Perspectives

5. CAUTIOUSNESS IS THE PATH TO SAFETY

The closer one is to [events of] trials and tribulations (fitnah), the further he becomes from safety (salama), and he who claims endurance (sabr), [Allah] will leave him alone [in the face of trials]. 

Just one [unlawful) gaze is enough to immediately hit the hearts with a poisoned arrow for truly the most deserving things to control and master over are the tongue and the eyes! Therefore, you must beware of being overwhelmed with your intention (‘azm) to abandon your fanciful-desires (hawa) and whims while you are stepping towards temptation and trials (fitnah) because fanciful-desires are duplicitous and nothing but a trap. Many are those who were audacious (shujah) in wars yet they were assassinated [abruptly] by a lowlife! And take the assassination of Hamzah (radiyAllahu ‘anhu) by W’ahshi (radiyAllahu ‘anhu) as an example!

Be mindful and do not smell every lightning, for a lightning may have within it some thunder. 

As one poet said, 

Be mindful and do not track each lightening,

For a lightening may carry within destructive thunder.

Overlook and you shall be relieved from a [type of] love,

that makes you dress in a garment of humiliation.

The trial of a young boy is to follow his whims,

And the ambition of his eyes starts such love.
(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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