Most sinners know they are committing wrong, their heart will be telling them they are doing wrong, but they follow their desires. Ask Allah to move you away from sins and towards ibadah. Cut the source of the sin e.g. if your sin is backbiting when with a group of friends, stop being around those friends.Feeling pleasure in the company of people is spiritual bankruptcy. Ultimate pleasure should be on your own with Allah,
prayer, doing dhikr. If you don't feel this you need to change.
Sitting with your wife and kids is like staying up night praying tahajjud.
Effects/Results of Sin
Outward
• Giving preference to other than the Allah, obeying desires.
• Taking off dress of haya, embarrassment, feeling ashamed.
• Rushing to Allah with something He (sw) doesn't like.
• Effects on the limbs, impurity, laziness, not protecting sanctuaries.
• Wronging people will be made easy to do.
• Breaking promises, breaking friendship.
• Follow desires of the body, joy of ta'a/ibadah disappears.
Inward
• Impact on the heart, harshness of the heart plus other diseases of the heart (spiritual)
• Stubbornness of the self, tightness of chest (knowledge/guidance restricted)
• Lacking sweetness of ibadah/ta'a
• Prevents the noor entering the heart. Sinning opens the door or battlefield to the demonic realm. Goodness in the heart replaced by darkness.
• You will be under the authority of desire/nafs/shaytan not shari'a.
• Susceptible to doubt (about Allah)
• Forgetting the return to Him (sw) and the Reckoning.
• If sins have no result other than your description changing from an obedient slave to a sinner, that is enough reason to prevent yourself from sinning.
• Instead of sweetness of ta'a you have sweetness of sin. The pleasure of ta'a is long lasting, eternal even and the pleasure from sin last seconds or minutes is finite.
A sincere tawba is a gift from Allah.
A good du'a: "Oh Allah I ask of you to grant me the following of the Prophet (saw) in his words and actions".
A sinning dead heart is like a dead body feeling a prick, sins don't trouble this person. Whereas a "live" person feels impact immediately.
Beware of your nafs, nafs veils you from Allah. Your nafs brings wood to your sides, and shaytan ignites and burns it. Your nafs doesn't leave you when you die, shaytan does. e.g. Shaytan leaves in Ramadan, crime still happens in Ramadan because the nafs commands them to crime.Dunya is green and beautiful to the nafs because your body is made of soil, it longs for earth. Your soul is made of light it longs
for spirituality. Don't let the sweetness of it delude you, its sweetness in the end is bitter.
The miraculous nature of the Arabic language
Dhahhab - gold : dhahaba - gone
Ffidda - silver : yufaddu - scatter
dinar - currency : naar - hell
dirham - currency : ham - worry
darr - house : daar - circulating (your house will go to someone else)