Experiencing the highest good mood | Ali Reza Panahian

One who feels profoundly safe feels good.

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We want to be very calm and attain the best good mood. If a person is very good and experiences this good mood at times, he will feel like he’s flying in the skies when asleep or awake! Having a profoundly good mood is very enjoyable. It is not easy to gain a profoundly good mood.
If you attain a profoundly good mood, one part of it is feeling a tremendous safety. Where can one find a tremendous safety? From God Himself. This is the origin of faith. Do you feel safe due to God’s existence? We have to get to a point where even if we see or hear about bad events to come in the future and even if we are informed about our own death, we trust in God so much and have calmness to such an extent that we don’t feel bad. “In times of hardship and ease, they [pious people] feel the same.” [Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon no. 193]
They don’t feel bad in hardships. In the same way that one feels good when at ease, pious people don’t feel bad in hardships. If one wants to gain this much faith, surety, and good mood, then along with faith, he needs to have good actions too. He should act upon his faith. He should increase his faith. He should work on his faith. He should make great sacrifices for his faith. He must put effort into it. What have you done for your faith?
Faith is not an event. It’s a path. One should move on the path of faith. Faith is a seedling, which should grow and give fruit. One must irrigate faith. If you strengthen your faith, you will reach to a point where you will gain so much calmness that if you are aware of future hardships, you won’t feel bad. Your calmness won’t be due to not being aware of the time of your death and upcoming events. We should work on our faith and make it grow. When does our faith grow? In hardships. Where does our faith grow? When facing God’s difficult commands. Where does our faith grow? When facing God’s commands, which you feel are against you. But then you think and realize that this is your duty. When you act upon it, your faith will increase.
When your faith increases, in fact your feelings of safety will increase too. Then a person will gain a very profound feeling of safety. One who feels profoundly safe feels good. If a person does not practice his religion, act upon it, sacrifice for it, and increase his faith, he will not experience the highest calmness. If a person is very good and experiences this good mood at times, he will feel like he’s flying in the skies when asleep or awake! Having a profoundly good mood is very enjoyable. It is not easy to gain a profoundly good mood.