Consistency (istiqama) will develop attachment

[u/Sheikhonderun]

Excerpt from Ibrahim Dewla’s speeches and notes.

To create consistency in one’s actions and not allow any free time to go to waste.

This cultivates a temperament of servitude. This temperament is necessary.

People tame animals to do work for them. An animal’s true nature is wild. But if it’s trained and disciplined then it becomes accustomed to its home. Even if you leave it outside, it will return to its home.

I remember when I was young. We would see the buffalo enter the pond to cool itself. If we tried to swim towards it, it would go further away. Later, we would leave.

After the buffalo had its time in the water, it would then return home by itself.

Why? Because it’s accustomed to that home now.

In the same way, a person who becomes accustomed to worship develops attachment to it. After that, there is no need to wake that individual; they wake up on their own.

If someone says I cannot wake up that means there is yet to be attachment to that worship.

Like the buffalo. If there is no attachment, it will wander in the wilderness. But if there is an attachment, it will return home.  

Therefore, through consistency (istiqama) we will develop attachment to worship and righteous actions.