Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – 7 Steps to Curing a Corrupt Heart
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Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah Arabella Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy Ramadan
yulara al Amin, while early he also be of our course a limiter,
Sleeman cathedral. Hello Yomi. Dean, I'm glad
you survived Valley Saddam's brothers, when they plotted to
remove use of our de salam
from the their father's love
as they were plotting,
of course they were the children of a prophet.
So they had some kind of consciousness about the wrong that
they were doing.
However, this is what Allah subhanaw taala relates in the
Quran that they said, they said,
do what you have to do. And then what the Kulu mean, bury the home
inside him.
After that, just become pious. So do the wrong that you have to do.
Commit the sins that you want to commit. And then after that, just
become pious. So everything will change. This appears to be the
attitude that many of us have as well, especially when we're
overtaken by sin.
We feel like
we will commit the sin. And then after that, we know that we'll go
to the masjid and we'll change our way we'll go for hygiene. We'll go
for ombre. We'll do a few extra Nava. Keep a few extra fasts, what
the cool Noonan birdie Coleman Solly.
So after that you can become people who are pious and righteous
hasn't been Basri Rahim Allah he says that if there is a person who
can take his father's janazah
or a brother's janazah, he says a father's janazah to the graveyard,
bury him and come back and he still hasn't changed, then he has
a massive problem with his heart.
Because deaths are there to take heat from take a lesson from to
change us. A person is burying his own father, it comes back from it,
it's a massive loss, buried his own mother, and he didn't change.
That means the only thing that is preventing him from change is the
hardness of the heart.
Another sign of the hardness of the heart,
or the death of the heart
is not feeling like doing worship.
Just not inclined.
Just don't have any inclination whatsoever. Don't feel like it.
Some to some level, if a person doesn't feel like it, but still
knows it's an obligation. And he does it, then there's still a
problem in the heart. But it's not as bad as when you don't feel like
it completely. When you have no remorse of missing worships.
Somebody came to Hudson bacillary Rahimullah. And he said to him
that when we sit in your Druce when you sit in your gatherings,
they were extremely effective. His gatherings where he was a very
powerful individual. He had seen the time of the Sahaba he was
brought up by one of the wives of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam one of the imagine what meaning it seemed the time of the
Sahaba had seen how people have changed afterwards. And he
retained that piety.
So
the other thing is that he was very effective in his speech. His
speeches were supposed to be very powerful, both in terms of what he
said,
and the message that came from his speech, but also in terms of
Arabic in terms of the rhetorical aspect, because he was considered
to be a very eloquent Arabic speaker, and a writer. And that's
why part of the classics that you will study if you were to study
Arabic literature, you will study pieces of Heisenberg series
hotbar, in his work and so on. So not only did you have to strain to
understand what he's you didn't have to strain to understand what
he's saying.
He was extremely effective and articulate. And then it came with
a heart as well. So somebody came and said to him, that our hearts
are sleeping. When we listen to your talks, nothing happens to us.
Our hearts are sleeping. And he was very clear cutting in the way
he spoke. He says no, your hearts are not sleeping. Your hearts are
dead. They can't even be awakened.
So if they were sleeping, we'd be able to awaken them but
If they don't wake, then it means that they are dead.
And that's an absolute possibility. Because
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned about Hart's
methodology of Guru Rob, wealthy life guru, Rob gamma settle how
you will meet the one who remembers Allah and the one who
doesn't, is like a living person and a dead person.
It sounds far fetched. How is that possible we're living, our heart
is pumping.
Where we're alive, are we very much alive. But what it is, is
that the heart is dead. If a person doesn't eat for a number of
days, person is going to become weak, emaciated.
It's going to tell it's going to show
and likewise, if a person hasn't fed the heart and nourish the
heart for a number of days, then that is also going to show
there's going to be many effects of that. When a person whose heart
is dead.
And diseased is given Nasi Han advice, they won't accept it. No,
see how will not penetrate advice will not penetrate, you'll sit and
not only will you not accept the advice, you'll even mock the
advice. If a person mocks advice that's given to them. And that's
a sign of an extreme hardness of the heart.
There's many things that create hardness of the heart haram foods
they create hardness of the heart,
because we're being nourished, it affects our entire body. In fact,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said like the whole janitor
just said don't know who the eBill haram
the body which is nourished by the Haram will not enter Jana.
Jana is a pure place. The entire composition of this person is
through the haram. This is especially much worse if you're
feeding our children haram because our children are growing up.
They're being nurtured. They're growing. They're sustaining
themselves, the parts of their body, their limbs, etc, forming.
They are basically being formed on that income and that food. And
that's why it's even more detriment.
