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Bring peace within yourself by being satisfied with God
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“God is with the brokenhearted.” That's true. It is said in the traditions, “God is with the brokenhearted.” Don’t be mistaken. This does not mean that God dislikes a happy heart. What if I say that God loves a happy heart more? Will you accept this from me? If a person is happy due to being satisfied with God, his prayers will be accepted more. [One might say,] “But it’s said that the prayers of a person who is brokenhearted are answered.” Yes, that is true. But you see… What can I say?
Imam Hasan Mujtaba (as) has talked about when you are completely satisfied with God in your heart! Look deep inside your heart. Are you satisfied? Try to do it right now, my friends. Everyone try to make his or her heart pleased with God right now. Imam Hasan (as) talked about when you are deeply pleased with God. As a result of this, a person becomes happy. Right now, smile due to your satisfaction with God. Your current state is the state when prayers are answered. Imam Hasan Mujtaba (as) said that whatever you pray for in this situation, he guarantees it will be answered.
[God says,] “Come to Me when you’re brokenhearted. I will fix the broken heart. Come to Me when you’re sad. I will remove your sadness.” Don’t be mistaken! God doesn’t mean to go to Him when you are upset at Him! You should be happy with God! Yes, God loves someone who is brokenhearted. Yes, a broken heart has no refuge but God! If God rejects such a person, where can he go? Obviously, God loves the brokenhearted. But this does not mean that you should try to break your heart in this sense! If your happiness is due to your satisfaction with God, your prayers will be answered better.
Let me give an example. If a child has been beaten, will his mother hug and fondle him? So we should beat the child and give him to his mother! [You will tell me,] “No! What are you saying?! A mother prefers you to give a flower to her child.” God, the Almighty, bestows favors on His servants when they are happy. On a wedding night, prayers are answered [according to the traditions]. When it’s raining, your heart is happy and your prayers are answered. Why? Because you are feeling good.
If a person is happy due to being satisfied with God, his prayers will be accepted more. [One might say,] “But it’s said that the prayers of a person who is brokenhearted are answered.” But this does not mean that you should try to break your heart in this sense! If your happiness is due to your satisfaction with God, your prayers will be answered better.
Why do good children become bad?
In many cases in religious families, they encourage their children to pray or wear Hijab through kindness. They ask, “Do you like mom? Do you like dad?” The child says, “Yes.” They say, “I want to pray.” The child says, “Since I love you, I’ll pray too.” In this religious family, children love their parents. Children do good deeds due to their love for their parents. The mom and dad forget to train their children.
When the child grows up and becomes a teenager, he starts going around and finds that he loves other things too. Because of his friends, he stands up to his parents. Because of following his own desires, he abandons praying too. The parents say, “My child was good! Now he has become bad.”
At the time when he loved you, you should have disciplined him. “Mom and dad I love you. I want to come there.” “No, you should do that now for your discipline. Your situation is different from mine.” This is not about how to pray. Yes, he should pray like his parents. But, we should teach him the etiquettes of prayer. “Now my little one, pick up your praying scarf.” We should have some etiquettes that we expect from our children at home. We shouldn’t say, “Let my child be comfortable. I will pick up her scarf myself.”
No! A child should start to be polite and behave with discipline from the age of seven. “My child, you shouldn’t stretch out your hand to every older person you see. He should bring his hand forward first. But, you should say hello first!” Teach politeness to children as much as you can.
A father and son came to the house of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a). He poured water for the father to wash his hands, but not for the son. He said, “My son, pour water for the son.” Then the Imam said to the son, “I didn’t want to disrespect you! I wanted to be polite. The reason I poured water for your father is that I should respect him more than I respect you. He should be respected more. If I pour water for you, I have treated you and your father equally. Therefore, my son will pour water for you. I didn’t want to disrespect you. I wanted to respect your father in front of you.”
Who should teach children to respect their father? Mother. Who should teach children to respect their mother? Father. Usually both of them don’t do this. When you have problems with your wife, this doesn’t have anything to do with the children. Why should children become wretched? If their mother is the worst person, you should tell them to respect her. Say, “I have problems with your mother. But, your situation is different! Stand up in front of her and kiss her hand. This so and so.” Even if you have problems, tell your children to respect their mother.
It's interesting. In some houses when the father comes home, the mother doesn’t tell the children, “Stand up in front of him.” This is interesting, isn’t it? It’s very strange! Then, this mother likes her son and daughter to be prosperous. This way?! They don’t stand up when their father enters. They’ll become prosperous?! Never! Such a person hasn’t respected his or her father. Then you want him or her to become prosperous?
Fathers, be careful. It’s true mothers are kind. But, if this child learns to be polite to his mother, he will become prosperous and his sustenance will increase. The mother is meek. She says, “Forget it. It’s enough that my child loves me.” Mothers are like this, “This is enough.” Mother, it’s not enough at all! A child should be polite to you. Be polite to your mother.
