🔹 Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi
🔸 The Character-Building Power of Hardship 🔸
In religious studies, having everything readily available—one's water, bread, food, clothing, shelter, and all necessities—does not build character! Some may argue that if these matters are not in order, a student’s mind will not be prepared for studying; their thoughts will become troubled, and when troubled, they won’t grasp the lessons—and without understanding, they won’t progress.
But there is an answer to this:
When everything in a person’s life is perfectly arranged, they become like a garden irrigated on a fixed schedule of 7 or 10 cycles. If just once the water doesn’t come, it withers away!
However, if one experiences hunger, tastes bitterness, faces hardship, and goes through ups and downs, they become like a wild desert tree. Sometimes a whole year may pass without even a drop of rain—yet the tree remains standing firm!
What this tree endures for a full year, a well-tended garden cannot withstand even for twenty days.
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🔸 The Character-Building Power of Hardship 🔸
In religious studies, having everything readily available—one's water, bread, food, clothing, shelter, and all necessities—does not build character! Some may argue that if these matters are not in order, a student’s mind will not be prepared for studying; their thoughts will become troubled, and when troubled, they won’t grasp the lessons—and without understanding, they won’t progress.
But there is an answer to this:
When everything in a person’s life is perfectly arranged, they become like a garden irrigated on a fixed schedule of 7 or 10 cycles. If just once the water doesn’t come, it withers away!
However, if one experiences hunger, tastes bitterness, faces hardship, and goes through ups and downs, they become like a wild desert tree. Sometimes a whole year may pass without even a drop of rain—yet the tree remains standing firm!
What this tree endures for a full year, a well-tended garden cannot withstand even for twenty days.
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https://t.me/haerishirazi/5066
@haerishirazi
#Resilience #SpiritualGrowth #IslamicTeachings #Patience #StrengthThroughHardship
âś… @rahyafte_en