Kamil Ahmad – Heart Therapy: Episode 7 – Causes for the Sickness of the Heart

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			Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim, Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam. ala Kalani Allah,
Allah urged marine. While early he was so happy woman, Sarah Island g when we had the ILA Yomi Dean,
Abed Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. Welcome to this latest episode of heart
therapy.
		

			In the previous episode, we looked at some of the symptoms of a diseased heart,
		

			a sick heart. And that is because the hearts are basically divided into three kinds, you have the
sound and healthy heart. And then you have the dead heart. And then you have
		

			the sick or the diseased heart.
		

			And most
		

			people, they have this kind of heart the diseased or the sick heart. And that is a heart that has
some life. But it also gets affected
		

			by various diseases, and so it becomes
		

			diseased but not fully dead.
		

			And so in this episode, we want to look at some of the causes that lead to the sickness of the
heart. And so there are certain things, certain causes, that when they are present, the heart
becomes disease. And so the sickness of the body, the sickness of the physical body, is when it
strays away from its natural way of functioning, due to
		

			some external factor
		

			that throws it off course.
		

			And so thereby corrupts its senses. And its natural movement. It corrupts either its senses, or its
natural movement. And so either
		

			his affected senses go away completely, like a person who becomes blind, or he becomes deaf, or they
weaken the senses, they weaken, such as those who have an impairment in their eyes.
		

			And so they require glasses in order to see properly
		

			or those who cannot hear properly, but they are not completely deaf.
		

			Or they perceive things through their affected senses, contrary to the reality, like perceiving
something that is sweet, to be bitter, somebody who has a problem with his taste, and so he tastes
something that is actually in reality, it is sweet, but it seems to him that it is bitter, or
something that is healthy
		

			in itself. But when he eats it, he thinks that it is harmful. And so he does not like it.
		

			As for the natural movement of the body. This is, first of all this that we spoke about is regarding
the senses becoming affected. Now we look at the natural movement, the natural movement of the body,
it becomes affected by diseases, and so it throws it off of its natural course. And so for example,
someone who has an ailment with respect to his stomach, he has diarrhea or he has constipation.
		

			What happens is
		

			his digestive system becomes weak. And so it throws off course, similar to that is the immune
system. Someone who has a fever or flu, his immune system becomes weakened, and so he is more prone
to diseases and he could easily pick up other diseases.
		

			And so the person who has a physical ailment or disease from
		

			a certain thing that is painting him that is causing him to suffer.
		

			It is according to how far his suffering will be according to how far he is from his natural course.
And so the cause for this is either one of two things, what causes his ailment, what causes his
disease, one of two things, either quantity or quality. And so
		

			a defect in quantity is either having a deficiency in something that he needs, or an increase of it,
either he has a deficiency in something that he needs, for example, he needs water, and he's not
getting enough water in his body. Or, for example, he is in need of, let's say, calcium, his bones
are weak. So, he is in need of calcium, he, he has a deficiency in his calcium, or he has deficiency
in his iron that causes him to become weak, or he has too much of something. So this is a defect in
quantity, as for a defect in quality, either he has an increase in his temperature, or a decrease in
his temperature, or there is too much humidity or his body is too dry,
		

			and so on and so forth. And so there is no balance. And this is regarding the quality.
		

			And so, why am I mentioning all of this, once we understand this, this is regarding our physical
bodies, and the diseases and ailments that affect our good health. Once we understand this, we
understand that the sickness of the spiritual heart is caused also by an external factor.
		

			It is caused by something that comes in and throws it off balance, it throws that heart that is
supposed to be going and moving straight upon the Straight Path of Allah, it throws it off course.
And which course is that which course is it, that it throws it off, it is the natural disposition
that Allah created upon, and that is the fitrah as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us
that every single child is born upon the fitrah, the natural disposition to recognize a loss of
Hannah, who would have had to recognize the need to believe in Him and to worship Him. So Hannah,
What?
		

			What did the prophet SAW Selim them say, he said, then his parents turn him into a Christian, or
they turn him into a Jew, or they turn him into a fire worshiper.
		

			And so, this external factor, this external factor, that causes the natural disposition, to
basically become imbalanced, and cause the heart to become imbalanced.
		

			Basically, it causes the heart to visualize the truth as being something else.
		

			And so,
		

			his perception of what the truth is,
		

			becomes different than the reality of what the truth is. So he no longer sees the truth as being the
truth,
		

			or he sees the truth contrary to what it really is, or his perception of the truth decreases, and
that therefore causes him to have less interest in it.
		

