Various diseases affect the soul. Only a perfect Murshid (Spiritual Guide) can treat them. We should study ourselves and upon finding ourselves affected by any of these ailments, seek a remedy from a perfect Murshid.

Sufi Guide Imam Ahmad Rida Khan have mentioned the following diseases of the soul:


1. Showing off

2. Vanity

3. Jealousy

4. Malice

5. Pride

6. Desire of praise

7. Desire of status

8. Desire of world

9. Desire of fame

10. Reverence of the rich

11. Disrespect of the poor

12. Following desires

13. Flattery

14. Ingratitude

15. Stinginess

16. Desiring too much

17. Thinking ill

18. Hostility against truth

19. Persistence in falsehood

20. Deception

21. Treachery

22. Breach of trust

23. Negligence

24. Cruelty

25. Greed

26. Adulation

27. Reliance on creation

28. Forgetting the G-D

29. Forgetfulness of death

30. Committing sins openly and not fearing G-D

31. Hypocrisy

32. Obeying Shaytaan / Evil

33. Self worship

34. Inclination to idle matter

35. Laziness

36. Lack of fear of G-D

37. Anxiety

38. Lack of humility

39. Self-wrath in which case the anger could be used in the Path of G-D

40. Being lax in G-D’s commands and prohibitions.




[AlaHazrat, Fatawa Afriqah, Page 121]