Q: I am a practicing Muslim, I don't miss my salaahs or daily Quraan but I just can't seem to shake off the occasional drug habit. I make dua everyday for help. What should I do?
A: Meditate over the following at a time when your mind is settled and at ease, perhaps after Esha Salaah. First make a proper wudhu and perform two rakaats of Taubah Salaah. Thereafter, focus deeply over death and the events that will follow after death, the loneliness of the grave, standing before Allah Ta`ala for reckoning, Jannah and Jahannum and thereafter think to yourself, can you tolerate Jahannum for a single moment. When you cannot, then how can you be brazen about matters that will take you to Jahannum.
Reprimand yourself saying that you are enjoying the comforts of Allah Ta`ala and His favours during the day and night, and is this the way to show appreciation to the one who is so loving and caring. Explain to yourself that the one who leads this type of life really does not have any understanding of loyalty and faithfulness to the one who is most loving and beneficent towards him.
After crying over your sins with deep remorse and regret, make a firm resolve that you will never repeat these wrongs in the future. If there is any muttaqi aalim or pious shaikh who adheres to the mubaarak sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) in all facets of his life living near you, you should associate with him and take deeni direction from him. Otherwise, read the books and biographies of the pious, muttaqi rightly-guided ulama who strictly adhered to the sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) in all facets of their lives.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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