Treating insecurity to be in a good mood | Ali Reza Panahian

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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