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Chapter 3.4. Preventative Measures From Passionate Love
- Repenting to Allah and loving Him, for indeed this is more satisfying and purer than anything else, and nothing will be left to love alongside Allah.
- Fearing Allah, for indeed fear is the opposite of passionate love and removes it.
This love can also be removed by fearing the occurrence of a harm that is more hateful to one than leaving this love. So when Allah is more beloved to the servant than anything else, and more feared by him than anything else; then he will not fall into passionate love or find any love that would compete with his love of Allah, except in the case of negligence or at a time when this love and fear has become weak by his leaving some of the obligatory duties and by performing some of the prohibited actions. For indeed faith increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience, so each time a servant obeys Allah out of love and fear, and leaves a prohibited action out of love and fear, his love and fear becomes stronger, and any love or fear of anything else besides Allah will disappear from his heart.
Chapters
Chapter 1
Concerning the Ailments of the Hearts and their Cures
Chapter 1.1
Between Sickness And Death
Chapter 1.2
The Quran Is A Cure For The Hearts
Chapter 1.3
Righteous Actions Are A Cure For The Heart
Chapter 1.4
Leaving Indecent Actions Are A Cure For The Heart
Chapter 1.5
The Effect Of Sins Upon The Purity Of The Heart
Chapter 1.6
Types Of Zulm
Chapter 1.7
The Life Of The Heart
Chapter 1.8
The State Of The Dead Heart
Chapter 1.9
The Need For Beneficial Knowledge
Chapter 1.10
The Reality Of The Life Of The Heart
Chapter 2
Envy Is A Sickness Of The Heart
Chapter 2.1
The Types Of Envy (hasad)
Chapter 2.2
Between Hasad And Ghubta
Chapter 2.3
The Competition Between Abu Bakr And Umar
Chapter 2.4
Moses Displays Ghubta
Chapter 2.5
Whoevers Ranking Becomes Lofty, He Is Secured From Ghubta
Chapter 2.6
Blameworthy Jealousy
Chapter 2.7
The Cure For Jealousy
Chapter 2.8
The Causes For Jealousy
Chapter 2.9
Between Jealousy And Miserliness
Chapter 3
The Disease Of Desires And Passionate Love
Chapter 3.1
Between Jealousy And Desires
Chapter 3.2
The Reality Of Passionate Love (ishk)
Chapter 3.3
The Natural Inclination Of The Heart Is To Love Of Allah
Chapter 3.4
Preventative Measures From Passionate Love
Chapter 3.5
Some Cures For The Heart
Chapter 4
Appendix One The Types Of Hearts
Chapter 5
Glossary Of Arabic Terms