The 68 Blemishes of the Nafs

[StarGazer]

To clean the nafs of the 68 blemishes listed below is the

beginning of good adab which is essential to one's Islam.

 

Ujub - to be proud of one’s spiritual state

Riya - to show off

Kibr - arrogance

Hasad - envy

Bukhul - miserliness

Kin - to be vengeful

Kufr - faithlessness

Bid’at- to distort religion and tradition

Kufran-i ni’met - to deny the giver of gifts or to belittle the

gifts

To be disatisfied and complain about one’s state

To cease to have hope for Allah’s Mercy

To be sure of Allah’s punishment

To condone tyrrany and help tyrants

To speak against decent people

To keep the heart attached to this world

To keep wanting to be a leader

To expect approval and compliments

To fear criticism

Not to be able to prevent oneself from wanting

Instead of wishing to learn the truth, being an imitator

To fawn over people for personal benefit

To be happy about disasters that fall upon people, even your

enemies

To be a coward

To be angry

To be a tyrant

Not to keep one’s word

To believe in bad luck

To think unjustly about people

To love one’s property

To be overly concerned with the world and the worldly

To be ambitious

To lead an irresponsible life

To mix oneself into affairs that do not concern one

To be undignified

Not to keep the time of one’s devotions due to laziness

To be shameless

To lament the loss of things

To gossip

To be stubborn

To be an egoist

To be a hypocrite

To cheat

To be brutish

To be dishonorable in relations with women

To be lustful

Not to accept one’s error and continue insisting on it

To be afraid of poverty

Not to believe in destiny or to talk about destiny

To make oneself depressed

To take pleasure in belittling others

To be indiscriminately happy

To be insincerely kind and fawning over rich people

To be disdainful of the poor

To boast and be proud of one’s past

To show off one’s physical prowess

To belittle others

To like to talk long unnecessarily

To be self centered in conversation

To forget about one’s own shortcomings and be preoccupied with

the shortcomings of others

To exclude from one’s heart the fear of Allah and the shame and

sadness of one’s state

In distress to make excuses and to fall back on and encourage the

nafs

To decline to help in a struggle for Allah’s sake

To pretend to be friends with one’s enemy

To cheat in one’s work

To set traps for others

To identify with the world to the extent of forgetting Allah

To take pleasure in people’s suffering

Not to suffer because of one’s mistakes

 

 

These are like thorns growing in a barren field and show you the

ugly attributes of the heart which surface and become visible.

Avoid them and beautify yourselves with the opposite of every one

of these faults, because the prayer which pleases Allah and which

brings you closest to Him is to have beautiful adab.

 

 

May Allah exalt us above these diseases of the heart. Ameen.

[Haashim]

Thanks Tamina ilaah qofkuu ka nabadgeliyo ayuunbaa ka nabadgala. laakiin maanta badanaa.

 

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LAMA CANAANTAAN BAA CAANAHA DAADSHAY

[VisiT]

In the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful

 

T H E W O R D

 

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The Most Selfish One-Letter Word

"I"

Avoid It

(Surah Al Kahf 18:34)

 

The Most Satisfying Two-Letter Word

"WE"

Use It

Surah Al An'am 6:71-72

 

The Most Poisonous Three-Letter Word

"EGO"

Kill It

Surah Al Qasas 28:78

 

The Most Used Four-Letter Word

"LOVE"

Value It

(Surah Al Rum 30:21)

 

The Most Pleasing Five Letter Word

"SMILE"

Keep It

(Surah Al Najm 53:43)

 

The Fastest Spreading Six-Letter Word

"RUMOUR"

Ignore It

(Surah Al Hujurat 49:12)

 

The Hardest Working Seven Letter Word

"SUCCESS"

Achieve It

(Surah Al Nur 24:37-38)

 

The Most Enviable Eight-Letter Word

"JEALOUSY"

Distance It

(Surah Yusuf 12:8-9)

 

The Most Powerful Nine-Letter Word

"KNOWLEDGE"

Acquire It

(of Allah & the Holy Qu'ran) Surah Ya Sin 36:2 Surah Yusuf 12:2

 

The Most Essential Ten-Letter Word

"CONFIDENCE"

Trust It

(Trust in Allah's Guidance)

Surah Yunus 10: 9

Surah Al Tawbah 9:51

 

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T H E W O R D

[NoVa]

Tamina ala thanks for reminding me walashiis'..i needed that.

 

Visit indeed they are verry wise words my brotha..thanks for sharing.

 

Salaams