So how is that body going to antigen if that's what the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, something else that music is supposed to
harden the heart. Music creates. Generally, music, especially
today's music creates the desire to commit Zina and fornication and
to commit lewd acts because it's generally associated, they are
concomitant to each other, it seems they constantly come
together.
So that's something else that hardens the heart, just driving
around and keeping the music on just to have something ring in
your ear because it becomes a habit. You can't live your heart
calls out to it. It's that hypocrisy has been created. It's
already been developed. I could never understand the Hadith before
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that Alina or Yan between the FARC
often called That
music creates hypocrisy in the heart. And I used to wonder how
that was the case. But after reading a number of studies, and
when you experience music, it overtakes you, it overcomes you,
it becomes you. It's something there are many people who can't
stay without music. There are many people who work various different
jobs, they have to have something playing in their ear, they have to
have something playing around Otherwise, life is not the same.
They can't stand to be alone. They can't stand to be without sound,
they have to be with something, something banging into their ears
and the louder the better. This creates a hardness of the heart.
When that happens, then the thicker will not help because
thicker doesn't. The initial impact of the thicker is not as
hard hitting as is music. Music has an initial hard hitting
impact. That's why it's very influential. So that's why it
gives you an immediate rush. But once it's off, then it's down
again. Whereas the thicker the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa
Taala tilava of the Quran. It's not initially as hard hitting it
is has a softer approach, but it's more enduring. You read thicker
you do some thicker you read some Quran it will remain for a while
though it will be just a small amount because that's all the
thicker that we're doing. But then when as you continue to do the
Quran and get closer to Allah subhanaw taala and the basis of
our heart begins to form on thicker, then the more thicker we
do then it will add to it then it will not have only a small impact
then it will have a greater impact because it will also add
track the rest of the record and the base that we already have. So
dhikr works differently has a longer term benefits, whereas
music and so on doesn't. When a person gets used to music, then
what happens is that they don't enjoy listening to the Quran or
reading the Quran anymore.
They don't, they don't enjoy doing vicar anymore, because that's not
hard enough for them. It doesn't give them the same chills, it
doesn't give them give them the same hit. So that's how it creates
a hypocrisy in the heart because now, hypocrisy is basically to
call unto anybody other than Allah, and yet claim to be with
Allah. So it's a form of hypocrisy. It's a form of
hypocrisy. It's a disease of the heart, hypocrisy, Allah subhanaw
taala has described it in the Hartfield Kulu be him model than
in the Quran. Allah has described it as a modeled feed Kulu be him
Murad.
They have a disease in their heart, it's the problem with the
heart, they're thinking that they're right there thinking that
is best to them, for them to do it in a particular way. But what is
the truth is that it's totally wrong. That is the heart is so
disease, they don't even understand that. May Allah
subhanaw taala protectors from that. Another thing which creates
hardness of the heart is to remain among people who are heedless and
negligent, have such friends who are heedless and negligent, that
will also create the raw feeling being with the raw feeling will
also create an awful
because when you sit with those kinds of people, they will be
discussing everything but Allah subhanaw taala. And it's very
difficult for you to be the odd one out to try to push it in,
especially if you're not a very firm, strong willed individual.
The weaker people, they have to be even more careful because they
have no way of super imposing their ideas, or becoming
influential and trying to change the subject. And they'll just have
to toe the line. And eventually that will they will become used to
it. And that will become their way of doing things. It's up to us to
decide how much of each of these things that we're involved in, and
the state of our heart, these are just all reminders, conflicts and
arguments are definitely a cause for hardness of the heart.
Conflicts and arguments are so bad, that they even pervade your
worships and your salats if you have a conflict with somebody, and
you come for Salah to the masjid,
you come for Salah to the masjid. And suddenly you catch sight of
this individual that you have a conflict with. That's it, your
brain will go into overdrive, you will start to think of your
conflict and your arguments and why you're right and his arguments
and how you can break his arguments and how you can counter
them how you can respond and your entire salad which is a perfect
time for thinking for most people. Salah in fact, for some people is
the only time they think because we every other time. They're busy
with something they engaged in something they occupied in
something when it comes in Salah they're supposed to be occupied
with Allah, but because our hearts aren't there, and the thicker
aspect of our Salah is not around is not present, then we know we
have to these are for the people who are pious to a certain degree
who pray their Salaat. So those five seven minutes, we read what
we have to automatically it just comes out, but our minds think
about everything else. So we are thinking about this conflict and
how after Salah define to speak to him, then this is what I will say
and this is my response. And this is how I will answer him. Again
that creates a greater heart hardness of the hearts
of course love of the world,
love of the world.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala as punishment for certain sins is
that he allows the person's heart to diminish and to become weak
and to become diseased. That's a punishment sometimes for certain
sins that we commit colorable Rana Allah kuruva Hatami Allahu Allah
colluvial That's extreme. Allah puts a seal on the hearts for
certain sins that they do.
