Prayer Request:
ASSALAMAUALIKUM ‘
I hope you will not mind about my weak English please pray for me I’m a big sinner. When I want to become good doing my awrad suddenly the next day my ego has totally control on me then i became a sinner. What can I do to stay far away from sins please Sayadi pray for me I’m weak person I’m not good. Please forgive me and pray for me.
Response:
wa ‘alaykum salam,
What you are experiencing is not strange, it is common. Because Shaytan is never happy to see Allah’s servant moving on the right way, when he sees this he will strengthen his efforts to capture you back into his clutches, and send all kinds of his soldiers to whisper and call you back to the wrong way.
Therefore I advise myself and you if you like, to seek support from your Shaykh when under attack by nafs and shaytan. Try to begin the day by immediately reciting shahada upon waking up, then immediately making wudu, or at least tayammum. Then if you made wudu pray 2 raka`ats tahiyat al-wudu, as protection.
Taher Siddiqui
