Desire

Desire is the emotion of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. The same sense is expressed by words such as "craving". When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal.

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Paradise . Husband . Jealousy . Desire

Can I pray to Allah to remain in Al-A'raf rather than entering paradise, since I am uncomfortable with the thought of my husband receiving fifty thousand hoor, even without any jealousy? I have no desire for any blessings of paradise.

Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answer updated 2 days ago

No. Your question seems to reflect very limited side of Paradise and ignore very important facts about Paradise. Paradise does not have materialistic desires only, but more importantly has spiritual happiness and Ridgwan Minallah Akbar ( Pleasure from Allah which is Greater). Paradise is the place of the Prophets and Infallible Imams and people of Pardise enjoy the neighborhood of the Prophets

and the Infallible Imams and have the pleasure of seeing them.

I advise you to read more about Paradise and don't restrict it to what lay people say.

Wassalam.

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Sin . Sexual . Desire

What happens if you keep committing a sin to fulfil your sexual desire, then stop, but then you end up doing it again on purpose even though you know it is wrong? How does one rectify such a situation?

Zoheir Ali Esmail, Shaykh Zoheir Ali Esmail has a Bsc in Accounting and Finance from the LSE in London, and an MA in Islamic Studies from Middlesex University. He studied Arabic at Damascus University and holds a PhD... Answered 2 years ago

Bismillah

Thank you for your question. In short, you have to keep trying until the sexual desire starts to subside. When you have committed sins relating to sexual desires the desire becomes more intense and so trying to prevent it takes a lot of willpower. At times, in the beginning, the desire overcomes the willpower even if you know what you are doing is wrong which results in a lot of guilt. That guilt needs to be used to increase your willpower until you can finally break the cycle and then over time the desire will become subdued and controllable. It is also important to seek halal means to fulfil sexual desires so that you have an outlet as sexual desires without an outlet become all the more intense.

Just keep going and don't give up. In the end with a lot of effort, you will succeed and after a time those sins will be a thing of the past.

May you always be successful

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Desire . Pet . Paradise

Will we be able to keep our pets in Jannah on the basis that we will have there whatever we desire?

All good desires of the believers will be fulfilled in Paradise. If having that pet in Paradise is good for the believer, he/she will get it there. If having it in the Paradise is not good, the believer will not desire to have it.

Wassalam.

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Desire . Gender . Life

If a person has much desire for the same gender, and has none for the opposite, how do you recommend they control this desire and live a fully Islamic life?

Desire itself can never be justified unless it is approved by pure religion which is the message of The Creator, Allah, to make our life on the right path. Unguided desires can lead to disastrous results. The examples of such unguided and wrong desires are so many. There are people who have desire for animals etc. This means that desire itself can never be justified unless it is approved by true religion.

Such desires need to be controlled by the intellect which guided by the word of Allah (SWT). The person should always remember Allah and seek His help in tackling evil desires.

Repeating Estighfaar and Salawaat is very useful.

'Wassalam.

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Dream . Desire

How should people control their powerful desires? Will they be punished for objectionable dreams?

Controlling bad desires is always possible through strong will power and strengthening the intellectual qualities and remembering the results of the good deeds and bad deeds. Those who use their senses and intellect, see the results before it happens as life has millions of similar examples of people who followed their desires and landed in disastrous results and pious people who controlled their desires and got high degrees of success.

Dreams are not intentional acts, so , there is no punishment for just dreaming.

Wassalam.