Summary of Sunni concepts
Causes of temptation
Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim, may God Almighty have mercy on him, sufficed with mentioning the causes of temptations and falling into them
He referred it to two major reasons, under which there are many branches
The two reasons are suspicions and desires
He says, may God Almighty have mercy on him
There are two types of temptation
The temptation of doubts is the greater of the two temptations
And the temptation of desires
They may be combined for the slave, or he may be alone with one of them
The temptation of doubts is a result of weak insight and lack of knowledge
Especially if this is coupled with corruption of intent and the occurrence of passion
There is a great turmoil and a great calamity
So say whatever you want about misguidance with bad intentions
The ruler has his own passion for guidance
With his weak insight and lack of knowledge of what God sent His Messenger with
He is one of those whom God Almighty said about them
They follow nothing but conjecture and what their souls desire
This temptation leads to disbelief and hypocrisy
It is the temptation of hypocrites and the temptation of heretics
According to the levels of their heresies
All of them were invented due to the temptation of doubts
In which they suspected truth of falsehood and guidance of error
The only way to escape from this temptation is to strip away the followers of the Messenger
And his arbitration in the importance of religion and its glory
His outward and inward beliefs and deeds
His facts and laws
This temptation sometimes arises from a corrupt understanding
Sometimes it is a false report
Sometimes it is an established right that is hidden from a man and he does not obtain it
Sometimes it is for a corrupt purpose and it is followed
It is caused by blindness in insight and corruption in the will
The second type of temptation
The temptation of desires
It is the temptation that is caused by passion
It is not ignorance of the truth or suspicion of it
Rather, the perpetrator of this temptation is aware of the truth
But he turned away from it and preferred someone else
What his heart desires and his soul desires
The origin of all temptation is the prioritization of opinion over Sharia law
Passion over reason
The first is the origin of the temptation of doubts
The second is the origin of the temptation of desires
It was mentioned in a mursal hadith that some scholars considered weak
But its meaning is correct
God loves critical sight
When suspicions arise
He loves a perfect mind
When desires come
So, it is the root of all temptations
Either suspicion or lust
If temptations coincide, lack of knowledge and ignorance of the truth
Or suspicion of a corrupt interpretation
Its owner fell into temptation due to suspicion
If he agrees, knowing the truth of the servant
But his patience with desires is weak
He fell into temptation because of lust, not suspicion
The third type of causes of temptation
It is a mixture of suspicion and lust
That is, whoever falls into temptation does not admit that he is weak in patience
His whims have overcome him
But he tries too hard
Evidence based on a whim based on legal suspicion
He justifies his doing what he did
That is, he does not acknowledge his mistakes and whims
Rather, he claims that he is right based on his suspicion
From a corrupt interpretation or weak evidence
Falling into temptation has other secondary reasons
Including haste and haste
And abandoning Istikhara and consulting
And sitting with the people of the world, immorality and innovations
And reading their books and articles
Being absorbed in the world and relying on it
And its preference for the afterlife
Reasons for surviving temptations
Knowing the reasons for falling into the aforementioned temptations
The reasons for its prevention become clear to us
The most important of them
Firstly
Asking God Almighty
Steadfastness in the truth
And seek refuge in Him from temptations
What is apparent from it and what is hidden
As in the famous supplication
Oh God, I seek refuge in You from temptations
What is apparent from it and what is hidden
No one came from temptation
Except with God's help and success
And his protection for his servant from it
And what achieves the answer of God Almighty
For those who call upon Him and seek refuge in Him
God Almighty knows the sincerity of His servant in his requests and supplications
It is a sign of the sincerity of supplication and request
To take other measures to protect against temptation
Secondly
Removing the temptation of suspicions with forensic knowledge
And the correct understanding of God Almighty
And its rulings stem from the Book of God Almighty
And the Sunnah of his Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
Concerning this, Ibn al-Qayyim, may God Almighty have mercy on him, says
Correct understanding and good intent
One of the greatest blessings that God has bestowed upon His servant
Rather, nothing was given to Abdul Ata’ after Islam that was better or more timely than either of them
Rather, they are the basis of Islam and its establishment on them
Correct understanding is a light that God casts into the heart of the servant
It distinguishes between correct and incorrect
And right and wrong
And guidance and misguidance
And cancel and guidance
He extends good intentions
And investigate the truth
And fear the Lord in secret and in public
Neither the mufti nor the ruler is able to issue fatwas and rule with truth
Except for two types of understanding
One of them is understanding reality and jurisprudence in it
The second type is understanding the duty in reality
It is an understanding of God’s ruling that He ruled in His Book
Or on the tongue of His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, in this reality
Then apply one to the other
Third
Treating the temptation of desires with fear of God Almighty
And give preference to what he has in the afterlife
That is better and more lasting
And settle oneself on patience and piety
If you are patient and pious, then that is part of the determination of matters
Because this temptation may occur to those who have knowledge of God Almighty and His rulings
But it came to him out of passion and weakness of piety
It was not about his lack of knowledge of the truth
But from a lack of piety and patience
And preferring the world over the truth
Fourth
And because it is one of the reasons for falling into temptation
Hurry and haste
The cure for that was patience, gentleness, forbearance, and selfishness
Fifth
Istikhara of God Almighty
And consult someone whose knowledge, religion, and awareness of reality are trusted
Sixth
Be careful to unite the word and reject division and differences
Except for those who must be separated from among the people of disbelief, hypocrisy, and false innovations
Seventh
The necessity of piety and sitting with the righteous
And a lot of worship of fountains and sacrifices
And frequent remembrance of God Almighty
Eighth
Enjoining good and forbidding evil
And intensifying the call to God Almighty
Struggling against the infidels and hypocrites with tongue, money and teeth
And isolation when the fighting is between Muslims themselves
Ninth
Asceticism in this world and beware of its temptations
It is a temptation for everyone who is intrigued
Tenth
Retire from temptation and its people
And not to participate in it with tongue, pen or teeth
Isolation is neither praiseworthy nor reprehensible at all
But it varies from person to person
From one place and one situation to another
He looks at the harms and benefits that result from them, and balances them between them
The basic principle is that mingling involves cooperation in righteousness and piety
She is commanded to do so
Even if it involves cooperation in sin and aggression
It is forbidden
Isolation is required then