Sohbet given by Sultan Awilya Shaikh Muhammad Nazim Al-Haqqani Al-Naqshbandi.
I asked our new muslim brother how he is succeeding in his attempt to live as a muslim. He replied: "I am doing well, I have started to perform the prayers and fasts that Allah has ordered and have left most of the well known forbidden actions. The only problem is that, up until now, I have been unable to quit smoking." I told him. Look, cigarette smoking in the sight of people, particularly in the sight of muslims, is something of little or no affect on a person's character and because they see it as being of no account and as having no effect on their religious lives, muslims, more than others smoke like chimneys. But their thinking couldn't be more mistaken. When you accepted islam you managed to leave behind all of the well known and most harmful prohibited actions, and that is very good - not everyone can do that so easily, immediately upon his accepting the faith. The only big problem, you say, is that you are addicted to tobacco, that it occupies your heart to such an extent that leaving it is a great struggle which you can't seem to win. Our GrandShaikh, Shaikh Abdullah Ad-Daghistani, may Allah be pleased with him and make him pleased with Him, used to say that cigarette smoking, even if it is of no account in the sight of people, is, in reality, one of the greatest weaknesses a believer can have, as the cigarette habit leaves its victim completely bereft of will power. Cigarettes catch people and destroy their willpower in such an absolute way that if he cannot cut himself off from smoking habit, one day smoking will cut him off from every goodness, even from faith itself. This is the main and overriding reason for quitting the cigarette habit (among all the numerous other very strong reasons): he must leave it once and for all so that he may take his willpower into his own hands, and thus protect himself from falling under the control of others. When I say "others" I am mainly referring to his own lower self and satan, who stands in the background as the evil advisor to the ego. Who cannot control himself may lose control over himself so that his being passes into the hands of his animal self and satan who are ready to destroy the humanity of your soul. Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an: "Oh My people, you may see something as being of no consequence, but in My Sight it may be of immense consequence and gravity." Now cigarette smoking is at most small vice in the eyes of muslims, but in the Sight of Allah Almighty it is a fatal weakness in a believer; it is like a small hole in a door through which a burglar may enter. Now you have just closed the door on all the major sins that are most displeasing to Allah Almighty, but what good does it do as long as that hole remains? What purpose does such a door serve? You might as well leave it wide open for all the good it does! Perhaps you may say: "It is a thick Oak door and I have shut it firmly and locked it well, what difference does a little hole make, it doesn't matter." What doesn't matter? Say it doesn't matter once the thief has opened the whole big door by putting a wire through the hole and run off with your treasure! Therefore, if a person leaves such a hole for satan to enter through and gain control, he is exposing his faith to great danger. And so I say to our brother: You have left so many forbidden actions which are displeasing to your Lord. 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