For example, it mentions that if a person misses three Gemma's taking
them lightly,
it's not a big deal, I can miss it.
Many people they say that once a person misses three Joomla hours
he becomes a Kafir. That's not what the Hadith says. The hadith
is much more nuanced and much more particular. It says that a person
who misses three jervois Without
while taking them lightly. Allah will put a seal on their hearts.
Then it's only a downhill downhill fall. Because once the seal is on
the heart, no Tofik comes see
means no Tofik no divine guidance, no divine enablement, no
providence from Allah subhanaw taala, the Rama just bounces off,
there is no Rama that will enter. And thus a person is left to their
own utilities, their own facilities, their own ways of
doing things, which the knifes will just in, inclined towards the
dunya. Because that's the way we are. If it wasn't for Tofik, we
would never be able to be guided. The only thing that is keeping us
guided is the fact that Allah subhanaw taala is actively guiding
us. That's why even though I thought Allah he says that when
you do a good deed, then don't think you're doing it. Understand
that it's been from Divine enablement, it's a matter of
Tofik, even a simple good deed that you consider insignificant,
and you think that I should do much more, but you've been you've
at least kept up fast. You've at least prayed you're solid, well
understand that this is no achievement of yours. This is
Allah subhanaw taala giving you the Enable enablement, because if
he didn't want you to pray, then you wouldn't even be praying. So
there's many ways of looking at this, first and foremost, to
understand that when we do solid, we mustn't start thinking or when
we do any good deed for that matter. We mustn't think that it's
our accomplishment over somebody else, especially when it's a
competition scenario, especially when you're trying to say I'm
better than so and so.
People compete with each other in various different ways a person
works for the brewery, his justification, he works for a wine
shop, or he serves wine or works in an off license or a restaurant
selling beer, etc. His justification is at least I'm not
working for the bank. Robber is what Allah subhanaw taala has
declared war against.
So at least I'm not working for the bank. And the person who's
working for a haram investment firm who is involved in riba he's
saying, well, Allah subhanaw taala has cursed those who serve wine,
who sell it, who drink it, who buy it, who transported 10 different
people that are engaged in any kind of
interaction with wine, Allah subhanaw taala has custom. So at
least I'm not like that. So this is the human way of justification.
When the heart becomes corrupt, we don't see the reality. So then
what we do is we allow the shaytaan to justify for us. So the
person working in a in a liquor store or in a restaurant that
serves liquor is serving the liquor. It's not as bad as working
in a bank, he says, and the person working in an investment haram
bank, etc, is saying, well, it's not as bad as serving alcohol. But
this is the way that humans justify for themselves.
So a person who does a good deed, they should never think that this
is their achievement, they should realize so what do we do them, we
realize that it's from Allah and we thank Allah and Allah subhanho
wa Taala says that Allah insha Allah as Eden Macomb if you are
thankful, then we will increase you. So it's to give due right to
Allah subhanaw taala because he is the one who has enabled us.
So we must be thankful. Number one, every good deeds you do
however small it may be. shaytaan is going to make you feel that if
you do a few good deeds, but you don't do many, many good deeds and
you're not as good as other pious people. Shaitan is going to make
you feel useless, worthless. Yes, there's definitely a difference
between the two. But shaytaan is going to make you feel useless.
He's going to make you feel futile. Redundant your job, your
your task, your whatever you've been doing, your achievements,
they all redundant. That's what he's going to make you feel like,
but then we should focus on the fact that if Allah subhanaw taala
had absolutely no good plan for us, then we wouldn't have even
been praying.
So the fact that we can even do a small good deed, the one way to
look at it is that Allah still has something for us. Allah is still
giving us Tofik and inshallah he'll give us even more Tofik so
when you start looking at like that your love for Allah subhanaw
taala will grow your love for Allah subhanho wa Taala will
increase and that will insha Allah make things much better. So it's
the way of looking at these worships that is very important.
Everything can take us closer to Allah if we look at the right way,
because Allah is part of everything. We just have to find
him in everything. Allah is part of everything. We just have to
find him in everything. And that is what really matters. That is
when the heart becomes associated and connected with Allah subhanaw
taala.
Arrogance is really bad for the heart, to be arrogant is really
bad for the heart. Because then you're building yourself up,
you're magnifying yourself, you're exalting yourself.
