What caused him to be distant?
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audhoobillahi minash shaytaanir rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Ibn al-Qayyim [rahimahullah] said,
It is necessary to know that performing sins is detrimental and harmful to the servant. The harm that sins cause to the heart is comparable to the differing levels of harm that various types of poison cause to the body. Indeed is there a single evil that occurs in the world or will occur in the Hereafter except that its cause sin?
What caused our parents {Adam & Eve} to be ejected from Paradise - the land of delight, felicity and joy - to the land of pain, misery and affliction?
What caused Iblis {Shaytaan/Satan} to be ejected from enjoying the company of the Angels to being debased and cursed? What caused his outward and inward form to be disfigured such that he took on the most vile of features and his inner features even worse? What caused him to be distant [from Allah] after being close;from being a recipient of His mercy to being a recipient of His curse; from being beautiful to being ugly; from being in Paradise to being condemned to the blazing Fire; from being a believer to being a disbeliever; from being the friend of Allah to being His greatest enemy; from being a person devoted to the glorification of his Lord to being a person of kufr {disbelief}, shirk {associating partners with Allah}, lies and shameful deeds; from wearing the raiment of faith to the wearing the raiment of disbelief, sin and disobedience causing him to be completely worthless and insignificant in the Sight of Allah? What caused him to become an outcast - despised and humiliated - such that he became a leader for every sinner and criminal? O Allah we take refuge from You from opposing Your command and taking on board Your prohibition!
Excerpt: The Spiritual Cure; An Explanation to Surah Al-Fatihah, pages 54-55.
Ameen ya Rabbil ‘alameen.
Indeed Allah is a witness over us, and Allah knows best.
In the care of Allah [swt],
Wassalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullah
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Aameen. Jazakillaahu khayran for the post and reminder.
Wa ‘alaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Jazakillahu khairan.