The Enjoyment Of Zikr and Pleasure in Giving up Sin pdf

The Enjoyment of Zikr and Pleasure in Giving up Sin

THE ENJOYMENT OF ZIKR AND PLEASURE IN GIVING UP SIN

From the Book: enjoyments of this world has a beginning and will certainly come to an end. Therefore, the Ahlullah, let alone the pleasures and enjoyments of the world, experience pleasure and enjoyment within their hearts even more than the pleasures and enjoyments of paradise.

One whose heart finds tranquillity in taking the name of Allah does not even allow the whispering of pleasure and enjoyment derived from non-Allah to even approach his heart.

Those who have resorted to finding peace and tranquillity in anything besides Allah who are deriving such peace and tranquallity or have the intention to do so are those deprived souls who have not tasted the pleasure and enjoyment in Allah’s name. Our Allah, after all is Allah!

The master and friend after all is the master and friend! His splendour is indeed amazing. It is He who grants rulership and kingdom to those sitting on simple straw mats and sack cloth.

It is He who grants the enjoyment of biryani1 and other delicious dishes in simple chutney and bread.

Whenever one of His friends spreads his prayer rug, be it in the wilderness or on the banks of some river, He grants them the intoxication of being a ruler and king as a result of which all other pleasures and enjoyments are reduced to nothing in comparison.

What does the intoxication of kingship have to offer? What do the beauties of the world have to offer? What reality does the beauty of all the beauties of the world have?

 If at precisely the time a person has his beloved lovingly wrapped in his arms and he is whispering sweet words to prove his loyalty, his willingness to sacrifice his very life for her, and at that very moment, she happens to have a case of the running stomach, I place the Qur’aan on such a person’s head and ask him, “Tell me what your condition will be at that time? Will you drive this beloved away or not?

 Will you not flee from there? On the other hand, those who are the men of Allah are intoxicated by the enjoyment of Allah’s name without submitting to the vile and distasteful location of the worldly beloved’s ‘ground floor’.

Their hearts experience such a level of peace and tranquillity that if a person who has not found any peace and tranquillity anywhere in the world, comes into their company and sits with them will, Insha-Allah, find himself in a state of peace and tranquillity. If one can find peace and tranquillity in the company of men of Allah, what level of peace and tranquillity will one find in the name of Allah?