You're considering yourself to be greater than someone else. Whereas
true majesty is only Allah's
He is the only one who can claim that for himself. If Allah
subhanaw taala has given us a form of distinction. And people have
praised us, then consider that to be just an advanced glad tiding
that's fine to be happy that Allah subhanaw taala has given us
something and to thank Allah about it. Many people ask this question
that I'm very good at this, that or the other, and I feel that it's
my achievement. Well, we do feel like it's our achievement. Because
we apparently achieved this, we went out of our way to get
something and achieved something. So it is our achievement in a
sense, but that doesn't give us the right to consider ourselves
superior to somebody else. Yes, maybe better in that thing, but
you have to be very particular about this better. Maybe in that
thing, I can do this better than him. I can drive better. I can
teach better. I have more money. There's a physical evidence for
that fact. But does that mean I'm superior to this individual? Does
that mean that now I have the right to look down upon this
person. Humiliate that person consider that person despicable
because they don't enjoy the same thing that I do know.
What we must realize is that at the end of the day, even though
it's our hard work, who gave us the trophy to do the hard work?
Okay, you may have inherited from a rich father. Well, who made your
father rich to start with? Okay, your grandfather may have been
rich who made your grandfather rich. Okay. He may have been just
a very mashallah wealthy, landowning God family, as they
say, Well, who put you into the family, you could have been born
into some other family somewhere else in the world. At the end of
the day, that family did not choose you to be their son or
daughter. Allah connected you to them at the end of the day. So
it's all Allah said. It's all Allah has. And when you start
focusing on the true, bestow, the true giver, then any arrogance
from your heart will go, then it will just be thanks. Because
you'll think Allah gave it to me Hello, that's I need to thank
Allah subhanaw taala. If I want more coming, I need to thank Allah
because Allah says, and there's only benefit and thanking Allah
because that's what he says in the Quran. If you thank me, I will
give you more. That's Allah subhanho wa Taala is promise. So
there's only benefit to that he just wants to make sure that we
thank Him because He is the true giver and nobody else.
Allah subhanaw taala mentioned number of things in the Quran.
Allah says Belturbet Allahu Allah Kuru be him yet. There's a
statement you have to bear Allahu Allah Cooley, Colby moussaka bear
in Jabbar, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. He seals the hearts of every moto
Kabira Jabbar every arrogant,
every arrogant and exists exalting tyrannical individual. That person
may have some short lived
arrogance in the world and celebration in the world.
But eventually, they're never going to get close to Allah
subhanaw taala.
Unless there's some serious Toba that Allah subhanaw taala has
written for them. Allah says Furby ma Napoli Meetha, whom Allah Anna
whom Raja Anna Kaluga, whom Cassia because they broke the treaty,
because they broke the covenant, because they break promises.
breaking promises, is also a source of hardening the heart.
Especially if you do this often, you make promises and you break
them.
Now, the way to deal with promises is that sometimes you honestly
have full intention to fulfill your promise.
What you must realize is that if you are of those people who make
promises and over promise, then stop doing that. Because although
you have a good intention in your heart, that you're promising so
that you can help people. But you're so bad in time management,
or you don't have any time to start with, you know, you're not
going to be able to do it, but you think you might be able to do it.
Be realistic. You're letting somebody down at the end of the
day, you are letting somebody down despite your good intentions.
And of course, the person who breaks promises, purposely
heedlessly not purposely, his intention is to fulfill but he's
not going to remember. He's not going to remember because he
doesn't really care about these things too much. If that's the
case, don't promise just be honest and say unfortunately, I'm not
going to be able to do it. My apologies. It's easier to say that
hurt their heart. It might give them a slight effect on their
heart in the beginning, but it's better than when they're waiting
for you and then you don't you don't show up. So be very
particular about that because Allah subhanaw taala says, because
they broke the covenant, because of them breaking the covenant
light under whom we curse them. Cursing means we deprive them of
Our Mercy. We curse them, we said Lana to them. Why Jana kuruva whom
cause
here, and we made their hard, their hearts hard. We hardened
their hearts, that is the effect of them breaking their covenants.
Breaking a covenant is a serious, serious thing. So that's why be
very careful about that.
What happens when a heart becomes hard is that a black spot appears
as the Hadith mentions that every sin that we commit a black spot
appears on the heart. Now, of course, these spots they
accumulate, they continue they build up, and then they become
layered one over the other, we can only imagine the state of our
heart. Now, many people they will wear makeup on their face, nice
clothes, but unfortunately their hearts are black. rather wear the
makeup of piety
where the clothing of piety labasa, taqwa, the clothing of
piety is superior, rather than
adorning the face adorning the haircuts and the the clothing and
everything and the heart is black and it's dark and the person is
swearing left right and center. What kind of a situation is that?
