy and caught up that they don’t have the time or energy to go to God and talk to Him. On the other hand, God loves some people so much that He Himself calls them for them to come to Him. What is the difference between these two groups? The difference is in how much God’s Grandeur and Greatness is in their heart, and how much they fear His power. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said the following about pious people, “The Greatness of the Creator is seated in their heart; therefore, everything else appears small in their eyes.”
💠 One of the most important things that the verses of the Qur’an do to us is that, they internalize God’s Grandeur in our hearts. For example, God says in the Chapter Zilzal, verses 7 and 8, “Whosoever has done an atom's weight of good shall see it, and whosoever has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.” If only the grandeur of these two verses becomes internalized in your heart, you won’t be able to sleep at dawn.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 28 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
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📌 …then, God says, “Why are you torturing yourself in trying to come towards Me for a few minutes? Go away and be comfortable! Relax!”
💠 We said that fear is the key to having a loving relationship with God, and that fear itself is the result of believing in God’s Greatness. Now, how should we believe in God’s Greatness?
💠 In this world, a person himself generates God’s Greatness. This means that you yourself should generate God’s Greatness in your heart. Now, how should we generate God’s Greatness in our heart? By obeying God’s commands fearfully. By being polite in praying. When you carry out the rules and the rituals of prayer more completely and in a better way, it shows that you have obeyed God’s commands fearfully. In this way, God will become Great in your heart. With whoever you are more polite, his grandeur will become internalized in your heart. Don’t you like God’s Grandeur to become internalized in your heart?
Some people say,
- Sir, I am not afraid of God. What should I do?
- Certainly, God doesn’t have Grandeur in your eyes. You probably haven’t prayed your prayer well. You have probably been scratching your head while praying! Certainly, you haven’t been polite while praying and your attention has been other places. You probably haven’t said the recitations of your prayers carefully.
💠 God can easily punish us severely for us to learn to fear His power! But, God is Kind and gives us time. He says, “My servant should understand this himself and do this action correctly.”
💠 If your fear God’s Power when praying, God’s Greatness will increase in your heart. Then, there is no need for God to shout at you. He says, “My dear, I don’t like you doing this.” And, you reply, “Ok, I won’t do it.” This is how servitude is. Otherwise, it is useless for a person to try to convince and force himself to do simple things. For example, he tells himself, “Don’t do that, or do this!” God says, “Why are you torturing yourself in trying to come towards Me for a few minutes? Go away and be comfortable! Relax!”
💠 God keeps some people so busy and caught up that they don’t have the time or energy to go to God and talk to Him. On the other hand, God loves some people so much that He Himself calls them for them to come to Him. What is the difference between these two groups? The difference is in how much God’s Grandeur and Greatness is in their heart, and how much they fear His power. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said the following about pious people, “The Greatness of the Creator is seated in their heart; therefore, everything else appears small in their eyes.”
💠 One of the most important things that the verses of the Qur’an do to us is that, they internalize God’s Grandeur in our hearts. For example, God says in the Chapter Zilzal, verses 7 and 8, “Whosoever has done an atom's weight of good shall see it, and whosoever has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.” If only the grandeur of these two verses becomes internalized in your heart, you won’t be able to sleep at dawn.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 28 of the book “How to pray a good prayer,” by Alireza Panahian. (Under translation.)
#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer #prayer
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🔻A Remembering, which Eliminates Sorrow from the Heart!
🔸If you deeply remember and review your beliefs, sorrow will leave your heart and happiness will come in its place! The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “If a person relies on God, God will give him happiness. Whoever trusts in God, God will be enough to take care of his affairs and mend them.” (Kashf al-Ghummah, vol. 2, p. 346)
🔸Imam Reza (‘a) said, “I was sad over some matters. My father told me, ‘Call God for sorrow to be removed from your heart and say, “Ya Ra’ufu Ya Rahim (O the Gracious, O the Merciful)” much!’” (Da’awat Rawandi, p. 45)
🔸The recitation “Ya Ra’uf (O the Gracious)” has a special effectiveness in eliminating sorrow! A great mystic said, “When you feel unhappy and have problems, say ‘Ya Ra’uf’ repeatedly and resort to Imam Reza (‘a) with this recitation. It is as if when God wants to make your recitation effective, he turns your problem over to Imam Reza (‘a).”
🔸There are some recitations of God’s names, which open knots, strengthen the heart, and eliminate fear and bad sorrow from the heart. After reciting these, a person will start to have a good spiritual frame of mind.
🔸Every day when you wake up, first remove the sorrow from your heart! One of the main actions, which removes sorrow, is reviewing your belief in God through recitations. Most of the recommended supplications for after the Morning Prayer are of this kind.
#AlirezaPanahian
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🔸If you deeply remember and review your beliefs, sorrow will leave your heart and happiness will come in its place! The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “If a person relies on God, God will give him happiness. Whoever trusts in God, God will be enough to take care of his affairs and mend them.” (Kashf al-Ghummah, vol. 2, p. 346)
🔸Imam Reza (‘a) said, “I was sad over some matters. My father told me, ‘Call God for sorrow to be removed from your heart and say, “Ya Ra’ufu Ya Rahim (O the Gracious, O the Merciful)” much!’” (Da’awat Rawandi, p. 45)
🔸The recitation “Ya Ra’uf (O the Gracious)” has a special effectiveness in eliminating sorrow! A great mystic said, “When you feel unhappy and have problems, say ‘Ya Ra’uf’ repeatedly and resort to Imam Reza (‘a) with this recitation. It is as if when God wants to make your recitation effective, he turns your problem over to Imam Reza (‘a).”
🔸There are some recitations of God’s names, which open knots, strengthen the heart, and eliminate fear and bad sorrow from the heart. After reciting these, a person will start to have a good spiritual frame of mind.
🔸Every day when you wake up, first remove the sorrow from your heart! One of the main actions, which removes sorrow, is reviewing your belief in God through recitations. Most of the recommended supplications for after the Morning Prayer are of this kind.
#AlirezaPanahian
✅ @PanahianEN