RECTIFYING UNDESIRABLE MENTAL ATTRIBUTES: 14 (talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 When he then stops staring at what he has been forbidden to stare at by Allah Ta’ala, it will be a little bit easier to move his eyes away the second time, and the third time will be a little bit easier than the second time, and so on. With repeated practice over a period of time, even though he will still have some degree of desire to stare at what he has been forbidden to stare at, but it will be much easier for him to stop himself from doing so compared to the very first time. It is because by repeatedly averting his eyes, his desire to stare has become weakened. That is what Hazrat Thanvi (may Allah Ta’ala bless him) means by saying that the primary aim of combating undesirable mental attributes is to weaken them, and ‘weakening’ in this context means that after repeated practice it becomes much easier to refrain from committing those sins, though a person still needs to make some effort to do so. No matter how much Mujahidah (sustained effort) a person performs, the internal mental desires to commit sins, of libido, of anger, never go away completely. A person still gets impulses and desires to engage in those acts. The difference that Mujahidah makes is that initially he had to make a supreme effort to combat that desire, but after Mujahidah it takes much less effort to do so.

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