Sexual temptation

            The most important duty of all religions is to make people clean hearted.  Our Grandsheikh says that when a man leaves all the bad characteristics of his ego he is clean hearted.   Its sign is that if he was left alone with a beautiful girl in the desert or mountains, or on an island, and was obliged to be with her for 40 days, no bad intention would come in his heart towards her.

It is impossible for dirty thoughts to come to a clean hearted man.

You may ask, is this possible?  Yes!   Consider for example, what if she was your sister or daughter?  Or, if you were invited to the feast of a king and knew that the king is very jealous, would  anyone look at his wife sitting next to him? 

A Clean-hearted man  is one who truly believes in his God.    When you say ‘I believe in God,’  you believe that He is present with you everywhere, all the time.  How can you lose His watching?  Remembering the Lord, the heart is clean; forgetting the Lord, darkness fills the heart, -  no more faith. 

Now for the story 

Our Grandsheikh told of one student in Daghestan.  He was reading the Quran at midnight.  The wind and wolves were howling outside in the cold.  Then came a knocking at the door.  It was a very beautiful girl lost on her journey.  He (found her a blanket) and continued  his reading.

Then Satan came to him saying, “This is for you – get up.”

He got up but he went to the candle and held his finger over the flame, saying to himself  “You can’t even take this flame, how can you stand the fire of hell?”

He kept getting up from his reading and putting his finger in the candle until dawn; and then he brought the girl to her father.

The father asked them had anything happened. 

“No.” 

“How could you stay with this (girl) all night and nothing happen?”

 Then seeing his finger and hearing the story from his daughter, the father called the judge and the imam saying, “I give my daughter to this man in marriage; and I give him all my fields and gardens.

 Then she became halal for him.