Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Is Following Ones Whims Problematic
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The speaker discusses the importance of considerability in actions and how one can determine if one is doing a good act based on consideration and pleasure. They explain that while one may not be whimsical, they are a reflection of their actions based on their value and desire. The speaker also mentions that while one may not be whimsical, they are a reflection of their actions based on their value and desire.
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Is following one's
whims
problematic if it doesn't
reach sin?
Yes.
One needs to restrain oneself
because
the unrestrained
self is like the
undisciplined
child.
Right? That if you don't listen to small
things, then you won't listen in big things.
Right? So if you can't control
yourself in the halal,
then how will you control yourself when you
come to a halal versus haram
decision,
right? So that's one of the great merits
of having adab,
proper manners.
Right? Related to our worldly actions, eating, drinking.
Eating with the left hand is not sinful,
but it's an Adab.
It's a Sunnah and an Adab.
Drinking while sitting down, how we put on
our feet, how do I put on, how
we put on our shoes,
how we enter and exit the house, how
we enter the washroom, all of these teach
us restraint in the permissible matters in life.
And having restraint
is the bridge to being able to have
taqwa
that one hold oneself back
and
one chooses and acts in accordance with the
pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So when one inclines towards something, one's
whim or one's desire,
if one considers
benefit in it,
Is this good?
Whether it is good
and why am I doing it? So you
can you know, if you act the base
on the base of consideration
of benefit that is reason.
And if you act on
with consideration also of the pleasure of Allah
that is you combine intellect and heart in
your action.
So you're walking down the street
after tarawi and you someone has cheesecake. You
incline towards the cheesecake. That's just desire.
There's nothing wrong with it, but
you think, is this the right thing to
do at midnight?
Okay. I've,
I'll take some, get some for my family.
Is this good?
And how do you do it? Seeking the
pleasure of Allah? How? Very simple. You know,
you you consider. There's many ways you can
make
buying some cheesecake after tarawi into a good
act. So then that is not whimsical anymore.
If you whatever you incline towards,
you reign it in
with
the intellect,
with the aql through consideration,
and of whether it
it is
of benefit or not
and then you raise that benefit towards the
pleasure of Allah and one of the keys
for that in worldly matters is gratitude.