8. BEING DISHEARTENED IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE FAILS TO ACHIEVE ONE’S DESIRE
Whoever walks accompanied by his intellect, avoids the path of whims and weighs consequences thereof. He is able to enjoy life and a good reputation, which causes him to forego any of his desired pleasures.
This is clarified from two perspectives:
First: If he inclined towards desires of copulation and frequently enacted it, his flame of pleasure decreases and burns out causing him to abandon any (further) desired pleasure. If he moderated his desire and used it wisely, he would find it more pleasurable because of the length between intercourses allowing the flame of passion to persist.
Similarly, whoever cheats or betrays in his transactions, people would stop dealing with him, so he would miss profitable trades from regular transactions due to a single instance of betrayal. If he was known to be trustworthy however, people would continue dealing with him and allow him to increase profit.
Second: Whoever fears Allah and occupies himself with knowledge or asceticism is granted access to much permitted pleasure. Yet whoever is disheartened by being lazy in seeking knowledge or by turning away from asceticism, will only attain little pleasure.
Allah (the Almighty) said,
“And [Allah revealed] that if they had remained straight on the way, We would have given them abundant provision.” [al-Jinn (72): 16]
(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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