{"id":14402,"date":"2019-12-23T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14402"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:44:01","slug":"the-need-for-a-spiritual-guide-in-self-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14402","title":{"rendered":"The Need for a Spiritual Guide in Self-Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tazkiyah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14404\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tazkiyah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tazkiyah.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tazkiyah-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>This path of self-reformation leading to Allah Ta\u2018ala is extremely sensitive. Therefore, it is necessary for one to have a spiritual guide who is completely acquainted with the path. At times, a person does not understand the limits and begins to continuously grieve over his past sins to such an extent that he loses hope. This then becomes an impediment and barrier for him to progress. Therefore, it is necessary for one to refer to a spiritual guide.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 23\/378-379)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned: This path of self-reformation leading to Allah Ta\u2018ala is extremely sensitive. Therefore, it is necessary for one to have a spiritual guide who is completely acquainted with the path. At times, a person does not understand the limits and begins to continuously grieve over his past &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-thaanwi-rahmatullahi-alaihii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","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=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14405,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions\/14405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}