🔻It is not God’s plan to bring hardships and calamities for His servants, unless the divine testing system requires a servant to be tested by a hardship or calamity.
🔻Paying attention to destinies determined by God reduces a person’s sorrows and eliminates regret and jealousy.
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🔸We should believe that destinies determined by God are ruling over our individual and social lives, although it is possible for us to affect divine providence. We must also pay attention to this question that what is the most important factor in determining our destinies.
🔸One can affect his/her #destiny. For example, we can pray or give charity. However, our prayers will be answered only if that “determining factor” allows it. If it does not allow it, our prayers will not be answered, even if we are a good servant.
🔸The main and most determining factor for our destinies is #testing and divine trials. We have been created to be tested in this world.
🔸It is not God’s plan to bring #hardships and calamities for His servants, unless the divine trials and testing system requires a servant to be tested by a hardship or calamity. It is not God’s plan to give #ease to His servants in this world unless testing requires it. It is not God’s plan to give or take away #opportunities from His servants, unless testing requires this.
🔸For example, God gives much #sustenance to some people while He keeps some people poor. If He gives much sustenance to one servant, this is the way he is being tested. And if God gives little sustenance to another person, that is due to his test. [Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon no. 91]
🔸This means that all the moments of our lives and all the destinies that God has determined for us, from any way we look at, are under the influence of the determining factor, which is testing and trials. Paying attention to destinies determined by God reduces a person’s sorrows and eliminates regret and jealousy.
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#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
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🔻Paying attention to destinies determined by God reduces a person’s sorrows and eliminates regret and jealousy.
👉🏼 Destiny (5)
🔸We should believe that destinies determined by God are ruling over our individual and social lives, although it is possible for us to affect divine providence. We must also pay attention to this question that what is the most important factor in determining our destinies.
🔸One can affect his/her #destiny. For example, we can pray or give charity. However, our prayers will be answered only if that “determining factor” allows it. If it does not allow it, our prayers will not be answered, even if we are a good servant.
🔸The main and most determining factor for our destinies is #testing and divine trials. We have been created to be tested in this world.
🔸It is not God’s plan to bring #hardships and calamities for His servants, unless the divine trials and testing system requires a servant to be tested by a hardship or calamity. It is not God’s plan to give #ease to His servants in this world unless testing requires it. It is not God’s plan to give or take away #opportunities from His servants, unless testing requires this.
🔸For example, God gives much #sustenance to some people while He keeps some people poor. If He gives much sustenance to one servant, this is the way he is being tested. And if God gives little sustenance to another person, that is due to his test. [Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon no. 91]
🔸This means that all the moments of our lives and all the destinies that God has determined for us, from any way we look at, are under the influence of the determining factor, which is testing and trials. Paying attention to destinies determined by God reduces a person’s sorrows and eliminates regret and jealousy.
#AliRezaPanahian
#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
âś… @PanahianEN
🔻 It is impossible to say the testing system only determines a part of a person’s life and not the other parts.
đź”» Islam is a complete religion without any defects that need to be compensated for.
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🔸It is impossible to say the testing system only determines a part of a person’s life. It is impossible the system of religious orders be under the influence of testing, but the issue of #government not be under its influence.
🔸In a religious government, testing is an important principle. A religious government is not a government that wishes to achieve results at any cost, because #testing is very important in religion. Thus, it gives #opportunities to people and doesn’t use the power of government to control people. Of course, giving opportunities often results in people misusing them.
🔸Once the Prophet (s) was told that some people were #hoarding certain goods. The Prophet (s) ordered them to return the hoarded goods to the market. A man said, “O Prophet of God (s), set a price for these goods.” The Prophet (s) said, “I won’t do so. Let it be determined naturally.” [Tahdhib al-Ahkam, vol. 7, p. 161] The Prophet (s) could have set the price, but he didn’t use his authority in just any way.
🔸Sometimes #legislators want to eliminate the possibility of any kind of sin, oppression or irregularity. So they put extra laws. But Islam has not done such a thing. We should always pay attention to the fact that Islam is a complete religion without any defects. So there is no need for us to compensate for it. Know that the laws you see in the west have not been designed due the growth of the science of jurisprudence or based on discussions about natural or human sciences. No, they are the result of security issues and political discussions.
🔸I am talking about the prevention of oppression and crimes. You are not able to stop all kinds of oppression with laws. You should leave some kinds of oppression to be taken care of by ethics. If ethics didn’t correct them, then the courts are used. Sometimes by setting extra laws, we want to bring certain preventions, but in this way we ruin all opportunities for being tested.
#AliRezaPanahian
#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
âś… @PanahianEN
đź”» Islam is a complete religion without any defects that need to be compensated for.
👉🏼 Destiny (14)
🔸It is impossible to say the testing system only determines a part of a person’s life. It is impossible the system of religious orders be under the influence of testing, but the issue of #government not be under its influence.
🔸In a religious government, testing is an important principle. A religious government is not a government that wishes to achieve results at any cost, because #testing is very important in religion. Thus, it gives #opportunities to people and doesn’t use the power of government to control people. Of course, giving opportunities often results in people misusing them.
🔸Once the Prophet (s) was told that some people were #hoarding certain goods. The Prophet (s) ordered them to return the hoarded goods to the market. A man said, “O Prophet of God (s), set a price for these goods.” The Prophet (s) said, “I won’t do so. Let it be determined naturally.” [Tahdhib al-Ahkam, vol. 7, p. 161] The Prophet (s) could have set the price, but he didn’t use his authority in just any way.
🔸Sometimes #legislators want to eliminate the possibility of any kind of sin, oppression or irregularity. So they put extra laws. But Islam has not done such a thing. We should always pay attention to the fact that Islam is a complete religion without any defects. So there is no need for us to compensate for it. Know that the laws you see in the west have not been designed due the growth of the science of jurisprudence or based on discussions about natural or human sciences. No, they are the result of security issues and political discussions.
🔸I am talking about the prevention of oppression and crimes. You are not able to stop all kinds of oppression with laws. You should leave some kinds of oppression to be taken care of by ethics. If ethics didn’t correct them, then the courts are used. Sometimes by setting extra laws, we want to bring certain preventions, but in this way we ruin all opportunities for being tested.
#AliRezaPanahian
#Most_Determining_Factor
#Destiny
âś… @PanahianEN