📷 Why aren’t our successes continuous?!
As soon as we human beings become proud of a blessing or success, we stop there. Not only we won’t receive new and higher blessings or successes, but we will lose them too. It would have been good if we were able to not become proud of ourselves, and could see that whatever we have is completely from God. Then, we would not have been deprived of endless blessings and successes from Him.
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As soon as we human beings become proud of a blessing or success, we stop there. Not only we won’t receive new and higher blessings or successes, but we will lose them too. It would have been good if we were able to not become proud of ourselves, and could see that whatever we have is completely from God. Then, we would not have been deprived of endless blessings and successes from Him.
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🌺 Congratulations on the anniversary of the birth of Hazrat Zaynab (s), the daughter of Imam Ali (‘a) and Hazrat Fatimah (s)!
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🔻The Holy Qur’an is not like books of science. Rather, it is a book of “insight”
🔸The Holy Qur’an is not like books of science. Rather, it is a book of “insight”. It has been designed in a special manner in order to regulate our way of looking at things. The Holy Qur’an does not say what is good and what is bad. Instead, it states that how good or bad that good or bad thing is. It also states what is good or bad about it. This means that the Holy Qur’an takes your hand so that you look at everything from the angle that God wants you to see things.
🔸The Qur’an is not a book for us to study, pass a test on it and put it aside! One of the reasons that it has been said, “One should constantly recite the Qur’an,” is for the Qur’an’s way of looking at things to by transferred to us. Imam Khomeini’s bodyguard related that Imam Khomeini recited the Holy Qur’an 12 times a day. If a person wants the Qur’an’s way of looking at things to be conveyed to him, he or she must recite it in this way. Otherwise, if we are just reading to gain information from the Qur’an, it is enough to read it one time.
🔸The Qur’an moves our hearts. If the Qur’an has an effect on us, God’s way of looking at things will be conveyed to us! The Qur’an’s way of looking at things changes a person’s way of looking at death and life and it changes his or her frame of mind.
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🔸The Holy Qur’an is not like books of science. Rather, it is a book of “insight”. It has been designed in a special manner in order to regulate our way of looking at things. The Holy Qur’an does not say what is good and what is bad. Instead, it states that how good or bad that good or bad thing is. It also states what is good or bad about it. This means that the Holy Qur’an takes your hand so that you look at everything from the angle that God wants you to see things.
🔸The Qur’an is not a book for us to study, pass a test on it and put it aside! One of the reasons that it has been said, “One should constantly recite the Qur’an,” is for the Qur’an’s way of looking at things to by transferred to us. Imam Khomeini’s bodyguard related that Imam Khomeini recited the Holy Qur’an 12 times a day. If a person wants the Qur’an’s way of looking at things to be conveyed to him, he or she must recite it in this way. Otherwise, if we are just reading to gain information from the Qur’an, it is enough to read it one time.
🔸The Qur’an moves our hearts. If the Qur’an has an effect on us, God’s way of looking at things will be conveyed to us! The Qur’an’s way of looking at things changes a person’s way of looking at death and life and it changes his or her frame of mind.
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📷 Controlling Our Likings
God says, “Satan's guile is always weak.” (Qur’an 4:76) Therefore, we are the ones who deceive ourselves. When a person starts liking something, he changes himself in favour of it. When he starts hating something, he deceives himself into being against it. We must constantly control our likings and hatreds; otherwise, we will make mistakes in all of our judgments.
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God says, “Satan's guile is always weak.” (Qur’an 4:76) Therefore, we are the ones who deceive ourselves. When a person starts liking something, he changes himself in favour of it. When he starts hating something, he deceives himself into being against it. We must constantly control our likings and hatreds; otherwise, we will make mistakes in all of our judgments.
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📷 Eternal Life
God is kinder than that to give us one chance to live, and then when He has created His servant with a love for existence, give him or her a short period to live. This world is a warm-up. We will live and be busy with the beauties of the universe forever. In this world, we are supposed to determine the level of our eternal life.
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God is kinder than that to give us one chance to live, and then when He has created His servant with a love for existence, give him or her a short period to live. This world is a warm-up. We will live and be busy with the beauties of the universe forever. In this world, we are supposed to determine the level of our eternal life.
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📷 Recognize your own special role!
A clever person does not waste his time. He receives his special role and mission from God and becomes busy with that so that he may gain the best benefits from this world and the Hereafter. It is hard to understand this mission and role and to limit ourselves to doing it. A person cannot gain any benefit or result independent of his own role and mission.
