Mohamad Baajour – Check Your Heart 6 Signs Of A Sound Heart Heartify #2
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Every
organ
in our body
is created
to carry
a certain task.
And
the perfection
of each organ
is reached
when
it applies the task that is
specified to it.
This hand
is created to grasp.
When it stops grasping, that means something's wrong
with it.
These eyes are created to see for vision.
When they cannot see anymore, something is wrong
with them.
Similarly,
this heart is created
and it has a task.
If it does not fulfill it, there's something
wrong with it.
What is the task? This task is to
love
and yearn
to be
in the company of Allah
to be in the company of his creator,
to love
what Allah loves,
to
work
in everything
that pleases Him.
This is the
task of the heart,
and
if the heart is not fulfilling that task
then you will notice
that
there is something wrong,
that is the heart that is
need, in dire need
of attention,
of a lot of attention.
It's just like if your
eyes stopped seeing, you run to the doctor.
When your hands stop moving, it becomes immobile,
you go to the doctor. Similarly when your
heart start,
you sit down in these kind of
gatherings
and you hear all this beautiful stuff from
me and others you
and nothing changes.
Check your
heart,
check your heart. When
the the verses of Allah are being recited,
and Allah Azzawajal
said that these ayaat if they are recited
on mountains,
the mountains will shake and nothing is happening
to me. Check your heart.
When you see the guy next to you
in the salat is weeping
and you're
trying to squeeze a tear,
check your heart.
Something's wrong.
Why is it important
to
check the healthiness of the heart and to
see if the heart is Saleem or not.
1st,
in order to
praise Allah
that he gave me this heart.
2nd,
in order to increase
okay. There are 6 today's title there are
6 signs
of Kalib Saleem.
There are 6 signs of a sound heart.
Why should I know them? Number 1, to
thank Allah for them. Number 2,
if I know that I have one of
them, to maintain it and increase it.
So lend me your hearts, not only your
ears. We're gonna mention 6 signs
that as I'm going,
as I'm discussing, you are saying 1: check,
2: needs work, 3: whatever.
Every one of us know themselves, okay? Bismillah.
1st,
the first sign that you have or anyone
have
a sound heart is that
this heart
is
away
from the dunya
and
residing
in the akhirah.
This heart's main concern is the akhirah.
Ali he said
something beautiful. I'll I'll read the translation. He
said,
the world is going backward and hereafter
is coming forward. Right?
Everyone who dies, Khallos, his word ended and
in front of him is the akhira, right?
And each one of them has its own
people.
The akhira has its people, the hereafter has
its people, and this life has its people.
So you should be of the people of
the akhira
and do not be of the people of
this dunya
because today
it's action
without accountability
and tomorrow
is accountability,
no more
action.
What does it mean that this heart is
attached to the akhira?
What does that mean? It's a beautiful term
but what does it mean?
This heart,
the owner of this heart listen carefully, please.
Whenever he wants to take any action,
any decision,
Is it pleasing to Allah?
Bismillah.
And if it's not,
wallahi,
if there is a $5,10,000,000
gain, he will say no.
That, if you are one of these people,
that's a very important number one sign that
you have a sound heart.
This sound heart
literally
all that it cares about in every move,
every move, every word
is the pleasure of Allah Azzawajal.
Now
because of that,
this heart does not feel envious
to anyone.
He doesn't
care how big is your house and my
how small is my house,
how
much money your job pays and how much
mine pays. No. No. No. All he cares
about is to take
from this dunya as much as he or
she can
before
time is up.
So he's looking at death
and he's
grabbing
as much as he can. Remember the example
we gave one time? They put you into
the vault of the bank and they said
you have 30 seconds
to grab as much as you can.
You will never ask for a break.
You will not say give me a break.
I want some tea. No. You're gonna grab
left and right because this is it. Similarly,
when last week we buried a 19 year
old and then we buried a 91 year
old,
right? That's a message
to all people in between. Get ready.
Don't be fooled that, you know, I'm going
to stay for a very long time. So
the the the owner of the sound heart,
he's always grabbing, looking for yalla yalla,
I have no time. Come on. Just like,
you know, you're waiting. You're gonna miss the
plane. Yalla yalla, come on. Pack up. Yalla,
let's go. This is how he thinks.
Is there is not much time. Give me
this. Where is the how can I invest?
I wanna invest as much as I can
before this the angel of death comes.
That does not mean
that
this person
is
abandoning
the dunya. No no no.
This person has a very good job.
This person, he volunteers all the time. This
person donates. This person
does a lot of things, but all of
them
with the mindset
they are for the pleasure of Allah That's
the difference. And the best example
was Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sitting in
the Masjid 247?
No,
he socialized,
he laughed,
he joked,
he cried,
he prayed,
he fasted,
he performed
jihad, he spoke with his wives,
he went to the market,
he did all this and he was
the best of the best, the best role
model. So number 1
is that this owner of the heart is
always concerned in the akhirah.
Does this job
not pleasing to Allah? Quit.
