7 Ways to Increase Your Iman

And so there are several ways and steps

that we can take to strengthen our iman

in our hearts. 1st and foremost, we need

to get to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

We need to educate ourselves about who Allah

is through His names and His attributes.

For the more you get to know Allah

sub anhu wa ta'ala,

the more you will venerate Him in your

heart, and the more you will love Him,

and the more you will fear Him. Number

2, the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

at all times. Ask yourself, where are you

with respect to the dhikr of Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala With both your heart and your

tongue. And so the one who has iman

living in his heart, he is the one

who remembers Allah. But the one who doesn't

remember Allah, it means that his iman in

his heart is dead. Number 3, listening to

and reciting the Quran with contemplation,

with understanding. Number 4, remind yourself of the

akhirah. Remind yourself of the temporary nature of

this dunya, and do that by visiting the

graveyard to remind yourself

that today it is them, and tomorrow it's

gonna be me. This is the only reason

why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying

that we should visit the graveyards because it'll

increase you in iman. It'll remind you of

the temporary nature of this dunya.

It'll wake you up out of your heedlessness

that you're currently living in, and remind you

that this is your end, and that it

is coming very soon. Number 5, being

in an iman,

lifting environment.

Being in the gatherings of knowledge and dhikr

and good company.

Again ask yourself, when was the last time

you took time out of your busy schedule

to attend a circle of knowledge, to attend

an Islamic lecture, a class. All of these

are means that would increase us in our

iman. Number 6,

increasing ourselves in the doing of good deed.

And so as we learnt, iman is something

that increases and decreases. How does it increase?

It increases

by good deeds. The more you obey Allah,

the more act of obedience and act of

worship that you're doing, the more your iman

is increasing. And finally, among the steps that

we can take to strengthening

iman in our heart is by staying away

from sin, by staying away from evil deed.

And so if iman increases by doing good

deeds, then it decreases

by committing sin, and so we should not

look at our sin, our sins, as being

light, as being insignificant.

We need to treat our sins as a

huge burden

that is bringing us down, and so there

are some of us who do all kinds

of good deeds, but then we wonder why

is my iman not going up? The reason

is this, it is your sins that are

holding you back. It's like someone who has

a tank of water, and he's filling this

tank, but there are holes in it, and

he's wondering why is it not filling. Or

your car, you fill it. You fill it

with gas. You want to get somewhere to

your destination, but you find that it's

tank, and so we need to make sure

that these sins that we look at as

being light and insignificant,

our iman remains low.

our iman remains low.