Lifestyle and Medicine

A number of factors have contributed to young people’s declining interest in marriage, including the weakening of religious faith and belief, making marriage difficult, unemployment, poverty, the spread of sexual immorality and permissiveness, lack of hijab, easier divorce, inadequate education, mistrust, and satanic schemes.

Attracting the widest possible audience by any means is not acceptable under the sacred law of Islam. On religious festivals such as Ghadir, the middle of Sha‘ban, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) made room for simple pleasures: visiting one another, outings, exchanging greetings, hosting guests, serving delicious food, enjoying refined and dignified art, sharing good-natured jokes, acts of generosity, wholesome recreation, visiting scholars, offering prayers, singing dignified songs and holding light-hearted contests.

For businesses that have suffered a downturn because of challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic, Supplications 6, 7 and 29 from *al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya* are recommended.

To make their efforts fruitful and prevent their bees from dying, beekeepers should observe spiritual guidance as well as proper beekeeping practices. This guidance includes respecting the bees’ rights, remembering that God watches over the relationship between beekeeper and bee, not taking the bees’ food, maintaining hygiene, treating bees with respect as creatures beloved by God, praying for them, and giving thanks to their Creator.

To move your thesis forward and overcome obstacles, it is recommended that you recite Supplications 1, 2, and 3 from *al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya* with full presence of heart, along with the supplication “لا حول و لا قوه إلا بالله” and the Supplication of Light. With God’s help, this may bring you the result you hope for.

To dream less and keep the mind at ease, one may turn to this prayer: “My God, my Lord, You who are touched by neither sleep nor drowsiness, I entrust myself, my sleep and my dreams to You. Do not leave me to myself, asleep or awake. Grant me good dreams, and protect me from troubling dreams, the whispers of Satan, and confused, disjointed dreams.” This prayer may help protect against ominous and unsettling dreams.

A lack of blessing in time and the feeling that there is never enough of it are consequences of failing to give thanks for the blessing of time. Gratitude for this blessing brings an increase in it. Making proper use of time, together with faith and mindfulness of God, brings immense blessings into a person’s life and frees them from the poverty of time.