Is this transaction not pleasing to Allah? Stop.
Without
hesitation.
What if maybe everybody's doing it? No.
No. No. No. Everybody's doing it. It doesn't
mean anything to me. Unfortunately, this is a
very
major excuse that people
use. Everybody's doing it. Who said on earth
that when you do or when everybody does
something it becomes halal?
Who?
Who said that? As a matter of fact,
if you look in the Quran,
the majority is condemned in the Quran.
When
the Surat Al An'am Sheikh was reciting it,
And if you obey the majority, they will
take you away from the path of Allah.
And don't tell me that that everybody's doing
it. So number 1, just because of the
time, this person's heart is attached to the
akhirah.
2nd,
the owner of this heart
is always
worried
about his or her intention.
Why did I donate?
Why am I growing my beard?
Why
I'm coming to Fisher?
Why I'm studying this major?
Why did I go and I help that
sister, that brother?
Why? Always
always
worried
is that Amal sincerely for Allah or no?
I'm I'm just showing off. He's always worried.
That's a healthy heart.
The one who's, no, a 100% this is
sincere.
It's not sincere.
Just like someone say, I'm I'm 100%
not.
That's the definition of a.
So this person is always concerned, am I
sincere in this?
He's always pressing reset, refresh. Let me just
make sure, you know,
this
the owner of this person
literally
does not care
who sees him do
what.
He doesn't care.
If you knew that I donated, if you
do not know that I prayed PM, if
you know I'm a Hafiz, I'm not a
Hafiz, I don't care.
Allah
knows.
When
me and you reach to that level, O
Allah, we are one step closer
to be the owners of a sound heart.
Always worried about sincerity,
and that's right like I told you,
I will be discussing
what are the Amal of the Khlub, the
actions of the heart,
right?
And we're gonna start number 1, shaa Allah
ta'ala, with sincerity.
With sincerity. So number 2 is always worried
about how sincere his or her intention.
3rd,
the owner of this heart is in constant
remembrance of Allah azza wa Jal.
Always remembering Allah.
And when we say it's constantly in zikr,
that does not mean he's constantly saying you
Allah, you Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah. No, no.
He or she are always
conscious of Allah.
They are always
whether it's their job,
they finish, they come to the masjid, they're
sitting in this halakat, this is a gathering
of dhikr.
The salat is dhikr. Reading the Quran is
dhikr.
The tisbi and the tahmid is dhikr. They
are always in a form of dhikr.
They like I said before,
we can transform
every action that we do into an act
of worship.
Even if I go to the supermarket,
if I say to myself I'm going to
the supermarket
to buy the milk and the food and
the groceries for my family because I am
the I am the father of this family,
and that is my responsibility.
The trip back and forth to the supermarket
is an act of worship.
If I go to school, to the university,
and I register
and I pick the major of medicine. And
before I pick medicine, I say, you Allah,
I am majoring in medicine
so I can help
humanity.
And whomsoever comes to me, I cannot afford
it. I promise you, you Allah, that I'm
gonna take care of them. All my 9,
10, 11 years of medicine,
of education
is Ibadah
because I sat down for literally 30 seconds
and purified my intention. This is a person
with a kalb Saleem,
constant remembrance
of Allah Azza wa Jal. Like we said
the other day in our halaqa,
remember Allah to the level that people will
think that you are crazy.
You're walking and you're moving and you're
he talks to himself.
That the people say about you that you're
crazy,
because you're constantly remembering Allah, either with your
action or with your tongue.
This is 3rd. 4th,
there's something in Arabic called word.
Anybody knows what word means?
Word is a certain
time
or a certain
act of worship
that I will not let the day go
by without finishing it.
Okay. For example,
my word is to read 1 juzuk a
day. My word is
to, say, subhanAllah, 500 times. My word I
have a word every day I have to
do.
The owner of the heart, if he misses
his word
as if he lost all his wealth.
His word.
We have people now missing
missing
and nothing shakes.
Nothing.
I remember
one of our
uncles
back home,
he put the alarm
for fissure. He put the alarm for fissure,
and he did not wake up
or the clock
the alarm did not go off.
He woke up and started crying,
and he said,
I'm gonna stay
all day till Aisha in the Masjid begging
Allah to forgive me, maybe it will be
forgiven because I missed that fajr, and he
put the alarm.
We have brothers and sisters sleeping.
If I wake up, I wake up. If
I don't wake up.
So the owner of the sound heart,
he cries if he misses a sunnah.
A sunnah, forget about Forud.
5th,
very the owner of the sound heart is
very, very
stingy
when it comes to time.
He has no time to just sit down
and and vain talk
and waste of, you know,
gossip.
What did this guy do? What did that
guy do? Did you hear about this? Nothing.
No. Don't I'm sorry. No time. You know,
our our our,
righteous predecessors,
you know, when they used to be sitting
in a halacha like this and of course
at that time there was no, you know,
there was no pens or ink and all
that. When one of them, their pencil break
When the pencil break,
He used to stand up and say,
who would sell his pencil in our time?
