Allah The Almighty has created people in a state of poverty and need. It is indisputable that people are in need of food, drink, sexual desire, dealing with others, obtaining benefits through wealth, and so on. Allah The Almighty has provided man with instinctive desires and inclinations in order to fulfill these needs because he cannot live without them. Nonetheless, such matters are not the purpose for which man has been created; rather, they are subjugated for him in order to fulfill the purpose for which he has been created. These desires, however, caused destruction and ruin to the largest part of humanity when they became engaged in serving these desires and they lived only to eat, drink, reproduce, collect wealth, have children, and so on. This was the reason why the hearts of mankind turned wretched and souls turned aggressive. 

In Ramadan, Allah The Almighty has prescribed laws which train us how to control our desires. During this month one cannot eat whenever he feels hungry; rather, he has to abstain from food and drink during a certain period. This provides one with the ability to discipline and control himself. This also makes the soul submissive to the commands of Allah The Almighty. Therefore, when one is fasting in general, and during Ramadan in particular, it is easy for him to perform acts of worship and obedience that are difficult for him to do at other times. Allah The Almighty makes it easy for him to lower his gaze, turn away from hearing what is evil, control his tongue, perfom voluntary prayers, and observe fasting. The soul urges one to satisfy its desires while a wise man tries to control it and become its ruler. People are not similar in dealing with their souls. Similarly, the hearts of people are not similar in dealing with the soul which is a persistent enjoiner of evil and inclines to desires. Some people have strong hearts which control and subjugate the souls. After a long period of disciplining and controlling the self, its evil is removed, so that the soul becomes a sincere advisor of the ruler, which is the heart. This is its condition in the beginning. The human soul cannot be obedient, submissive, loving obedience and hating disobedience from the beginning. Rather, it begins as a persistent enjoiner of evil;shows laziness to do acts of obedience and inclines to disobedience and lust. The heart which overcomes the soul can later teach and discipline it until it becomes full of faith. When one disciplines his soul it hastens to perform the night voluntary prayer, observe fasting during the daytime and spend in charity, after it was being forced to do so at the beginning. In this condition, the soul has become a sincere advisor which helps the heart. When the retreating whisperer comes to this soul and says to it: look at this forbidden image, listen to this song and music, and so on, it responds: I seek refuge in Allah. This self has found assurance and tranquility with the rememeberance of Allah The Almighty and worship has become its delight and happiness. It was narrated that the Prophet, , asked his Lord, saying: "I ask You to grant me the pleasure of seeing Your face and the longing to meet You, with no harmful adversity or misleading temptation (Fitnah)."