Abu Taymiyyah – Ep 9 Remembrance of Allah How To Soften Your Heart Series
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Alhamdulillahi wakaffah, wassalatwassalamalillani
nabiye Mustafa and Mushtabah.
The next point I would like to discuss,
my beloved brothers and sisters, in this series,
where we hope to soften up our hearts
is
Dhikr Allahi
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Doing Dhikr,
remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Al Imam Al Hafidmul Rajab
He says:
He says:
Softening up the heart
stems off from
remembering Allah SubhanaHu Wa Ta'la.
He says:
Remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
brings about the Khushur of the heart
and also
it becoming rectified
and softened.
And you find my beloved brothers and sisters
that
all of that which has been mentioned diminishes
when an individual now becomes heedless.
So the more you are in remembrance of
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la,
the more your heart will become soft and
rectified.
And this is how you will attain the
Khushurah that you may be looking for, whether
it may be in your salah or in
any other act of worship.
And Imran Khan
he mentions in his Kitab al Waabi lu
Sayyb. And for those who don't know what
this book is, this book, my beloved brothers
and sisters, is a book
which covers
the different benefits
of remembering Allah
Under the 16th benefit, he says:
remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
cause an individual to have a Living Heart,
his heart will come to life.
He says: Samya to Shaykh Alissam Tamia
He said, I had
who is his teacher.
Says, a comparison
between
remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and also
a Dhikr is
like the fish.
What happens when you take out the fish
out of the sea or out of the
water?
It no longer lives, right? And the same
happens to one's heart once it becomes void
of a Dhikr.
Ibnu
Rajab Alhambari Rahmatullahi
Alaihi,
He tells a little bit about the opposite
as well. What happens when an individual now
is not
an individual who is a Zakir,
someone who remembers Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He says:
Excessively speaking
and just chatting
about that which has no benefit,
it causes the heart of an individual now
to harden.
Ibn Al Qayb
also mentions that which is similar
when speaking about
busying your tongue with the remembrance of Allah
under Benefit
number 25.
He says that remembering Allah SWT
with your tongue
It's from the causes
of your tongue becoming occupied
from backbiting
and Namima, which means the telltale,
wal kedib
what a carry tells should I say, wal
kedib and also lying, wal fush walbatim
and
obscene
falsehood
that one may
utter on his tongue.
So the point, my brothers and my sisters
here, and I think it's extremely, extremely profound,
if you are busy with something, then you
are going to be occupied from the opposite.
Isn't that so?
Can your tongue be
occupied with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's remembrance,
while at the same time you are backbiting?
That's pretty impossible, isn't it?
If you're remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with
your tongue and you're constantly doing Astaghfirullah
Astaghfirullah
Astaghfirullah, saying SubhanAllah, Wa Alhamdulillah, Wa La ilaha
illAllah.
Can you at the same time now backbite
and slander?
No, you can't.
So he says, when one does that, it
busies his tongue, it occupies it from all
of these
different evil things that an individual might utter
with his tongue.
He says then
He says the Abt, the servant, he must
say something.
He must speak.
If he doesn't occupy his tongue with the
remembrance of Allah
and also that which Allah Azzawajal has commanded,
okay, he will fall into all of these
Muharramat, all of these evil things, or maybe
some of them.
SubhanAllah.
And then he says,
Because it is impossible,
for one to be safe from all of
this,
except by
occupying his tongue with the remembrance of Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And then he says, this
is something that has been witnessed and tried.
Okay, it has been witnessed and tried.
SubhanAllah.
He then goes on to also say,
whoever now,
occupies his tongue and makes him,
or makes himself used to just remembering Allah
Azza wa Jal constantly.
Okay.
His tongue will be occupied and busied
and protected
from falsehood
and false speech,
and so on and so forth. My beloved
brothers and sisters,
a question I would like to pose is:
How many of us
drive?
How many of us walk?
Okay. Perhaps most people will fall into these
2 categories, right?
Okay, they might be driving, they might be
walking.
And
when we are engaging in these two things,
right,
how much of time goes by
without saying anything?
When in fact we could actually
be occupying our tongues with the remembrance of
Allah
Think about it. How many hours a day
do we drive?
Right?
And for how long does our tongue stay
quiet for?
Days might go by and we don't even
say 1 Astaghfirullah,
And it would be so lovely to maybe
go through
different benefits of Astaghfirullah,
the different benefits of Laahu La Wa Laquati
Labillah,
Different benefits of sending salutations upon the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
And I'll leave that to you to maybe
look up, InshaAllah.
So this is now my beloved brothers and
sisters, number 8, from that which softens an
individual's heart. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give
us Tawfeeq to do so. Assalamu
Alaikum
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