Advice for a student who is overcome by the desires of Satan
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The questioner : Your Eminence the Shaykh! I love you for the sake of Allah, and the student in this residence is alone in his room, and some desires from Satan come upon him, so what is your advice for those like him?
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah love him who loves us in Him. As for my advice to these people, it is that a person should seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan, based on the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:[Al-A'raf 7:200] Indeed, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. So let him seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan, and let him believe that he is in need of Allah’s help and Allah’s protection, and that were it not for Allah’s protection, he would have perished. Second, that he should get up, read the Qur’an, perform wudu’, pray, and review until what Satan stirred up is gone. And among that is that he should strive for early marriage. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged the youth to do so and said: O young men, Mishkat al-Masabih 3080.
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah love him who loves us in Him. As for my advice to these people, it is that a person should seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan, based on the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:
And if an evil suggestion comes to you from Satan, then seek refuge in Allah
وَإِمَّا يَنزَغَنَّكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ نَزْغٌ فَاسْتَعِذْ بِاللَّهِthose of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality; but those who cannot should devote themselves to fasting
من استطاع منكم الباءة فليتزوج، فإنه أغض للبصر وأحسن للفرج، ومن لم يستطع فعليه بالصوم
Source
لقاء بمسجد الطلاب بالمدينة الجامعية - 1 — archive.org (55:14)
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