What can I do to not want to sin? Confront your will!

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Some ask, “What can I do so that I don’t want to backbite?” You may want many things in life, but you have to stop yourself. Learn to stand up to your desires. A person asks, “What can I do to not backbite?” He wants to be a good person without controlling his desires. Therefore, he asks an ethical, mystical question. “What can I do so this won’t happen?” or, “What can I do to not pray late?” It’s as if he likes to take a pill for his problem to be solved automatically. No, this can only be solved by you controlling your will. You must fight it. Confront it!
One of the questions that we should ask ourselves every night is, “How many times have I confronted my will today?” A person whose life is based on this question is able to answer this. He says, “I know, someone argued with me. I wanted to curse him twice, but I only cursed him once! I couldn’t stop myself from cursing him. I could have cursed him twice, but I cursed him once!” Even the weakest person should confront his will, or he’s not a human being anymore. “I did whatever I wanted.” This is not right.
Let’s start from morning. “I really wanted to sleep in and skip my morning prayer. It was really hard, but I got up.” “God job. This was one. The second one?” “There’s no second one until night.” “No, you should say how many times you’ve struggled. Fight! Struggle!”
Fighting with one’s own will is like weightlifting. It needs a kind of workout and strength. The reason I mention weightlifting is that this is related to the Prophet in a way, and there is a point in this. What was the story about weightlifting? People said, “O Prophet of God, we are lifting these weights. See which one of us is stronger. It was a competition between the strongest people in Medina. The Prophet watched their competition and encouraged them. The competition finished happily, and he told them, “The champion among you is the one who confronts his own will.”
I want to say that confronting our own will is like weightlifting. You shouldn’t say, “Why do you put so much effort into picking up this weight? I’ll tie a strong rope here and whenever you wish, I’ll pull from here to pick it up! Why do you put so much effort into it?!” Some people are looking for mystical questions and answers. They’re looking for a strong rope to pick up this weight. You yourself should lift up the weights! You must do it. How can I explain this?! How many times have you practiced this today?
Some ask, “What can I do so that I don’t want to backbite?” You may want many things in life, but you have to stop yourself. Learn to stand up to your desires. He wants to be a good person without controlling his desires. No, this can only be solved by you controlling your will. You must fight it. Confront it!