clarified that a person will not be taken to task for mere contemplation of a sin in the heart unless he forms a firm intention to carry it out.^[1]

Ḥakīm al-Ummah, Muftī Aḥmad Yār Khān NaꜤīmī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه states, “A person will be accountable for the evil intentions in his heart or his evil beliefs. However, the whispers that unconsciously enter and leave the heart are forgiven.”

He further explains:

One will be questioned on the Day of Judgement concerning these inward and outward limbs as to whether he performed impermissible acts with them. Therefore, only perform permissible acts with them. These questions will not be asked for the benefit of Allah Almighty’s knowledge, rather they will be asked in order to make the perpetrator confess to his crime.^[2]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! There is no doubt that there is a purpose behind everything. Whether it be the clothes we wear, the pen we write with, the house we reside in, the watch we wear on our wrist, a fast motorbike or an aeroplane; they all serve some purpose. Each thing is acting as a cause for the fulfilment of its purpose. Contemplate! When everything in existence has a purpose, then how can it be that the human being was created without purpose? Is the birth of a person without meaning? No! Humans were not created without purpose. It is stated in Juzˈ 18, in verse 115 of Sūrah al-Muˈminūn: