B475 30 Days of Guidance: Signposts Towards Rectification & Repentance [Self-Study/Teacher’s Edition]

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The importance of this subject has been indicated by many scholars of the Sunah past and present.The noble scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy upon him, mentioned in his work ‘Madaarij as-Saalikeen’,
‘The purification of the self or soul and its becoming rectified is dependent upon it being called to account and assessed. There is no purification or rectification nor any possibility of it being brought to a state of well-being except through calling oneself to account.
al-Hasan al-Basree, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, “As for the believer, then you do not see him, in other state except as one who steps forth and confronts himself says: Why did I make such and such statement? Why did I eat such and such food? Why did I go to such and such place? What do I do this thing? What did I engage in that matter? By Allaah, I will not fall into that again, and what is similar to theses statements. He takes himself to account looking at his shortcomings and deficiencies. So that he has the opportunity to try and fix, and rectify them’