			Now, not only that, but also just like the sick body, the diseased body is disturbed by very little
change in its in its temperature, or in its movement.
		

			To the extent that a healthy body is not meaning a healthy body, no matter how high the temperature
is, or how low the temperature is, it could adjust to that temperature, but the sick body,
		

			the disease body.
		

			If the temperature changes slightly,
		

			it starts to suffer.
		

			And it no longer can function properly.
		

			Likewise, the sick heart, the diseased heart, it is disturbed by the very slightest, of shubo hat
and Shahada, the Shu heart are the doubts the uncertainty, that shaytaan whispers into our hearts.
And chawan are the lustful desires that we want to fulfill that our knifes our soul wants to fulfill
the physical, lustful desires. And so
		

			the very slightest, of these shoe hat or chawan, that come to the heart, that disease hurt, it
immediately falls into the trap of Trayvon.
		

			And so it is unable to ward off even the slightest, of shewhart, or Shahada, as opposed to the
healthy and sound heart. It is able to ward off even the greatest of Shahada. And she will have and
the greatest example of that is what Allah subhanho wa Taala told us about one of his greatest
prophets and messengers, use of it his Salaam.
		

			And so in the story of use of Allah, his Salaam, we know that he was basically exposed to a very,
very huge fitna, and that is the fitness of women. And so the wife of the ruler, the Aziz of Egypt,
he was living use value his lamb was living in that house. And she came to him and she was
beautiful. And look at who she was. And yet she was trying to lure use of alayhis salaam into an
illicit relationship.
		

			Now if that was any other ordinary human being, he would easily fall trap to that. Why because most
people they don't have a certain level of that sound and perfect healthy heart. However, a loss of
Hannah who would tada he gifted use of it has Salaam by sound and healthy heart
		

			that was able to ward off even such a huge fitna, like this. And remember that use of Hydra Salaam,
he was not an old man at the time, he was a young, youthful individual. But yet, because of his
sound heart, Allah subhana wa Taala protected him. And so what we learned from this is that those
with a sound and healthy heart, even the greatest of fit in, they're able to ward off.
		

			We'll take a short break here, and then continue in a few moments.
		

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh welcome back to this episode of heart therapy.
		

			In this episode, we have been speaking about the causes for diseased hearts. Why is it that hearts
become diseased? What are some of the causes. Now,
		

			when it comes to physical ailments, physical bodily diseases,
		

			the doctors they agree that being healthy revolves around three basic principles. If you want to
live a healthy life, free of ailments free of illnesses. then focus on three principles. Number one,
		

			preserve your strength, meaning, live a healthy lifestyle, eat properly,
		

			give your body the proper exercise that it needs. And so on and so forth. So, preservation of
strength.
		

			The second is protecting your body from all harm
		

			protecting your body from
		

			Everything that will harm it. And this takes this comes basically in the form of immunization. And
so, small children, we give them vaccinations to basically protect them from various diseases that
they can become exposed to. And so this is the second principal protection from everything that
harms the body. The third principle is to clear out
		

			or to cleanse the body of all toxins,
		

			everything that is in the body already that is harmful, get rid of it, flush out the body of these
toxins. And this, there are many different ways of doing it, and it is known as detoxing the body.
		

			One of the most common ways is by for example, going on a certain diet, only drinking a certain
fluid for 24 hours or 48 hours until your body is completely cleansed out of all toxins and harmful
substances.
		

			So these are the three principles for a healthy body.
		

			Once this is understood, we can understand that our hearts
		

			also require these same three principles. And so the first is something that will preserve its
strength. We need something to preserve the strength of the heart.
		

			What preserves it, what preserves its strength, what preserves its strength is enough, filling it
with a man and good deeds.
		

			The second is to protect it from harm, what protects it from harm? What protects it from harm, is
staying away from sins, staying away from all evil sins. And so, if you stay away from sins, this
will protect your heart from becoming diseased. And the third is cleansing the heart of all harmful
substances. What is it that would clear the heart of filth?
		

			What clears the heart of all filth is sincere repentance to Allah subhana wa tada from our sins and
constantly
		

			seeking the forgiveness of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Constantly recognizing our sins, and then
turning to Allah in repentance, a person who turns to Allah in repentance from his sins, it
basically means that he regrets having committed those sins, and he makes a strong determination to
never go back to that sin. When that happens, when that happens, Allah subhanho wa Taala forgives
the individual and those things basically leave the heart And so He cleanses his heart of that
filth.
		

