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📷 Affection is as necessary as water is.
Affection for the soul is like water for the body. A lack of affection for the soul, like a lack of water for the body, causes a person to become ill. Showing affection to others is beautiful, just like when you water plants. Although, when you water a garden you water the thistles too. But you should be careful not to water the weeds that don’t permit the beneficial seedlings to thrive. Instead, such weeds should be removed from the garden.
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Affection for the soul is like water for the body. A lack of affection for the soul, like a lack of water for the body, causes a person to become ill. Showing affection to others is beautiful, just like when you water plants. Although, when you water a garden you water the thistles too. But you should be careful not to water the weeds that don’t permit the beneficial seedlings to thrive. Instead, such weeds should be removed from the garden.
#SpiritualMessage
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💥Good news: The book “How to Pray a Good Prayer” has been published!
🔻This 184 page book by Ali Reza Panahian answers the very important question “How to Pray a Good Prayer” from a new and very practical perspective. This book also explains in a simple and analytical way the most important spiritual, mental effects and benefits of prayer that are often neglected.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕 This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
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🔻This 184 page book by Ali Reza Panahian answers the very important question “How to Pray a Good Prayer” from a new and very practical perspective. This book also explains in a simple and analytical way the most important spiritual, mental effects and benefits of prayer that are often neglected.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕 This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
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📕The book “How to Pray a Good Prayer” by Ali Reza Panahian is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
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🔻Do you feel that your problems have become too many and are overwhelming you?
🔸Whenever you see a deficiency in your life, material or immaterial, spiritual or physical, check your prayer as the first step. Maybe you are not putting enough effort into your praying. Of course, a believer has problems and difficulties in this world. Sometimes he becomes sick, becomes entangled, or has an accident. A believer becomes entangled with problems. However, if you feel that your problems have become too many and are overwhelming you, or you feel that these problems shouldn’t bother you this much, you probably haven’t put enough effort into your prayer. Fix your prayer, and if God wills, your problems will be solved too.
🔸It is the same way in spiritual matters too. Sometimes a believer wants to sin, or Satan tempts him. Sometimes a believer makes a mistake. But if you see that your mistakes are taking you out of the circle of life, and your spiritual situation is getting worse to the extent that you are not in contact with God, the first thing you have to do is to fix your prayer. Tell yourself, “It is obvious that I am praying badly.”
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
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🔸Whenever you see a deficiency in your life, material or immaterial, spiritual or physical, check your prayer as the first step. Maybe you are not putting enough effort into your praying. Of course, a believer has problems and difficulties in this world. Sometimes he becomes sick, becomes entangled, or has an accident. A believer becomes entangled with problems. However, if you feel that your problems have become too many and are overwhelming you, or you feel that these problems shouldn’t bother you this much, you probably haven’t put enough effort into your prayer. Fix your prayer, and if God wills, your problems will be solved too.
🔸It is the same way in spiritual matters too. Sometimes a believer wants to sin, or Satan tempts him. Sometimes a believer makes a mistake. But if you see that your mistakes are taking you out of the circle of life, and your spiritual situation is getting worse to the extent that you are not in contact with God, the first thing you have to do is to fix your prayer. Tell yourself, “It is obvious that I am praying badly.”
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
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🎦 Look from above
🔻 “Your best youth are those who are similar to your elders,” the Prophet (s)
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🔻 “Your best youth are those who are similar to your elders,” the Prophet (s)
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Many benefits from praying have been mentioned in the traditions. If you ask mystics or scholars about how to reach heights in spiritual matters, they will emphasize “prayer.” If prayer is truly this important and effective, why doesn’t it affect us?! After praying all these prayers, why haven’t we become mystics? If “prayer is the ascension of the believer” and it is enjoyable, why don’t we enjoy praying the way we should?! What is wrong with our prayers that they have become a repetitive, tedious task for us?! What can we do for our prayers to help us to grow and have an effect on us?
By reading this book, you can find the answers to these questions.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
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By reading this book, you can find the answers to these questions.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
@PanahianEN
🔻Why does God test us?
🔻Human beings have two kinds of interests: an interest in becoming good and an interest in becoming bad.
