MAN’S DESIRE | Man Was Created Weak

Ĥujjat al-Islām Abū Ĥāmid Muĥammad al-Shāfiýī al-Ghazālī [450-505 AH / 1058-1111 CE] writes in Iĥyā’a Úlūm al-Dīn:

❝Qatādah stated regarding the meaning of His statement, 

❛And do not place upon us that burden which we cannot bear❜: It is lust. 

And from Íkrimah and Mujāhid that they said regarding the meaning of His statement, 

❛And man was created weak❜: That he cannot abstain with regard to women.

And Fayāđ ibn Nujayĥ said: When the member of a man becomes erect, two thirds of his intelligence depart.

And some of them say: A third of his Dīn departs.

And in a rare tafsīr of Ibn Ábbās,

 وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَب, 

he said: Erection of the male member. 

And this is an overwhelming catastrophe when it is stirred up; 

neither the intellect nor the dīn can repel it, and alongside it being fit for being an impetus for the two lives, as has been mentioned, 

it is the strongest of tools of Shayţān against Banī Ādam, and to this he ﷺ indicated by his saying: 

❛I have not seen anyone more deficient in intellect or dīn [than you women], the mind of even a resolute man might be swept away by one of you.❜ 

And that is due to the arousal of lust. 

And he ﷺ stated in his Duáā:

❛O Allāh, I seek refuge in you from the evil of my hearing, and my sight, and my heart, and the evil of my semen [i.e. lust].❜ 

And he said: ❛I ask you to purify my heart and protect my private part.❜ 

Thus, that which RasūlAllāh ﷺ sought refuge from, how is laxity permitted in that for other than he?❞

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