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k.ibrahim
04-29-2019, 11:57 PM
Bismillah Ir-Rahman, Ir-Raheem. I begin with ALLAH's auspiciousness,whose Name is the Best among all the names. All Revences, All Sanctities and All Worships are due to ALLAH alone. Ashahadu An Laa illaaha illal llahu
Wa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammadan Abdu Hu Wa Rasooluhu
''I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah
who is without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) is the Rasool.''
"O Allah, Shower Your Peace come upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have brought peace to Ibrahim and his family.
Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O Allah, Shower your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have blessed Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious". I am Satisfied with ALLAH as My Rabb and Cherisher, I am Satisfied With Islam as My Din (religion) and I am satisfied with Muhammad as a Rasulallah (Messenger)sallallahu alaihi was salam.(Amin)--The life of this world and the Hereafter, in the heart of a person, are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier the other becomes lighter.- Amr Ibn Abdullah (The life of this world is a transient Shade, by Abdul-Maalik al-Qaasim)
The heart becomes corrupt through six means: Committing a sin in the hope of repenting, Seeking knowledge and not applying it, Practice without sincerity, Eating the sustenance of Allah without appreciating Him, Not being pleased with Allah’s allocation (destiny), and Burying the dead without learning from them. - al-Hasan al-Basri (Taqwa: the provision of the believer, by Imam Ghazali, Ibn-Al-Qayyim, and Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Page 30)No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue. - Uthman ibn Affan (Uthman Ibn Affan Dhun-Nurayn, by Dr. Ali M. as-Sallabi, Page 133)There are five remedies for the heart: The company of the pious, Recitation of the Qur’an, Emptying the inner self (of vices), Praying during the night, and Crying at dawn. – Abdullah Anaki (Taqwa: the provision of the believer, by Imam Ghazali, Ibn-Al-Qayyim, and Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Page 29)How odd that some people mourn for the one whose body has died, but never mourn for the one whose heart has died – and yet the death of the heart is far more serious! - A righteous man (The four poisions of the heart, by Ibn al-Qayyim)Guard strictly [the practice] of always inspecting and investigating your heart. For it may have the sickness of doubts or the sickness of desires, and everything has a cure. So the Noble Qur’aan is a cure for doubts and desires. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Ash-Sharh al-Mumti, Vol. 4, Page 22)For the tongue to remember Allaah, and the body to serve Him, one should be free of the impact of others like being busy remembering and serving them. Thus, if the heart is overwhelmed by the servants rather than the master, and is preoccupied with futile knowledge, surely there will be no place for being closer to Allah, or being acquainted with His Names, Attributes, and Judgments. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)There is no heart with life, awareness, a search for knowledge, and a desire for worship except that its greatest concern would be the search for Eemaan in Allaah, and knowing His Names and Attributes, and actualizing that with certain knowledge and Aqeedah. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Explanation of a Summary of al-Aqeedatul-Hamawiyyah by Ibn Taymiyyah explained by Ibn Uthaymeen, Page 13)The person whose love and reverence for Allaah in his heart prevents him from disobeying Him, Allaah will venerate him in the hearts of creatures so that they will not humiliate him. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id, Page 59)In order for a place to contain something, it must be free from whatever contradicts it. This principle applies to mankind and all creation as well as to belief and desires. So, if the heart is obsessed by belief in falsehood, there will be no place for truth. Accordingly, if the tongue is involved in trivial discourse, one shall be incapable of useful speech, unless falsehood is abandoned. Hence, if the body is busy doing wrong actions, then acts of worship will be inapplicable unless these contradictory actions are abandoned. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id)The signs of a pure and healthy heart are: 1) One considers himself as belonging to the next world and not this world. He is a stranger in this world anxious to reach his abode in the Hereafter. 2) One continues to be upset with himself any time he commits a sin until he finally and completely repents to Allah. 3) One is more upset and unhappy if he misses his daily recitation of the Qur’an and dhikr, than if he had lost his wealth. 4) One finds greater pleasure worshipping Allah than any pleasure in eating and drinking. 5) One’s worries and concerns about this world leave him whenever he begins his formal prayers. 