Acquiring a beneficial job
Find stability in it, and remain steadfast
May it be such that we can recognize a job beneficial for ourselves and find stability in it, and remain steadfast in it, and not have a new thought and idea every day.
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Learn lessons and value them
We must take lessons from the past generations
We must take lessons from the past generations in that we too, like them, are close to death; and we should not be under the false impression that the four days of our remaining life would be four hundred thousand years!
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The manner of acquiring this world along with prosperity
Benefit from the world
The Prophets and the Imams have not come to ask people not to benefit from the world at all; rather they have come to show us the manner of acquiring this world along with prosperity and honor.
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The possibility of reaching the summit of perfections
Man can step higher than the rank of angels
God has created Man in such a way that he can step higher than the rank of angels through sincere servitude, and acquire the ranks of the prophets and close servants of God.
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Descent and decline
Without adhering to the Qur’an and Sunnah
Any path that a man takes without adhering to the Qur’an and Sunnah, will lead him to a continuous decline.
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High aspirations
A little spirituality
Those who had a little spirituality did not go after miracles.
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The greatest alchemy
Blessed with spirituality and ma‘rifah
Why would one who is blessed with spirituality and ma‘rifah (cognizance of God) need alchemy?! What alchemy is greater than the cognizance of God?
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Love - the basis of servitude
“God loves them and they love God.”
The basis of servitude is love; God Almighty says, “God loves them and they love God.”[Surah al-Ma’idah (5): 54]
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Ascent and Descent
Worse than satan and better than angels
Man is worse than satan in his decent and better than angels in his ascent.
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We ourselves are the cause of heedlessness
Muraqabah and muhasabah
We ourselves prepare the causes of danger, heedlessness, and forgetfulness of the remembrance of God almighty. The defects of our acts become apparent as a result of muraqabah (attentive observation) and muhasabah (reckoning).
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