I would like to share a personal story about overcoming a sin that kept affecting me constantly.
So, I like most people have this one particular sin I am weak to. This one sin, it almost always manages to bring me down and affect my iman. I believe every one has their own weakness and this was mine. Now this sin has been affecting me for a long period of time, I had always tried certain tactics but they never ended up working long-term.
Over time I started noticing a certain psychological path to the sin. There were many days where I had already made my mind up to commit the sin. On these days, I would pray as usual and do other acts of worship but I would conveniently not address the fact that I had made up my mind to commit that sin. I felt guilty doing this, it felt like I was trying to hide something from God and/or trying to lie to God.
So I decided that I would try something different, I started seeking refuge in Allah even if I had already made up my mind to commit the sin. I started asking Allah's help to avoid the sin. It seems like a simple solution right? For some strange reason I had never done that before. I would seek refuge in Allah but I would only do it when I repent or when I have made up my mind to stay away from the sin. I had never tried seeking refuge in Allah when i was about to commit the sin.
However when i started doing this, I began to see an improvement. I would try my best to be sincere and ask Allah's help even if I was just a couple of minutes away from committing the sin. The results were not instant, sometimes I would still sin even after seeking refuge in Allah. This made me more guilty but also made me realize the severity of the sin and severity of trying to hide from Allah. Slowly over time, the frequency of the sin reduced. And now I seldom commit that sin. InshaAllah I will never go back to this sin again.
I just wanted to share in case this would help someone.
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