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Ustadh Qadhi Saheb’s article on Islam growing in Rwanda.

I’ve linked to it, since this is what we are concerned with at Injil.co.uk:

Click here: Rwanda turns to Allah

Last month I wrote some advice on this issue in response to the original article by Muslim Matters. They included my advice as part of the overall post. The post is quite beneficial as this seems to be a fairly widespread problem.

Anyhow, here’s what I wrote:

Morality is affected by what people regard as normal. As the media numbs our morality level, the norms of acceptability change.

Take a look at Henry Makow’s website. Have a look at his article that explains why watching porn can lead to homosexuality. He tends to write a fair amount about these issues: http://www.savethemales.ca/000165.html

This is a problem common to all men now not just Muslim men. The Christians have clinics to counsel people off porn. It is an Information Age problem or should I say epidemic. I’m not a Psychiatrist but I do study Psychology and it can help to use some methods to stop brothers doing this.

One NLP technique would be to anchor porn with homosexuality. This can either be done in counseling or it can be addressed in any lectures done on Islamic sexual etiquette. We need to resolve this problem on a wider scale.

To understand the scale of the problem just google ‘porn addiction’: http://www.manontheroad.org/pornography_addiction.htm

Now I’m going to teach you a method to break the habit for ever insha Allah:

First understand the problem (this is all common knowledge in psychology, it’s not voodoo!): When you do something that gives you a reward it releases chemicals in your brain.

So when you eat, exercise or have sex, then certain chemicals are released inside the brain. This is the reward process of the brain to keep you eating, healthy and procreating etc.

One chemical is dopamine. This reinforces the pleasure each time. In other types of addiction more drugs (higher doses) are required each time to achieve a similar level of pleasure/feeling. This is what is referred to as tolerance.Now when you watch porn I bet that over time you had to start watching different types of porn to get the same ‘feeling’. You build up a numbness or tolerance as we call it. This is what led you to use your credit cards.

Some pharma companies are developing a drug to stop this process (for heroin addicts), but we all know where that leads to. Continuous treatments so that they can make money.

What you need to do is to replace the pleasure with a greater pleasure. As Imam Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah once wrote about the gaze: “The pleasure received in not looking is greater than the pleasure received in looking.”

Brother Dawud mentioned in his post that:“Muhammad AlShareef mentions in his CD lecture, “When Wolves becomes Shepherds” that when some action is committed–a new pathway is made in the brain. Based on that theory, if we can strengthen an Islamic pathway (i.e. Dawah)–it will weaken or make on forget the pornographic pathway.”

Unfortunately your other ‘porn pathway’ is probably well developed and traversed by now.In actual fact you need to change the pathway itself. In fact the best thing would be to go to Muhammad AlShareef as he is an NLP practitioner and should be able to help you immediately. Or to remain anonymous you could go to a non-Muslim one. But you need to find a reputable one near you.

I’ll provide a method here that is used by NLP people. Try and use it yourself. It is very possible to make this work, I’ve tried it with phobias and other stuff. Make sure you have confidence in the method and try it out properly. If it doesn’t work then go to an NLP practitioner.

What you need to do is use a method called anchoring, where you tie certain emotions and feelings with certain actions or triggers. This is not some voodoo. It is a psychological method used by business people all around the world for many different purposes.

First read around it so that you get an idea of what you’re about to do:

• http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_swish.htm
• http://www.nlpweekly.com/?p=582

Once you have an idea about the concept then try the method on the following link, it is specifically porn orientated: Click for link

(Also ignore their comments at the start about occasional porn watching being o.k., that’s because they don’t know it’s haram!)

This method has been tested on people and does work very well. Make sure you read it a few times and understand it well before you start.

A final word concerning this method: Whilst on some people using this method only once has worked and had a massive impact. I would test it out once and see how strong the result is. If it is sufficient then that’s fine. Otherwise about a month later use the technique again in exactly the same manner as the first time. Be careful, you will certainly find that this technique does produce strong results.