So that is the first sign that these black dots appear. Another
sign the prophets of Allah some said in the huddle Kuru, toss the
camera yes, that will Hadid or to start camera use that will Hadith
these hearts. They also become rusty, just like iron becomes
rusty, the prophets of Allah some explain how iron become rusty.
Likewise, the heart also becomes rusty, if it's not polished. Iron
has to be preserved and polished. It mustn't be placed in a mixture
of water and air. Otherwise it will become we will attract rust,
it has to be taken care of its environment has to be right. If
we're exposing our heart to various different haram deadly
detrimental, dangerous environments, then it's gonna
cause our heart to become rusty. Essentially hot becoming rusty
means that it's dying. That's what it's saying. But the prophets
Allah some explained it as rust. So it's it can still be polished,
because something rusty generally can be, can be looked after, can
be then restored and
preserved again.
Then Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the heart becoming HUD, some
Casa Kulu Bukom. Then your hearts became hard for Tala Allah human
Emma do fucka said Kulu boom. Long time passed when they didn't
remember Allah they didn't do vicar, so their hearts became
hard. Allah subhanaw taala says Cal hija RT o Usha de casa. It
became like stone, in fact, even harder than stone. That's what
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, he wants to really
underscore this point that the heart is extremely important to
preserve, because that is what's going to then govern the
activities of the rest of the body. So if the heart becomes
hard, then it becomes like stone, it has to be softened. Now, if
Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that they remained without vicar
for a very long time remembrance of Allah and that's why the hearts
became hard. It tells us that vicar is what's going to then
soften the hearts.
Then Allah subhanaw taala after speaking about the black dot, the
prophets, Allah some speaks about the black dot Allah, then the
prophets Allah also tells us that the hearts become rusty.
Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says that the heart becomes heard, like
stone, then Allah subhanho wa Taala then says that we put a
steel seal on this heart. So forget it state, nothing can come
in because there's a barrier on top, there's a covering on top. So
now it's been closed and blocked off. You can't benefit this
person. You can't benefit this person. He's in prison. But now
he's not allowed to receive any anything from the outside world.
He has students survive on what's inside. So Allah subhanaw taala
says Hashem Allahu Allah could obey Him. Allah has sealed their
hearts. When Allah seals it, who's going to open it?
The shower is another word that Allah subhanaw taala uses in so
it's explains it in different types different ways. Alicia is,
as we say, it's a veil over the hearts. Then
it doesn't end there. Allah subhanaw taala explains it another
way he says, another stage you can call it the fifth stage. Is that
Allah Kulu been UK follow furlow
do their hearts have locks on it?
So the heart becomes locked. That's another expression of Allah
subhanaw taala talking about the heart. That's why this is when you
when it's locked that you can say the heart is dead.
There's no iman it's just about looking around. There's nothing
there anymore. It's died. It's death. Now, there's a poet who
says
Ladies and Murta faster ah ha be my Yeti, les salmon Mirta for
stara Habima Yeti enamel Mejia to me your to hear
that the person who has died a physical worldly mortal death, and
now he's relaxing in the grave is not the true dead person. The
person had great deeds and so on and now he's enjoying he's
relaxing for saraha Allah subhanaw taala has told him num canole
Mattila rose, sleep like a bride, only to be woken up by the most
beloved to you. So that's the enjoyment that person is not dead.
But the one who's dead. The real dead one is the one who's dead in
this life, who's walking around as a living being but he's dead
inside. Because he's dead now he'll be dead in the heart.
He's dead now he's dead in the heart.
Once there was a
South African scholar who is quoting this hadith that I quoted
earlier methil Allah the Quran bahala de la courbe wala de la
Gama saddle how you will me it. South Africans, especially those
from Durban they
they take their eyes, and they make them like W so instead of 50
It's 5050 becomes 50
It's just their way of saying it. So some of them are more
pronounced than others.
So one Eileen was in the masjid he was mentioning this hadith, he
said,
the difference between a loving heart
and a dead heart
is the one who does remember Allah and the one who doesn't. So
instead of the difference between a living heart and a dead heart,
he said the one the difference between a loving heart and a dead
heart. So when you hear it, it sounds like the difference between
a loving heart and a dead heart. It makes sense that way as well.
Because the living heart is a loving heart.
A living heart is a loving heart, a loving of the true love of Allah
subhanaw taala that's a living heart. Because only that heart can
be a loving heart who loves Allah and the vicar because they only
that heart can spend time doing vicar.
