🔲 Religion tells us to control our minds ourselves.
🔲 Why do you let an external factor grab your attention?!
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (5)
➖A person who constantly overeats is harming himself and is called an overeater. But people don’t usually use bad terms about a person who constantly uses devices that attract a person’s attention, such as the TV, Internet, etc. Because this still isn’t considered to be bad behavior. But the harm and evil from these is much more than overeating!
➖Psychologists say, “If a person watches too much TV, he’ll become foolish.” Listening to a story on the radio is much better than watching a TV serial, because it involves more mental activity and your mind won’t become so lazy.
➖Today, there are different tools to attract people’s #attention, and this is truly an insult to people! It is as if they are saying, “Let me decide what you think about!” Why should an external factor grab your attention?!
➖The best moments for worshiping are at dawn when you are #alone. In fact, many places in religion refer to “controlling one’s mind,” such as “Dhikr [remembering God].” Dhikr means controlling one’s mind and is the opposite of “Ghiflah [negligence],” which means not being able to control one’s mind due to an inability to focus. Imam Sadiq (as) said, “The root of straying is Ghiflah, and the root of guidance is Dhikr.” [Misbah al-Shari’a, vol. 1, p. 55]
➖Many think since this world is instantaneous and sweet, it causes us to fall in love with it. But since the Hereafter is a promise for the future and we have not tasted its sweetness yet, we don’t fall in love with it. This is very wrong!
➖Since this world’s Dhikr is constantly in our mind and we remember it more, we love it. Since we do not remember the Hereafter very much, we do not love it that much.
➖ #ImamSadiq (as) said, “When you love something, do not think about it or remember it very much because this may destroy you.” [Kafi, vol. 6, p. 459] This world being instantaneous does not ruin a person; it is the Dhikr of this world that ruins one. How can you expect the Hereafter, a promise for the future, to cause you to grow without thinking about it and remembering it?!
âś… @PanahianEN
🔲 Why do you let an external factor grab your attention?!
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (5)
➖A person who constantly overeats is harming himself and is called an overeater. But people don’t usually use bad terms about a person who constantly uses devices that attract a person’s attention, such as the TV, Internet, etc. Because this still isn’t considered to be bad behavior. But the harm and evil from these is much more than overeating!
➖Psychologists say, “If a person watches too much TV, he’ll become foolish.” Listening to a story on the radio is much better than watching a TV serial, because it involves more mental activity and your mind won’t become so lazy.
➖Today, there are different tools to attract people’s #attention, and this is truly an insult to people! It is as if they are saying, “Let me decide what you think about!” Why should an external factor grab your attention?!
➖The best moments for worshiping are at dawn when you are #alone. In fact, many places in religion refer to “controlling one’s mind,” such as “Dhikr [remembering God].” Dhikr means controlling one’s mind and is the opposite of “Ghiflah [negligence],” which means not being able to control one’s mind due to an inability to focus. Imam Sadiq (as) said, “The root of straying is Ghiflah, and the root of guidance is Dhikr.” [Misbah al-Shari’a, vol. 1, p. 55]
➖Many think since this world is instantaneous and sweet, it causes us to fall in love with it. But since the Hereafter is a promise for the future and we have not tasted its sweetness yet, we don’t fall in love with it. This is very wrong!
➖Since this world’s Dhikr is constantly in our mind and we remember it more, we love it. Since we do not remember the Hereafter very much, we do not love it that much.
➖ #ImamSadiq (as) said, “When you love something, do not think about it or remember it very much because this may destroy you.” [Kafi, vol. 6, p. 459] This world being instantaneous does not ruin a person; it is the Dhikr of this world that ruins one. How can you expect the Hereafter, a promise for the future, to cause you to grow without thinking about it and remembering it?!
âś… @PanahianEN
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