🔲 Religion’s main purpose isn’t controlling our behaviors and carnal desires.
🔲 Religion’s main mission is to change our inner behavior, our mind and thinking.

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➖ There are two types of human behaviors: physical behavior such as walking and talking, plus internal or spiritual behavior that has a higher value. We should not degrade religion by saying it just wants to control our physical behaviors.

➖The rules for what is obligatory or forbidden in religion are more related to behavior. This is not because religion’s main mission is in this area. These rules are so that we will observe the minimum requirements. Why is there a Hell? It is for us to avoid some things in order to go toward God. I cannot convince myself that I have a religion that just tells me not to go to Hell!

➖Religion wants to change our hearts for us to discover our love and dependence on God. It wants us to be pious in our thoughts and not just stop us from doing wrong actions! Religion wants us to fall in love with God, a love beyond all the loves we have ever experienced. We can never understand even a particle of the love that made Lady Fatima (as) tremble in her prayers.

➖Imam Sajjad (as) told God in a prayer, “Help me to become negligent about carnal desires by remembering You.” [Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 91, p. 127] By remembering God, we can control our mind. A mind that keeps jumping here and there is destructive for a human being.

➖Curiosity is good for a scientist who wants to discover a substance or wishes to invent something. But curiosity is like poison for a person who squanders his time to see what catches his eye in the internet! That he may see unlawful scenes isn’t good, but the main problem is he won’t have any control over his mind.

➖Browsing in the internet or social media just to spend time is an insult to humanity! One may say, "Let's join this group because it has many interesting things!" But let's look at the issue from this angle. If we spend our lives on things that others have made to keep us busy, what will be left of our minds and humanity?

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📌 Two important points we must pay attention to in teaching religious concepts to children

🛑 Transferring religious concepts to children is not a complicated task as long as we are careful and pay attention to a couple of simple points.

🔻 Have suitable preparation.
👉🏼 To transfer religious concepts to children, the background must be prepared first. This preparation does not mean just religious preparation. This can also be done without using religion. That is, we can talk to children based on the language they have learned throughout their lives. For example, they have seen and experienced their parent’s love. Well, this love can be used to recognize God’s love. We can tell the child, “See how kind your mother is. God is kinder than she is!” Sometimes these methods, which do not seem to be direct religious training, are more effective.

🔻 Consider the child's language.
👉🏼 We should convey religious concepts in a language that the child understands. For example, when answering a child who asks the meaning of “Subhanallah,” we should use the words that his mother uses when talking to him and that he fully understands. We can say that “Subhanallah” means God is perfect! Similarly, it is hard for a child to understand that “Allahu Akbar” means God is greater than anything we can describe. Instead of translating this literally, we can say, “God is strong and supports all of us.” The language we use must be understandable and recognizable to the child.

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📿 The beautiful meaning of Tasbih of Lady Fatimah (as)

🌱Allahu Akbar, Alhamdu Lillah, Subhanallah

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Let’s be kind to children

Children think that kindness is something natural and they do not pay that much attention to it. On the other hand, they are hurt if others are not kind to them and they can learn being unkind very quickly. Let’s be kind to children.

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🎉Good news! Ali Reza Panahian's third book that has been translated into English will be available very soon!

🔻What do you think the subject of this book is?

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📘 “Why does God command me?” will be available soon!

🔻The book “Why does God command me?” helps us to be able to look at God's commands and to act upon them with a different feeling. In a way, this book deals with the reason and philosophy behind religious commands being obligatory.

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📘The book “Why does God command me” is now available!

This book attempts to answer the question "Why does God command?" from the perspective of the effects God’s commands have on one’s personal training and morals. While answering this question, he also explains some of the deep, educational concepts of Islam in a simple language. The valuable effect this book has is that it leaves the reader with a delightful, glorious, pleasant image of the concept of "God's commands," which has an automatic impact on one’s spiritual development.

📕This book is now available in both paperback and Kindle edition on Amazon.
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🛑 If you don’t have access to the paperback on Amazon in your region, you can try another way to benefit from the contents of this book. You can read the e-book or electronic version of the book (Kindle). The e-book is available on Amazon throughout the world.

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🌱 Remembering God brings happiness.

Imam Baqir (as) related that the Messenger of God (s) said, “Do you want me to tell you about the best, most purifying action? It raises your rank more than anything else, is more useful than money and wealth, and is [even] better than fighting in the way of God.” “Yes,” the people said. So he told them, “Remember God, the Almighty, very much.” [Kafi, vol. 2, p. 499]

If a person is able to refrain from involving his mind in his daily affairs very much and to keep remembering God, he has brought about a great change in himself. In such a case, focusing one’s attention on God has begun.

The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (as), said, “Remembering God brings happiness to every pious person and brings joy to every human being who is certain in his faith.” [Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5,174]

This means that there is joy and happiness in the remembrance of God. God has not just left us in the world to suffer in order to give us our reward in the Hereafter! Rather, God has placed us in this world to enjoy remembering Him. In the next world, we will enjoy even more when we are with Him! [Qur’an 84:6]

🌸 Congratulations on the anniversary of the birth of Imam Muhammad Baqir (as).

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