Love of God

worldly life. Now, in the life Hereafter, I ask You to provide me with all the things I require in the next world.” This kind of prayer always comes to one’s lips after a great psychological turmoil. Another name for this psychological storm is tazkiyah. Tazkiyah and prayer are interdependent. Tazkiyah will always be followed by dua. Praying to God (dua) is a proof that the process of tazkiyah is at work. There is no tazkiyah without prayer, and vice versa. CONSCIENCE: A GUIDE TO TAZKIYAH The conscience serves as a divine teacher and a guide to tazkiyah. The moment one is able to overcome one’s ego, one’s conscience will be able to play its natural role. Man is endowed with a natural faculty called the conscience, which serves as a divine teacher and a guide to tazkiyah. Conscience guides man on all occasions, albeit wordlessly—do this, don’t do that, this behaviour is in accordance with tazkiyah and that behaviour is against tazkiyah. The former will help in developing a purified personality while the latter will defile your personality. But experience shows that the majority of the people don’t allow their conscience to act as a guide to tazkiyah. What is the reason for this? The reason is that everyone is given another faculty, which is the opposite of conscience, and that is the ego. Man often comes under the influence of the self, or Satan, He does not let the conscience work for him. The voice of the conscience can be heard on all occasions,