Suppressing the Nafs – Part 2
Bayan - Battling the nafs (Continued)
Baabun fil mujahad (mujahada)
‘mujahada‘.. means to try…to strive.. jihad originates from this word – to strive to improve his nafs is mujahada.
Al mujahida man jaahada nafsa … ‘the real mujahid is one who does jihad with his nafs’.
So anyone doing islah has to do mujahada.. (nafs ki mukhalfat karna).. like sipping the bitter one ! … by supressing the nafs.
Nafs is that strength that brings man towards the ‘dil chaha’. If its left and obeyed.. then man remains not a man but becomes an animal. These desires make him follow them, but even if they are followed all life, yet Nafs would not get its eternal satisfaction.. and ‘sukoon’ can never be attained …its a rule ! .. Once the nafs fulfills one desire, it immediately moves towards the other desire. e.g The West made the private life of humans without hindrances. But if you ask someone,,.. did you attain all the pleasure in this world u wanted?… No! everybody wants more pleasure. In western culture if a man & woman want to have intercourse then theres no hinderance in their way, so much that RasulAllah’s (Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam) statement… “that a time would come that the pious of all would be those, who would ask to commit intercourse somewhere out of the way” has been seen… that time has almost reached. Even that all doors to such acts are open, yet the rape offences are the highest in america. Why? Because they had the fun of intercourse with mutual consent… desire fulfilled…so the next desire is to rape and quench that thirst too !!
So ‘nafsani khwahishat’ need to be controlled; dont follow them.. and confine them to shariah’s limits.. they ll tease you in the beginning. will be hard to reject.
“nafs kamzor ke upper sher hai.. aur jo aik martaba iraada kar ke datt gya..ke nahin karun ga.. to ye dheela par jata hai.. aur takleef din ba din kam hoti rehti hai..!”
Allama busairi says in qaseeda burda.. ye nafs insaaan ka chotay se bache ki tara hai. maan ka doodh peeta hai.. and cant leave the milk coz its difficult.. but if left like that… he ll become young with this habit,.. so if you obey him due to his pain at that time… although the child cries to obtain it, yet every parent has to take this step… since if he wont change the habit today he ll never come to normal food, roti ..
so dont sit idle because there will never be sukoon. Sukooon never lies in gunah and masiyat. Allah gives sukuun to that qalb in which there is zikr and there is no nafarmani.
walazeena jaahadu feena lanahdeeyannahum subulana. (Quran) so datt jain haalanke aaray chal jaen, like its said :
“aarzuain khun hon ya hasraten pamal hoan
ab to iss dil ko banana hai tere qabil mujhe “ – hazrat Aarfi RA
so it will be very painful in the beginning, but later this pain feels nice and easy.
az muhabbat talkh ha shirin shawad ! – Maulana Rum
so when a man does the painful out of his muhabbah, then the pains in that way also become easy. and that pain will become nice inshallah !
Dr. sb said once: the khorak(meal) of nafs is lazzat, but has no specific shape. So if you dose it with Allah’s ita’at and the
main se gharz nashaat hai kis roosiya ko
aik bu na bekhudi mujhe din raat chahiye
(means- I only want lazzat, which came from sharab, if i were hooked to Allah’s ita’at, i would have taken nasha in it)
And in hadith its promised, that if man controls himself from sin, Allah SWT will bless with the halawat of iman, which will have a lot of sweetness in it !
Hakeemul Ummah Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi says,
“wo zara si baat jo hassil hai tasawwuf ka, jab dil main kisi taa’at ko karne se susti peda ho, us susti ka muqabla kar ke uss taa’at ko karay, aur jab kisi gunah se bachne se susti se peda to….
tu bacha bacha ke na rakh isse ye aaina hai woh aaina
ke shikasta ho toh aziz tar hai nigahe aainaye saaz main
Ask Allah for himmat and hosla, talk to Allah, ask for himmat if u will do muwakhza from me.