👉🏼 Destiny (11)
🔸Why does Almighty God test us? Because we have been created #human beings, who are creatures who can produce added value. Some imagine God wanted to create good, #obedient creatures! The angels had this same idea. When God wanted to create human beings they said, “Will you set in it someone who will cause corruption in it and shed blood while we celebrate Your praise and proclaim Your sanctity?” [Qur’an 2:30] But God wanted to create a being who produces added value and becomes good.
🔸Someone asked #ImamSadiq (as), “Why didn’t God create His servants in such a way that they would all be obedient and monotheists?” He replied, “If God created people obedient, reward and punishment would have been meaningless. God created His servants in a way that they do something themselves to deserve reward or punishment.” [Al-Ihtijaj, Tabarsi, vol. 2, p. 340]
🔸To produce added value, people must have two kinds of #interests: an interest in becoming good and an interest in becoming bad. If you only had one kind of interest, #testing and having a free will was meaningless. You would definitely choose that one interest. If you had two interests, one stronger and one weaker, you would always choose the stronger interest. If you had two equal interests, you couldn’t choose and would be in a dilemma.
🔸God designed our interests very beautifully and wisely. He made one interest stronger and more valuable, but concealed. And the weaker, less valuable interest is manifested. God has created this surprising balance so that people can choose.
🔸When you satisfy your divine, stronger, more valuable interests you truly enjoy more. But these interests are more concealed. If their true value were easily seen, you would go toward them from the beginning like angels. On the other hand, the weaker, less worthy worldly interests, are more easily seen, experienced and appear stronger.
🔸With this design, God has given people the opportunity to make a valuable choice.
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#Destiny
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🔻Human beings have two kinds of interests: an interest in becoming good and an interest in becoming bad.
👉🏼 Destiny (11)
🔸Why does Almighty God test us? Because we have been created #human beings, who are creatures who can produce added value. Some imagine God wanted to create good, #obedient creatures! The angels had this same idea. When God wanted to create human beings they said, “Will you set in it someone who will cause corruption in it and shed blood while we celebrate Your praise and proclaim Your sanctity?” [Qur’an 2:30] But God wanted to create a being who produces added value and becomes good.
🔸Someone asked #ImamSadiq (as), “Why didn’t God create His servants in such a way that they would all be obedient and monotheists?” He replied, “If God created people obedient, reward and punishment would have been meaningless. God created His servants in a way that they do something themselves to deserve reward or punishment.” [Al-Ihtijaj, Tabarsi, vol. 2, p. 340]
🔸To produce added value, people must have two kinds of #interests: an interest in becoming good and an interest in becoming bad. If you only had one kind of interest, #testing and having a free will was meaningless. You would definitely choose that one interest. If you had two interests, one stronger and one weaker, you would always choose the stronger interest. If you had two equal interests, you couldn’t choose and would be in a dilemma.
🔸God designed our interests very beautifully and wisely. He made one interest stronger and more valuable, but concealed. And the weaker, less valuable interest is manifested. God has created this surprising balance so that people can choose.
🔸When you satisfy your divine, stronger, more valuable interests you truly enjoy more. But these interests are more concealed. If their true value were easily seen, you would go toward them from the beginning like angels. On the other hand, the weaker, less worthy worldly interests, are more easily seen, experienced and appear stronger.
🔸With this design, God has given people the opportunity to make a valuable choice.
#AliRezaPanahian
#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
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📷 A Loving Relationship
Being in contact with God is a loving relationship. Otherwise, they would not have said that the condition for deeds to be accepted is for them to be done with sincerity, which means doing them only for the sake of God. And the way to be forgiven is to talk to God alone at midnight. In order to reach the stage where one loves God, he/she should start by obeying God with sincere politeness
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Being in contact with God is a loving relationship. Otherwise, they would not have said that the condition for deeds to be accepted is for them to be done with sincerity, which means doing them only for the sake of God. And the way to be forgiven is to talk to God alone at midnight. In order to reach the stage where one loves God, he/she should start by obeying God with sincere politeness
#SpiritualMessage
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🔻In the first stage, prayer is not being in love with God!
➖In the first stage, prayer is not being in love with God. In the beginning, prayer is enduring hardship and not attaining spiritual enjoyment. The Almighty God knew that in the beginning of the way, we are not in love with Him and we don’t know Him. The Almighty God knows that after forty years of worshiping, we will gradually be able to taste the sweetness of talking to Him. That is why He has given us such a command. Nonetheless, we think our prayer is good only if we enjoy it!