$50.
$50 for a pencil.
Because he considers
going out and sharpening the pencils and coming
back. That's a lot of waste of time.
They used to eat.
They asked one of the salaf, why you
constantly eat the bread and you dip it
in water? He said, when I dip it
in water and it goes into my body,
it expands.
It will make me feel full. So because
the if I eat
meat, it it takes a lot of time
for chewing.
This, I put it, it melts. It saved
me a lot of time.
I have to go back
to grabbing the Hassanat.
This,
Instagram.
Hours.
Hours.
Facebook.
Waste of
silly
nonsense.
The more nonsense you give,
the more popular you get.
Nonsense.
And on the other hand
people used to, subhanAllah,
pay,
Allahi, they said if if money if money
if time can be bought, I want to
buy extra time.
So the owner of this heart very stingy
when it comes to time. Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said, niamatan,
there are two blessings that people do not
appreciate,
Health
and free time.
Numbers
6. Right? Number 6. Last one.
The owner of this heart
is very, very
cautious and concerned
about salat.
And, allahi,
if you ask me, Sheikh,
where or when
did you become did you feel like you're
really getting closer to Allah? I will and
I will answer you and say, when salah
became the most important thing in my life.
Then and only then I start feeling the
beauty of Islam.
Nothing.
The owner of this heart, nothing,
no one, nobody
will stop him from the salat time. Nothing,
nothing.
Now we have many people unfortunately,
Khazza,
when I go home I will pray them
all at night before I sleep.
And
unfortunately
he or she thinks that they are praying.
They're not praying.
Allah Azzawajal said, I'm not talking about once
in a blue moon and you had a
coma and you have no. No. No. It's
a habit. I'm busy at work. So I
when I come home, I will do them
all before I sleep.
Has been prescribed on the believers
on a prescribed
time
when the time for salat comes and you
don't have any valid excuse and you delay
it.
When the when the time for the salat
comes and you delay it for no valid
excuse, what are you saying? You are saying,
you Allah, I have no time for you
right now. When I have time, I will
pray.
Wait.
What else does it mean?
If you are really worried
and you heard Allah said in Surat Miriam,
the aya right after
the sajda. There will come a time that
people will
He did not say they do not pray.
That's a different story. That's a different topic.
He did not say they don't pray.
They postponed
Bohr
for after Asr came for no reason. They
postponed Maghrib till Asia for no reason.
What happened to them?
Fasawfayal
qawona uya.
They will go to a place called Ghayya.
What is Ghayya Allah? It's a place in
Jahannam
that the rest of Jahannam
ask Allah to protect it from.
These people who pray,
they pray.
They actually pray,
but they negligent when I come back, you
Allah, after the meeting, when I just finish.
And, again, I'm not talking about exceptional.
A doctor went to an surgery, and it
was 4, 5 hours. He cannot leave. No.
No. No. That's an exception. A student went
to a test, and the test is 6
hours. He had to combine before he goes
in. That's a different story. I'm talking about
I'm watching a basketball game.
I'm sitting in the park.
I can't get up. What are you gonna
say about me if I get up and
I pray here?
You see?
He's worried about the people,
not worried about the creator.
Allah said the salat is very heavy
except
on the people who have Khushu, who have
people who have fear of Allah Azawajal
and the salat
told us
the heaviest salat on the hypocrite
is fajr and isha in JAMA'ah.
The heaviest salat on the hypocrite
is fajr and isha in congregation
And Allah told us and I will end
with this,
SubhanAllah.
The real true men, not the male,
the true men.
Nothing
nothing
will make them miss
the remembrance of Allah
or performing the salat.
The salat
is the daily measurement of our iman. You
wanna check your iman?
Check how are you in your salat,
how concerned you are. You know, I'm sure
many if not all of us, if the
time comes for the next salat is getting
closer,
like let's say,
Asar is at 5
and 445
and I haven't prayed Duhr yet, the believer
is like there's a there's a crisis is
about to take place.
He stops the car, he stops everything new.
One time we got stuck in the midtown
tunnel in Manhattan.
We're all looking at the clock, Yeah, Arab,
let them move let the cars, the traffic
move. We have only 10 minutes. And Alhamdulillah
had moved with boom immediately on the street.
One time on the Long Island Expressway on
the snow
on the snow, the police pulled up and
said what's wrong with these people? What are
they doing? Putting their head in the snow,
something is wrong.
It doesn't matter, SubhanAllah, you will enjoy it
because you know you know what you're saying?
You Allah
you are more important to me than anything,
anything, anyone.
SubhanAllah.
Allahummar Zukna kalbin Saliman,
Allahummar Zukna kalbin Saliman. You Allah, I beg
you to bless us all with a with
a sound heart. You Allah, fill our home
with love and mercy and tranquility.
You
You Kareem, protect our children.
You Allah, keep them steadfast on your deen.
You Allah, make our last deeds our best
deeds and our last words.