Therefore, O my friends muster courage. To lay down ones arms in front of one’s Nafs is not manliness. Laying down your arms is an act of feminity. Strive with courage against your Nafs. Make a complete effort from your side. Try all the time; however, finally we are human. At times, one will slip, which is referred to as ‘a slip of the foot’. This is nothing surprising. However, to completely lay down your weapons, fold your arms and submissively follow your carnal desires is degradable and lowliness. This is not slipping, but purposely falling. Cure yourself. What is the cure? Repent and give charity, perform ten or twenty Nafl rakaats and cry in front of Allah Ta’ala. How sad it is that some people hear but do not have the energy to perform two or four rakaats of Nafl Salaah. Day and night, they are in the service of their Shaikh. However, when they err and look at strange women, then they do not have the ability to compensate for this by performing ten or twenty rakaats. Will your Shaikh save you? Understand well that the Shaikh cannot save you. He is not a contractor of the Hereafter.

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The guide will only show you the path,

To tread the path is the work of the traveler

Your Murshid (guide) will carry you on his shoulders!

A mere figment of your imagination it is

Do you think that your guide will make you sit on his shoulders and take you on the road? The Pir (guide) only shows the path, it is up to you to traverse it. You have to make the full effort. The duty of the doctor and Hakim is to give a prescription. To take the mediation and to be abstinent is the duty of the patient. However, if he is an Allahwala, then he will also make dua for you. This is the difference between worldly doctors and those who are Allahwala, that doctor only give medication, whilst Allahwala, together with showing the spiritual cure, will cry before Allah Ta’ala, “O Allah! Do not deprive those who are connected to me and who are linked to me due to their good thoughts of me, within You is the quality of Jazb (attraction). In the Qur’an Karim, You have explained regarding this quality that for whomsoever You wish, You draw him to Yourself.” It is our belief that whomever Allah Ta’ala attracts none can pull him away. Therefore, at least perform two rakaats of Salaatul Hajaat and supplicate, “O Allah! My strength has become paralyzed. I do not possess any trust on my strength and intentions. I have become despondent over my strength. I only have hope in You that You will assist me.

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“O the One holding my hand, O Helper, purchase me from my own hands” (i.e. do not hand me over to myself, buy me from my own hands) place the veil of Your Sattari (covering) over my sins. (i.e. Do not tear the veil of my sins that the creation laugh at me.)