     Onetime-Visitor. | Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 04:34 pm
Assalaamu caleykum to all who will pay a visit to this part of the forum. I have noticed the Impudence, shamelessness, sauciness, the bad characterisitics of many young people who write in this part of the discussion. Please do respect your brothers and sisters and don't be abusive. Be encouraging to one another, caring for each other, helping for each other and above all role models for each other. Does the name islam ring a bell to you?. Does the name somali ring a bell to you?.
You can't impress someone by insulting, you can't impress someone by being rude, you can't impress someone by being stingent, All of the above will reflect on your character and you will be known a bad person in the forum community.
Don't be bellicose, bruit, brackish, baleful and all the negative words you can think of.
Is it possible that some people who write here their hearts grew hard?. That they don't notice what they are doing as harmful to themselves and to others?.
Please read the next quote from a great Imam:
"The Hardness of The Heart"
Al-Fawaa’id [pp. 111-112] of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, may Allaah have mercy upon him.
[The translation is taken from ‘An Explanation of Riyaadh as-Saaliheen’ Vol. 1, Trans. Abu Sulaymaan and modified.]
The servant is not afflicted with a
punishment greater in severity than
the hardening of the heart and its
being distant from Allaah. The Fire
was created to melt the hardened heart,
this heart which is the most distant of
hearts from Allaah. If the heart becomes
hardened the eye becomes dry [and finds
no joy or tranquillity].
There are four matters, when the limits
are transgressed with regards to them,
which harden the heart: food, sleep, speech
and sexual intercourse. A body afflicted
by disease does not derive nourishment
from food and water and similarly a diseased
heart does not benefit from admonishment
or exhortation.
Whosoever desires to purify his heart
then let him give preference to Allaah
over his base desires.
The heart that clings to its base desires
is veiled from Allaah in accordance to the strength of its attachment to them. The
hearts are the vessels of Allaah upon His
earth, hence the most beloved of them to
Him are those that are most tender, pure
and resistant to deviation.
[A reference to the hadeeth, “Truly,
Allaah has vessels from amongst the
people of the earth, and the vessels
of your Lord are the hearts of his
righteous slaves, and the most beloved
of them to Him are the softest and most
tender ones” and it is hasan. Refer
to as-Saheehah (no. 1691)]
The transgressors preoccupied their hearts
with the pursuit of this world. If only
they had preoccupied them with Allaah and
seeking the Hereafter then they would have
instead reflected upon the meaning of His
Words and His Signs that are witnessed in creation. Their hearts would have returned
to their owners (in whose chests they reside) bestowing upon them marvellous wisdom and
pearls of benefit.
When the heart is nourished with dhikr,
its thirst quenched with contemplation
and cleansed from corruption, it shall
witness remarkable and wondrous matters
and be inspired with wisdom.
Not every individual who is endowed with
knowledge and wisdom and dons its robe
is from among its people. Rather the People
of Knowledge and Wisdom are those who have
infused life into their hearts by
slaughtering their desires. As for the
one who has destroyed his heart and given precedence to his desires then knowledge and wisdom are deprived from his tongue.
The destruction of the heart occurs
through possessing a sense of security
and negligence. The heart is fortified
through fear of Allaah and dhikr. If
the heart renounces the pleasures of
this world then it will be directed
towards pursuing the bliss of the Hereafter
and it will be amongst those who call to it. Should the heart become content with the
pleasures of this world the bliss of the
Hereafter ceases to be pursued.
Yearning for Allaah and meeting Him is
like a gentle breeze blowing upon the
heart, blowing away the blazing desire
for this world. Whosoever causes his heart
to settle with his Lord shall find himself
in a calm and tranquil condition and
whosoever sends it amongst the people
shall be disturbed and excessively
perturbed. This is because the love of Allaah
can never enter the heart which contains
love of this world until the camel passes
through they eye of a needle.
Therefore the most beloved servant to
Allaah is the one who He places in His
servitude, who He selects for His Love,
who He causes to purify his worship for
Him, who dedicates his life to Him, his
tongue to His dhikr and his limbs to His
service.
The heart becomes sick as the body
becomes sick and its cure lies in
repentance and seeking protection
from evil.
It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes
rusty and it is polished through dhikr.
It becomes naked as the body becomes
naked and its adornment comes about
through taqwaa.
It becomes hungry and thirsty as the
body becomes hungry and thirsty and
its hunger and thirst is satiated through knowledge, love, reliance, repentance and servitude to Allaah. |
