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🔴 What do you fear?
🔻People have fear, but they should see what they are afraid of.
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🔻People have fear, but they should see what they are afraid of.
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📘 See God’s kindness in His commands
We must choose with which way we want to lose our egotism. Do we want to choose the way where no trace will remain of us, we become despised through tragedies and death, and we do not gain any dignity? Or, shall we choose the way by which our egotism is eliminated in front of the Almighty God and through servitude, we become drowned in His Greatness, we gain dignity from Him and we become eternal? If we wish to experience being humble only in being His servant, which is the same as being dignified, we must understand God’s kindness that He has commanded us so that we may grow and advance. We should see God’s kindness in His commands.
🔻From the book, "Why does God command me?" by Ali Reza Panahian
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We must choose with which way we want to lose our egotism. Do we want to choose the way where no trace will remain of us, we become despised through tragedies and death, and we do not gain any dignity? Or, shall we choose the way by which our egotism is eliminated in front of the Almighty God and through servitude, we become drowned in His Greatness, we gain dignity from Him and we become eternal? If we wish to experience being humble only in being His servant, which is the same as being dignified, we must understand God’s kindness that He has commanded us so that we may grow and advance. We should see God’s kindness in His commands.
🔻From the book, "Why does God command me?" by Ali Reza Panahian
#WhyDoesGodCommandMe
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🔲 Dhikr isn’t just repeating God’s names.
🔲 Remembering God causes everything to be in its own place.
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (27)
➖Dhikr [remembering God] means paying attention to God in our mind and isn’t just repeating His names. If one holds rosary beads and says "Glory be to God..." without paying attention, he is just repeating but not remembering. Of course, repeating His names has some good effects, but when we pay careful attention while remembering God we are thinking about Him.
➖A minimal remembering is paying attention to God mentally, and the maximum is when one’s heart is shaken too, like when a lover thinks about his beloved, "Indeed the believers are those whose hearts quake at the mention of Allah." [Qur’an 8:2]
➖Life and its ups and downs cause us to forget God. If one doesn’t remember God, He will make his life straitened, “And whoever turns away from My remembrance, his life shall surely be straitened.” [Qur’an 20:124]
➖Turning away from God’s remembrance doesn’t refer to forgetting God. It’s when we are reminded of God by some means but think about other things instead. Such turning away makes our lives difficult. Not that one loses everything, no. One has a job, gets paid, sleeps, etc., but accompanied by misery and a hard life!
➖Remembering God causes everything to be in its own place. But forgetting God causes life to become hard and straitened. For example, you make several calls for something you need to do, but no one answers. Your work won’t go smoothly. But if your life isn’t straitened, your problem will be solved with the first call.
➖Another point is that good, divine inspirations come to our mind at times that we are sure are good. If we value these, they become clearer. Don’t ignore good inspirations that come to you. Some people mistakenly think they are being inspired! I don’t mean such things. I mean good inspirations, when you yourself understand it’s a good deed. Like after prayer when you suddenly feel like praying another prayer or a supplication. You have time and don’t have to do a more important task. This is clearly a good inspiration. Pay attention to it.
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🔲 Remembering God causes everything to be in its own place.
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (27)
➖Dhikr [remembering God] means paying attention to God in our mind and isn’t just repeating His names. If one holds rosary beads and says "Glory be to God..." without paying attention, he is just repeating but not remembering. Of course, repeating His names has some good effects, but when we pay careful attention while remembering God we are thinking about Him.
➖A minimal remembering is paying attention to God mentally, and the maximum is when one’s heart is shaken too, like when a lover thinks about his beloved, "Indeed the believers are those whose hearts quake at the mention of Allah." [Qur’an 8:2]
➖Life and its ups and downs cause us to forget God. If one doesn’t remember God, He will make his life straitened, “And whoever turns away from My remembrance, his life shall surely be straitened.” [Qur’an 20:124]
➖Turning away from God’s remembrance doesn’t refer to forgetting God. It’s when we are reminded of God by some means but think about other things instead. Such turning away makes our lives difficult. Not that one loses everything, no. One has a job, gets paid, sleeps, etc., but accompanied by misery and a hard life!
