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God has not created people in a way that they can feel good without Him
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One of the very important factors that cause a person to feel bad is feeling insecure. Being in a good mood is the result of feeling secure. Feeling insecure truly ruins a person’s mood. Who feels bad? One who has not resolved his feeling of insecurity. He has just forgotten it and doesn’t want to look at it. What are different factors that make a person feel insecure? For example, when will you pass away? I don’t know. I might die at any moment. No one has given any guarantees. All of us feel insecure due to being anxious about death. So we don’t feel good unless we have passed this stage and we don’t look at death as a danger and insecurity anymore. [As a poem says,] “If death is daring, tell it to come to me so that I may embrace it tightly.” Yes, in that case death is not a factor for us to feel insecure.
Apart from animosities or death, another factor that causes one to feel insecure is the tragedies in life. These tragedies make a person’s life insecure, and so one starts to feel bad. [One might say,] “We become anxious when you say these things.” But you can’t find security unless you solve these issues, and this is only possible with God. God has not created people in a way that they can feel good without Him. It’s impossible. You ask, “So all the unbelievers and those who don’t care about such things feel bad?! But I can see they’re laughing and enjoying.” The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (as), said, «المُستَمتِعونَ بِالدُّنیا تَبکِی قلوبُهُم و إنْ فَرِحُوا» “The hearts of the people who seek this world are crying although they appear to be laughing.” «و یَشتَدُّ مَقتُهُم لأنفُسِهم و إنِ اغتَبَطُوا ببعضِ ما مِنها رُزِقُوا»“They are not satisfied with themselves although others may envy them because of the blessings they’ve been given.”
They have some blessings so others think, “Good for him. See what a car he has!” This tradition says that people may envy them because of their assets, but they themselves aren’t happy. This is how the Commander of the Faithful (as) describes such people. One of the most important reasons that faith is called “Iman” is that a believer feels he is in safety.
The Holy Qur’an says, «الَّذینَ آمَنُوا وَ لَمْ یَلْبِسُوا إیمانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولئِکَ لَهُمُ الْأَمْنُ» “Those who believe and have not confounded their belief with harm, security belongs to them; and they are guided.” [6:82] Imam Ali (as) said, «لأنَّ مُفارَقَةَ الدِّینِ مُفارَقَةُ الأمنِ» “If one distances himself from religion, he will not feel secure anymore.” If one wants to gain this deep feeling of security, there is no other way than worshiping God and believing in Him. You probably all know that believing in God is different from knowing there is a God. Some are sure there is a God, but they behave like unbelievers.
Believing in God is very different from knowing that He exists. When this knowledge becomes fixed in a person’s heart, this is called faith. This brings a very deep feeling of security. Children are the same way. When their parents are around them, they feel safe. They play and look at their parents every few minutes, depending on their age. “Are you here?” “Yes.”
For example, children feel safe about tomorrow’s food. Why? They think, “My mom or dad will give me food. What about it?!” They never wonder whether their parents have food or not. Ayatollah Bahjat said, “If we believed in God as much as children believe in their parents, everything would have been corrected.”
Who feels good? A person, who is like a child who takes refuge in the power and affection of his parents, takes refuge in the God of the universe and so he feels good. God has not created people in such a way that they can feel good without Him. It’s impossible. Being in a bad mood is corrected only with God.
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Husayn (as) will take you with himself…
[Imam Ali (as) said,] “Loving God is like fire. It doesn’t pass by anything without burning it.” If you want to experience this, God has given you the opportunity. Where? Love for Aba Abdillah al-Husayn (as). When can we experience it? From the moment when affection for him starts a fire in our heart and we see we are nothing when we are with him. Even if you want something when you go to his mourning ceremony, in the middle of the elegies, you suddenly see you don’t need that certain thing anymore. Even you yourself are not important. See how you burn for Imam Husayn (as)! You can experience it there.
You experience this love there. Then Imam Husayn will take your hand and take you to the main goal. Husayn (as) is God’s servant. Sow how God Himself will affect our heart! You may ask, “Is God oppressed like Husayn (as) that I will burn for Him like I burn for Husayn?!” Don’t think you burn for Husayn (as) because he was oppressed. Don’t make this mistake. It’s your love for Imam Husayn (as) that causes you not to be able to tolerate him being oppressed. Don’t even think that since he was a good person [you burn for him]. Are you able to understand these things?! I can’t! I can’t understand people’s goodness, so how can I understand Imam Husayn’s goodness? Imam Husayn (as) was no different from Imam Hasan (as). Don’t mention imaginary reasons.
God has gifted you this love and said, “I wanted you to experience a love.” That is the heat we feel in our heart due to Imam Husayn being killed [according to the traditions]. This heat is a small experience in love. Experience this and whenever you go to the mourning ceremonies, tell God, “God, is it possible for me to fall in love with You one day, for the curtains to move aside so that I burn for You?” Is it possible? Yes! Yes!
