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SECOND ROOT IS PATIENCE: The basic medicine of repeated sins is patience. Why is patience necessary? One reason is that the sinner is careless about the injurious effect of good. Another reason is that his greed becomes strong. We have described the medicine for carelessness. Now we shall narrate the medicine of greed. The gist of it is that when a patient's injuries increase, his mode of treatment is that first of all he must have knowledge of the injury and then remove it so that it may not come to him again. In every circumstance, the bitterness of patience shall have to be adopted. There should be similar, treatment of sexual passion. He should first know the injurious effect of sin and think of the verses of the Quran and Hadis about it. When fear increases, he shall have to remove the cause which in crease the sexual passion. It grows out of outward things. To flee away from those things and to adopt loneliness are the medicines. The medince of the greed of delicious foods is to remain hungry and to fastconsequitive days. Without patience these two modes cannot be adopted.
Without knowledge fear does not grow. Knowledge also cannot arise without insight, thoughts and strong blind faith.
The first thing is to be present in the assembly off Zikr and sermons and then to hear religious sermons after giving up all thoughts of the world. God makes the path of one easy who has been given the strength of good attention, who fears God after knowing the objects of fear, who hopes for rewards and knows good words as true; and He makes the path of one difficult who straightens his hands, thinks himself above wants and knows the true things as false.

58 TAUBA Vol-IV

CAUSES OF COMMISSION OF SINS

1. First cause. The punishment of sin is not presently seen and lies in the womb of future.