20. DO NOT PAY A LIFETIME OF HUMILIATION FOR A MOMENT OF JOY
I do not criticise anyone who seeks worldly pleasures (ladhat) through lawful means because not everyone is able to abstain totally from worldly pleasures. I do condemn however, those who look for worldly pleasures but when they can’t find what they are after— or realise they can only obtain it through unlawful means— they endeavour to attain these pleasures regardless of the means.
This trial takes place when a person undermines his intellect and does not benefit from his intelligence because if he weighed the sinful desire he favoured comparing it against the punishment awaiting for attaining it, he would have realised the scale of desire weigh anything because it was a moment of pleasure that vanished as soon as it was consumed or utilised. Many are those who favour their desires and as a result they become devoid of their religiousness!
An intelligent person who flips the pages of their states and conditions must wonder at them because they favoured a pleasure that does not last, and ended up with a punishment that does not leave them! How disgraceful it is when the sense of intellect is undermined!
Let the one who embarked unto the path of righteousness see where he puts his foot, because if one was in a hurry he may fall into a deep hole.
Let the eyes of awakening be wide open for you are in a state of war where no one can expect from whence the arrows are coming, so help yourself and not do strive against it
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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