Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
By Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel
Saheb (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)
Our situation is akin to the
person enduring the heat of a mid-summer’s day. The heat and humidity is
extremely intense, so the person switches on one of those little toy fans that
work on a single cell battery – which children are generally found playing
with. To benefit from its breeze, it has to be brought extremely close.
So the person sits with this
little fan in front of him and on his side, he lights a huge fire. Will that
little fan have any effect? …No.
Until the person does not
distance himself from that fire or extinguishes that fire, the breeze of that
fan will not cool his skin. …The effect
of that little fan will be lost due to the intensity and closeness of the fire.
The similitude drawn is that we
do a few good deeds; the effect of which is likened to the breeze of the little
fan. Together with those few good deeds, we indulge in different types of sins
and their effect is comparable to the blazing fire. Until we do not distance ourselves from the venues of sins and give up
those sins altogether, how will our Ibaadah cool our hearts?
Only when we will extinguish the
fire, which we, ourselves, have kindled, of sins, and we thereafter switch on
the air-conditioner of sincere obedience to Allah Ta’ala and His Rasul
(Sallallaahu ‘akayhi wasallam), will we experience coolness in our hearts.
We need to
understand that the destination cannot be reached, if the journey is traversed
one step forward and then ten steps back.
