The path of illicit desires (shahwa)

[Mujib]

The path of illicit desires (shahwa)
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Answered by Shaykh Gibril Haddad

Question:

What is the exact punishment (this world and hereafter) for the following:

(1) Watching porn
(2) Going out with a girl but not having intercourse
(3) Looking at girls
(4) Talking to girls (Muslim and non-Muslim) without real reason.
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Wa `alaykum as-Salam

May Allah keep you and us on the path of the blessed righteous, clear of the path of the impious that are oblivious to the nobility of the human person and the purpose of creation.

By giving free rein to one's lusts and doffing the garb of modesty and self-control to the point of becoming undistinguishable from non-Muslims and worshippers of their bellies and underbellies, one becomes one of them.

This extinguishes the light of the heart, the eyes, and the rest of the five senses, mars the beauty and radiance of the face, blocks the conditions and avenues of success with constant interference, shackles the spirit with the chains of pleasures and the world, slowly but surely erasing one's name from all the lists of those that are granted success here and hereafter.

So, from the record of the angelic pious men he will be transferred to the record of the earthbound swinish men; from the record of the mujahid against his ego he will be transferred to the record of the slave of his endless lusts.

Instead of flying to his Lord he will be crawling under the weight of his nafs and might reach a point of being neglectful of prayer and fasting, forgetful of the Qur'an and the Fatiha, mired in all varieties of impurity, kept away from the company of the Friends of Allah both in the visible and the invisible worlds, tongue-tied at the moment of death, cursed here and hereafter, after he had been thinking that he was not only fine, but on top of the world. Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi represented the Divine address to such tyrants with three words: "Sweet dreams, Pharaoh!"

Hajj Gibril


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