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A clever person does not waste his time. He receives his special role and mission from God and becomes busy with that so that he may gain the best benefits from this world and the Hereafter. It is hard to understand this mission and role and to limit ourselves to doing it. A person cannot gain any benefit or result independent of his own role and mission.
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🔻What is the first thing to do to have control over our outlook?
🔸If a person wants to have control over his or her way of looking at things and to regulate it, what is the first thing that he or she should do? What can be considered to be the first action to regulate our way of looking at things is #thinking. In the traditions, thinking has been introduced as the tool and the way of reaching to #insight and a correct #outlook. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “Think so that you can see well.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 75) He also said, “The root of insight is thinking.” (Ghurar al Hikam, p. 57) In another place, he said, “Whoever thinks much, his insight will become good.” (Ghurar al Hikam, p. 57)
🔸In another tradition, Imam Ali (‘a) said, “Whoever does not think does not have insight.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 539) He also said, “Whoever thinks well, will gain a good and correct outlook.” (Nahj al-Balaghah, letter no. 31) Furthermore, he said, “An insightful person is the one who hears and thinks.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 178)
🔸 #Wisdom is the most prominent kind of thinking. This means producing content through thinking. God told His Prophet (s), “… to teach them the Book and Wisdom…” (Qur’an, 62:2) Don’t only teach them the Book. Teach them wisdom too! This is the result of thinking. Unfortunately, some people accuse us religious people of being against thinking!
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🔸If a person wants to have control over his or her way of looking at things and to regulate it, what is the first thing that he or she should do? What can be considered to be the first action to regulate our way of looking at things is #thinking. In the traditions, thinking has been introduced as the tool and the way of reaching to #insight and a correct #outlook. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “Think so that you can see well.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 75) He also said, “The root of insight is thinking.” (Ghurar al Hikam, p. 57) In another place, he said, “Whoever thinks much, his insight will become good.” (Ghurar al Hikam, p. 57)
🔸In another tradition, Imam Ali (‘a) said, “Whoever does not think does not have insight.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 539) He also said, “Whoever thinks well, will gain a good and correct outlook.” (Nahj al-Balaghah, letter no. 31) Furthermore, he said, “An insightful person is the one who hears and thinks.” (Oyun al-Hikam, p. 178)
🔸 #Wisdom is the most prominent kind of thinking. This means producing content through thinking. God told His Prophet (s), “… to teach them the Book and Wisdom…” (Qur’an, 62:2) Don’t only teach them the Book. Teach them wisdom too! This is the result of thinking. Unfortunately, some people accuse us religious people of being against thinking!
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📷 The Quality of God’s Affection
If instead of trying to taste God’s affection, we pursue attracting other people’s affection, we will not experience any result other than being defeated. The difference between God’s affection and other people’s affection is that other people’s affection is easily gained in the beginning, but easily lost later. However, God’s affection is gained with difficulty in the beginning, but it will never be lost.
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If instead of trying to taste God’s affection, we pursue attracting other people’s affection, we will not experience any result other than being defeated. The difference between God’s affection and other people’s affection is that other people’s affection is easily gained in the beginning, but easily lost later. However, God’s affection is gained with difficulty in the beginning, but it will never be lost.
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🔸A Follower from Netherlands
🔸Mr. Panahian is one of the few peoples who really can move my heart with his words of wisdom. He inspired me to always believe in God’s mercy. To always push a little harder, to learn something new, to stand for myself and be proud of my Islamic goals, to help others, to be kinder, to give back, to share, to serve, to inspire. And for this I will be forever grateful for this page
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📷 Those who do not believe today’s story
A day will come when people submit to religion due to their wisdom and knowledge. On that day, if a person is irreligious, he or she will be seen as a foolish person. The people of that time will not believe today’s story that some thought they were more dignified by being irreligious. Although everyone will submit to religion due to his or her rationality at that time, but not everyone will be able to worship devoutly. There is a difference between being a Muslim and being a believer.
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A day will come when people submit to religion due to their wisdom and knowledge. On that day, if a person is irreligious, he or she will be seen as a foolish person. The people of that time will not believe today’s story that some thought they were more dignified by being irreligious. Although everyone will submit to religion due to his or her rationality at that time, but not everyone will be able to worship devoutly. There is a difference between being a Muslim and being a believer.
#AlirezaPanahian
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