🎦 Let me pour the water

🔻An Engaging Story About Imam Ali’s (as) Behavior Toward His Guest

🌱 Congratulations on the birth anniversary of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (as)!

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🌙 The Month of God’s Intimate Friends

🌱 The month of Rajab is the month of God’s intimate friends. The month of Ramadan is for everyone. If a person goes to God the Almighty during the month of Ramadan he has not done something that special. But if a person gets up in the month of Rajab and starts the worshiping that he usually does in the month of Ramadan, he will be welcomed in a special way.

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The Most Glorious Moment in Each Person’s Life

The most important matter, which one should think about when praying, is how it will be when we meet God. The moment when we meet God is the most important and most glorious moment in each person’s life. This is the moment when we meet the Creator of all that is great. There is no enjoyment higher than meeting the Kind God, and there is no punishment worse than God’s wrath and Him not talking with a person.

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Be devoted to righteousness.

If you do not love the truth, sometimes you will not be able to distinguish between right and wrong. This is the punishment of those who know the truth, but do not love it. If you do not hate falsehood, sometimes you will not be able to distinguish between right and wrong. This is the punishment of those who know falsehood, but do not hate it. A devotion to righteousness keeps one on the path of truth.

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🎦 If we talk to God sincerely…

🔻God is able to change your heart.

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🌙 A Program for the Month of Rajab

🌱 When it is said that these three months (Rajab, Sha'ban and Ramadan) are months of worshiping and servitude to God, it means that we need to increase our program of worshiping some in this month. The second meaning is that we should be more careful in our obedience. That is, we should sin less and watch over our actions more carefully. On the other hand, we should also help others more in the month of Rajab if we can.

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🔻Religion doesn’t allow us to mesmerize people with propaganda to lead them to God.
🔻God doesn’t even permit us to speak the truth in a way that deprives people of the power of choice.

👉🏼 Destiny (16)

🔸Religion doesn’t allow us to fool people with great amounts of propaganda in order to lead them to God. God told the Prophet (s), “[O Prophet!] If their turning away is hard on you, seek if you can, a tunnel into the ground or a ladder into the sky by which you can bring them a sign. Had God willed, He would have gathered them to guidance. Do not then be among the ignorant.” [Qur’an 6:35]

🔸We are not allowed to use mesmerizing, religious propaganda to push people to submit to God. And no one should be waiting for a movie to captivate him to take him to God. But if the devil wants to attract someone, he mesmerizes him using false adornments and any or all propaganda methods to fool him and remove his power of choice. But God doesn’t even permit us to speak the truth in a way that deprives people of the power of choice.

🔸In propagating religion, we must say both the bitter and sweet truths. Both eagerness and fear must come together. Although we know people hate fear, we can’t just speak of love and being enthusiastic.

🔸At the same time, even in the best schools of science and religion, the possibility of educating the most dangerous people can’t be eliminated. This is the system that God has designed. A correct educational system is not one where everyone comes out being good. It is a system where both people like Malik Ashtar are trained and people like Shemr ibn Dhi al-Jawshan appear. This is the system of Imam Ali (as).

🔸Even today we see people who consider themselves to be modern intellectuals and claim, “Nothing was revealed to the Prophet (s) [God forbid]. He lied, or it was all a dream.” Some such people come from the most religious schools.

🔸It is very complex and not easy to judge which program is right. We must not have a shallow outlook when writing legislation, preventing oppression and creating order. We must keep in mind that tests and the testing system govern human destiny.

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🔲 Awaken your good points with the help of your thinking.
🔲 If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray.

👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (6)

➖A person usually wants something more when he/she doesn’t have it. Sometimes he can’t even think of anything else. A person who keeps thinking and concentrating on what he doesn’t have will become obsessed.

➖Imam Hasan (as) said, “If you want something from the world but don’t get it, imagine that this wish never came to your mind.” [Kashf al-Ghumma, vol. 1, p. 572] He also said, “I encourage you to #think constantly and deeply, because thinking is the foundation for every goodness.” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 52]

➖“A believer is drowned in thinking,” Imam Ali (as) said. [Nahj al-Balaghah, wisdom no. 333] In the same way that the ability to #concentrate needs practice, #thinking well also needs practice. If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray. When some people think, they think of longings, jealousy, greed, and plans that will destroy them. Never busy your mind with thoughts about what you do not have!

➖Controlling one’s mind entails at least five tasks that you should be able to do:
1. Think and pay attention to any subject that you choose, not any subject that grabs your attention.
2. Think for as long as you want about any subject you choose
3. Think deeply about one subject, and this is difficult to do
4. Distract your thinking from any subject you don’t wish to think about, e.g., if others pull your thinking to a topic, be able to stop thinking about it.
5. Not allow vain or evil thoughts to attract your thinking for you to need to divert your thinking later on.


➖You should be able to not allow your #attention to be pulled toward anything without your permission. You should think good thoughts and look from a positive angle at things that usually bring bad thoughts and distract you. These are skills the prophets had! Some of the Disciples came across a dog’s carcass. The first thing that caught their attention was its stench, but Prophet Jesus (as) said, “It has such white teeth!” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 117]


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🎦 Allahu Akbar

🔻Have you ever paid attention to the most important sentence of prayer?

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🔸 #Tweet | Iraqi Shia turned the ISIS threat into an opportunity for Resistance, cohesion & honor. Naturally, the Iraqi Shia leader used this time to send the message of oppressed Iraqis & nations of the region to the world. In Shiism, no chance is ignored & threats turn into opportunities.

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Life before realizing our need for God is hollow.

If the feeling of a need for God is awakened within a person, it is then that a serious and enjoyable life for a person will begin. Before realizing our need for God, living is a waste of opportunities and blessings, and it is confined to experiencing small joys and great sorrows. Living makes sense after we realize our need for God Himself.

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🔻The important principle behind God sending His prophets, “Bi’thah,” is monotheism. Monotheism means only serving the Almighty God. It means that things such as carnal desires, angers, dictatorships, tyrannies and egotism shouldn’t rule our lives.

🔻All those who want to dominate over societies with their arrogance, tyranny and oppression will be repelled with the slogan of monotheism. That is why they show animosity.

🔻All of the prophets stood up to the wealthy oppressors, because monotheism means standing up to oppression and Bi’thah reminds us of this.

🌸 Congratulations on the Eid al-Mab’ath of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s).

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🎦 Practice not getting upset when people tell you something.

🔻One way of seeking comfort is seeking mental comfort.

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🌱Wouldn’t you be curious?

➖The holy month of Sha’ban is a special opportunity for reading the “Sha’baniyah Supplication.” Suppose you were behind the door of a room, where you knew Imam Ali (as) is in that room talking privately with God. If his words could be heard and you were allowed to hear his voice, wouldn’t you be curious to see what the Commander of the Faithful (as) was saying to God?

➖Supplications are the essence of the faith, piety, and understanding of an Imam, which have reached us from him. The “Sha’baniyah Supplication” is truly the essence of the spiritual existence of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (as).

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