The way to test ourselves is that do we feel like a fish out of
water on our masala yet when it comes to YouTube or WhatsApp, we
can spend hours and feel bad afterwards. But we can spend
hours. But just to tell us do five minutes of liquor extra after your
salad. That is a burden the time goes so slowly, suddenly the
baraka in time comes, you get Baraka in time. If you have to sit
for five minutes just to do some extra liquor that you're not used
to doing just additional liquor over your salad. Suddenly, the
baraka in time, time becomes suspended. It just becomes heavy.
It's not Baraka, it's heavy. It's the opposite of Baraka.
You can't move you just can't wait for it to finish thoughts start
attacking you left, right and center. But yet, you know, you
don't have much time and you're on YouTube. And you go from one to
the next on WhatsApp, 500 messages, 300 messages, you have
to get through on 10 different groups that you're on, you can do
that, you know, you wasted your time, at the end of it, you'll
curse yourself. But you know, it's easy to do that.
That's just a sign of the heart. That's a sign of the state of the
heart. So a loving heart and loving heart It makes perfect
sense.
So how do you remove the problems from the heart?
Of course, there are many ways to remove the problems of the heart
first and foremost. Without this, nothing's gonna work.
So so the
feeling of
how bad our heart is recognizing the fact acknowledging it,
realizing it, assessing our heart and realizing were in trouble.
Any person who doesn't recognize that they're in trouble, then that
is compounding ignorance.
They don't know and they don't know that they don't know.
So
the first is to perceive the problem.
I've got a problem. What do I do about it?
One of the most effective ways especially in the month of
Ramadan, which Rasul Allah, which was known of Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam to do as well because he did so much worship outside the
month of Ramadan.
How would you tell that it's Ramadan for him.
Outside the month of Ramadan, he would stand for long periods until
his feet would become swollen and that's outside Ramadan. So
What did he do in Ramadan that was so different? You know, imagine
it. One was that he did extra worship, there was no doubt about
it. And it would increase as you get to the last 10 days, that
would become even more.
Number two, he would cry a lot in his door and so on. This is the
time to cry because one of the most beloved VHS drops
is that tear that comes out of the fear of Allah subhanaw taala.
And with the shaytaan away, it's easy. without distraction, it's
easy to just focus
and just cry.
In fact, what the Allama mentioned is that if you've had a loss and
you're feeling vulnerable, you're feeling emotional. That is a
perfect time to start reading the Quran and making your doors and
crying.
Basically,
using that as an outlet for your emotion in the positive way.
You've lost somebody, you've had a setback, something has happened,
which has made you emotional, you want to cry.
How should you cry, cry for nothing. You're going to have to
cry, it's good to cry, by the way, it's good to cry.
The person who doesn't cry, his hard hearted,
it's good to cry, but cry for the right reason direct your crying in
the right reason in the right place. Start making dua and just
just asking Allah and just connecting with Allah and crying
there, open the Quran with meaning and and just cry with, there is no
way that you could read a page of the Quran with the meaning and not
cry. If you want to
every page of the Quran I guarantee you any page of the
Quran, you open and you read it, there will be some material in
there that will soften your heart like this, no doubt about it.
That's the beauty of the Quran. In fact, people have gone as far as
saying that if I ever want to make a decision, I would open up any
page of the Quran. I will read that page with meaning. And I'll
have my answer there. And I've tried it a few times and it works.
The Quran is multifaceted. It's a G Ben what it does and what it can
do. Because it's just so universal in its application, it gets right
to our hearts, open the Quran, you'll see that so use your
emotion in the right direction and benefit your heart by that. So
crying. Number three, of course, avoiding sin that is the biggest
culprit that is what's going to make the heart even hurt the heart
even harder. So avoiding sins is very important. That goes without
saying number four.
Keep these are obviously some we're talking about sin in general
than specifically singling out some sins to be a bit more
particular. So Mannahatta vasara, hula, anybody who anybody who
lowers his gaze for the sake of Allah,
or rather who Halawa tell Iman,
Allah subhanho wa Taala will give him the sweetness of faith will
allow him to taste the sweetness of faith.
In fact, according to OSHA, he says that if you want to become a
master job with that word, if you want to become a person whose
every door is accepted, whose doors accepted, the next time you
come across something haram, lower your gaze for the sake of Allah
and make a special dua them and your door will be accepted.
Because that's a moment of acceptance. Allah loves it when a
person avoids the haram for his sake. And one of the most easiest
way or most prominent ways that places or instances where this is
happening, is engaging in gazing at the Haram
because it takes a lot for a person, although you know that
gazing it's you're not gonna get anything you're just giving
yourself, you're just making yourself jealous, you're not
getting anything because I mean, you can't have everything you see.
You can't have everything you see. So what's the point of it really.
But this is the challenge that we especially as men have.
But this is the way to take it so that our hearts become softer.
