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📕 What should I do to enjoy praying?
🍃The question, which many young people ask...
🌸 Praying is not always enjoyable in the beginning of the way.
💠 Even if a person easily cries and grieves, this doesn’t mean that he is always in the mood for worshiping. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “Hearts are imbued with the power to advance and retreat.” (Nahj al-Balagha, saying no. 193) Therefore, sometimes a person is in the mood for worshiping, and sometimes he is not. This is why we should always pray our obligatory prayers, whether we are in the mood or not.
💠 It is obvious that for a worship act, which a person should do every day, five times a day, it is not necessary for us to definitely cry while doing that worship act. If it was compulsory for you to cry whenever you prayed, God would say, “Pray whenever you are in the mood.” Actually, the Almighty God has ordered us to pray in a way that disgruntles us too! This means that we must pray, even when it is hard for us. Therefore, praying a good prayer for us who are in the beginning of the way doesn’t mean at all that we must enjoy it. And, this is exactly the conversation I frequently have with young people:
🔸 -What should I do to enjoy praying?
🔸-So, when do you want to become a real human being?
🔸-What do you mean? What is the relation between not enjoying and becoming a real human being?
🔸-If a person wants to become a real human being, he should fight with his own will. And, this is not enjoyable in the beginning. God has designed and suggested a worship act for you, which you don’t enjoy! Naturally, the fact that prayer is repetitive eliminates its enjoyment. God wanted you to become a real human being, grow, and move up through the hardships and bitterness of this repetitive action. If you want to enjoy praying in the beginning of this way, you won’t grow.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 12 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
🌐@rahyafte_com
📕 What should I do to enjoy praying?
🍃The question, which many young people ask...
🌸 Praying is not always enjoyable in the beginning of the way.
💠 Even if a person easily cries and grieves, this doesn’t mean that he is always in the mood for worshiping. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), said, “Hearts are imbued with the power to advance and retreat.” (Nahj al-Balagha, saying no. 193) Therefore, sometimes a person is in the mood for worshiping, and sometimes he is not. This is why we should always pray our obligatory prayers, whether we are in the mood or not.
💠 It is obvious that for a worship act, which a person should do every day, five times a day, it is not necessary for us to definitely cry while doing that worship act. If it was compulsory for you to cry whenever you prayed, God would say, “Pray whenever you are in the mood.” Actually, the Almighty God has ordered us to pray in a way that disgruntles us too! This means that we must pray, even when it is hard for us. Therefore, praying a good prayer for us who are in the beginning of the way doesn’t mean at all that we must enjoy it. And, this is exactly the conversation I frequently have with young people:
🔸 -What should I do to enjoy praying?
🔸-So, when do you want to become a real human being?
🔸-What do you mean? What is the relation between not enjoying and becoming a real human being?
🔸-If a person wants to become a real human being, he should fight with his own will. And, this is not enjoyable in the beginning. God has designed and suggested a worship act for you, which you don’t enjoy! Naturally, the fact that prayer is repetitive eliminates its enjoyment. God wanted you to become a real human being, grow, and move up through the hardships and bitterness of this repetitive action. If you want to enjoy praying in the beginning of this way, you won’t grow.
[To be continued…]
📚 Part 12 of the book “#How_to_pray_a_good_prayer,” by #AlirezaPanahian. (Under translation.)
🌐@rahyafte_com