Test Your Heart

hassana elkoussi

Junior Member
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TEST YOUR HEART

“…How heavy is the Qur’an upon the immoral fasiq, and how heavy is worship and prayer upon the immoral fasiq hypocrite! The prayer is so heavy upon these hypocrites! You see him sitting and writing in a diary for one, two, or three hours, or standing and talking for one, two, or three hours, and if he stands behind the imam for five minutes, it is as if a mountain has been placed on his chest and heart. The diseases of the hearts, we seek refuge with Allah from them…

Because of this, if you want to test your heart, inspect it and test it out when the Qur’an is being recited - is it heavy upon your heart or not? Test your heart out during worship. Test your heart out when you see the salihin. Test your heart out when you are making your adhkar during the morning hours. Test your heart out when you stand up to pray - do you love to pray? Or is it heavy upon you? If it is heavy upon you, and if worship is heavy upon you, then ask Allah to remove the hardness from your heart and replace it with softness, because this is proof that the jahiliyyah is still entrenched in your heart and soul.

The hardness of the heart…we seek refuge with Allah from the hardness of the hearts. The hardness of the hearts is increased by satisfying the desires - sexual desires, even if by permissible means, and the desire for food, even if by permissible means.

This is why they say that the softness of the heart is achieved in six occasions:


-Praying at night
-Reciting the Qur’an
-Keeping the stomach empty from food
-Befriending the salihin
-Dhikr
-Istighfar during the morning hours



This is why if they felt that their hearts were becoming hard, they would say: “Lead us to those who will lead us to Allah,” and the best people are those who, when you see them, remind you of Allah…he whose condition and mannerisms remind you of Allah and whose words cause you to increase in your obedience to Allah, and when you see him you remember Allah.


In fact ,one of the blessings of Allah upon a person is that He makes faith beloved to him and beautifies it in his heart:

{“And know that, among you there is the Messenger of Allah. If he were to obey you in much of the matter, you would surely be in trouble. But, Allah has endeared faith to you and has beautified it in your hearts, and has made disbelief, wickedness and disobedience hateful to you. These! They are the rightly guided ones.”} [al-Hujurat; 7]

This is a blessing from Allah…with this, the person derives pleasure from this hardship and this roughness. Why? For Allah. He tastes its sweetness…the torture is sweetness when it is for Allah…exhaustion is beloved if it is for the Knower of the Unseen…

It was said that before Sheikh Sayed Qotb was executed for being one of the Moslem Brothers, he had been subjected to enormous torture & whenever the torture became too much for him, he would look to the sky and say: “All of this is nothing when it comes to Your love…all of this is nothing when it comes to Your love,” meaning that all of this torture is nothing when it is for the love of Allah.”


May all our deeds be for the sake of Allah:salam2:
 

Muslim18

Blessed Muslimah
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Jaza kallahu khair
Ameen to your dua may allah soften all our hearts ameen:tti_sister:

:wasalam:
 

BrotherZak

Junior Member
Subahanallh someone should sticky this post. Most profound and touching post i've read the last 8 months on this forum. Amazing brother keep up the great work.
 

hassana elkoussi

Junior Member
Subahanallh someone should sticky this post. Most profound and touching post i've read the last 8 months on this forum. Amazing brother keep up the great work.

Gazak Allah khairan, brother . I appreciate this, but I'm a sister. lol:hijabi: May Allah accept all our good deeds.:tti_sister: Ameen
 
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