Number five, a regimen of
a specific litany of liquor, a specific amount of liquor, that is
with focus, and the best of gar are those that are from the heart
directly. Because you have to focus for them. You can't trick
yourself, see, the speed is very good. And you get reward for it as
well. But to give you the real power and potency of the speed,
you have to have concentration. Otherwise you're going or you know
you're spinning the TSP around, or you're clicking it in the modern
form.
But your mind is elsewhere and you're reading Subhan Allah
Subhanallah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Allahu Akbar Allahu
Allah. But your mind isn't there. Your heart isn't in it.
That's why if you do vicar of the heart, somebody could
of the heart as well. You have to be doing DICOM for it to count as
they are otherwise you just sitting there thinking about
everything else and you know it. In this one, you will be deluded
to think, Okay, I've done at least 100 Dismiss, okay? Imam Ghazali
has mentioned that any person who takes the name of Allah, even with
negligence, it will still benefit him.
That's how powerful the name of Allah and so if you know that that
will become even a bigger fitna for you. Right? Because, you know,
the, the bigger ILM you are with a corrupt heart, the more you will
justify to yourself. The worst of people are the Obama who have a
corrupt heart. Because they know the loopholes, and their hard
heart corrupt HUD will make them use those loopholes.
And when you say an acronym, don't blame those who've sat in Modesto
seven 810 years and on him. Everybody's an acronym at some
level. The fact that you have Imani you recognize Allah, you are
an alum of that level.
Right? The more you know the bigger RLM you are. So don't just
say when you say Hi Linda is talking about a formal designation
only know it's talking about everybody.
So the crolla and recitation of the Quran which is the time in
Ramadan recitation of the Quran, especially with meaning,
especially with reflection that is really beneficial for the HUD are
Allah mentioned that if a person has sufficient concentration in
reciting the Quran, he doesn't even need a shake.
He can reform his heart just by the Quran. The Quran is the
biggest shake of all, but he only gives itself to those who are very
disciplined. That's that's the difference. And most of us aren't
disciplined. That's why we need the sheikh to help us. But
otherwise the Quran is strong enough for that. It's the word of
Allah. It can't be derived. It can't be bereft of benefits.
That's why for Margiela Hua, what is the polishing and the
illumination of the heart the brightness of the hearts tilava
terracotta
jeweler or Bernina it's it's a form of polish and illumination.
And brightening of the heart is recitation of the Quran.
The Quran has actually come down to revive the dead that's that's
the purpose of the Quran is to revive so you will revive the dead
hearts
number seven
to stay hungry.
That helps to get control over the hut essentially through the knifes
in this case, Ramadan is the time when we can do all of these
things.
Number eight, do hours and the in the latest recesses of the night
dodgen Night vigils that is very powerful
to purify the heart, and above all,
with all of this companionship of the pious Kulu Masada to be with
the truthful words, this will help us
we need to have as many of these factors as possible. No one of
these factors is enough. We need to have all of these factors.
Because if we don't do that, Allah subhanaw taala says, Amen. Yeah,
sure, undecorated, Rama and Inaka. Yet Allah Who shaytaan and for who
Allah who are in this is one of the most frightening verses for
me,
that the one who abstain stays away from remembrance of Allah,
then we designate the shaytaan for him, and that shaytaan becomes his
close accomplice.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says, A Lavinia guru. Guru Allah has the
Quran Kathira remember Allah subhanho wa Taala abundantly
that's what Allah says in the Quran. Remember Allah abundantly?
Do we remember Allah abundantly? How much do we remember Allah?
How would we describe our remembrance of Allah? A bit? We do
at least a bit normally.
So most of us would say we remember Allah a bit at least. But
you know how that's been explained in the Quran.
Well, if Quran Allah Allah kalila
you speaking about a specific group of people, they only
remember Allah subhanaw taala a bit with a baby Bina Boehner Dalek
La Ilaha illa Allah Allah Allah. These are the monarchy Kenya
speaking about. They're the ones who used to remember Allah
subhanaw taala a bit just to prove just to show that they're still
believers in Tamil Rasul Allah lorrison. Just to show the
believers they used to come for the Salah, they still remember
Allah but just to show him look, I'm showing that I'm a believer.
Is that our state today?
