Monday 30 May 2022

Oppose Your Base Desires

 

Imaam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) stated:

If you ponder over the seven categories of people whom Allah will shelter under the shade of His Throne – on a day in which there will be no other shade except His shade – you will recognize that they only attain that shade by opposing base desires. The powerful and capable leader will not be able to do justice, except by opposing his desires; the youth who prefers the worship of Allah to the callings of juvenility would not have been able to do that if he did not go against his desires.

The man whose heart was attached to the mosques was only able to bear that by countering his desire that was calling him to places of pleasure. The one who spends and conceals his charity from his left hand would not have been able to achieve that if not for his subdual of his desires. The one that was invited by a beautiful and noble woman but he feared Allah and opposed his desires.

Resistance to his desires made the one who remembered Allah in seclusion and shed tears due to the fear of Allah attain that. Therefore, the heat of the standing, its perspiration and intensity will not be a problem to them on the Day of Resurrection while the companions of desires suffer from heat and sweat in excess, and they will be waiting to enter the prison of desires after that.

We ask Allah to protect us from the desires of our souls that command evil; and may He make our desires follow what He loves and He is pleased with, for He has power over everything and worthy of response.

Source: Rawdah al-Muhibbeen wa Nuzhah al-Mushtaaqeen, by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, translated by Abdus-Samee Abdus-Salaam.

 

2 comments:

  1. May Allah grant us power to over power our desires and reward us with the best here and hereafter, Amin

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  2. Allahu Akbar! May Allah help us to overcome our base desires. May He, SwT, reward Sheikh for his efforts at spreading the call of pristine Islam.

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