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When a mom sees her child is successful, she becomes happy.

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Once a man picked up a few baby birds. He thought, “They’re so cute. Let me take them to the Prophet (s).” The mother bird came. She started flying around them. He thought, “I’ll take them to the Prophet (s). Their mother is coming too.” He placed the birds in front of the Prophet (s). The Prophet (s) saw their mother and said, “Move back!” Their mother came and threw herself on her baby birds. The Prophet said, “Did you see how this mother bird put herself in danger because of her baby birds? Does she love them?” Everyone said yes. The Prophet (s) said, “God loves you more than this mother.”
In another story, a mother lost her infant baby. In the middle of a battle, she was crying loudly. When she found her baby, she started nursing him. The Prophet (s) said, “Come here. Does this mother love her baby?” Everyone said, “Yes, of course. She did everything to find him.” He asked, “Is she willing to throw him into a fire?” They replied, “O Prophet of God! No, of course not!” He said, “God is kinder to you than this mother is to her child.”
Don’t you enjoy participating in Imam Husayn’s (as) mourning ceremony? So why are you being rewarded for it? Let me ask this in a better way. Why are you given the highest reward? Why? Don’t you enjoy? Isn’t affection enjoyable? Isn’t affection the highest enjoyment? So why are you being rewarded? Do you know why God rewards you? Because God is [kind] like a mom. When a child becomes happy, his/her mom becomes happy too.
When a youth is accepted into the university, his/her mom buys sweets. He/she says, “Mom, why do you trouble yourself? I’ve succeeded for myself.” She says, “Because I’m your mom. When I see you’re fine, happy and enjoying, I do whatever I can for you.” God is more of a mom than a mom is!
Have fun and be rewarded by God! Why does God reward you when you wake up at dawn? [You might say,] “It’s very hard!” Believe me, its reward is not because it’s hard. The reward is because of the cheerfulness, energy and health that you gain. God is like a mom. When a mom sees her child is successful, she becomes happy. She talks lovingly since she is a mom, “O my dear one!”

🔎A closer look into the book "A Shower of Goodness"
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📘A Review on the book "A Shower of Goodness" by Ali Reza Panahian

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👉🏼 We should divide the work and inform others.

🔻According to the words of the Prophet of God (s) on the day of Ghadir, it is obligatory for the believers to tell the story of Ghadir to those who do not know it until the Day of Resurrection.
🔻 Narrating the Prophet of God's (s) sermon on the day of Ghadir for others is an important example of carrying out this obligation for those who have the ability and opportunity to do so.

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📎 http://duas.org/ghadirkhutba.htm

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One of the topics mentioned on the Day of Ghadir was informing people. We still haven’t done this although we now have the tools to do so. Can you believe that each one of you can send a message to one billion people? We just need to design the mechanism and help each other. There are no obstacles.
Who should tell others? The Holy Prophet told everyone to gather, and he asked them to tell everyone what he said. This is what he meant if we want to say it in today’s language. There is an important, obligatory command in the speech of the Prophet (s) that was delivered on the Day of Ghadir and which is still obligatory. The Holy Prophet (s) said that whoever heard him should be a medium for telling others about it.
The Prophet of God (as) made this obligatory. All the scholars know this. This was a command to those who were there and people who were to live later. He asked us to tell others about this.
This is similar to if we all gather here to do a task. What is that task? To spread news of something to everyone. We should divide the work and inform others.

#EidAlGhadir

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🔴 Why is this sermon of Imam Ali (as) so special and enjoyable to read?
Its unique characteristics, such as the clear reason for him giving the speech, it having a mystical tone, it being applicable to various situations, it being comprehensive, and finally its descriptive tone, make it perhaps the best sermon on ethics in Nahj al-Balaghah.

🔴If you are tired of hearing advice, this book is for you!
People usually get tired of hearing “advice” very quickly. Some people even escape from hearing advice. However, “describing” something does not have the same effect on them, especially when it is describing goodness. Perhaps there is nothing that is able to bring enthusiasm, give enough motivation and increase resolve in people for them to move and do good deeds in the same way that describing goodness is able to do.
The Commander of the Faithful (as) has given an artistic description of pious people in the best, most famous sermon on ethics in Nahj al-Balaghah, the “Muttaqin (Pious) Sermon.” No advice is given in this sermon. It is entirely a description of the virtues and beauties of pious people from the beginning to the end.

🔴 Practical and contemporary
"A Shower of Goodness" is not just a book of knowledge that just gives us new information and that's it! No, the author deals with both the visible and hidden details of each attribute of the pious mentioned by the Commander of the Faithful (as) and examines these attributes using a completely practical approach. He also gives everyday but new examples that can be used by the reader.

🔴 A look at the chapters of the book:
Becoming Familiar with the “Hammām Sermon”
Hammām’s Question
Piety: Something Needed by All Human Beings
The Beauty of Piety
Being Proper
Output is more important than input
Wearing Good Clothes
Humbleness
Controlling Our Eyes
Only Useful Knowledge

🔴 Where can I get this book from?
The paperback version of the book “A Shower of Goodness” is available through Amazon and Lulu.com, and they are able to ship it to most countries.
The Kindle edition will soon be available from anywhere in the world, God willing.


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Small Pharaohs

On the Day of Judgment, the curtains move away. “On the day when all secrets will be made public.” [Qur’an 86:9] It will become clear if a person was a small tradesman, a homemaker or a regular person. But, they take this person with Pharaoh to the same place. “God, why do You take this person with Pharaoh? He/she hasn’t done anything.” God replies, “He/she acted like Pharaoh and rebelled in his/her own situation.”
“Why do You take this person with Saddam? He hasn’t even killed an ant.” “But, if he could have, he would have done it, and this is his file. He only had authority over one person, and we told him, ‘She is your wife and you are her husband.’ He oppressed his wife like a Pharaoh. If he had authority over a few people, he would have massacred all of them.” “Why are You resurrecting this woman with Saddam and Pharaoh?” “She forced her husband and humiliated him. He was so afraid of her. She didn’t have authority over him, but she kept him under her feet.” This person is rebellious! “Indeed man becomes rebellious when he considers himself without need!” [Qur’an 96:6-7]
Some women are homemakers. But, they are merciless with their tongue. They attack and set things on fire. She screams at her child saying, “Get lost! I said …” She demolishes. “This is not your child. He/she is God’s servant. After you have struck, bothered or scared him/her, how do you want to answer about this to God?” Being rebellious is very bad. God gives some people a small opportunity and says, “Don’t rebel. Let’s see what you do.” If they don’t rebel, God will give them another and another opportunity. Then, He resurrects such people with the prophets and their descendants.
God is asked, “He was an ordinary person. He had a teahouse. He poured tea.” God replies, “He wasn’t dishonest when pouring tea. He would make tea for the customer in the same way that he made it for himself.” The human being is a rebellious creature. How does he/she show his/her rebellion? Either they get upset internally, or they bother the people around them. Or, in politics they rebel and want to dominate a society. This is one of a human being’s states, which God has mentioned firmly in the Qur’an! This is certain. The human being is a rebellious creature.

God gives some people a small opportunity. If they don’t rebel, God will give them another and another opportunity. Then, He resurrects such a person with the prophets and their descendants.
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Destiny or Choice?

- Those who mock the prophets are the same ones who produce terrorists.

- Someone who does not respect a personage who is respected by a large number of people does not respect the people themselves either.

- No cultivated person can tolerate disrespecting a prophet, even if he has no religious beliefs.

I, on my own part, say to the French people, you who believe in Jesus and you the Jewish people who believe in Moses, you should know that disrespecting the Prophet of Islam is not ineffective in disrespecting the prophets of other religions such as Christianity and Judaism.

No religious person in the world is able to tolerate disrespecting a prophet. Even those who are not religious but are cultured and cultivated are not able to tolerate disrespecting the Prophet of God (peace be upon him).

Don’t think that if the Prophet of God is disrespected, culture will remain or human traditions will be honored.

The people of culture and art should not tolerate disrespecting the Prophet of God. God didn’t tolerate those who mocked His messenger.

Someone who does not respect a personage who is respected by a large number of people does not respect the people themselves either. Those who mock the prophets are the same ones who produce terrorists.

Ali Reza Panahian
Jamkaran, Qom, Oct. 30, 2020