The four foundations:
The first basis: Legal food
It is the first basis, if someone neglects having legal food, then all his deeds are miscarried, fallen and valueless, so the principle before any chastening, the first principle is to look for legal food, why? The beloved (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) explained that and swore, why you swore Oh messenger of Allah, he said:
"Someone may throw the illegal bite in his belly, his deeds won't be accepted for forty days, anyone whose flesh grows upon erodes and usury, he deserves to go to Hell."
How could he benefit from his deeds and how could he go on the righteous people's way for a single step while his prayers, his fasting and his hajj are not accepted and they are sent back to him, Allah says to such person:
"No meeting and no happiness for you and your hajj is going back to you."
Legal food is inevitable, and this is the first basis, we should follow that companion who went to the apostle of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) asking him to promote him by a prophetic supplication so that his supplications are answerable, did the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) supplicate for him? No, but he asked him to chasten his soul and prescribed a prophetic prescription to achieve his hope, what is the prescription of the beloved for him? He (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to him setting the basis of chastening and showing the right way:
"Oh Saad, have the legal food and your supplications will be answerable."
So the first basis to chasten the soul is: Having legal food and trying to get it in a legal way, this makes man nearer to his Lord because Allah ordered the apostles by this and also all believers, look at the order of Allah to apostles, what does He say to them? He says:
"Eat from the good provisions, and work righteousness." (Surat Al-Mo'menoon, verse 51)
Moreover the prophet said after he clarifies the effect of illegal bite in the abdomen of man, that even the garment that he wears can prevent deed from being accepted by Allah if there is an illegal penny in its price, he says:
"Whoever bought a garment by ten pence among them there is one illegal pence, Allah won't accept his prayers as long as he wears it."
This shows that legal food doesn’t only mean food, but it means food, drink, clothes, dwelling, vehicle and every thing man spends, it should be purely legal and he should spend it without excess, niggardliness or swagger.
So he shouldn’t cheat, trick, sell delusion, humbugs, scrimp measures and scales, eat inheritor's right or portion, eat an orphan's right illegally, cheat believers by using hormones in agriculture, animals, birds or using forbidden pesticides, Allah differentiated between what is right and what is wrong and says:
"The bad and the good are not the same, even if the abundance of the bad may impress you." (Surat Al=Ma'edah, verse 100)
Whoever chastens his soul should be careful towards this abundance of the bad that impresses a diseased soul as it abates or void deeds as Allah says:
"We will look at all the works they have done, and render them null and void." (Surat Al-Furkan, verse 23)
How he constructs his strive and goes on chastening his soul while he knows it will be destroyed before he builds and knows its failure before the beginning, the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
"Fear Haram (unlawful) in constructing as it is the root of destruction."
This is the basis and the first pillar in striving and chastening the soul that is to look for Halal (lawful) in all expenses whatever they are.
I should also refer that those righteous people don’t agree to have unemployed person in their way, whoever doesn’t have a craft to earn his living and suffice himself and his family, they returned him to learn a craft to dignify himself so as not to ask or beg people, after that they think about his companionship with them.
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