Imaam Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (may Allaah have
mercy on him) wrote:
Among the signs of respecting the prohibitions
is the desire to move away from their most likely locations, the means, what
invites to them and staying away from every means that brings one close to them.
An instance is a person who runs away from places that have pictures that can
bring about temptation out of fear of being tempted by it. It includes abandoning
what is not wrong out of fear of falling into what is wrong, staying away from the
permissible out of fear of falling into the disliked matters. It also
encompasses avoidance of a person who openly perpetrates the prohibitions,
makes them appear good, invites to them, considers them lightly and does not
bother about what he has done.
This is because mingling with the like of this
person calls for Allah’s anger and displeasure as no one will mingle with him
except one whose veneration of Allah and His prohibitions have dropped from his
heart. Among the signs of respecting the prohibition of Allah is to be angry
for Allah’s sake if His prohibition is violated and there should be distress
and sadness in one’s heart if Allah is
disobeyed on His earth and one cannot shoulder the task of establishing His
laws and orders and incapable of changing that.
Source: Al-Waabil as-Sayyib min al-Kalim at-Tayyib, by
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah; transl. by Abdus-Samee Abdus-Salaam.
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