Life Lessons

How To Stop Thinking Negative Thoughts Every time when you feel, realize, observe some blessing; write it down. When you will review it, you will enjoy. Sometimes some opportunities, ideas, skills, information, prayers, relationship, love are blessings. Our mind looks situationally, not overall, habitually. Our vision becomes limited. After a while, we start focusing what we don't have and forget what we have. Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:216 كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِتَالُ وَهُوَ كُرْهٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّواْ شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْ وَاللّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ FIGHTING is ordained for you, even though it be hateful to you; but it may well be that you hate a thing the while it is good for you, and it may well be that you love a thing the while it is bad for you: and God knows, whereas you do not know. [ Al-Isra (The Journey by Night) 17:85 وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُ...

JAFAR AS-SADIQ (A.S.) SAVED SHI 'ISM FROM DESTRUCTION When Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) was still in his infancy some people were following the example of the Christians spread the belief that the Holy Prophet, Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Imams had two natures - the nature of man and the nature of God. They were partly human and partly divine. This belief posed a great danger to their sect. The Imam fought against this thought and saved Shi'ism from disintegration. He realized that it would create differences, split the people into factions, weaken the Shia movement and finally destroy it totally. http://alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=721 The day he started giving lectures he vehemently opposed the idea that the Prophet of God, the Imams and he himself had half the nature of God and half the nature of man. He denied that any of them had the nature of God in. them. In his support he quoted the saying of the Prophet: "I am a man like you". https://archive.org/strea...