Do you also find yourself grappling with feelings of malice or hatred? These emotions can quietly seep into our hearts, causing unrest and discontent. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by negativity, but understanding the roots of these feelings can help you reclaim your inner peace. 

Let’s explore in this article, how these toxic emotions impact our life and see how we can purify our inwards for a fulfilling and harmonious existence.

We will discover how malice manifests as secret grudges that hinder personal growth and foster hypocrisy. How harbouring hatred not only affects our relationship with others but also creates a vicious cycle of negativity that impacts our overall personal happiness. 

Furthermore, we will get to know the importance of seeking spiritual guidance to cleanse our inward and align our intentions with Divine purpose. Let’s see how under the guidance of a perfect Fakir, we can pave the way for a contented life achieving inner peace and Divine closeness. 

In conclusion, it goes with the notion that true success lies in aligning our actions and intentions solely to seek Allah’s pleasure.

Islam is the complete code of life. If you follow it completely, you will lead a successful life.

Allah says:

The Day when neither wealth nor sons will profit. But he alone (will be the gainer) who appears before the presence of Allah with an inward protected (from) and pure (of all evils).’

(ash-Shu‘ara’, 26 : 88-89)

If man appears before Allah with an inward full of diseases, he will be ashamed. Two of these diseases are malice and hatred. 

Malice is showing disgust or disliking towards someone and pulling away from them.

Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen says:

Secretly fostering ill feelings for someone is malice. A secret enemy is worse than an obvious one. Planning on getting revenge from someone who is not even at fault is a form of hypocrisy. It is hatred.

(Talimat-o-Farmudat Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen)

Holding a grudge against someone is a disease of the inward. The seekers of the world are completely exposed to this disease while the seekers of heaven are partially. Hatred grows when one is not strong enough to express anger so they secretly start seeking vengeance or thinking ill of someone. 

When the feelings of hatred are moderate or not obvious enough, and Allah starts blessing the other person, the situation of the hater grows worse and his inward becomes negative and vengeful. He keeps waiting for the blessing to be taken back.

Hate is Worse than Anger

Hate is Worse than Anger

Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen says:

Usually, weak people who do not hold the courage to get vengeance are the ones who hold grudges and malice and fill their inwards with negativity.

(Talimat-o-Farmudat Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen)

Imam Ghazali
Imam Ghazali says:

Sometimes a person controls the anger but the hatred remains in his inward. Hate is worse than anger because it lays grounds to dislike someone forever.

(Ahya ul Uloom: vol 3)

Allah says:

Satan seeks only to breed enmity and spite amongst you by means of wine and gambling, and hinder you from remembering Allah and observing Prayer. Will you abstain (from these evil-generating temptations)?

(al-Ma’idah, 5 : 91)

Anas bin Malik reported Allah’s Messenger as saying:

Neither nurse mutual hatred, nor jealousy, nor enmity, and become as fellow brothers and servants of Allah. It is not lawful for a Muslim that he should keep his relations estranged with his brother beyond three days. (Sahih Muslim 6526)

The Holy Prophet (pbuh) also said:

The Seal of the Prophets, Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), said:

Avoid the evil of division, hatred, and enmity among yourselves because it destroys the religion. The evil of division refers to enmity, hatred, and jealousy among one another. (Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2508)

Hatred and Malice ruin Man’s Life

Allah made man the noblest of all creation, His vicegerent and representative. However, man can only maintain this rank if he frees his inward of all the esoteric diseases such as hatred and malice, because they destroy the human personality. If he fosters hatred, jealousy and malice etc. he can suffer from various mental and physical health problems. 

A person who holds malice stays restless all the time. As a result, his mental and physical health suffer. And he becomes ungrateful to Allah’s Blessings. 

Hatred and malice create negativity and resentment in the inward. This creates anxiety which disrupts blood pressure and heart rate.

Anger, jealousy, sorrow and mental pressure all contribute to depression and discontent, so far away from happiness.

It causes the thought process to get entirely pessimistic, which puts the person in a lot of situations where he has to make decisions. Consequently, he always feels and remains a failure. 

Since hatred and malice are in the inward, this person apparently seems very friendly and welcoming. Nevertheless, he gradually falls towards hypocrisy. And about hypocrites.

Allah says:

The hypocrites will surely be in the lowest depth of Hell, and you will never find for them any helper.

(Al Nisa: 145)

Reconciliation is Noble Deed<br />
Saeed ibn Al Musayyib reports the Prophet saying:

Shall I not tell you of a deed that is better than offering a lot of prayers and giving alms?

He said: O Messenger of Allah! What is that deed? The Prophet responded: It is to make two people reconcile. You stay away from enmity and malice, for they spoil faith. (Awarif ul Maarif)

Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen says:

Malice is disease of the self that destroys faith and belief, hinders worship, and decreases purity of the inward. On the path of Faqr, this disease essentially disarrays the seeker. Malice and hatred muster up negative thoughts and plannings whilst taking the seeker away from Allah. And the time he should be spending in search of the Truth and Divine Love, he spends it in planning vengeance.

