Methods to perform self purification
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Methods to perform self purification
By: Dr.Houria Abdelrehem
importance of self-purification
for mankind:
1) Allah swears by self-purification in His Book eleven times and He swears that those who miss it will be the losers. He says, “By the sun and its rising brightness" (TMQ, 91:1).
2) Your “soul” is your worst enemy because it always keeps tempting you to oppress, to love life and to add on all the ailments of the heart. That’s why the Prophet (SAWS) would always seek refuge in Allah from the evils of the soul (4) like in the narration of Abu Hurayra who said that Abu Hatem heard the Prophet reading, “And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness,” (TMQ, 91:8)”. Then he said, “Oh Allah, inspire my soul with its righteousness and purify it. You are the best to purify it! You its guardian and its master.”Ibnul-Qayem, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “The scholars, as different in their methods as they were, have all agreed that the soul can stand between the heart and reaching Allah, and that no one will reach Allah unless he vanquishes his soul and wins it over.” [5]
3) Self-purification is the pathway to paradise. Allah says, “but one who fears to stand before his Lord and restrained himself from base desires shall dwell in paradise.
Texts from the Qur’an and Sunnah come to show us the importance of self-purification and its high status in Islam:
- By the sun and its rising brightness and by the moon as it follows it, and by the day as it reveals its glory and by the night when it draws a veil over it, by the sky and how He built it and by the earth and how He spread it, by the soul and how He formed it, then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. He who purifies it will indeed be successful, and he who corrupts it is sure to fail." (TMQ, 91:1-10).
- Just ponder the verses and see how Allah swears eleven times that self-reformation and success can only be achieved through self-purification. Allah says, “He who purifies himself, who remembers the name of his Lord and prays, shall indeed be successful." (TMQ, 87:14-15).
- But he who comes to Him as a believer, having done good deeds, shall be exalted to the highest ranks; he will abide forever in the Gardens of eternity, through which rivers flow. That is the recompense for those who purify themselves." (TMQ, 20:75-76).
- The Qur’an tells us that the mission of all the Prophets and Messengers was mainly about inviting people to purify themselves. Allah says (to Moses), “…and say, "Will you reform yourself? Do you want me to guide you to your Lord, so that you should fear Him?"'" (TMQ, 79:18-19). Allah also says (aboutMuhammad), “It is He who has raised among the unlettered people a messenger from among themselves who recites His revelations to them, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and wisdom, for they had formerly been clearly misguided-" (TMQ, 62:2).
