Awaking From the Sleep of the Heedlessness pdf

AWAKING FROM THE SLEEP OF THE HEEDLESSNESS

Introduction – AWAKING FROM THE SLEEP OF THE HEEDLESSNESS

ALL PRAISE BE TO THE ONE WHO made the different stages of life. During these stages, there are those who submit to Allah’s orders and thereby advance. Others who are a wasteful of this time and thereby struck with loss and regret. Indeed, life has been designated so that people [use] to reach the sought [i.e. Paradise] and to remove all that which causes loss and defect.

Whoever lives his life appropriately [as per Allah’s commands], his life will be a trade generating for him, abundantly multiplied profits, whereas the corrupt one who does not act accordingly, will find his soul ruined. A good deed is written as ten full deeds to seven hundred and more2, and a sin makes the upright return to the state of disturbance he was at before.

The eternal life in Paradise and the never-ending immortality which is like the immortality of the All-Merciful ((The immortality of the creature cannot be like the immortality of the creator, because Allah, May He be exalted and glorified, said, “There is nothing like Him and he is the Ali-Hearer; the All-Seer.” [al-Shura, 42: 11))), can be obtained by investing this short life appropriately, as whoever wastes his life is indeed a loser. Therefore, a sensible person should know the value of his life and should reflect on his state, so that he captures what cannot be restored, if it is missed and because of which he might be ruined for wasting.

Protecting the Self and Struggling against Desires

THE SECOND STAGE starts from puberty until the end of youth, and it is the most prominent stage of strug­gling against the self, hawa (the desires) and Satan. By spending this period keeping oneself out of harm, one gets im­mensely closer to Allah, Exalted is He. However, being neglectful during it, is a cause of great loss. Whoever can endure the temp­tation of sins patiently without falling into them deserves to be praised, just as Yusuf ((He is referring to the ayah in which Allah praised Yusuf: “Verify, he who fears Allah with obedience to Him (by abstaining from sins and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds), and is patient…)) was praised for his patience, for if he had sinned, he would not have been what he had become.

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