Shaykh Muhammad Saalih
al-Munajjid stated:
If you are free from
the diseases of heedlessness, belittling evil speeches and actions, and you
feel constricted and hurt with evil deed whenever it occurs; and hasten unto
Allaah seeking for salvation after committing a sin, then you have taqwa as
these are among the attributes of the pious. This is because whenever a pious
person commits a sin, he does not feel comfortable until he turns to Allaah and
seeks for pardon and forgiveness for what has befallen him. The proof of that
is the statement of Allaah: “Verily, those who are Al-Muttaqûn (the pious), when an evil
thought comes to them from Shaitân (Satan), they remember (Allâh), and (indeed)
they then see (aright).”[1]
It is impossible for
the pious to find peace nor tranquillity nor rest except by going out of such
state, and that is through seeking for forgiveness and turning to Allaah in
repentance. A pious person always remembers his Lord because the remembrance of
Allaah drives away the devil and his whisperings, and it purifies everything
that enters into a person of impurity or filth from the doors of lusts or doubts
that changes the heart.
Allaah states: “The believers are only those who, when
Allâh is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His Verses (this
Qur'ân) are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses) increase their Faith; and
they put their trust in their Lord (Alone). Who perform As-Salât (Iqâmat as-Salât)
and spend out of that We have provided them. It is they who are the believers
in truth. For them are grades of dignity with their Lord, and Forgiveness and a
generous provision (Paradise).”[2]
Source: Silsilah A’maal
al-Quloob, p. 302-303 by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid and Fear Allah
Wherever You Are, p. 55-57 by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid; translated by
Abdus-Samee’ Abdus-Salaam.
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