The Best Method for Controlling the Self That Commands Evil
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: What is the best method for controlling the self that commands evil?
The Shaykh:
Is that it?
The questioner:
The best method for controlling the self that commands evil?
The Shaykh:
The best way for her is to accustom her to obedience and to good, and to be with the righteous, with the pious, with the God-fearing servants of Allah, and to avoid gatherings of evil, and to avoid going to the rest houses, and to the markets, and to… what many people are afflicted with today; she should stay away from this.
And he should frequent the mosques, especially to perform the five daily prayers. For among the seven whoMuwatta Malik 51:14 is a man whose heart is attached to the mosques; he loves the mosques, and when he leaves them he returns to them, going back and forth to them. Allah the Exalted said: "Only those who [At-Tawbah 9:18]" This means they enliven them with obedience. This is the true enlivening of the mosques, not enlivening them with clay and decoration. No, their enlivening is through obedience.
The questioner asks: What is the best method for controlling the self that commands evil?
The Shaykh:
Is that it?
The questioner:
The best method for controlling the self that commands evil?
The Shaykh:
The best way for her is to accustom her to obedience and to good, and to be with the righteous, with the pious, with the God-fearing servants of Allah, and to avoid gatherings of evil, and to avoid going to the rest houses, and to the markets, and to… what many people are afflicted with today; she should stay away from this.
And he should frequent the mosques, especially to perform the five daily prayers. For among the seven who
whom Allah will shade in His shade on the day on which there is no shade except His shade
يظلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظلهThe mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear except Allah
إِنَّمَا يَعْمُرُ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَلَمْ يَخْشَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ
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لقاء مفتوح 20-09-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (17:37)
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