Purification of the Heart
By: AbdulBary Yahya
The heart is the nucleus of the soul and body. Therefore, If it is sound, the soul and body follows. If it is wicked, so it will the soul and body.
The heart of the soul could only enter paradise in its pure state. During the lifetime of the heart, it will be stained by diseases and purified by good action, or by trials from Allah. When a Muslim dies and if the heart is still stained, then it will only be purified by the Al-Mighty’s forgiveness, or Punishment of the grave and hellfire according to his impurities.
By committing sins, a black spot is placed on the heart and persistency degrades the hearts until it covers the whole heart, then there will be no turning back only by his return to Allah and by the Grace of Allah shall it be cleaned, inshaAllah.
3 kinds of hearts:
Healthy Heart: No sickness in it, and it will be saved in the Day of Judgment. It believe in Allah SWT and His Rasoul. Does not worry only what pleases Allah.
Dead Heart: Those who don't believe and reject Allah SWT. It is sealed by Allah SWT by their kufr (rejection of the heart). It is hardened as a rock.
Sick Heart: Following the desires and the doubts. He shows signs of both the flipped heart and the sick: He has iman, but also shows signs of hypocracy. He knows the truth but still, he sees it but he becomes blind.
Diseases of the Heart:
*Riya2-Showing Off*Hasad-Jealousy
*Shaitan-Whispers of the heart: especially during prayer, makes you doubt yourself and your intention
II. The two wings of the believer: Hope and Fear
Mohammed SAW tolled a person that he will be amongst the people who will enter paradise. Another person over heard and made it his goal to spend a night with this person and learn what he does that so shall make him enter the heavens. After night stays, he found that this person prostrates like he does, fasts like he does, does good deeds like he does. “So what do you do that you earned a place in paradise while still in this dunya” the curious man asked.
“Before I go to sleep, I have no animosity against anyone, I forgive everyone.” The promised one answered.
Purify your hearts every single night before you go to sleep.
In the Quran, every mention of fear is followed by an aya of hope. Those two parts are mentioned simultaneously because one should not have one and not have the other. Thus, these two parts are the wings of the believer, and the equality of each is the goal of the believer.
Good deeds alone will not promise you paradise. The Muslim only enters paradise by the mercy of Allah SWT. Having both hope and fear stabilizes the mu2min in that the Hope will make u commit good deeds, and Fear will prevent you from doing bad deeds.
Khawf: fear.
Raja: Hope.
The heart, when it flies to Allah, is like a bird. The head is the love for Allah, and Khawf and hope are the two wings. If the head and the two wings are good, it will fly without any problem
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The people that will return to their lords easy and comforted only with a soft heart [fast, prays, give sadaqa and are afraid that their deeds are not accepted]. Moreover, Allah SWT accept good deeds only from the Muttaqeen [people that have taqwa]
Side Note: A person who really fears, he will get up and pray at night. Tahajjud is the mark of the believer {Mu2min}.
Allah SWT sent Mohammed SAW as a prophet, and the love of the prophet is a obligatory upon us. “None of you will believe until I become more beloved to him than his father or son” Mohammed SAW said.
If one loves anything other than Allah, then he is setting himself for hell fire. Why should be love Mohammed SAW? Because Allah gave us someone in a human state that we look unto, act like and seek knowledge from.
If you want to love someone, you really want to know everything about them. If you want to learn about Mohammed SAW, learn about him and learn his way.
“If you indeed love Allah SWT, than follow me” –Mohammed SAW
3 things makes you taste the Sweetness of the Iman
1. Loves Allah and his Rasoul SAW more than anything else
2. Loves another human being for the Sake of Allah SWT.
3. He dislikes returning to Kufr, just like he dislikes for Allah SWT to throw him in the hellfire.
IV. Actions of the Heart
Repentence {Tawba}
The prophet sAw made istikhfar over 70 or 100 times a day.
Everyone makes mistakes and sins, but those that repent are the best of sinners. Make Istikhfar for your lord than make tawbah to him.
Istikhfar is what you do with your tongue to the Lord
Tawbah includes istikhfar and also includes actions with the body to change.
People delay the Tawbah so much that it might be too late. It is delayed for the purposes of time and Dunya, and because the nature of men in that it always wants more and never satisfied. So if you wait until you reach a certain position to make a Tawbah, you will never be satisfied with the future position and you keep delaying it, again, until death.
Delay is from the Shaitan, for he starts in baby steps, s.a. delaying a prayer, delaying to pay for zakat, etc.
The day of judgement will not come until a fitnah will enter in every house. Some scholars say that this Fitnah is a TV. Most loved place in the sigh of Allah is the Masjid, and the worst is the Market. So you are bringing the worst beloved thing to Allah into our houses.
The sins are not felt anymore, as Mohammed SAW said this is the sign of Day of Judgement. When sins are not felt it is because the heart is all black, and that might be the cause delay of the Tawbah. After you purify your heart, you might feel sins again and make Tawbah once more.
You want to see how much sins you have then compare yourself with the Quran. How much are you reading the Quran? Sins and Quran do not mix. If you are not reading a lot of quran, that means you have a lot of sins. Your memory and knowledge will decrease with sins.
Read the Quran and keep consistency in your prayers and inshaAllah your heart will be cleansed.
5 condition of Tawbah:
1. Leave the sin
2. Regretful
3. Seek forgiveness /pay back the madhloom
4. Repent before death and before the sun rises from the west.
Magnetic change. Polar mag field changes, and it can change anytime.
Some scholars say the first thing that happens is the sun rising from the west.