6) One’s only concern and worries are about Allah and doing deeds only for His sake. 7) One is more concerned and stingy about wasting time than a greedy person is with respect to his wealth. 8) One is more concerned about the correctness of his deeds than with the performance of the deeds themselves. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Ighaatha al-Lahfaa, Vol. 1, Pages 70-73)Whosoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Ighaath Al-Lahafaan, Page 44)So know that the world – and whatever is above it and below it in the water – will not be corrected except when the actions of its people are all for Allah. The actions of the body follow on from the actions and intentions of the heart. So when the actions and intentions of the heart are purely for Allah alone, then it is corrected, and likewise the actions of the body will also be correct. However, if the actions and intentions of the heart are for other than Allah, then it is corrupted, and likewise the actions of the body will be corrupted in proportion to how much the heart is corrupted. – Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (Jaami al-Uloom wal-Hikam, Page 120)Between the eyes and the heart there is a connection which means that the one is affected by the other, and if one of them becomes good, the other will also become good, and if one becomes corrupt the other will become corrupt. If the heart becomes corrupt the gaze will become corrupt, and if the gaze becomes corrupt the heart will become corrupt, and similarly if one is sound the other will also be sound. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Jawaab al-Kaafee, Page 125)There is no harder punishment than when the servant has a cruel heart and moves away from Allah. Hellfire was created to melt such cruel hearts. The most remote heart from Allah is the cruel one. If the heart is cruel, the eyes will never shed tears. Cruelty of the heart is caused by increasing four things over and above one’s needs: excessive food, sleep, talk, and socializing. When the body is sick, food and drink is of no use to it. Likewise when the heart is ill because of desires, advice is useless. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id, Page 156)As for the five things that corrupt the heart, they are those that are referred to: 1) Mixing too much with people, 2) Wishful thinking, 3) Being attached to anything other than Allah, 4) Eating one’s fill, and 5) Sleeping. These five are the greatest corrupters of the heart. – Ibn al-Qayyim (Madaarij al-Saalikeen 1/453)For everything there is a blessing, the blessing of the hearts is being pleased with Allah, the Almighty, the All-Powerful. - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Manaqib Al-Imam Ahmad by Ibn al-Jaawzi, Page 276)If you see that your heart is heedless of your sins, then know that your heart is sick. It is not possible for hearts that are alive to accept/be content with being sick, and the sickness of the heart is sins. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Included in the Tafseer of Surat ash-Sharh, Verse 3, by Ibn Uthaymeen)I saw that sins cause hearts to die, that base actions lead to their addiction, that avoiding sins is life for the heart, and that it is better for your soul for you to disobey it. – Abdullah Ibn Mubarak (Gems, Jewels, and Wise Sayings, interesting events & moral lessons from Islamic history by Abdullah Malik Mujahid)When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Madaarij al-Saalikeen 1/463)The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him. - Ibn Taymiyyah (al-Wahil as-Sayyib, Page 69)The heart is the chief and its controls man. We must therefore consider the heart, exame it and purify it – perhaps, it contains impurities. Man might pretend to perform good deeds through the limbs but there might be in his heart this corrupt impurity that leads one to the Fire in the end. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Are we forced or do we have free will by Ibn Uthaymeen, Page 12)The heart’s safety and soundness cannot be perfected, absolutely, until it is secure from five things: 1) From Shirk which nullifies Tawheed, 2) From innovations which opposes the Sunnah, 3) From a desire/lust that opposes the command (of Allah), 4) From heedlessness that contradicts remembrance (of Him), 5) From a desire that nullifies purity and sincerity (in intent and purpose). These five are barriers to Allah and beneath each of them are many other categories that contain unique issues which cannot be enumerated. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Jawaab al-Kaafee 1/176)The heart of the truthful person is filled with the light of truth and he has the light of Emaan. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Madarij as-Saalikeen 2/282)No servant has been struck with a punishment greater than the hardness of the heart and being distant from Allah. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id, Page 262)Seek out your heart in three places: When listening to the Qur’an, in the gatherings of [Allah’s] remembrance, and when [alone] in privacy. And if you do not find it in these places, then ask Allah to grant you a heart – for verily, you do not have one. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id, Page 479)Laziness against the Salaah is a sign that the heart does not long for Allah. - as-Sa’di (Taysir ul Kareem, Page 211)Do not sit with a person of innovation, for surely he will disease your heart. - Al-Hasan Al-Basree (Al-Itsaam, Page 62)There are two characteristics which harden the heart: Speaking much and eating much. - Al-Fudhayl (Siyar A’lam al-Nabula)The person who makes fun of others is often times worse than them. To make fun of people only springs from a heart that is full of bad characters. - Imam as-Sa’di (Taysir ul Kareem, Page 801)People do not pray and say that the religion is in the heart. If it were to be in the heart they would have prayed. - Shaykh al-Fawzan (al-Ittihaf, Page 536)When Allah knows that a person does not want the truth, He misguides his heart. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Liqa al-Bab al-Maftuh, 73)Never does the servant turn wholeheartedly to Allah except that Allah turns the hearts of the believers to him, providing him their love. - Harim b. Hayyan (Siyar A’lam An-Nabula, 4/49)Once the heart has tasted the sweetness of true servitude to Allah and love for Him, nothing else will be dearer to him than that and nothing else will take priority. - Ibn Taymiyyah (Al-Ubududiyyah by Ibn Taymiyyah)A man said to al-Hasan al-Basri: ”O Abu Sa’eed, I am complaining to you of the hardness of my heart.” He said: ”Soften it with dhikr. The more forgetful the heart is, the harder it becomes, but if a person remembers Allah, that hardness softens as copper melts in the fire. Nothing can soften the hardness of the heart like the remembrance of Allah. Dhikr is healing and medicine for the heart. Forgetfulness is a disease, the cure for which is remembrance of Allah. - Al-Hasan al-Basri (Al-Waabil al-Sayib wa Raafi al-Kalim al-Tayyib, Page 142)Whoever would like to know what his relationship with Allah is, let him look at what people promise him, and what Allah promises him, and see which of the two his heart is more assured of. - Shaqeeq al Balkhee (Hilyat al Awliyaah by al Asbahaanee 3/375)A man is the one who fears the death of his heart, not his body. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Madarij al-Saalikeen 3/248)The eye is the mirror of the heart. If a person lowers his gaze, the heart will lower its desires and whims. But if a person looks, the desire in his heart will be provoked. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)The greatest of these things we waste are two, upon which are founded all other wasted things: the waste of the heart, and the waste of time. Wasting of the heart is to prefer the world over the Hereafter; and wasting of time is to have too much hope. Every corruption is found in the following of desires and having too much hope; and every benefit is found in the following of the guidance and preparing for the meeting with Allah; and Allah’s help is sought. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)Rusting of the heart is due to two matters: Heedlessness and sins. Removing it is by two things: istighfaar and Dhikr. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al Waabil as Sayyib, 92)Three things that whomsoever has it his Emaan in Allah is complete: 1) If he is pleased his pleasure is not in falsehood. 2) If he is angry his anger does not divert him from the truth. 3) If he wishes to do something he does not take what is not his in order to do it. - Muhammad Ibn Ka’ab (Minhaaj al-Qaasideen, Page 169)The people with the softest hearts are those who sin the least. - Makhul (Abu Bu’aym, Hilyah al-Awliya, Vol. 2, Page 344)Four signs of wretchedness are: [having] a hard heart, dry eyes [that never cry], extended hopes [about this life], and greed and keenness to amass worldly things (the dunya). - Al-Hasan Al-Basri (Ibn Abi Al-Dunya, Kitab al-Zuhd, 36)Abstaining from lowering one’s gaze engraves in the heart images of the one who is looked at. And the heart is like the Ka’bah, and surely it will not be satisfied with idols. – Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)If there is no sadness in the heart, it is spoiled. - Malik bin Dinar (Siyar A’lam an-Nabula 5326)
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k.ibrahim
04-30-2019, 12:01 AM
Bismillah Ir-Rahman, Ir-Raheem. I begin with ALLAH's auspiciousness,whose Name is the Best among all the names. All Revences, All Sanctities and All Worships are due to ALLAH alone. Ashahadu An Laa illaaha illal llahuWa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammadan Abdu Hu Wa Rasooluhu
''I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah
who is without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) is the Rasool.''
"O Allah, Shower Your Peace come upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have brought peace to Ibrahim and his family.
Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O Allah, Shower your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have blessed Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious". I am Satisfied with ALLAH as My Rabb and Cherisher, I am Satisfied With Islam as My Din (religion) and I am satisfied with Muhammad as a Rasulallah (Messenger)sallallahu alaihi was salam.(Amin)-------If you do not find any sweetness and relaxation in your heart from a (good) deed, then you should suspect your heart. Verily, Allaah is grateful. That is, He must reward the doer of the deed for his deed in this world by a sweetness he finds in his heart, a stronger feeling of relaxation and a joy in his eyes. If the person does not find these things, it means that something has entered upon his deed [and made it not correct and purely for Allah’s sake]. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Madaarij al-Salikeen, Vol. 2, Page 68)
The body’s weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart’s weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful. - Dhun-Nun Al-Misri (The life of this world is a transient Shade, by Abdul-Maalik al-Qaasim, Page 72)Know that the heart of a person of sound mind cannot be free of sadness, because he remembers his previous sins, therefore becomes sad, he thinks about his negligence, reflects on what the scholars and the righteous have said and as a result he becomes sad for not taking heed. - Ibn al-Jawzi (Disciplining the soul, by Ibn al-Jawzi, Page 69)Never does the servant turn wholeheartedly to Allaah except that Allaah turns the hearts of the believers to him, providing him their love. - Harim b. Hayyan (Siyar A’lam al-Nabula, 4/49)Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever causes his heart to settle with his Rabb shall be in a state calm and tranquil, and whoever sent it among the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)There is no success, except through Allaah’s obedience, nor might, except through being humble before His Might, nor richness, except by being meek to His Mercy, nor guidance, except by embracing His Light. There is no life, except by earning His good Pleasure, nor delight, except by earning closeness to Him. The heart can neither earn success, nor righteousness, except by being sincere to Allaah and Loving Him, Alone. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Za’aadul Ma’ad fi Hadyi Khariil Ibaad)What indicates the blackness of the heart are three: Not to find an escape from sinning, nor a place for obedience to occur, nor a haven for the sermon that warns. - Abu Turab an-Nakhshabi (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 19)It has been conveyed to me that a time will come when the hearts of the people will become so filled with the love of this world that the fear of Allaah will not enter their hearts. You can understand this if you fill a bag with so much of something that the bag becomes full to the brim; then try to put something else in the bag, and you will undoubtedly find no space to put anything else inside. - Sufyaan al-Thawri (Biography of Sufyaan al-Thawri by Salaahud-Deen ibn Alee ibn Abdul-Maujood, Page 146)I fear for you a Fitnah that is like thick smoke, wherein a man’s heart will die just as his body dies. - Ibn Mas’ud (Selected chapters from the Way out of Tribulations by Shaykh Muhammed Ismail al-Muqaddam)There is nothing more beneficial to the Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions. - Ahmad ibn Harb (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 14)It was said by one of the Salaf, ”Beware of hypocritical fear!” On being asked ”What is hypocritical fear?” he replied, ”When your body is seen to be fearing whereas your heart is not fearing.” (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 8)Just as the person who closes his eyes doesn’t see anything even if he isn’t blind, likewise is the case of the heart in relation to the stain of sins which blind the heart so that it doesn’t see the truth. This is the case even if the heart is not blind, like the blindness of the disbeliever. - Ibn Taymiyyah (Al-Eemaan by Ibn Taymiyyah)Fearing Allah is the source of every good on earth and in the hereafter, and ruined is the heart that knows no fear of Allah! – Abu Sulaiman Ad-Darani (Al-Ihyaa 4/159)The heart is healthy only when it is functioning contrast to its desires. In other words, desires are the sickness of the heart and opposing them is the cure. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Sins and their Punishments by Ibn al-Qayyim)If a heart receives advice but it is filled with what contradicts it, there will be no place in that heart to accept this advice. The advice will simply pass over this heart and not be able to settle in it. Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id)Man might pretend to perform good deeds through the limbs but there might be in his heart this corrupt impurity that leads one to the fire in the end. