Summary of Sunni concepts
Control thoughts and ideas
First, every human being is a thinker and every thinker is a worker
Thoughts and ideas are the principle of all theoretical knowledge and optional work
They produce perceptions
Perceptions call for wills
Wills require the action to occur
Frequent action makes it take hold and become a habit
According to the thoughts and ideas of every person, his actions are determined
If you do well, well done
If it gets worse, the work gets worse
A person must control his thoughts and ideas in order to control his behavior
He directs himself to what pleases the Lord Almighty
Secondly
It is easier to push away bad thoughts than to push away perceptions
Pushing perceptions and processing them is easier than pushing wills
Thus, the matter becomes more difficult the more one delves into the products of thoughts and ideas
Even if it becomes a habit
It is very difficult for him to quit
He cannot do that unless God grants him repentance and success from Him, Glory be to Him
Third
A person may not be able to prevent thoughts in the first place
Because she suddenly attacks him
But with the strength of faith and clear mind, he can clear these thoughts
He accepts good deeds from her, is satisfied with him, and lives with him
He rejects the ugly, hates it and is alienated from it
As some of the Companions said to the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace
We find in ourselves something that one of us is reluctant to speak
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
And you have found it
They said yes
He said that he had clear faith
Narrated by Muslim
And in a novel
Praise be to God who turned his machinations back to obsessiveness
That is, Satan's plot
Narrated by Ahmed and Abu Dawood
Resisting Satan's insinuations and hatred is clear faith
Fourth
The most effective medicine to prevent bad thoughts
For a person to occupy himself always and forever with what concerns him and what benefits him in his hereafter and this world
Thus, he turns away from thinking about what does not concern him and what is of no benefit
The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, spoke the truth when he said
Part of the goodness of a person’s Islam is that he abandons what does not concern him
Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah and authenticated by Al-Albani