Is that our state today? So may Allah subhanaw taala give us the
Tofik to do abundant vicar and to remember him and connect us to him
especially during this month Allahumma into salaam into
Siddhanta Bharti Airtel God really cron
Allahu me are you up to you Vaticanus Davi Allah homea Hana me
eminence Illa Illa Allah subhana que nacwa nominal body mean
just Allahu Mohammedan Mahieu Allahumma salli wa salam ala
Sayidina Muhammad whatever the * you say you know Muhammad or
vertical synonym of Allah except our doors of Allah accept our
discourse. Forgive us our sins and our mistakes of Allah purify our
hearts of Allah make our hearts yours. Allah make our hearts,
collarbone Salim our hearts will not find a place in your pure
court in the hereafter. If they're not purified in this world. We
don't allow dirty people to enter the Masjid. We don't allow impure
people don't come into the masjid themselves. Oh Allah. These are
the rules that we've set in this world for your masjid and for your
homes, your houses.
Oh Allah in the hereafter what will happen if our hearts are
dirty? How will they find a place in your pure presence of Allah
will be deprived of Allah We ask that you purify our heart. You
give us the trophy to enjoy your liquor, to enjoy your remembrance
and to make our hearts a living heart. To make it a heart that
lives that lives by you that lives in is nourished by your
remembrance of Allah safeguard us and protect us from our
weaknesses, from our desires, our our lowly desires, we ask that you
protect us from our lowly desires of Allah, we want to we believe we
have Iman, we want to worship you, but our desires overcome us. We
can't protect our eyes. We can't protect our ears. We can't protect
our minds. We can't protect ourselves. Oh Allah we ask that
you give us Tofik you give us You make us of those who are
considered to be inhabitants of paradise. You make us worthy of
that position of Allah grant us gender to hear those of Allah
grant us genital fear dose of Allah, this is the month that we
don't want to waste. It's the month in which we want to ask you
and we want to continue asking you how Allah grant us your love and
the love of those who love you. Oh Allah grant us from the rivers of
Your Mercy of Allah grant us from the rivers of Your Mercy, for
where the destitute ones and we need your attention. We need your
focus of Allah We need your mercy and your forgiveness of Allah. Oh
Allah allow us to be those who can shed tears in front of you, out of
fright for you. Out of Reverend fear for you. Oh Allah, we ask
that you don't harden our hearts, that you soften our hearts. You
give us two feet to do all those things that soften the heart of
Allah otherwise what kind of a face will we show you on the day
of judgment of Allah, we ask that you make the best of our days the
day that we stand in front of you, and you make our lives
accordingly. Oh Allah, Oh Allah where your servants as you
yourself have called us Your servants despite us being sinners.
You say in the Quran? Yeah, a buddy Alladhina Astra for Allah
and foresee him lead Donna to me Rahmatullah. Oh, my servants who
have transgressed against themselves, do not become
despondent of My Mercy. This is what you have said. And that's
why, despite all of our wrongdoings and our corrupt
hearts, Oh Allah, we are still asking you and we're not
despondent of Your Mercy of Allah, keep the shaytaan away from us,
keep us continue to ask you, Oh Allah, we want to always be asking
you all the good deeds we do from you. And then from your Tofik give
us the Tofik to thank you for every good deed that we do. Oh,
Allah, you've given us so much that's around us. Every type of
benefits and bounty we have at our disposal. This is very different
from many Muslims around the world and many other people around the
world who was suffering. Oh Allah, today, we're in a sense of
security. We're in a sense of safety. We're in assist of
prosperity. Oh Allah, don't let us be deluded by the state. And don't
take it away from us. We ask you to continue your security over us
and your grant us well being. But we ask that you give us the Tofik
to thank you over and over again. We asked, we asked you to, we
beseech you to help us and help our children and protect us and
protect our children now entire progeny until the Day of Judgment,
from all the evils that are out there and all the challenges and
the challenges that continue to arise every time. Our Allah grant
us beneficial knowledge and protect us from wasting our time.
We waste so much time even in this month of Ramadan. We waste so much
time with the bounties that you have given us. The money that you
have given us. We buy things and we waste time with them. Oh Allah,
how are we going to answer to all of these things? We haven't
fulfilled the rights of any object that you have given us. Oh Allah
make us your true servants so that we really know how to do this. Oh
Allah Oh,
Allah those who are sick among us, oh Allah grant them Shiva, those
who are
those who are sick around us, grant them Shiva. Those who of us
are sick in our hearts. Oh Allah, we ask that you grant a strength
in our hearts. Oh Allah grant a strength in our hearts with your
trophy. Oh Allah those who are in any other type of problem or Allah
in any other kind of difficulty or law, remove that difficulty and
grant them patience. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us earthier,
especially in this month of Ramadan until we pass away of
Allah grant us the Colima on our deathbed, and make a grant us
grant your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam, the highest
station on the highest station in the hereafter the MACOM Muhammad,
Allah we ask that you give us his company and you send your abundant
blessings on him. Oh Allah make the best of our days the day that
we stand in front of you Subhan Allah because Allah is that your
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