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