Returning to The Most Merciful for Protection from Endless Pleasures and Insatiable Desires

The pleasures that can be gained in this transitory world are of two types. One is bodily pleasures, and the second is mental pleasures, which is the pleasure of craving for power.

In each of these two types, when a person is unable to gain those pleasures and he does not experience them, then he has no idea of them.

When he has no idea of them, he will have little to no inclination for them.

Then, when he experiences them and comes to know of them, he takes pleasure in them. When he gains their pleasure then his inclination for them becomes strong.

Whenever a person strives until he reaches another stage in acquisition of pleasures and delights, his greed intensifies and his desire for a stage higher than his present stage becomes stronger.

In short, whenever a person achieves one of his goals, his greed and desire for more increases.

Since there is no limit to the stages of perfection, similarly, there is no limit to the stages of greed. And just as it is not possible to achieve perfections which have no limit, similarly, it is not possible to remove the resultant pain of passion and greed from the heart.

It is thus proven that this is a sickness which a person has no power to cure. It, therefore, is obligatory upon him to return to the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious, the Helper of people and say:

اَعُوْذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطٰنِ الرَّجِيْمِ

(Mafaateehul Ghayb)