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A Practical Solution for Us Not to Feel Lonely
Eid al-Ghadir is the greatest Eid for the believers. The reward that is mentioned for honoring this day has not been mentioned for any other Eid or even for the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Imams. However, despite all this emphasis we do not work for this day the way we should.
In order to understand the importance of this day, let’s review some of the virtues that the Household of the Prophet (as) have mentioned about this day.
The best day for being forgiven!
It is said in a tradition that the believers are pardoned and forgiven on Eid al-Ghadir, more than during the holy month of Ramadan, more than throughout the whole year and more than the night of Eid al-Fitr. This is while the night of Eid al-Fitr is such that whoever has not been forgiven during the month of Ramadan will be forgiven on this night. [Tahdhib al-Ahkaam, vol. 6, p. 24]
The best day for giving food to others
Imam Sadiq (as) said, “Giving food to one person on the day of Eid al-Ghadir is like giving food to all the prophets and the truthful.” [Iqbaal al-Amaal, vol. 1, p. 465]
It was Imam Reza's (as) custom to keep whoever came to his house on Eid al-Ghadir for dinner. And when that person wanted to leave, he would give him various gifts - from rings to clothes - to take for his children.
The best day to do good deeds!
It is said in a tradition that on normal days any amount of money you give in charity, spend, or give in the way of God is counted ten times as much. But on the day of Eid al-Ghadir, if you do one of these things, it will be counted two hundred thousand times as much for you! [Iqbaal al-Amaal, vol. 1, p. 463]
The best day for fasting
Imam Sadiq (as) said, “Fasting on the day of Ghadir Khum is equal to fasting for a lifetime in this world. If a person lives as long as the life of this world and fasts all of its days, he will have the reward of fasting on the day of Eid al-Ghadir. To the Exalted God, fasting on this day every year is equivalent to one hundred accepted Hajj pilgrimages and one hundred accepted Umrah pilgrimages. And this is God's great Eid.” [Tahdhib al-Ahkaam, vol. 3, p. 143]
What else could they have said for us to understand the importance of this event?
As much as we can, let's take Eid al-Ghadir more seriously from now on and help this great event not to remain unknown.
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Salam my dear. How are you?
“May I come up?”
Come dear.
Do you want to sit here while I’m talking? Shall I talk while you’re sitting here?
“Read.”
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During the days and nights of the holy month of Ramadan, we should reap the most benefit. How can we receive light from this month? How can we benefit from God’s Grace in this holy month of Ramadan? By paying attention! This is the main factor.
The most important capacity we have in our soul and which we don’t usually benefit from is paying attention. Paying attention is not usually considered to be something that valuable. No matter how much you stand behind a store window and say, “I have truly paid attention to this car behind the window,” this is not something valuable in this world. People say, “You shouldn’t have paid attention to it.” But it is exactly the opposite when standing before God. Whoever has gained something, he has gained it by paying attention to God wholeheartedly and by beseeching Him. In the beginning, paying attention happens in one’s mind.
“I have turned my face to Him Who has created the heavens and the earth…” [Qur’an 6:79] A person should pay attention to God in his thoughts. Gradually, when this paying attention becomes deeper, it turns into paying attention with one’s heart. A person faces Him with his heart. “I have turned my face to Him…”
“Salam.”
Salam my dear. How are you?
“May I come up?”
Come dear. Come. It’s fine. Come up. Do you want to sit here while I’m talking? Shall I talk while you’re sitting here? Sit here; I’ll talk. You sit, I sit, and we’ll talk. It’s not a problem if I talk?
“No. Read.”
Read? She says read. Do you want to go down or are you comfortable sitting here? Do you want to go down? She says she won’t come. Let her be.
“Candy…”
No, no, leave her.
“I’ll take her. She’ll be distracting.”
No, will you be distracted?
“No.”
[Audience,] “Haj Aqa, we shouldn’t pay attention [as you were explaining].”
Don’t pay attention. She got the candy from you but didn’t come. Of course I am happy to be in the presence of this luminous child. She’s so pure. See. This dear child reminded me of Mr. Baha’udini. His son-in-law related, “Once, I came home, and I saw the children were very noisy. But he was sitting and thinking deeply. I said, ‘Children, be quiet!’ I quieted them. Then, Mr. Baha’udini noticed me. He said, ‘What do you want with the children?!’ I said, ‘I thought they shouldn’t be noisy and bother you.’ He replied, ‘What do they have to do with me?’ I realized that children do not distract Mr. Baha’udini at all.”
This ability to pay attention is very valuable. Paying attention means that my face, my soul and my heart are turned toward You God. I’m paying attention to You now. “I have turned my face to Him Who has created the heavens and the earth…” Paying attention to whom? To the One Who has created the heavens and the earth! God doesn’t want anything from His servant. He says, “Just pay attention to Me.” God gives everything to His servant. He’s not stingy at all.
God has created us so that He may give to us. God doesn’t want anything. God doesn’t like negligence. He says, “Why aren’t you paying attention to Me?” When a person pays attention, that’s it. Don’t leave your soul unattended to pay attention and become busy with everything it wants. Say, “Wait, I should have a program for myself now.” In order to strengthen your attentiveness, you should pay attention to your sorrows, my dears. Nothing will drag a person’s attention to itself like sorrows.
Find beautiful spiritual sorrows and pay attention to them. This is what supplications do. This doesn’t mean we should be sad. It means we should pay attention. If crying and sorrows help, even better. Now what if sorrows distract us from God? That’s a nasty sorrow. Having a sorrow that does not cause a person to pay attention to God and which distances him from God is very bad. This doesn’t mean having sorrows. It means paying attention, and we should gain this ability.
O God, help us to leave this holy Month as people who are attentive. There were times when we paid attention to other things besides You. Especially if we have enjoyed them too - very bad! “I ask for Your forgiveness for every pleasure other than remembering You.” [Imam Sajjad (as), Al-Dhakirin Supplication] God doesn’t want anything from His servant. He says, “Just pay attention to Me.” God gives everything to His servant. He’s not stingy at all. God doesn’t want anything. God doesn’t like negligence.
During the days and nights of the holy month of Ramadan, it is by being attentive that we benefit. How good it is to recite the Qur’an while being attentive. How good it is to pray while being attentive. Do your work while being attentive. Do your work, but your heart should be with God.
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Dear religious people, God expects change from you more.
O honorable proud people, good young men, honorable women, God expects us religious people to change more than those who haven’t come onto the path of religiosity yet. This matter is more about us. God has more expectation from us religious people to change. Whoever starts being religious should be ready for the tests through which God will transform him. He should be ready for tests in which God expects him to make spiritual changes. No one can just have faith and then he’s done.
God brings changes with His tests. God does this with everyone. For example, I feel I understand a lot, so God brings up a subject I don’t understand. Then He sends a child to change me. He wants to change me, a stubborn person who is considering other things. So I say, “You little kid want to change me?! Do you know how much experience I have?!” God says, “What a wretched person.” Thus, it is said in the traditions to calculate your deeds constantly while being suspicious about your own carnal self.
When you do a good deed, tell yourself, “Look, I know there are bad things inside me! I’ve certainly done this because of those bad desires. I should find my problem.” God says, “Be ready for any change.” What does it mean to be ready for any change? It means to be ready to accept any fault you may have!
“A pious person does good deeds but he is still worried.” [Imam Ali, Nahj al-Balaghah] “But you just did a good deed,” you tell him. “No, I ruin everything. How could I have done a good deed?! I’m sure there are some nasty traits in me,” he answers. This is how a believer thinks. They have taught us techniques. These are techniques. For you not to become hardened and stubborn, for you not to become rigid and escape from changing, and for you not to object to changing, you should always be ready to change. A person says, “Why? What’s wrong with me?!” Aha! This is the start to becoming wretched. Don’t say, “What’s wrong with me.” Say, “I’m full of faults!”
God calls from above, “Good for those who change, who change others, who accept changing and who seek changes.” I will pray, and you say Ameen. O God make us one of those who accept positive changes. O God make us one of those who accept changing positively. O God don’t make us one of those who have become hardened, ossified, arrogant or stubborn.
Whoever starts being religious should be ready for the tests through which God will transform him. He should be ready for tests in which God expects him to make spiritual changes. Good for those who accept changing and who seek changes.
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You want to become an Imam!
“And We desired to bestow a favour upon those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them the Imams.” (Qur’an 28:5) How magnificent! How inspiring! How thought provoking! You want to become an Imam! Look at yourself. Do you deserve to be, or not?! You want to become an Imam!
Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you Imams?” “God not everyone can become an Imam.” God will respond, “Silent. I know what I’m saying.” All of you are refined, managers, governors and commanders. Although you might live and work in positions where you are obedient to senior commanders or governors. Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is how the society will be saved!
Do you know what happened during the wartime? The base commander saw that some of his division commanders were better than himself. A division commander saw that some of his battalion commanders were better than himself. A battalion commander saw that some of his platoon commanders were better than himself. How was the command carried out at the bottom when it came from the top?! Each one. Row by row. All of them were qualified! You would see the person at an entrenchment had the talent of managing a hundred divisions! The command was easily accepted through to the lowest! The good went up! Each had the merit to be an Imam.
