{"id":13982,"date":"2019-09-16T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2020-07-05T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T05:28:52","slug":"mujaahadah-against-the-nafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=13982","title":{"rendered":"Mujaahadah Against the Nafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/asa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13984\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/asa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/asa.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/asa-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following to a person who was undergoing various difficulties:<\/p>\n<p>Allah Ta\u2018ala mentions in the Qur\u2019aan Majeed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Traditional Arabic'; font-size: 16pt;\">\u0648\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0633\u0670\u06e4\u06cc \u0627\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u062a\u064e\u06a9\u0652\u0631\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0648\u0652\u0627 \u0634\u064e\u06cc\u0652\u0626\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0648\u064e \u062e\u064e\u06cc\u0652\u0631\u064c \u0644\u0651\u064e\u06a9\u064f\u0645\u0652<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Perhaps you dislike something whereas it is good for you (Surah Baqarah v. 216)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is possible that the difficulty which you are experiencing for the last few months is in actual fact a means for you gaining the closeness of Allah Ta\u2019ala and for your rank being raised. At times, in order for a person to acquire deeni progress, mujaahadah is required (striving against the nafs). If he does not make mujaahadah and strive on his own, Allah Ta\u2019ala brings about some difficulty through which he is made to undergo some type of mujaahadah (by making sabr during the difficulty), thereby allowing him to progress spiritually and gain the closeness of Allah Ta\u2019ala.<\/p>\n<p>(Qutbul Aqtaab Hazrat Sheikhul Hadith Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) pg. 436)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned the following to a person who was undergoing various difficulties: Allah Ta\u2018ala mentions in the Qur\u2019aan Majeed: \u0648\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0633\u0670\u06e4\u06cc \u0627\u064e\u0646\u0652 \u062a\u064e\u06a9\u0652\u0631\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0648\u0652\u0627 \u0634\u064e\u06cc\u0652\u0626\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0648\u064e \u062e\u064e\u06cc\u0652\u0631\u064c \u0644\u0651\u064e\u06a9\u064f\u0645\u0652 Perhaps you dislike something whereas it is good for you (Surah Baqarah v. 216) It is possible that the difficulty which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}