3.08. BASER PASSIONS

God says

Behold, Satan is a foe unto you: so treat him as a foe…. Q.35: 6

But as for anyone who chooses to remain blind to the remembrance of the Most Gracious, to him We assign an [enduring] evil impulse, to become his other self: whereupon, behold, these [evil impulses] bar all such from the path [of truth], making them think that they are guided aright! -- Q.43: 36--37

Most of you love the fleeting life of this world and give no thought to the life to come [and judgment Day]! -- Q.75: 20--21

But unto Him who shall have stood in fear of His Sustainer`s presence, and held back his inner self from base desires, paradise will truly be a goal! -- Q.79: 40--41

To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes his [self] to grow in purity, and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. -- Q.91: 9--10


Prophet said

“The most fearful of what I fear for my followers is baser passion and prolonged hope…” -- H: Baihaqi. N: Jaber

Fragment of a long Tradition quoted by Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurairah: of the seven (catagories) of persons whom God will take under the shade of His Throne on the Day when there will be no other shade, one will be, the Prophet said, “Whom a young girl of accomplishment and beauty tempts and who says : certainly I fear God.”