Actually, it has been said about some martyrs at the end of time that each has the ability to direct many cities. If the oppressed don’t want to be oppressed, they should be aware of the process of managing. God wants to turn all of us into real human beings. Yes, then a person will say, “My role is to do this now, although I have the talent to do hundreds of others things.” How enjoyable life will be this way! A person has the talent to manage a hundred things, but Hujjat ibn al-Hasan al-Askari (‘a.j.) has him do a different job. I want to take you secretly close to the Alqamah stream. Aba al-Fazl al-Abbas deserved to be the ruler of the universe, not just the commander of Aba Abdillah al-Husayn’s (‘a) army. The Imam (‘a) said, “My Abbas, bring water.” What will happen! We want to awaken this love within ourselves and train that much talent along with it.
Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is what will save the society! Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you the Imams?” All of you are genteel, managers, governors and commanders.
[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The Last Preparation before the Reappearance of the Saviour, Correcting Management in Family and Society.” Muharram 1441.]
Last year they accused me, “He is leading the youth towards capitalism.” This year they will definitely say, “He is leading the youth towards wanting posts!” They will definitely say this.
Psychological Differences between Men and Women
The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! Men look at the whole more. Women look at details more. What is he better for? What is she better for? The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! What is he better for? What is she better for?
“The Psychological Differences between Men and Women, Differences in Roles”
Talcott Parsons was a prominent figure in Functionalism. In his analysis, which was about the gender division of labour, he said, “A man being the breadwinner and the leader of the family and the woman being the homemaker is the best model.” I’m not relating this from Islam. Ask him himself why he said this? He continued, “If a woman takes on the role of being the breadwinner, there is the fear that competition with the husband will arise. This situation is very harmful to the unity and balance of the family. In each human system and organization there must be a hierarchy. Having a hierarchy in the family is necessary. One of the members of the family must play an instrumental and commanding role, and manage the family.” He explained that otherwise the family is spiritually thrown out of balance.
Some research has been done on children under the age of five. “The results show that boys have a significantly higher tendency towards social domination than girls do. And, girls have gotten higher scores in social and emotional skills, and in self-regulation. Girls prefer to play in smaller groups. They usually have one very close friend. Boys prefer to play in larger groups. They look at the members of the group equally. In playing, boys prefer to have one role in the group, in which they may end up in conflict with others. However, girls prefer to play together so there won’t be any conflict. Boys prefer to play outside the house. Girls prefer to play and do things in the presence of an adult.” The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! A woman’s personality is such that she likes to have a man who is powerful and supportive. These topics are not things, which we need to talk about in the religious meetings and our lectures!
Once, we went on a fieldtrip with Tehran University. All kinds of men and women participated. It wasn’t a religious camp at all. They asked about the differences between men and women in Islam. I said, “You don’t need to talk about the differences between men and women in Islam. Put this aside. Do you yourself understand your differences?” Some said yes and some said no. I said, “Let’s start and practice here.”
One of the questions that I asked was, “Women! Do you like your husbands to listen to you even if they don’t love you?” They said, “No, love is important for us.” I said, “Those who agree raise their hands.” Everyone was looking. All of them rose their hands. Then, I asked the same question from the men. I asked, “Men! Do you like your wives to listen to you even if they don’t love you?” They all said “yes” very bravely! I said, “Those who agree raise their hands.” They did so. All of them started laughing for a few minutes.
What is important for a man is that she obeys him. What is important for a woman is that he likes her! Her heart will break if he doesn’t love her! It is possible that sometimes there is a woman who is…! What should I say?! And sometimes there may be a man who is like a flower! What should I say?!
Sometimes we raise boys like girls, and sometimes we raise girls like boys. The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! What is he better for? What is she better for?
[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The Last Preparation before the Reappearance of the Saviour, Correcting Management in Family and Society.”]
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Stand in front of this mirror, look into your own eyes, and think about this...
Do you remember how at work you were looking around in YouTube and checking your Instagram?
When you wanted to sell that appliance, you hid its defects.
When you wanted to buy something, you claimed the product had a flaw to buy it cheaper, but there wasn’t really anything wrong with it.
When you were working from home, you put in less hours every day but said the project took longer.
And many other such cases…
These are small bites you’ve taken one at a time causing you to gradually lose your ability to understand.
You can no longer distinguish who’s right and what’s the truth.
My friend, these have affected you little by little.
You may see that one day the world becomes mixed up like today, and they attack a hospital.
But you don't dare to defend the truth.
You’re still wondering who started the war and who’s right.
Be careful about these seemingly small slips and review your life before it's too late.
On Ashura, when Umar bin Saad prepared his troops to attack Imam Husayn (as), the Imam wanted to say something, but they wouldn’t listen. He said, “You disobey me and don’t listen to my words because your bellies are filled with unlawful sustenance and your hearts are sealed.” [Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 45]
