Choose the path that leads to safety at the end

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon him, stated:

A servant of Allah does not embark upon what he has been forbidden except through two ways: Firstly, (either) harbouring evil thoughts about his Lord that if he were to obey Allah and preferred Him, He, Glorified be He, will not grant him that which is better from the lawful (things), or his acknowledgement (i.e. that Allah will grant him something better than the forbidden thing he pursues) and that whoever leaves something for Allah’s sake, He, Glorified be He, will replace it with something better; but lusts overcomes his patience and desires his intellect. The first is due to weakness in knowledge and the second a weakness in intellect and insight”.

 Al-Fawaa’id. Page 78