4. FOCUSING ATTENTION IN ALLAH’S SERVICE
Whoever looks carefully at the worldly life will know that Allah Almighty wants us to avoid it beyond need. Whoever inclined towards its permitted pleasures will find sadness with every happiness, and tiredness beside every comfort—and a greater disturbance at the end of every pleasure. Nothing is raised of this life except it’s lowered again.
The Messenger (PBUH) loved ‘A’ishah (radiyAllahu ‘anha), so the incident of the slander (ifk) took place.
He inclined towards Zaynab (radiyAlldbu ‘anha), and the verse,
“When Zayd has accomplished his desire from her.” [aI-Ahzab (33):37]
was revealed.
It is enough that when his desired is attained, the mind imagines leaving it. As the poet said:
The utmost distress, in my view, is in joy whose feeler is certain of its departure
Therefore, the wise must know that Allah’s purpose from this disturbance is to repel him from the worldly life. One must take his needs there from and leave distractions behind, so that his attention is focused in serving Allah.
Whoever deviates from that will regret it.
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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