English book · Love of God

Love of God

English book, p. 210

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

cannot live without them. Such habits have progressively caused great deprivation to a person. God has granted an individual a mind to think of important things, discover and understand important realities but everyone is too busy with the cell phone and so engaged in trivialities that one has no time to devote to more important issues. SAVE YOURSELF FROM DISTRACTION The greatest obstacle in the path of tazkiyah is distraction. A seeker of tazkiyah should make it his supreme goal; keeping himself totally away from all things related to distraction. One principle of success in this world is to abandon one thing in favour of another. It is human psychology that man cannot focus on two things at a time. If he focuses on one thing, his mind will be diverted from another. This same principle applies to tazkiyah. Also, one who wants to engage in self-purification will necessarily have to totally abandon all things irrelevant to tazkiyah. The greatest obstacle in the path of tazkiyah is distraction. It is essential for the seeker of tazkiyah to make tazkiyah his supreme goal; to keep himself totally away from all things related to distraction. Concentration is essential for tazkiyah, one who does not have the capacity to concentrate will certainly fall far short of the attainment of tazkiyah. Everything has its price and tazkiyah too has its price.

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