Reducing One’s Attachment to Worldly Desires
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Do we say that it is prescribed for the Muslim to reduce his attachment to worldly desires so that they do not affect matters of the Hereafter?
Answer:
This varies according to the people. If the permissible desires occupy him from obeying Allah, he leaves them and lightens his load of them. But if they do not occupy him from obeying Allah, rather they help him in obeying Allah, then they are an increase in good. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Do we say that it is prescribed for the Muslim to reduce his attachment to worldly desires so that they do not affect matters of the Hereafter?
Answer:
This varies according to the people. If the permissible desires occupy him from obeying Allah, he leaves them and lightens his load of them. But if they do not occupy him from obeying Allah, rather they help him in obeying Allah, then they are an increase in good. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل فمن المحبة النافعة : محبة الزوجة وما ملكت يمين الرجل — islamhouse.com (49:21)
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