			Now, having said that, there are basically two main causes that lead to all sicknesses and diseases
of the heart. And these two causes are basically summarized into L fitna, and aloha flap and fitna,
and Alaska.
		

			As for the first
		

			I'll fitna is basically loosely translated as a trial or tribulation, something that Allah subhanho
wa Taala tests us with. And so, the temptations, the temptations to which the heart is exposed to
		

			those temptations or what causes it sickness. And that is when we submit to those temptations. And
so these are the temptations these are the fitting of a shoe hat and a shower.
		

			And in the hadith of Hodeidah, imminently Mr. Ravi, Allahu Allah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he spoke about how it is these fitten that the heart is exposed to, and what happens as a
result the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
		

			that Phaeton or
		

			temptations or trials
		

			are presented to the heart they are exposed to the heart, one by one, any heart that accepts them
will be left with a black stain, a black.or, a black stain will be left on the heart. But any heart
that rejects that rejects that fitna. Then what happens?
		

			A wait mark, or a wait
		

			spot remains on the heart.
		

			And that is a mark of purity. So that the hearts are of two kinds. He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, the hearts are of two kinds, the dark heart that has turned away and become and that has
become like an overturned vessel. And a pure heart that will never be harmed by any temptation, as
long as the heavens and the earth exists. Then he said, The Dark heart only recognizes good and
denounces evil, when this suits its desires, and its whims.
		

			And so the Prophet salallahu, alayhi wasallam. Here, he placed the hearts when they are exposed to
and fitting into two categories. The first is
		

			the heart, which, when it is exposed to a temptation, it absorbs that temptation, like a sponge that
soaks up water, leaving a black stain on the heart. And so it continues to absorb each temptation
that it is offered with until it becomes darkened and corrupted, which is what is meant by when he
said, like an overturned vessel, when this happens to dangerous illnesses take hold of the heart and
plunge it into ruin. The first is that the person becomes confused as to what is good, and what is
evil to such an extent that he does not recognize good from evil. He does not accept the good, and
he does not denounce what is evil.
		

			The second dangerous illness is that he sets up its desires as its judge. And so it's judge the
judge for the heart. How does it decide what to do, based on his desires, so whatever is fulfilling
to its desires, he will do it, and whatever is not fulfilling to its desires, he will not do it. And
so he goes against the commandments of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And the commandments of the Prophet
sallallahu. Ali was. So this is the first kind of heart that Professor Salah mentioned in the title.
The second kind of heart is the pure heart, which has the light of a man. And so the light of a man
is bright. And from this heart radiance shines. And so when temptation is presented to this heart,
		

			it opposes it, and rejects it. And so the light and the illumination only increases. And so we have
two kinds of hearts, we have the black darkened heart, and we have the white, shining heart, what
causes the heart to become black, and what causes it to become become white and shining.
		

			It is the result of either accepting the fitting or rejecting them.
		

			So this is the first cause for the diseases of the heart.
		

			And that is how one responds to ill fitting the second.
		

			The second cause for the hearts to become diseased is an awful lot as I mentioned. And so when the
heart becomes heedless, the meaning of reflux is heedlessness or negligence. And so when the heart
becomes heedless of Allah and heedless of his commands, and heedless of the Day of Judgment, what
happens is
		

			that the person, his heart becomes diseased. And so, the cause for heedlessness of Allah subhanho wa
Taala is that the heart does not remember him, and it attaches itself to other than him. The cause
for heedlessness of obeying
		

			Wise commandments is not showing any interest to what Allah has commanded, preferring the base
desires over the commandments of Allah subhana wa Tada. And what causes the heedlessness of the last
day is that the heart does not have anything to remind it, of the of the Day of Resurrection. And so
it has nothing to remind it of death, and what comes after death, of the resurrection of the
existence of Paradise and Hellfire and so on, and so forth. And so these are the two main causes for
the diseases of the heart. I asked Allah subhanho wa Taala to protect us from all causes that lead
to the sickness and the death of the heart, and in sha Allah who to Allah with. With this, we come
		

			to the end of this episode, and we will come back in the near future with another episode of art
therapy until then subhanak Aloha, Moby Dick, Ash hydrilla and pesto Furukawa to be like, what
Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh I've been doing
		

			all my life.
		

			I've always held me.
		

			My dad
		

			gave me a
		

			soldier. Please
		

			don't leave me.
		

			alone.
		

			Don't leave me
		

			alone.