Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
By Hazrat
Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)
The comfort
of life is lost in sin and illicit love. The end results of all illicit love
relationships are fights, quarrels, arguments, restlessness, anxiety,
depression and suicidal tendencies – even suicide.
The weakness
of all those who are drowning in the ocean of illicit love is that they have
given their hearts to bodies, which are going to turn to dust. Instead of
giving their hearts to the Creator of hearts, they have given their hearts to
faces; the beauty of which, will inevitably be lost with the passage of time or
with illness.
Many are the
lovers who run off like mules when age snatches away the beauty of the faces of
their beloved ones. Those who give their
hearts to Allah Ta’ala enjoy unending happiness, because Allah Ta’ala’s beauty
neither decreases nor perishes.
The Love of
Allah Ta’ala and our beloved Nabi (Sallallaahu
‘alayhi wasallam) is a guaranteed
prescription for peace and happiness.
A simple
method to develop this love is to engage in the Zikr of Allah Ta’ala[1], recite Durood Shareef in
abundance, abstain from sins, keep the company of the righteous, and follow the
Sunnah of Nabi (Sallallaahu ‘alayhi
wasallam).
Since illicit
love begins with the evil gaze, Allah Ta’ala mentions, in a Hadeeth-e-Qudsi: “Verily,
evil glancing is an arrow from the poisonous arrows of shaytaan. Whosoever
fears Me and refrains from it will receive from Me (Allah Ta’ala) such Imaan,
the sweetness of which he will feel in his heart.”[2]
[1] Zikr should be
carried out under the guidance of a Shaykh.
[2] Kanzul-Ummaal
