Whatever you do, make sure you do it with sincerity and enjoyment. This is the secret.

Allah swt knows when his slave is sincere, and would he not help the ones who *sincerely* strive in His cause? He will PURCHASE their lives, in return that theirs will be…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Gr-bqUrRo&feature=PlayList&p=630BEA3344573E34&playnext=1&index=26

I was going to say that another step towards addiction is actually trying whatever the source of addiction is. While thinking about that, I wondered what it was that actually made a person go down that route in the first place. Peer pressure? It’s “cool”? These are the kinds of thoughts one associates with trying something out when one shouldn’t.

Shouldn’t we target these same impulses, but for actions of benefit? In general, acts of ibaadah are given a sense of being a heavy burden as people go through life, so we need to disassociate this mental connection. For example, break down the “salah=five seemingly endless minutes” connection, and replace it with “salah=sweet, sweet joy” corollary.

Amazingly written…JazakAllah Khair. This just reminded me from the Rays of Faith class that it is the sunnah of Allah to make us die in a state which we were most addicted to in life. SubhanAllah, the man mentioned in the story attained true success as he died in the most beautiful of cities doing the most beautiful act in the most beautiful posture.

I shudder to think what my addictions are….

SubhanAllah that’s amazing.

It makes me think what it must take for someone to really have an addiction….

You need to use it a lot.
You must find a love for it.
You get pleasure/happiness out of doing it.

How can we take that and then apply it to the deen? How can we get our fellow Muslims addicted to the deen?

Jazakallahu khairan.

MashaAllaah very well-written telling of a tale. I love the use of “abstinent” in the sentence “For this reason the Messenger of Allah (swt) used to be the most abstinent of the people concerning the worldly things…”