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Sharh Hadeeth Jibra’eel by Ibn Uthaymeen)If the heart listens to trivial discourse, there will be no place for listening or understanding the words of Allah. Besides, if the heart is inclined to love others, there will be no room to love Allah, and if the heart remembers others rather than Allah, no place will be found to remember Him, and the same applies to the tongue. – Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id)When the heart becomes busy with falsehood no place for the truth remains in it just as when it becomes busy with the truth no place for falsehood remains in it. – Ibn Uthaymeen (Bulughul-Maraam, Vol. 5, Page 30)When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah. - Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (The Key to Paradise by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Page 51)The greatest of calamities is a hardened heart. – Hudhayfah b. Qatadah al-Mar’ashiyy (Siyar A’lam al-Nabula by Imam al-Dhahabi)Causes of hardheartedness include: Turning away from Allah, and not reading the Qur’an; being preoccupied with this world and focusing mostly on it, and not paying attention to matters of religion, because obeying Allah, makes the heart soft and brings one back to Allah. The remedy for that is to turn to Allah, repent to Him, remember Him a great deal, read the Qur’an a great deal, and do acts of worship, as much as one can. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Fataawaa Noor ala al-Darb by Ibn Uthaymeen, 12/171)
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k.ibrahim
04-30-2019, 12:16 AM
Bismillah Ir-Rahman, Ir-Raheem. I begin with ALLAH's auspiciousness,whose Name is the Best among all the names. All Revences, All Sanctities and All Worships are due to ALLAH alone. Ashahadu An Laa illaaha illal llahu
Wa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammadan Abdu Hu Wa Rasooluhu
''I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah
who is without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) is the Rasool.''
"O Allah, Shower Your Peace come upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have brought peace to Ibrahim and his family.Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O Allah, Shower your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have blessed Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious". I am Satisfied with ALLAH as My Rabb and Cherisher, I am Satisfied With Islam as My Din (religion) and I am satisfied with Muhammad as a Rasulallah (Messenger)sallallahu alaihi was salam.(Amin)----------------------------------If you do not find any sweetness and relaxation in your heart from a (good) deed, then you should suspect your heart. Verily, Allaah is grateful. That is, He must reward the doer of the deed for his deed in this world by a sweetness he finds in his heart, a stronger feeling of relaxation and a joy in his eyes. If the person does not find these things, it means that something has entered upon his deed [and made it not correct and purely for Allah’s sake]. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Madaarij al-Salikeen, Vol. 2, Page 68)
The body’s weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart’s weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful. - Dhun-Nun Al-Misri (The life of this world is a transient Shade, by Abdul-Maalik al-Qaasim, Page 72)Know that the heart of a person of sound mind cannot be free of sadness, because he remembers his previous sins, therefore becomes sad, he thinks about his negligence, reflects on what the scholars and the righteous have said and as a result he becomes sad for not taking heed. - Ibn al-Jawzi (Disciplining the soul, by Ibn al-Jawzi, Page 69)Never does the servant turn wholeheartedly to Allaah except that Allaah turns the hearts of the believers to him, providing him their love. - Harim b. Hayyan (Siyar A’lam al-Nabula, 4/49)Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever causes his heart to settle with his Rabb shall be in a state calm and tranquil, and whoever sent it among the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)There is no success, except through Allaah’s obedience, nor might, except through being humble before His Might, nor richness, except by being meek to His Mercy, nor guidance, except by embracing His Light. There is no life, except by earning His good Pleasure, nor delight, except by earning closeness to Him. The heart can neither earn success, nor righteousness, except by being sincere to Allaah and Loving Him, Alone. