Spiritual Disease and Its Cure by Imam Shams-ud-Deen Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Qayyim AlJ awziyyah

Sins erase many blessings in life, the blessing of livelihood: the blessing of knowledge, the blessing of work, and the blessing of obedience to Allah ~ - In total, sins eradicate all blessings of one's religion and one's world. The blessings of the land are eradicated only by the sins of mankind; Allah ~ said: ( If the people of the towns had believed and had piety, certainly, We would have opened for them blessings from the heaven and the earth ) and He ~ also said: ( If they had believed in Allah, and gone the Right Way, We would have bestowed on them water in abundance, that We might try them with) . 2

Therefore a Servant of Allah is denied His Blessing for a sin which he/she had committed. The Prophet ~ said: "The Holy Spirit has blown in my soul (to inform me) that no living soul would die until it has received all its provision; so fear Allah and act well in asking Him, for the Blessings of Allah are earned only in obeying Him. Allah has provided mercy and joy in pleasing Him and being certain in Him; yet He ~ made worry and sadness in earning His Curse and being suspicious of Him. " 3 Allah ~ said, in a Hadith Qudsi, reported by the Prophet :,I: "I am Allah. There is no god but Me. If I am pleased, I bestow My Grace upon My Servant, and there is no limit to My Blessings. When I am Angry, I Curse, and My Curse reaches the seventh offspring of a person." The range of the blessing is not in its abundance, nor is the extension of one's life, by the addition of months or years. Rather, the comfort of these blessings in one's life lies in Allah's Benediction of them. The existence of a person is manifest as the period of his/her life, but there is no life for one who rejects the Commandments of Allah, and was busy following his/her own desires; the life of an animal would be better than his. Rather, the life of a person is defined by the life of his/her heart; and there is no life in one's heart, except by having complete love and belief in Allah ~' worshipping Him Alone. Whoever loses this type of life has indeed lost all goodness, even if he/she were to replace it with all pleasures of this world. Disobeying Allah ~ has always been a reason for the removal of His Blessings, because Satan is associated with people who commit sins. It is for this reason that Allah ~ commanded His believing Servants to begin every action by mentioning the Name of Allah ~; before eating, drinking, riding, having a sexual intercourse with one's spouse. Mentioning the Name of Allah at the beginning of every activity brings the Benediction of Allah ~ for His Servant, and chases away Satan; because every action which is not done in the Name of Allah ~ is denied any blessing from Him ~ - All blessings come from Allah ~. and everything related to Him is blessed; His Word is blessed, His Messenger is blessed, His devoted pious servant is blessed, His Sacred House (the Ka'bah) is blessed, and the land of Palestine, within which there is Al-Aqsa mosque, is blessed. The opposite of a blessing is a curse, so every land, person or activity that is cursed by Allah is far from receiving any blessing from Him ~, and anything associated with them is definitely not blessed. Allah ~ cursed His Enemy, Iblis (Satan), making him the most distant (from Him) of all His Creation. Anything linked to Satan is cursed, according to the level of its closeness to Satan. It is from this perspective that we can perceive the effect of sins in wiping away any blessing in life, knowledge and activity. The Prophet ~ said: "This world is cursed and so are all the things in it, except the remembrance of Allah, those things which He likes, scholars and students." 1 Therefore, everything in this world is cursed, except that which is for Allah's Sake, which earns the Blessing of Allah ~ -