MUJAHIDAH AND RIYAZAT: 6 (abstracts from a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 Hazrat Nanotvi RE then said, “a person’s Nafs (inner-self) is also bent towards sins. So, when you try to bring it to moderation, it doesn’t stay there. The trick is to bend it to the other side and make it give up Halal things as well. Once it gets used to giving up Halal activities as well it will develop moderation, and then it will become easier for it to refrain from sins and from disobeying Allah Ta’ala.”

 

Our Nafs has become used to committing sins (may Allah Ta’ala protect us). For example, our eyes have become used to inappropriate staring and drawing pleasure from it. On the other hand, Allah Ta’ala has said in the Noble Qur’an;

 

“Tell the believing men that they must lower their gazes… (24:30)

 

If a person is going to the market and looks this way or that way, is it permissible or impermissible? It is permitted as long as he is looking at those objects which are permitted to look at, like cars or buildings. But because the eyes are used to committing sins, and he repeatedly keeps getting impulses to stare at inappropriate places, therefore, he has been instructed as a precaution and a preventative strategy that when you walk in the Bazaar, lower your gaze, because if you keep looking at what is permissible to look at, sooner or later your gaze will fall on what is Haraam to look at. A human being’s Nafs is weak. It is likely to engage in sin in those circumstances. But if you keep your gaze low, you will remain safe.

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