(Talimat-o-Farmudat Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen)

Who is it Permissible to Have Hatred for?

The only person who it is okay to have negative thoughts and feelings for is the one who does not restrict himself to the boundaries set by Allah, disobeys His Commands.
As a hadith says:

The best of the actions is to love for the sake of Allah and to hate for the sake of Allah.

(Sunan Abi Dawud 4599)

Imam Ghazali says:

Just like loving for the sake of Allah, it is also important to hate for His sake. If you love someone because they are obedient to Allah, you must also hate them if they become a sinner. They are both compulsory and work vice versa, one cannot be separated from the other.

(Ahya Ul Uloom: vol 2)

Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen says:

A hateful person always stays in search of a chance to get revenge. Often times the power of his hatred grows so strong that even after the demise of his enemy, he does not even spare his children.

(Talimat-o-Farmudat Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen)

Sultan ul Ashiqeen - Brotherhood
A man does good deeds in this world for the peace of his inward. Until the inward is not cleansed, baser self is not purified, no riches of the world can give him peace. The inward only gets peace through Divine gnosis, which can only be gained with a peaceful inward. If the inward is full of diseases like malice, doubts, negativity and hate, then it will not be peaceful nor attain gnosis.

Divine Gnosis is Vital for Soul

Just like food is vital for the body to function, Divine gnosis is vital for the soul. However, this journey of the soul cannot commence unless the inward is free of all diseases. They kill the soul and tarnish the inward, resulting in loss of insight.
Allah says:

And whoever remains blind (to the truth) in this (world) will be blind in the Hereafter as well, distracted from the path (of deliverance).

(al-Isra’, 17 : 72)

Al Ghawth Al Azam says:

Allah said to me “O Ghawth Al Azam! Man is My secret and I Am his Secret.”

Then Allah said “O Ghawth Al Azam! The human body, the self, the inward, the soul, the ears, eyes, hands, feet, the tongue, I created it all from My Essence, for Myself. (Al Risala tul Ghawthia)

Worship Should Solely be to Please Allah

Allah says in Quran:

And assuredly, We created man and We know (also) the doubts which his inciting self puts (into his heart and mind). And We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (Qaf, 50 : 16)

So, when I accomplish the perfection of his (physical) constitution into his real being, and breathe My (Divine) spirit into (the inner self of) this (human physical) organism, then fall down prostrate before him.’ (al-Hijr, 15 : 29)

Allah Himself is telling in His last Divine Book that the Divine Essence is present inside every human then how is it not possible to gain His closeness and vision? Why do people not try to achieve it? Is Allah only there to be remembered in times of worldly discomforts? Or is He only worthy of worship to get man into heaven or keep him away from hell?

One must ponder over the purpose he worships Allah. It should only be to please Allah. Every action and all the love should be for Allah, only then can he achieve true success. However, there is only one way to correct a person’s inner and outer thoughts and actions, and that is by seeking a perfect spiritual guide who can help protect a person from inner and spiritual diseases such as arrogance, jealousy, resentment, malice, lying, stealing, etc. The Quran also commands the search for a perfect spiritual guide.

Allah Almighty says:

O believers! Fear Allah persistently and keep looking for means to (approach and get closer to) Him and strive hard in His way so that you may prosper. (al-Ma’idah, 5 : 35)

So, (O people,) if you do not know (yourselves), ask the people of remembrance. (al-Ambiya’, 21 : 7)

Search for a Perfect Spiritual Guide<br />

Search for a Perfect Spiritual Guide

Hence, it is crucial to search for the perfect spiritual guide in order for the purgation of the inward.

 Allah says:

And that man (according to justice) will get only that for which he strives.

(an-Najm: 39)

Being distant from saints and mystics, tainting the inward with ill commanding diseases, are reasons why Muslims today are falling behind. Islam is the complete knowledge of both esoteric and exoteric worlds. Even the negligence of one of these will hinder the purgation of the inward or having perfect faith. Tehreek Dawat-e-Faqr invites you to gain inner peace and purgation under the Divine guidance of Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman.

Allah says in Quran:

And by the human soul and by the One Who provided it with an all-dimensional poise, proportion and perfection, Then He inspired it with (discrimination between) vice and virtue, Indeed, the one who purifies his self (from all vain and vicious desires and cultivates in it virtue and piousness) succeeds, But the one who corrupts himself (in sins and suppresses virtue) is doomed indeed.

(ash-Shams, 91 : 7-10)

Note:

This is English translation of Urdu blog بغض و کینہ سکونِ قلب کی موت which appeared in October 2024 issue of monthly Sultan-ul-Faqr Magazine. Mrs. Anila Yaseen Sarwari Qadri wrote the original article. Zuha Fatima has translated it in English.

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