Are you willing to change? | Ali Reza Panahian

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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