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him, used to say, “None of you will be
saved because of his deeds.”
They asked, “Not even you O
Allah’s Messenger?” He said, “No, not
even me, except that Allah bestows
me with His mercy.” (Bukhari and
Muslim)
When one loses the fear of requital it becomes easy to forget
about falling from the straight path.
A sense of security in this aspect
can be the first step towards falling
victim to it.
Would such an arrogant person
continually beseech Allah for guidance and seek steadfastness on his
path?
Vanity leads to backbiting and
rumour mongering. Moreover,
whomever mocks his brother about
a particular sin will not die till he himself succumbs to it.
Arrogance and Pride
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hese two attributes are among
the worst for man to acquire
especially when he wants to
repent (repentance: Taubat).
Arrogance and pride led Iblis
(Syaitan) astray, although he was in
the company of the angels.
That happened because Allah
tells us, “I (Iblis says) am better than
him (Adam). You created me from
fire and him You created from clay.”
(translation of Al-Quran surah AlA’raf: 12)
If one does not rid himself of arrogance and pride, an end similar to
that of Syaitan is a sure result.
But even a little part of them specially if related to how one views
one’s worship - can be very devastating to one’s iman.
Predominance of Desires
The following is among the comDeviation from the right path
mon signs of arrogance and pride:
is caused by one of the two factorsClaiming perfection leads one to either doubt which has mixed with
not feel the need to improve him- clarity and truth, or desires which
self through good deeds and other predominated a person’s heart and
means of nurturing his iman.
hence, deviated and obstructed him
But iman, as stated by scholars, from the truth and obeying Allah, a
either increases or decreases. There- factor clearly noticed in our days.
fore, it will certainly decrease when
The ones who repent and turn
one does not work hard to into Allah are just as human as
crease it with a lot good
any one else- they dedeeds.
sire as others do.
Admiring one’s
The problem
own deeds
of lustful desires
results in the
one be proud of his
begins primargradual relinily with an evil
deeds while Allah’s
quishment of
look or idea
worshipping
Messenger, used to
and
ends
Allah, because
with
flooded
say, “None of you
worship
is
actions or an
based on humwill be saved beerupted volbling oneself to
cano-leading a
cause of his deeds.”
Him and acknowlperson to perveredging that all the
sion.
gratefulness is to Allah
You find a person
and to Him alone.
following the path which
How could one be proud of
pleases Allah but once he sights
his deeds while Allah’s Messenger, something forbidden (e.g., a beautimay peace and blessing be upon ful woman), a struggle in his heart
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begins; the light of iman is kindled
within him calling him to repent and
turn to Allah.
Eventually, the pitch of this call is
reduced and the call of the desire rises. In this way, an immense struggle
within begins.
At one stage, the call of iman
might predominate and he overcomes this hurdle, even if the dust
of the sin might have touched him,
which he immediately washes off
with repentance and good deeds.
On the other hand, he might
respond due to a weakness in iman
and the light of desire rises and predominates, ensnaring his heart and
obstructing any chances of turning
to Allah.
As a result, he falls victim to the
sin and can not turn to Allah in re-
pentance, which would raise him
from this downfall.
At this moment, he would say to
himself, “You have already been affected by the dirt of sin, so you might
as well keep on going.
So many times you have tried to
repent, but to no avail.
You are weak, there remains no
hope for you to repent, and your way
is different from that of the pious!”
The Ugly Gut of
Excessiveness
Whenever Allah commands us to
do something, Syaitan incites us to
fall into either extreme-either exaggerating the act on one hand or be
negligent and careless about it on
the other.
Even though the latter is a common phenomenon with many, Syai-
tan chooses to incite one towards the
opposite extreme of exaggeration
and immoderation.
Accordingly, we have been
warned against taking such an approach as Allah says, “Say, O people
of the scripture, exceed not the units
in your religion.” (surah Al-Maidah:
77)
And Allah’s Messenger, said, “Beware of ghuluw (excessiveness) in
religion, for indeed, what devastated
those before you was ghuluw in religion.” (narrated by An-Nasa’i)
Allah’s Messenger clarified this
by saying, “Be moderate and practice
the same in proportion and know
that your deeds will not make you
enter Jannah and the most beloved
deeds to Allah are those which are
regularly done even if they were little.”
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