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Za’aadul Ma’ad fi Hadyi Khariil Ibaad)What indicates the blackness of the heart are three: Not to find an escape from sinning, nor a place for obedience to occur, nor a haven for the sermon that warns. - Abu Turab an-Nakhshabi (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 19)It has been conveyed to me that a time will come when the hearts of the people will become so filled with the love of this world that the fear of Allaah will not enter their hearts. You can understand this if you fill a bag with so much of something that the bag becomes full to the brim; then try to put something else in the bag, and you will undoubtedly find no space to put anything else inside. - Sufyaan al-Thawri (Biography of Sufyaan al-Thawri by Salaahud-Deen ibn Alee ibn Abdul-Maujood, Page 146)I fear for you a Fitnah that is like thick smoke, wherein a man’s heart will die just as his body dies. - Ibn Mas’ud (Selected chapters from the Way out of Tribulations by Shaykh Muhammed Ismail al-Muqaddam)There is nothing more beneficial to the Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions. - Ahmad ibn Harb (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 14)It was said by one of the Salaf, ”Beware of hypocritical fear!” On being asked ”What is hypocritical fear?” he replied, ”When your body is seen to be fearing whereas your heart is not fearing.” (Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmad Fareed, Page 8)Just as the person who closes his eyes doesn’t see anything even if he isn’t blind, likewise is the case of the heart in relation to the stain of sins which blind the heart so that it doesn’t see the truth. This is the case even if the heart is not blind, like the blindness of the disbeliever. - Ibn Taymiyyah (Al-Eemaan by Ibn Taymiyyah)Fearing Allah is the source of every good on earth and in the hereafter, and ruined is the heart that knows no fear of Allah! – Abu Sulaiman Ad-Darani (Al-Ihyaa 4/159)The heart is healthy only when it is functioning contrast to its desires. In other words, desires are the sickness of the heart and opposing them is the cure. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Sins and their Punishments by Ibn al-Qayyim)If a heart receives advice but it is filled with what contradicts it, there will be no place in that heart to accept this advice. The advice will simply pass over this heart and not be able to settle in it. Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id)Man might pretend to perform good deeds through the limbs but there might be in his heart this corrupt impurity that leads one to the fire in the end. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Sharh Hadeeth Jibra’eel by Ibn Uthaymeen)If the heart listens to trivial discourse, there will be no place for listening or understanding the words of Allah. Besides, if the heart is inclined to love others, there will be no room to love Allah, and if the heart remembers others rather than Allah, no place will be found to remember Him, and the same applies to the tongue. – Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id)When the heart becomes busy with falsehood no place for the truth remains in it just as when it becomes busy with the truth no place for falsehood remains in it. – Ibn Uthaymeen (Bulughul-Maraam, Vol. 5, Page 30)When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah. - Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (The Key to Paradise by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Page 51)The greatest of calamities is a hardened heart. – Hudhayfah b. Qatadah al-Mar’ashiyy (Siyar A’lam al-Nabula by Imam al-Dhahabi)Causes of hardheartedness include: Turning away from Allah, and not reading the Qur’an; being preoccupied with this world and focusing mostly on it, and not paying attention to matters of religion, because obeying Allah, makes the heart soft and brings one back to Allah. The remedy for that is to turn to Allah, repent to Him, remember Him a great deal, read the Qur’an a great deal, and do acts of worship, as much as one can. - Ibn Uthaymeen (Fataawaa Noor ala al-Darb by Ibn Uthaymeen, 12/171)The more looks follow one another, the more the heart becomes attached, like water with which a tree is irrigated. If too much water is given the tree is damaged. Similarly if glances are repeated that undoubtedly corrupts the heart. If the heart is exposed to this problem, it will turn away from what it has been commanded and the person will be faced with problems which will inevitably lead him to commit forbidden actions, and his heart will be destroyed. The reason for that is that the one who looks enjoys looking the first time, then he wants to look again, like eating delicious food, when he takes the first bite. But if he had lowered his gaze from the outset, his heart would be at peace. - Ibn al-Qayyim (Rawdat al-Muhibbeen, Pages 94-95)Our hearts were covered with three seals, and verily, the slave will not reach certainty [in faith] until these seals are removed: delight in what is there, sorrow for what has been lost, and rejoice by receiving praise. When you are delighted with what you have, you are a tightwad. If you grieve for what has been lost, then you are an outraged person, and such a person will taste the torment. If you rejoice when you are praised, then you are proud, and the proud will have their actions annulled. - Ibrahim Ibn Adham (Al-Ihyaa 4/236)Clear your inner self from the love of this world and running after it. Increase in the remembrance of Allah the Most High. When the purification of your inside is completed then Allah the