The Rooh has to be maintained just as the body is maintained. If a person has a sore in his mouth he will not be able to eat or speak well. If he has a pain in his eye the whole body will feel the pain. After taking a treatment, with the permission of Allah Ta'ala, the body will benefit; how wonderful life becomes then and how nice the body feels. Likewise, if the Rooh is maintained what enjoyment will one attain in obeying Allah Ta'ala and what pleasure will he derive from his Salaah and Zikrullah.

If a person doesn’t take up the necessary treatment and carries on with his sickness, his physical body will not function properly and it will not be able to operate as it should have. At the end, the sickness will worsen causing him to suffer as well as others that are around him.

If a person takes treatment and gets better, it doesn’t mean he is getting younger or going to live forever; he is still going to get old and eventually leave this temporary world. If he doesn’t take any treatment and dies from that sickness, he will be free from that sickness once he leaves this world and never again suffer from it. On the other hand, if he dies whilst he is spiritually ill, his problem does not end there, in fact it has just started.

To take treatment for one’s physical illnesses is Sunnat and not Waajib but people take their health seriously because it involves their worldly comfort. However, the spiritual health, which is Waajib to maintain, is usually neglected. For the heart to be free from Kufr, Shirk and Riya’, is not only sunnat but it is Waajib as it affects one’s eternal life .The same applies to a car. If a person has a car which he uses daily but does not maintain it then he will find his car will stop functioning properly. The engine will not perform as it ought to perform. Every time he wants to start the car, he will have to ask two or three people to help him push the car. When the engine starts the car moves and when the engine stops again he has to ask people to push it again. How hard life would have been every time the engine stops.

Again, to repair the car is not compulsory and Allah Ta'ala will not ask as to why the car was not repaired. However, everyone ensures that he maintains his car so that he may travel comfortably. As for the comfort of Aakhirah, which is forever, hardly anyone is concerned.

Houses are usually maintained well to ensure comfortable life. When moving into a new house, everything has to be new and looking beautiful. It has to be fully decorated with the latest fittings. The flowers in the garden must look beautiful and the grass should be as green as it can be. However, if all these things are not maintained properly, one day these fine things will be damaged and will stop functioning. The tap will be leaking and the toilet will get blocked. If the flowers and grass are not watered they will get dry and yellow. The house will not be as elegant as it used to be.  Although, in the Hereafter Allah c will not ask why the beautiful house was not maintained properly, most people invest their time and money to maintain their house well. Does the soul get the same maintenance as the house do? It is the healthy condition of the heart that guarantees true comfort. 

Today, efforts are made twenty four hours of the day for the welfare of the short life of this world. People are prepared to sacrifice time and wealth for their worldly body. They take out insurance policies for their health, cars and houses. Unfortunately, the welfare of Aakhirah is often neglected. Once death arrives, the body that the people have worked for will be buried in sand and perish in the sand. As for the soul, it has to move on with a lengthy journey lying ahead.

All the systems of the world with its infrastructure which are functional from the shops to the schools, from the roads to the hospitals and from the parliament to the courts are working for the soul. As long as the Rooh remains in the body, all these will carry on functioning and working for its comfort. Once the Rooh leaves the body, then all the fancy clothing and cars will be taken away from a person. If the soul has left the body then the hospitals, offices and houses will be of no use.

The family will quickly send the body to the grave because the body itself does not have any value any longer. It is the Rooh that was important; without it the material world will be irrelevant.

It is much more important for the Rooh to be healthy and strong than for the decaying body to be so. Yet efforts are made from morning till night for this material body. We have missed the point. They device all different ways of maintaining the welfare of physical body but they don’t have a clue how and where to fix up the soul. 

When a person realizes that he is sick it will be necessary for him to undergo treatment. For that, he will need to go to a clinic and register himself as a patient. By doing this he has officially informed the doctor that he needs treatment. To register oneself with a spiritual doctor is by taking Bay’ah, a pledge of allegiance, from him. 

Thereafter, the patient must not be shy; he has to keep his doctor updated of his conditions and explain his sickness properly. When the doctor knows that the patient is convinced in him and willing to act upon his advice he will not hesitate in prescribing the most suitable medicine for him, however bitter it may be. Like this, the prescription will be effective and, with the permission of Allah c one will spiritually advance very quickly. With a healthy Rooh, what an enjoyable life we will have!