Enslaving oneself to desire and whether it is major shirk
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is enslaving oneself to desire considered kufr (disbelief) and major shirk, such that its practitioner will be eternally in the Fire?
Answer:
No, no, it is not major shirk, but it involves, I mean, submission to desire, a kind of submission to it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is enslaving oneself to desire considered kufr (disbelief) and major shirk, such that its practitioner will be eternally in the Fire?
Answer:
No, no, it is not major shirk, but it involves, I mean, submission to desire, a kind of submission to it. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن مكايده ومصايده ما فتن به عشاق الصور — islamhouse.com (59:59)
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