Login with GoogleStruggling Against The Self (Jihad An-Nafs)
2. The best is the struggle of a man against his [carnal] soul.
3. The best is the struggle of the self against lustful desires, and its weaning away from the pleasures of this world.
4. The first thing that you disavow from is struggling against your selves.
5. The last things that you [should] lose are: the struggling against your selves and obedience to those who have authority among you.
6. Indeed the best is the struggle of a man against his [carnal] soul.
7. Verily struggling against the self restrains it from sins and protects it from destruction.
8. Verily the one who struggles with his [lower] self, in obedience to Allah and against disobedience to Him, has the status of a virtuous martyr in the sight of Allah.
9. Indeed the one who struggles against his [lower] self, overcomes his anger and is careful in obeying [the commandments of] Allah, is raised by Allah, the Glorified, to the status of the one who fasts by day and stands in prayer by night, and is granted the rank of the patient soldier [who fights in His way].
9. Indeed the one who struggles against his [lower] self, overcomes his anger and is careful in obeying [the commandments of] Allah, is raised by Allah, the Glorified, to the status of the one who fasts by day and stands in prayer by night, and is granted the rank of the patient soldier [who fights in His way].
9 إنَّ المُجاهِدَ نَفْسَهُ، والمُغالِبَ غَضَبَهُ، والمُحافِظَ عَلى طاعَةِ رَبِّهِ، يَرْفَعُ اللّهُ سُبْحانَهُ لَهُ ثَوابَ الصَّائِمِ القائِمِ ويُنيلُهُ دَرَجَةَ المُرابِطِ الصّابِرِ.