Wow! How will a life full of politeness be?! Politeness is very beautiful. Very beautiful. Teach politeness to your child as much as you can. We should have some etiquettes we expect from our children at home. We shouldn’t say, “It’s my child. Let her be comfortable. I will pick up her scarf myself.” No! A child should start to be polite from the age of seven.
A strange suggestion: Let’s talk about Hell with God!
I want to suggest something, which one eighth of the Qur’an talks about. O my God! What a suggestion! What is this suggestion? Don’t hide your bad points. Burn them in Hell. This is an amazing suggestion!
I suggest you talk heatedly with God about the most important bad outcome, which comes from your bad points, Hell. “Am I going to Hell?!” Say it. Continue! It gets to the point that God shouts, “I won’t take you to Hell. Don’t be afraid! Don’t talk about it! I won’t take you.” That’s enough! This is the result. You hear God saying, “I won’t take you!” But, you should be afraid. Say, “I’m afraid.”
All Moms hug their children when they say they’re afraid. All Dads hug their children when they say they’re afraid. It’s enough for you to be a little frightened! Be small. Don’t act like a big guy! Say, “Hell is hot. I’m afraid! They want to take me to Hell! With the bad points that I have, I will go to Hell!” Then see what God does! Talk to Him about Hell.
See how Imam Sajjad (‘a) talked, “You want to question me on the Day of Judgment? I’m afraid of Your questioning me!” He says he’s afraid of the questioning so much that God calls, “My dear, I won’t question you. It’s enough.” It gets to the point that the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), shows his fear of Hell in several phrases of the Kumayl Supplication! God tells him, “My dear Ali! It’s enough. I won’t let you go!” The Commander of the Faithful (‘a) replies, “I know You won’t let me go to Hell. ‘Far be it from You! You are more generous than to discard one whom you have nurtured.” [Kumayl Supplication] It would have been impolite if He didn’t say, “My dear. I tell you; I won’t hit you.” Then, Imam Ali (‘a) should have said, “I know You won’t let me go to Hell. So, why was I crying?! Look at how You hugged me very beautifully.”
Gentlemen! Please answer me loudly. Is a mother warm with a child who changes what he or she is saying? Imam Ali (‘a) starts to change what he was saying after he talks about Hell a little, and God welcomes him. He then prays in a way that he hadn’t prayed in the beginning of the supplication! In the beginning, he was saying, “Forgive me; I made mistakes.” At the end of the Kumayl Supplication, after saying these and God welcoming him, he says, “I hasten towards You among the frontrunners. Put me among Your servants who receive the most and are the closest to You in level and status.” God replies, “I said I won’t take you to Hell!” “No! Since You hugged me, put me among the best ones.” How strange! Enjoy it! Live with it!
Be small. Don’t act like a big guy. Talk to Him about Hell. It gets to the point that you hear God saying, “I won’t take you!” Be afraid. Say, “I’m afraid.” It’s enough for you to be a little afraid!
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It’s not good to talk negatively, especially to God when supplicating Him, and specifically on the Nights of Destiny. But sometimes one sees in the supplications that the Imams themselves talked somewhat negatively. It seems talking like this sometimes has a good effect in the world.
This year the religious meetings aren’t the same as before and the believers don’t easily get together. I’m sorry, but let me talk a little negatively. In previous years, when we used to get together and there were good meetings, what did we do? Did our Imam (aj) return?! Some are worried about Muharram. Some are worried about Arbaeen [due to COVID-19]. But during Ashura in previous years we weren’t able to meet Mahdi (aj), the son of Fatimah, either! We weren’t able to benefit enough from these nights. I’m not saying they were ineffective. But you know that the Nights of Destiny are enough for us to bring our Imam back [by praying].
Our situation wasn’t good and now it has become worse. I don’t know how broken hearted you are when you talk with God. What if God is upset at the way we pray and supplicate Him? What if He didn’t like our previous years, since we participate in religious gatherings due to them being fun and entertaining? What will our children think about us? Will they say, “My parents participated in a religious gathering, cried some and came home. It was interesting”? Or will they say, “During these three nights, I don’t know why my parents were so distressed. Why were they pleading so much?” [We should behave such that] our children say, “During these three nights my parents were extremely sad.”
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You are my Patron.
References: The Holy Quran, chapter 2, verse 286; Mafatih al-Janaan, Qumi, the Litany of Imam Ali (‘a), p. 727.
God, why do You take it to Yourself?
When we go to a doctor and he gives us a prescription for a very fatal disease, if we don’t do what he says, we won’t constantly apologize to the doctor. If we apologize to him once, he’ll say, “This doesn’t have anything to do with me.” He’ll certainly say this. He says, “You don’t need to apologize to me.” But, the Almighty God has brought Himself into the middle of human beings’ lives.
I love you more than your mother does! God has created this world in an orderly manner. Look at the universe. In this world, which God has created orderly, He has given will, authority, and freedom to human beings. This human being makes mistakes and does misdeeds. It’s strange that God has called this sinning. “God, I have ruined myself, ‘I have harmed myself.’ (Qur’an 28:16) I have bothered myself. Why do You take it to Yourself?”
