The great scholar Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jowziyyah wrote the following words One: The Prevention of Knowledge Two: The Prevention of Sustenance <\/p>\n Three: The Prevention of Obedience (to Allah) Four: Disobedience weakens the heart and the body. Five: Disobedience reduces the life span and destroys any blessings. Six: Disobedience sows its own seeds and gives birth to itself until Seven: Sins weaken the hearts will and resolve so that the desire for Eight: Every type of disobedience is a legacy of a nation from among the Nine: Disobedience is a cause of the servant being held in contempt by his Al-Hasan Al-Basree (radiallahu \u2018anhu) said: They became contemptible in And whomsoever Allah lowers (humiliates) there is none to give honor. Ten: The ill-effects of the sinner fall upon those besides him and also Eleven: The servant continues to commit sins until they become very easy Twelve: Disobedience inherits humiliation and lowliness. Thirteen: Disobedience corrupts the intellect. Fourteen: When disobedience increases, the servant\u2019s heart becomes sealed Fifteen: Sins cause the various types of corruption to occur in the land. Sixteen: The disappearance of modesty, which is the essence of the life of A Poet said: And by Allah, there is no good in life or in the world when Seventeen: Sins weaken and reduce the magnification of Allaah, the Mighty Eighteen: Sins are the cause of Allah forgetting His servant, abandoning Nineteen: Sins remove the servant from the realm of Ihsaan (doing good) Twenty: Disobedience causes the favors of Allah to cease and justify His Allaah the Exalted said: And the Exalted also said: May Allah have mercy upon us and help us to abandon the sins that are the [The bulk of this article was derived from Ibn Al-Qayyim\u2019s Al-Jawaab \u00a0 by\u00a0 Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jowziyyah \u00a0 The great scholar Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jowziyyah wrote the following words in a famous tract called Al-Jawaab Al-Kaafi in response to a letter written to him by an individual...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics","tag-sins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin a famous tract called Al-Jawaab Al-Kaafi in response to a letter
\nwritten to him by an individual who was seeking advice on how to rid
\nhimself of major sin. We take a look at the dire consequences of
\ncommitting sins in general. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nKnowledge is a light which Allah throws into the heart, and disobedience
\nextinguishes this light. Imaam Shaafi\u2019ee said: I complained to Wakee\u2019
\nabout the weakness of my memory so he ordered me to abandon disobedience
\nand informed me that knowledge is light and that the light of Allah is not
\ngiven to the disobedient. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nJust as Taqwaa brings about sustenance, the abandonment of Taqwaa causes
\npoverty. There is nothing which can bring about sustenance like the
\nabandonment of disobedience. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nIf there was no other punishment for sin other than that it prevents one
\nfrom obedience to Allah then this would be sufficient. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nIts weakening the heart is something which is clear. Disobedience does not
\nstop weakening it until the life of the heart ceases completely. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nJust as righteousness increases the life span, sinning reduces it. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nseparating from it and coming out of it becomes difficult for the servant. <\/span><\/p>\n
\ndisobedience becomes strong and the desire to repent becomes weak bit by
\nbit until the desire to repent is removed from the heart completely. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nnations which Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, destroyed. Sodomy is a
\nlegacy of the People of Lot. Taking more than one\u2019s due right and giving
\nwhat is less is a legacy of the People of Shu\u2019ayb. Seeking greatness in
\nthe land and causing corruption is a legacy of the People of Pharoah.
\nPride\/arrogance and tyranny is a legacy of the People of Hud. So the
\ndisobedient one is wearing the gown of some of these nations who were the
\nenemies of Allah. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nLord. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n(His sight) so they disobeyed Him. If they were honorable (in His sight)
\nHe would have protected them. Allah the Exalted said: <\/span><\/p>\n
\n[Al-Hajj 22:18) <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe animals as a result of which they are touched by harm. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nfor him and seem insignificant in his heart and this is a sign of
\ndestruction. Every time a sin becomes insignificant in the sight of the
\nservant it becomes great in the sight of Allah. Ibn Mas\u2019ood (radiallahu
\n\u2018anhu) said: Indeed, the believer sees his sins as if he was standing at
\nthe foot of a mountain fearing that it will fall upon him and the sinner
\nsees his sins like a fly which passes by his nose so he tries to remove it
\nby waving his hand around. [Al-Bukhaaree] <\/span><\/p>\n
\nHonor, all of it, lies in the obedience of Allaah. Abdullaah ibn
\nal-Mubaarak said: I have seen sins kill the hearts and humiliation is
\ninherited by their continuity. The abandonment of sins gives life to the
\nhearts and the prevention of your soul is better for it. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe intellect has light and disobedience extinguishes this light. When the
\nlight of the intellect is extinguished it becomes weak and deficient. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nso that he becomes of those who are heedless. The Exalted said: But no! A
\nstain has been left on their hearts on account of what they used to earn
\n(i.e. their actions) [Al-Mutaffifeen 83:141] <\/span><\/p>\n
\nCorruption of the waters, the air, the plants, the fruits and the dwelling
\nplaces. The Exalted said: Mischief has appeared on the land and the sea on
\naccount of what the hands of men have earned; that He may give them a
\ntaste of some of (the actions) they have done, in order that they may
\nreturn. [Ar-Rum 30:41] <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe heart and is the basis of every good. Its disappearance is the
\ndisappearance of all that is good. It is authentic from the Messenger
\n(sallallahu \u2018alaihi wa sallam) that he said: Modesty is goodness, all of
\nit. [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim] <\/span><\/p>\n
\nmodesty goes. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nin the heart of the servant. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nhim and leaving him to fend for himself with his soul and his shaytaan and
\nin this is the destruction from which no deliverance can be hoped for. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nand he is prevented from (obtaining) the reward of those who do good. When
\nIhsaan fills the heart it prevents it from disobedience. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nretribution. No blessing ceases to reach a servant except due to a sin and
\nno retribution is made desrving upon him except due to a sin. Ali
\n(radiallahu \u2018anhu) said: No trial has descended except due to a sin and it
\n(the trial) is not repelled except by repentance. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nWhatever misfortune afflicts you then it is due to what your hands have
\nearned and (yet) He pardons many. [Ash-Shura 42:30] <\/span><\/p>\n
\nThat is because never will Allah change the favor He has bestowed on a
\npeople until they change what is within themselves. [Anfaal 8:53] <\/span><\/p>\n
\ncauses of our problems. Ameen. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nAl-Kaafi English Translation by Abu \u2018Iyaad and The Ill-Effects Of Sins by
\nMuhammad Saalih ibn Al-\u2018Uthaimeen]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"