🔸 Do You Have Enough Light? 🔸
📝 #Memory by Dr. Ali Haeri Shirazi about his father
My father had a particular fondness for Arabian jasmine among the shrubs, bushes, and flowers. He would say: "The fragrance of Arabian jasmine reminds the soul of #Paradise."
In a house where they lived for some time in Tehran, they placed a medium-sized pot of Arabian jasmine in his room. He said that at dawn, the entire space of the room would become fragrant. Then, with a smile, he said:
"For a while, this plant gave me neither flowers nor leaves. I felt it had a problem. I brought it from the other side of the room to the window. I guided the growth of its leaves with a string. I loosened its soil. Now it has budded again. Do you see? It has responded to the care with several buds at once!"
Then he fell into a deep silence...
"My child, a human being is just the same... If you see that for a long time your life is passing in idleness, you haven't grown, you haven't understood a point, you haven't nurtured a soul – surely something is amiss. Turn your attention to yourself!
See, do you have enough light? Do you not need pruning? Has your soil not died? Do you not need nourishment?...
A person finds joy in seeing #growth. Whether it's the branches, leaves, and flowers of their beloved plant, or the spiritual growth of their beloved person...
And woe to the one who is moved to thought by the halted growth of the leaves and flowers of the Arabian jasmine, yet remains unaware of the lack of growth in their own soul."
Source: (https://t.me/dralihaeri)
@haerishirazi
#SpiritualGrowth #SelfReflection #IslamicWisdom #Paradise #Jasmine
✅ @rahyafte_en
📝 #Memory by Dr. Ali Haeri Shirazi about his father
My father had a particular fondness for Arabian jasmine among the shrubs, bushes, and flowers. He would say: "The fragrance of Arabian jasmine reminds the soul of #Paradise."
In a house where they lived for some time in Tehran, they placed a medium-sized pot of Arabian jasmine in his room. He said that at dawn, the entire space of the room would become fragrant. Then, with a smile, he said:
"For a while, this plant gave me neither flowers nor leaves. I felt it had a problem. I brought it from the other side of the room to the window. I guided the growth of its leaves with a string. I loosened its soil. Now it has budded again. Do you see? It has responded to the care with several buds at once!"
Then he fell into a deep silence...
"My child, a human being is just the same... If you see that for a long time your life is passing in idleness, you haven't grown, you haven't understood a point, you haven't nurtured a soul – surely something is amiss. Turn your attention to yourself!
See, do you have enough light? Do you not need pruning? Has your soil not died? Do you not need nourishment?...
A person finds joy in seeing #growth. Whether it's the branches, leaves, and flowers of their beloved plant, or the spiritual growth of their beloved person...
And woe to the one who is moved to thought by the halted growth of the leaves and flowers of the Arabian jasmine, yet remains unaware of the lack of growth in their own soul."
Source: (https://t.me/dralihaeri)
@haerishirazi
#SpiritualGrowth #SelfReflection #IslamicWisdom #Paradise #Jasmine
✅ @rahyafte_en