➖Remembering God causes everything to be in its own place. But forgetting God causes life to become hard and straitened. For example, you make several calls for something you need to do, but no one answers. Your work won’t go smoothly. But if your life isn’t straitened, your problem will be solved with the first call.
➖Another point is that good, divine inspirations come to our mind at times that we are sure are good. If we value these, they become clearer. Don’t ignore good inspirations that come to you. Some people mistakenly think they are being inspired! I don’t mean such things. I mean good inspirations, when you yourself understand it’s a good deed. Like after prayer when you suddenly feel like praying another prayer or a supplication. You have time and don’t have to do a more important task. This is clearly a good inspiration. Pay attention to it.
@PanahianEN
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📘 What is the book “Why does God command me?” all about?
💭 An overview of the book “Why does God command me?”
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💭 An overview of the book “Why does God command me?”
🔴 youtu.be/fA7anXC6rbw
#WhyDoesGodCommandMe
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📘 O God! What is Your command?
God’s good servants strictly avoid allowing their own “will” and “self” to influence their being, behavior, thinking, and wishes. They say, “May this idol of ‘I’ die rather than me worship God because of this idol.” Because God would become second in such a case, and the idol “I” would be first. If you say, “I like to read the Qur’an now,” how valuable will this recitation be?! Let’s see! What has happened that you want to recite the Qur’an? Has the first idol allowed you to worship God?
This is why believers are worried and are not sure about themselves when they do a good deed. [[Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon 193] One of the reasons they are worried is because they think, “Perhaps I did this worship act since it was in accordance with my will.” Each of us has a Pharaoh within ourselves that is capable of saying, “I am your Lord, the most high.” [Qur’an, 79:24] We should be careful that our worship acts do not become like Pharaoh’s deeds. Say, “O God! What is Your command? Command me! Even put Your Heaven and Hell that is the result of our deeds in response to Your commands and prohibitions in front of me so that I will understand that I have no choice other than to carry out Your command.”
🔻From the book, "Why does God command me?" by Ali Reza Panahian
#WhyDoesGodCommandMe
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God’s good servants strictly avoid allowing their own “will” and “self” to influence their being, behavior, thinking, and wishes. They say, “May this idol of ‘I’ die rather than me worship God because of this idol.” Because God would become second in such a case, and the idol “I” would be first. If you say, “I like to read the Qur’an now,” how valuable will this recitation be?! Let’s see! What has happened that you want to recite the Qur’an? Has the first idol allowed you to worship God?
This is why believers are worried and are not sure about themselves when they do a good deed. [[Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon 193] One of the reasons they are worried is because they think, “Perhaps I did this worship act since it was in accordance with my will.” Each of us has a Pharaoh within ourselves that is capable of saying, “I am your Lord, the most high.” [Qur’an, 79:24] We should be careful that our worship acts do not become like Pharaoh’s deeds. Say, “O God! What is Your command? Command me! Even put Your Heaven and Hell that is the result of our deeds in response to Your commands and prohibitions in front of me so that I will understand that I have no choice other than to carry out Your command.”
🔻From the book, "Why does God command me?" by Ali Reza Panahian
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💭 Think about this before you marry
In a family, a man and a woman, with structural and important differences, are placed next to each other, which brings sweetness and bitterness. If you have not anticipated this, you will not have the ability to enjoy its sweetness, nor will you have the capacity to tolerate and deal properly with its bitterness.
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In a family, a man and a woman, with structural and important differences, are placed next to each other, which brings sweetness and bitterness. If you have not anticipated this, you will not have the ability to enjoy its sweetness, nor will you have the capacity to tolerate and deal properly with its bitterness.
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