A person has put his hand on a butcher block and cut his fingers with a cleaver. “We have harmed ourselves. When we harm ourselves, why do You somehow take it to Yourself?” Why did the Almighty God make the schedule that He gave us with commands, in such a way that any misdeeds we do in this schedule, are against God’s commands? God says, “If you make these mistakes, you have disobeyed me. When you harm yourself, I get upset with you. The things that are in your favour, I order you to do.” God talks with insistence and fervour. He keeps taking people to Heaven or Hell (in the Qur’an)! His talks are totally promotional. “God why do You do this?!”
He replies, “Don’t you understand why I’m upset? I love you more than your mother!” “God, even if You don’t command me, I still have to do these. Why do You involve Your commands in this?” Isn’t this due to the severity of God’s fondness towards His servants? What other philosophy could it have? What is Holy War (Jihad)? Defend yourself against the enemy. What is ethics? You should have a good behaviour. It’s strange that if we don’t do these, God calls them sins. “You have sinned against My command!” “God, why do You get upset when I beat myself?” Doesn’t this show God’s severe fondness towards us? For example, God forbid, is God a mean king that has said something in general and if you don’t listen, He’ll get upset, rage and punish you severely! It is not like this at all. Why should God need this? It’s only due to the severity of His affection. It doesn’t have any other reason.
A person has put his hand on a butcher block and cut his fingers with a cleaver. “Why do You call these sins?! God, why do You take it to Yourself?!” This is very strange. Doesn’t this show God’s severe affection towards us? I love you more than your mother does!
[From the series of speeches under the topic of, “What is sinning? How should we repent?”]
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We should come alive, like Haj Qasem!
Let’s experience a higher, more beautiful life…
In comparison with those who come alive by obeying God and his Prophet’s (s) commands, we are dead!
[Poet:] What’s the news saying that there’s so much commotion again?
[Newsman,] “We belong to God and to Him we shall return. The martyrdom of the soldier who defended Guardianship and the nation of Islam…”
[Poet:] I wish the news had been a lie. I wish I would wake up. What is the news saying? I can’t believe it.
[Mr. Farahzad:] I usually don’t like to give bad news. Unfortunately, the Commander, Qasem Soleimani, was martyred minutes ago by the criminal Americans in the Baghdad airport…
In comparison with those who come alive by obeying God and his Prophet’s (s) commands, we are dead! Our eyes don’t see and our ears don’t hear. We don’t hear what the good people say or understand hidden meanings. When reciting the Qur’an, we don’t understand or tremble. We’re stagnant. Compared to those who are alive we are dead. A “Pure Life” is a different kind of life.
[Ayatollah Khamenei:] Our ears are clogged; we don’t hear these messages correctly.
[Martyr Soleimani:] This is an important point my sisters and brothers that one cannot become a martyr until he is [living] like the martyrs. The condition for becoming a martyr is to live like a martyr. If you see a person in whom the signs of the martyrs can be felt in his words, behavior, and temper, know that he’ll become a martyr.
This man was the most beloved. He begged others, “Pray for me to become a martyr. I need to go sooner.” In the last year of his life, he was very restless. What was he seeing? If a person has half his popularity, he’ll become drowned in it and become arrogant. Why didn’t he look at these things? Why wasn’t he deceived? Why didn’t he enjoy people loving him and think this was enough for him? Some aspects of a “Pure Life” have become manifested in such people, however much. Do you know what that martyr said over his walkie-talkie before he was martyred [in the war]?
[Ayatollah Khamenei:] He said, “Come here. Come. There are some things here. There’s something here.” What was there?
[Martyr Soleimani narrating:] “I see something here that if you see it, you won’t leave here.”
[Ayatollah Khamenei:] There were only guns and cannons, and he was martyred an hour later. What was there? What did he see? This is very important. What did [martyr] Bakeri see there? The heaven that he was blessed to see during that last hour was so clear and beautiful that he didn’t want his friend to be deprived of it.
[Martyr Bakeri,] “If you can, come. Come and watch!”
[Ayatollah Khamenei:] He was seeing celestial, spiritual, unseen scenes.
A “Pure Life” is a different kind of life. Are we alive? Technology has deceived us. We have become satisfied with the least. We think we have many facilities. We are holding a trivial mobile, and we see a couple of scenes in the internet from different parts of the world. Then we think we know so much. We have the least facilities, are ignorant to this extent, and we aren’t even sad about it at all. What should we repent for? A person who reaches that higher level of life, when he looks at his palm, does he only gain as much information as we do from our mobile? Or is he busy with other things in the universe and hears other sounds?
[Martyr Bakeri:] “If you can, come. Come and watch!”
Is a person who cannot hear the universe proclaiming God’s glory, or doesn’t have the ability to do “tay al-arz,” truly alive? Has he been able to use all his forces? The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (as), said, “Close your eyes to that which is forbidden and see the wonders.” If we aren’t seeing the wonders, this means we are dead. Believe me! Let’s beg God to help us come alive.
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