Most High will make you speak with wisdom and you will become the wise man of your time. - Shaykh Ahmed Fareed (The Characteristics of the Salaf by Shaykh Ahmed Fareed, Page 81)Trusting in Allah in word only is totally different from trusting in Him with the heart. It is the same as repentance with the tongue while having the intention to commit sins again, and the repentance of the sincere heart even if the tongue has not said anything. For the statement of the servant: ”I have put my trust in Allaah” with the intention of something else in his heart is like the statement ”I have repented to Allah” with the intention of committing sins. - Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaa’id, Page 150)The heart is healthy only when it is functioning contrast to its desires. In other words, desires are the sickness of the heart and opposing them is the cure. – Ibn al-Qayyim (Sins & their Punishments by Ibn al-Qayyim)Without doubt, the sincere person has tasted the sweetness of his worship for Allah, this is what stops him from performing worship for other than Allah, sincere there is nothing more sweet or more blessed for the heart than the sweetness of Emaan in Allah the Lord of the worlds. - Ibn Taymiyyah (al-Fataawa 10/215)Fitnah continues upon the heart, except if the Deen of the slave is completely for Allah. - Ibn Taymiyyah (al-Fataawa 10/545)The heart will not find complete happiness except by loving Allah and by striving towards what is dear to Him. It is not possible to achieve this love except by rejecting all things that compete with it. This is what the words, ‘There is no god but Allah’ mean; this is the spirit of the deen of Ibrahim and of that of every other Prophet. - Ibn Tamiyyah (Majmu al-Fatawa, Vol. 28, Page 32)Both this life and the Hereafter are in the heart just like the two sides of a scale: whichever is heavier will overweigh the other. - Awn bin Abdullaah (Tazkiyyaatun-Nufuus, Page 129)Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allah. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. - Ibn Tamiyyah (al-Wabil, Page 109)The one who wants to have an enlightened heart should eat little. - Abu Imran al-Juni (al-Jami, Page 519)Allah has created love in the hearts of the servants. When they love Him, He loves them back as a reward for their love. - As-Sa’di (Fath-ur-Rahim, Page 49)The people with the softest hearts are those with the least amount of sins. – Makhool ad-Dimishqee (az-Zuhd by Imam Ahmad, 463)Many people think that being punished [for one’s sins] is only in those things that are external, like the body, wealth and children, but the reality is that the punishment of the sickness of the heart and its corruption is more severe and greater than the punishment through those things. – Ibn Uthaymeen (Ahkaam minal-Qur’aanil-Karim, Vol. 1, Page 87)Indeed the heart that loves Allah, loves being exhausted and exerting itself for Allaah – verily Allaah’s love is not acquired through comfort/relaxation. - Muhammad ibn Nu’aim al-Mowsilee (Majmoo Ar-Rasaa’il al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Vol. 3, Page 327)The slave will not experience the sweetness of faith, nor the taste of truthfulness or certainty, until all of the jaahiliyyah exits his heart. – Ibn al-Qayyim (Madaarij as-Saalikeen 2/274)If dogs and pictures prevent the created angels from entering a home, how then would the knowledge and love of Allah, the sweetness of His remembrance, and comfort with His nearness, penetrate a heart already fraught with bestial desires and their images?! – Ibn Taymiyyah (It-haaf al-Anaam by Shaykh Aboo Abdur-Rahmaan Muhammed)If your love is true, you would feel an aversion for anything that does not remind you of the one you love. How odd! Whoever claims to love and needs to be reminded of his beloved, then his love is not complete! The least thing that shows your love is that you never forget your beloved. – Ibn al-Qayyim (Al-Fawaa’id)Emaan does not come about by mere wishful thinking and idle desires, rather it is something that takes firm root in the heart and is testified to by actions. - Al-Hassan al-Basree (Iqtida al Ilm al Amal by Al-Khateeb al Baqdaadee, No. 56)Abu Sulaiman Ad-Daraan was asked while I was present: ”What is is that brings [a person] closest to Allah?” So he cried and said: ”Who am I to be asked this?” [Then he said:] ”That which brings [a person] closest to Allah is that He looks into your heart and [sees that] you do not want from the life and the Hereafter except Him.” - Ibn Abu Al-Hawari (Rawdat al-Muhibbeen by Ibn al-Qayyim)All blindness [can be tolerated] except the blindness of the heart. - Prophet Sulayman (Hilyat al-Awliyaa 6/141)Verily, the worldly life and the Hereafter are like a scale in the hearts of Bani Adam, when one side goes up the other will automatically go down. - Awn Bin Abdullaah (Kitaab Dham Ad-Dunya 2/292, by Ibn Abi Al-Dunia)When the dunya settles in a person’s heart, the Akhirah leaves. - Abu Sulaiman Al-Darani (Al-Bidayah Wal Nihayah 14/150)
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