Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – State of the Heart

			For a person who wants to pray,
but they're stuck in traffic and
		

			there's no way they can stop
pouring out outside and they miss
		

			the answer prayer everyday they
get it. They made the effort but
		

			today there's just extra traffic.
Allah subhanaw taala likes that
		

			person and loves that person more
than the monastic who was in
		

			Madina, Munawwara who would go for
prayer in the masjid because they
		

			had to otherwise they'd be caught,
they'd become known to be
		

			hypocrites. So he was praying all
the praise with the prophet Elijah
		

			in mustard and robbery. But Allah
loves this other person better who
		

			is living in London or New York or
whatever it is, and he's missed
		

			this pair accidentally on that day
because of this huge freak
		

			occurrence of extra traffic. So at
the end of the day, it's the state
		

			of the heart in that context.
Otherwise, it's just wrong to say
		

			I've got a good state of the
heart, but I don't do anything
		

			with it. That's not you can tell
people I'm so kind and so generous
		

			I feel for you, but you never do
anything for them. I feel for the
		

			people of Syria. For the people of
Palestine. We never do anything
		

			that's just claims. It's a desire,
but it's a latent desire that has
		

			not given rise to anything that
hasn't manifested