Ahmed Salim Jn

It is the training of man’s willpower. It is the purification of the heart and ego which are the center of the will.  For this reason, repentance, forgiveness, dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and prostration to Allah Almighty are kept at certain time periods especially at the dawn. With Dhikr Spiritual Journeying, man progresses gradually.  The Spiritual traveller is separated from bad company in order to protect his heart and allow taqwa(God's Consciousness)to grow. Protecting the heart on this path is essential.  A piece of jewelry is never displayed in public, it is put in an elegant box covered with cotton and kept in safes so that the thief will not steal it, similarly the heart should be protected. The thieves of the heart are the people immersed in wrong actions the sensual temptations and the demonic attractions displayed all around us. The Spiritual traveller is warmed to spirituality step by step through sohbah (companionship) and companionship with the righteous....

  Chastity is to live within the circle of halal according to the standards of modesty and decency. These criteria are the most basic conditions of Islamic morality in terms of the continuation of man’s progeny, which is the main purpose of man’s desire for the opposite sex.  “Both the beginning and the end of our path is Good manners.” I asked my intellect “What is faith?” He bent down to the ear of my heart and whispered; “Faith is good manners.” In short, getting rid of excesses and deficiencies and finding moderation can only be achieved as a result of proper spiritual training. This is 'Righteousness' ®Ahmed Salim Jn ✍️

  This is a state of Jumud, which means dullness. It is lifelessness, inactivity and passivity in human life which is never acceptable. It is to fall from one mistake into another mistake. Just like some religion adherents, which forbade marriage for its priests and then very ugly and perverted sexual acts ensued. All these abnormalities are caused by not educating people according to the divine measures. ® Ahmed Salim Jn ✍️ 

This means wickedness, that is, to plunge into indulgence.  Allah Almighty states that He inspired both depravity and taqwa in order to test human beings (Al Shams vs 8). Which means that the cure of depravity is taqwa. Taqwa means to guard oneself from the anger of Allah by avoiding everything Allah has forbidden, both in the outward actions and inward states, and taking on everything Allah has commended both in outward actions and inward states. In this way, the lower self is subjugated to the higher spiritual faculty which has no conflict with the commands of Allah.  Only if a person has taqwa can he escape being a victim of his wrong actions because when he falls into a forbidden thing due to a heedless moment, he immediately turns back to Allah in tawba (repentance). All the pleasures of a humble servant are realized with good deeds.  In short, it is necessary to live a life of servitude with taqwa in order to be protected from the calamities of lust, indecency and i...

Shahwah (desire or lower appetite) is the general expression of all lower desires. Some of the lower appetites can pose a very strong temptation towards forbidden pleasures. The powerful urge at times affects people to a degree that it makes them even ignore the threat of divine punishment. Otherwise, who  would aspire to harams in the face of all the torment that will follow? No one. If there were no enjoyment in haram things, there would be no meaning of testing. No one is tempted to something that isn’t attractive. Is there any intelligent person who hungrily tries to eat soil? Is it possible for a sane person  to gnaw wood with pleasure? That’s why Allah has connected certain forbidden things to our natural lusts and desires. The issues on which this feature intensifies and attracts people the most are generally gathered around the following three points: • Wealth • Fame • Desire These three issues are the three places where the lower self can easily overcome our spirit...