CHOOSE THE BEST AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

With little chance and the limited life we are having, we must abstain from going into the issues that waste our time and go towards important and vital issues that will secure this world and the next world for us.

Therefore our aims and objectives must be channeled towards most important and most vital issues and we must struggle in order to achieve that; because to engage ourselves with less important issues, we are forsaking the fundamental and valuable issues and we shall also be left behind from reaching the exalted aim of creation.

His Excellency, the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) said:

Whoever engaged with less important issues forsakes the important ones.[1]

 By engaging with valueless and less important issues, you shall be left behind from reaching great and exalted aims and objectives. This is reality which the commander of the faithful (peace be upon him) has explained and expounded in a short statement so that the entire human being especially the youth should take lesson from it.

If human beings learned from this statement of the commander of the faithful (peace be upon him) definitely tremendous transformation shall take place in the present human society.

For the fact that our life is limited and we don’t have the potentiality and power to encompass every thing, then we should spend our life with prestige in most important and vital issues and we should abstain from spending it by engaging in valueless issues which is part of devastation and dashing out of our valuable and expensive life.

In order to benefit from our life and engaging it in valuable and important issues, we should not engage our thinking and reflection in minor issues so that we will be able to achieve the best and exalted aims and objectives.

The commander of the faithful (peace be upon him) said:

Your thinking did not have the capability of going through everything, and then you should exhaust it with important issue.[2]

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1 - Sharh Gurar al-Hikam volume : 5 page : 330.

2 - Sharh Gurar al-Hikam volume : 2 page : 606.