➖Sometimes it is not nice if we are in pursuit of tasting the sweetness of prayer and enjoying it. Sometimes, it is not right to ask, “What should I do to enjoy praying?”
➖Sometimes a person is not after praying. He is in pursuit of enjoying something and his own desires. He wants to taste the sweetness of prayer, because he wants his whole life to be full of sweetness. He thinks that prayer is like a “Tom & Jerry” cartoon that when he goes to it, he will become magically drowned in it and enjoy it! Sometimes, a person thinks that praying is like watching a movie. If God had wanted, He could have made prayer sweet and enjoyable for everyone so that everyone would be attracted to prayer. Actually, God causes a person to become disgruntled by prayer. Of course, God is wise in doing this, like all of His other actions. What is the wisdom behind this?
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
@PanahianEN
➖In the first stage, prayer is not being in love with God. In the beginning, prayer is enduring hardship and not attaining spiritual enjoyment. The Almighty God knew that in the beginning of the way, we are not in love with Him and we don’t know Him. The Almighty God knows that after forty years of worshiping, we will gradually be able to taste the sweetness of talking to Him. That is why He has given us such a command. Nonetheless, we think our prayer is good only if we enjoy it!
➖Sometimes it is not nice if we are in pursuit of tasting the sweetness of prayer and enjoying it. Sometimes, it is not right to ask, “What should I do to enjoy praying?”
➖Sometimes a person is not after praying. He is in pursuit of enjoying something and his own desires. He wants to taste the sweetness of prayer, because he wants his whole life to be full of sweetness. He thinks that prayer is like a “Tom & Jerry” cartoon that when he goes to it, he will become magically drowned in it and enjoy it! Sometimes, a person thinks that praying is like watching a movie. If God had wanted, He could have made prayer sweet and enjoyable for everyone so that everyone would be attracted to prayer. Actually, God causes a person to become disgruntled by prayer. Of course, God is wise in doing this, like all of His other actions. What is the wisdom behind this?
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
@PanahianEN
📷 The Power of Imagination
Positive thinking and imagining are an opportunity to become released from limitations and bitterness. However, imagining without actions and without having hope in God’s power and mercy is like falling from the frying pan into the fire.
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Positive thinking and imagining are an opportunity to become released from limitations and bitterness. However, imagining without actions and without having hope in God’s power and mercy is like falling from the frying pan into the fire.
#SpiritualMessage
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🎈Good Mood
👉🏼 New playlists are now available in our YouTube channel.
🔥Check them out!
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👉🏼 New playlists are now available in our YouTube channel.
🔥Check them out!
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🔻What should I do to enjoy praying?
➖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 (as), said, “Hearts are imbued with the power to advance and retreat.” 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 by way of the hardships and bitterness of this repetitive action. If you want to enjoy praying in the beginning of this way, you won’t grow.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
@PanahianEN
➖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 (as), said, “Hearts are imbued with the power to advance and retreat.” 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 by way of the hardships and bitterness of this repetitive action. If you want to enjoy praying in the beginning of this way, you won’t grow.
👉🏼 You can now read Ali Reza Panahian’s in-depth discussion about “How to Pray a Good Prayer"!
📕This book is now available in English on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle edition.
#HowToPrayAGoodPrayer
@PanahianEN
🔻 In the beginning, we must sacrifice our bad likings for good ones.
🔻 In the next stage, we must sacrifice our good likings for higher ones.
👉🏼 Destiny (12)
🔸In each #test, and in each good choice we make, we must crush some of our #likings. Of course, this is difficult and painful to do. Overcoming superficial interests and reaching deep, hidden #interests is the only way for human beings to produce added value. Thus, God has said, “O man! Surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.” [Qur’an 84:6]
🔸#ImamAli (as) said, “Each worship act involves some difficulties and dislikes, and each sin involves some desires.” [Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon 176] But don’t try to be religious by adapting religion to your own desires.
