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A Life of Piety
By: Shaikh ul Arab wal Ajam Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Saheb (ra)
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A Life of Piety
By: Shaikh ul Arab wal Ajam Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Saheb (ra)
Some people regard the urge to sin to be contrary to piety. They remain in complete anxiety due to these urges. Shaytan misleads led them by saying that a person can never become a saint if he has these urges. How many ignorant ones have not been able to differentiate between the urge to sin and sin itself. Due to this, they lose all hope, fulfill their urges and become deprived of the proximity of the Creator.

May Allah grant Hadhrat tremendous reward for proving from the Qur
Book: A Life of Piety
1. Introduction

After taking an oath of the sky, earth and other great signs, Allah took an oath of the nafs. "I take an oath by the nafs and the One that corrected it."

"He inspired the nafs with evil and piety."

Allah has created the ability to sin as well as to be pious in man. Man now has a choice of accepting the slavery of the nafs and preparing his way to hell or he could muster some courage, become pious and thereby become a friend of Allah. He could either become Abdur Rahman (the slave of the Merciful) or Abdus Shaytan (the slave of satan). Allah has granted man a choice to either adopt the path of piety or the path of sin. Retribution and punishment will be based on this choice.

Now the question arises why Allah mentioned taqwa after mentioning sin. Normally a good thing is mentioned first. When you enter the musjid, you step in with the right foot first. You eat with the right hand. Every good thing is placed first but Allah mentioned sin first in this verse. This has a very great secret and if one comes to know this secret, one will not be grieved by the urge to sin. The urge to sin is not harmful. Fulfilling the urge is however sinful. If you do not have the urge to sin, you cannot become pious.

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