What is the advice for one who finds in himself an inclination toward desires?
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Question:
I find in myself, when I am alone, a desire and a lust. What do you advise me to do, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
I advise you to remember your standing before Allah, and that you are accountable for all your limbs: have you protected and guarded them? Among them are your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand, and your foot, and the greatest of them is your heart. So you must protect it from forbidden desires.
If you occupy your heart with the remembrance of Allah, and with thinking about what Allah has made obligatory upon you, and with reflecting on the Qur'an, and with what is required of you in obeying Allah and His Messenger; then this is an occupation that distracts you from inclining toward what Allah has forbidden.
I find in myself, when I am alone, a desire and a lust. What do you advise me to do, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
I advise you to remember your standing before Allah, and that you are accountable for all your limbs: have you protected and guarded them? Among them are your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand, and your foot, and the greatest of them is your heart. So you must protect it from forbidden desires.
If you occupy your heart with the remembrance of Allah, and with thinking about what Allah has made obligatory upon you, and with reflecting on the Qur'an, and with what is required of you in obeying Allah and His Messenger; then this is an occupation that distracts you from inclining toward what Allah has forbidden.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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