🔸The #Prophet (s) said about those who work for their life in the Hereafter, “People die once, but they die 70 times a day due to fighting their own wills, opposing their desires and fighting the evil that runs through their veins.” [Mizan al-Hikmah, p. 2916]
🔸God says, “Certainly We have created man to be in distress.” [Qur’an 90:4] But we keep pursuing excitements and entertainments. We expect to be constantly immersed in pleasures and comforts even though we see that we fail to achieve many of our dreams. Today, some hold classes on how to be #successful and how to reach our dreams. But Imam Ali (as) in a letter to the youth said, “I am writing to a youth whose dreams won’t come true.” [Nahj al-Balaghah, letter 31]
🔸Not only must we crush our bad and worthless likings for good, valuable likings, but in higher stages, we must also crush our good likings for better ones. And this opposing our will continues until the last moments of our lives. [Tuhaf al-Uqul, p. 370]
🔸Fighting his will for a person like Ibrahim (as) was not crushing his bad likings. It meant crushing a good liking, loving his son Ismael (as), for the love of God. Imam Ali (as) loved to protect the trust that had been entrusted to him and defend Fatimah (as). But the situation was such that for the sake of God and a higher interest, he didn’t use his sword to defend Fatimah (as), and this was very hard for him.
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#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
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🔻 In the next stage, we must sacrifice our good likings for higher ones.
👉🏼 Destiny (12)
🔸In each #test, and in each good choice we make, we must crush some of our #likings. Of course, this is difficult and painful to do. Overcoming superficial interests and reaching deep, hidden #interests is the only way for human beings to produce added value. Thus, God has said, “O man! Surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.” [Qur’an 84:6]
🔸#ImamAli (as) said, “Each worship act involves some difficulties and dislikes, and each sin involves some desires.” [Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon 176] But don’t try to be religious by adapting religion to your own desires.
🔸The #Prophet (s) said about those who work for their life in the Hereafter, “People die once, but they die 70 times a day due to fighting their own wills, opposing their desires and fighting the evil that runs through their veins.” [Mizan al-Hikmah, p. 2916]
🔸God says, “Certainly We have created man to be in distress.” [Qur’an 90:4] But we keep pursuing excitements and entertainments. We expect to be constantly immersed in pleasures and comforts even though we see that we fail to achieve many of our dreams. Today, some hold classes on how to be #successful and how to reach our dreams. But Imam Ali (as) in a letter to the youth said, “I am writing to a youth whose dreams won’t come true.” [Nahj al-Balaghah, letter 31]
🔸Not only must we crush our bad and worthless likings for good, valuable likings, but in higher stages, we must also crush our good likings for better ones. And this opposing our will continues until the last moments of our lives. [Tuhaf al-Uqul, p. 370]
🔸Fighting his will for a person like Ibrahim (as) was not crushing his bad likings. It meant crushing a good liking, loving his son Ismael (as), for the love of God. Imam Ali (as) loved to protect the trust that had been entrusted to him and defend Fatimah (as). But the situation was such that for the sake of God and a higher interest, he didn’t use his sword to defend Fatimah (as), and this was very hard for him.
#AliRezaPanahian
#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
✅ @PanahianEN
📷 Gaining Knowledge and Purifying Oneself
Struggling to gain knowledge purifies a person. A person can use hard work in studying as a way for getting close to God. The great scientists of the world have usually opposed their desires and had a pure inner being, although there have been scientists whose exceptional talent has caused them to stand out. Self-purification leads to the scientific growth of a student with even average talent.
#SpiritualMessage
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Struggling to gain knowledge purifies a person. A person can use hard work in studying as a way for getting close to God. The great scientists of the world have usually opposed their desires and had a pure inner being, although there have been scientists whose exceptional talent has caused them to stand out. Self-purification leads to the scientific growth of a student with even average talent.
#SpiritualMessage
✅ @PanahianEN
📷 The Philosophy Behind Sufferings
This world is the place for a person to increase his capacity and worthiness in order to meet God. This increase in capacity and worthiness is gained more through hardships, hardships that are due to one’s duty and destiny. Religion is a program for managing these hardships. “O human being! Surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.” [Qur’an 84:6] Of course, if a person does not manage his hardships with religiosity, he will still have to tolerate hardships.
#SpiritualMessage
✅ @PanahianEN
This world is the place for a person to increase his capacity and worthiness in order to meet God. This increase in capacity and worthiness is gained more through hardships, hardships that are due to one’s duty and destiny. Religion is a program for managing these hardships. “O human being! Surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.” [Qur’an 84:6] Of course, if a person does not manage his hardships with religiosity, he will still have to tolerate hardships.
#SpiritualMessage
✅ @PanahianEN