Your Desires vs. Your Faith – Who Wins?

50 Ways to Break Bad Habits and Find Peace

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1. What This Guide Is About

• Following your wants causes trouble.
• Controlling your wants brings good things.
• With Allah’s help and strong will, you can break free.
• This guide presents 50 ways to help you resist harmful desires.

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2. What Is Desire?

• Desire is wanting something that feels good.
• We need some desire to survive (eating, drinking, marriage).
• Desire is not all bad, and not all good.
• Same goes for anger.

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3. Why Is Desire Usually Bad?

• Most people go too far.
• They don’t stop at a healthy limit.
• Very few people stay balanced.
• So Allah and the Prophet ﷺ warn us about it.

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4. What the Prophet ﷺ Said

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“None of you have faith until his desires comply with what I have brought.”

Desire makes you forget the future. It brings shame and regret. Reason, faith, and self-respect tell you: “Stop!”

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5. Who Gives In to Desires?

• Children – because they are young.

• People without faith – because they don’t think about the afterlife.

• People without self-respect – because they don’t care about their honor.

• A wise man said:

  “I wouldn’t even drink cold water if it lowered my dignity.”

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6. Desires Are a Test

• Allah tests us through our wants.
• He gave us two guides: reason and faith.
• Take your urges to these guides and listen to them.

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7. Practice Saying “No”

• Even say “no” to small, harmless wants.
• This builds your strength.
• When a big, harmful desire comes, you will be ready to refuse it.

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8. Steps to Break Free

1. Be Strong-Willed

Make a firm decision and respect yourself enough to say “no.”

2. Be Patient

Swallow the bitter pill of patience, even if it’s hard.

3. Find Inner Strength

Courage is just being patient for a moment. Patience gives you a good life.

4. Think of the Good Ending

Remember the happy result. That will help you bear the hard time.

5. Compare Pleasure vs. Pain

The pain from sin is much worse than the short pleasure you get.

6. Protect Your Honor

Your standing with Allah and people is more valuable than a quick thrill.

7. Choose Clean Pleasure

The joy of being pure is far better than the guilt of sinning.

8. Defeat Satan

Feel proud when you make Satan angry and frustrated. Allah loves that!

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