Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Is Following Ones Whims Problematic

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.