6. INVESTIGATION AND CONSULTATION
There is nothing better to rely on when you intend to do something than investigating it before being involved in it, for when you act without heeding the consequences of something, the result will highly likely end in regret (nadm).
This is why we are ordered to seek advice and consult others because when a person investigates a matter, it helps him to think of what may be overlooked. It was said, ‘The yeast of opinion is better than its (subsequent) pie.’ The most reckless is he who acts without seeking consultation or thinking ahead, particularly in matters that provokes one’s anger; because acting recklessly in such matters will bring forth either doom or great regret. How many people are there who murdered or injured others, but when they came to their senses, they lived the rest of their lives in grief, weeping and regret!
In most cases, the murderer ends up being killed, losing in this life and the Hereafter too.
The same applies to the one who hastens to a lustful desire as soon as it presents itself to him while forgetting the consequences of such an action. He too spends his life drinking the bitterness of his regret, let alone the blame and the punishment he shall receive after his death; and all that for what? For a pleasure that lasted momentarily and then passed like the flash of lightening!
So be warned and beware! You should think ahead before delving into any affair and heed the consequences of your actions, especially when in states of anger that cause enmity and divorce.
(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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