How to increase your faith and prevent it from diminishing, by Sheikh AbdurRazzaq ibn Abdul-Muhsin Al-Badr

“Knowing the causes of the increase in faith and its decrease is of great use and it is extremely beneficial. It is even essential to take care of it and take care of it, whether through knowledge or practice.

Indeed, faith is what perfects man, it is his means of achieving happiness. Through faith he rises in degrees in this life and in the hereafter; it is the way that leads to all present or future good. Now, this can only be obtained, strengthened and perfected by knowing its ways and causes.

It is therefore up to the Muslim concerned about his soul and his happiness to strive to know these causes, to meditate on them and then to put them into practice in his life, so that his faith grows and his conviction is strengthened.

Likewise, he will have to distance himself from the causes of the decline in faith and preserve himself from them in order to escape its unfortunate consequences and its sad end. Whoever manages to do this will have won everything.

Thus, the statement before you, dear sister, dear brother , explains and shows what are the most important causes of the increase in faith and its decrease. It is, originally, a chapter of my book “Of the increase of faith and its decrease and the legal status of the Istithna ” on its subject. »