We Are Wronging Our Souls By Following Our Lusts

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Allah does not wrong people at all. We are the ones who are wronging our own selves to cause our blessings to be annihilated with no benefit to our souls.

The true slaves of Allah are those whose hearts are turned to Him morning, noon, and night, and who seek not worldly gain, but Allah's Grace, Allah's own Self, His presence and nearness. Even if they are poor in this world’s goods, their society gives far more inward and spiritual satisfaction than worldly grandeur or worldly attraction.

For those who stray from Allah’s path, Allah’s Grace is ever anxious: it seeks to reclaim them and bring them back to the path. If such one resists, and follows his own lusts, a point is reached when his case becomes hopeless. Allah’s Grace does not then reach him, and he is abandoned to his pride and insolence.

Our choice in our limited Free will involves a corresponding personal responsibility. If we reject it, we must take all the terrible consequences--Fire of Hell, its flames and roof will completely enclose us like a tent.

The righteous will be rewarded beyond their merits--Gardens: perpetual springs of crystal clear water, which can be seen as in a landscape from above; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and will wear green garments of fine silk and brocade, and for rest and comfort, high thrones of dignity on which the blessed ones recline. Not a single good deed of theirs will lose its reward, and the mercy of God will blot out their sins.

Excerpts from Surah Al-Kahf 18:28-43 in close meanings

And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect. (28)

And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve." Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds [their] faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place. (29)

Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds. (30)

Those will have gardens of perpetual residence; beneath them rivers will flow. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and will wear green garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein on adorned couches. Excellent is the reward, and good is the resting place. (31)

And present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops. (32)

Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river. (33)

And he had fruit, so he said to his companion while he was conversing with him, "I am greater than you in wealth and mightier in [numbers of] men." (34)

And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself. He said, "I do not think that this will perish - ever. (35)

And I do not think the Hour will occur. And even if I should be brought back to my Lord, I will surely find better than this as a return." (36)

His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, "Have you disbelieved in He who created you from dust and then from a sperm-drop and then proportioned you [as] a man? (37)

But as for me, He is Allah, my Lord, and I do not associate with my Lord anyone. (38)

And why did you, when you entered your garden, not say, 'Ma sha Allah (What Allah willed [has occurred); there is no power except in Allah '? Although you see me less than you in wealth and children, (39)

It may be that my Lord will give me [something] better than your garden and will send upon it a calamity from the sky, and it will become a smooth, dusty ground, (40)

Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it." (41)

And his fruits were encompassed [by ruin], so he began to turn his hands about [in dismay] over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and said, "Oh, I wish I had not associated with my Lord anyone." (42)

And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor could he defend himself. (43)

May Allah forgive our sins and make us His obedient slaves. Ameen. Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam