If you are caught in confusion between two matters, and you don’t know what is right and what is wrong. At that point, disobey your desires; for indeed desires, only lead the soul to what is blameworthy and wrong.
— Imām ash-Shafi’ī رحمه الله
This is an interesting question I read on IslamQA few days ago: Question: My eldest son was born premature and had many severe medical conditions and had to be kept in the hospital until he recovered.the doctor Told us that he had a small chance of survival.since then we started …
Aisha (Radi Allahu Anha) said: يَغْفُلُونَ عَنْ أَفْضَلِ الْعِبَادَةِ: التَّوَاضُعِ People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility. 1 Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh ↩
If you are caught in confusion between two matters, and you don’t know what is right and what is wrong. At that point, disobey your desires; for indeed desires, only lead the soul to what is blameworthy and wrong.
— Imām ash-Shafi’ī رحمه الله
“Indeed whenever I waiver and become indecisive in my mind about an issue, or about something or a situation [which is problematic for me] then I ask forgiveness of Allaah the Most High, a thousand times or more, or less until He opens my chest for me and solves the problem which I was confused about. Even if at that time I was in a market place, or in a masjid or in a mountain pass or …
Question: What is the (proper) way to rectify and cleanse the heart from rancor and envy? And what are the most effective ways to reform the heart in this life? Answer by Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan: Rectification of the heart takes place in different ways.
Salih Aal ash-Shaikh said: One must keep his soul tied to some acts of worship. No doubt, one must keep his soul tied to some acts of obedience. If you force the soul to be obedient, it will become obedient. If you abandon it, then it will be a soul …
Questioner: I want to ask you about [the periods of] slackness [a person goes through], its causes and the cure for it, because a person sometimes feels weakness in his [practice of the] religion?