{"id":31451,"date":"2018-12-13T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/how-to-treat-our-hearts-and-develop-sound-belief\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:19:15","slug":"how-to-treat-our-hearts-and-develop-sound-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/how-to-treat-our-hearts-and-develop-sound-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Treat Our Hearts and Develop Sound Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facilitating action is based upon true knowledge. Action has two modes: The action of the heart and the action of the limbs. As for the heart, there are two concerns: Belief and Sincerity or <em>Ikhlas.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Belief<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sound belief is accomplished by removing any doubtful matters from the heart. This is easy by the success of Allah and His gift, and many people have accomplished it in every age of Islam.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sincerity (<em>Ikhlas)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/featured\/sincerity-the-fourth-stop-of-your-spiritual-journey-to-god\/\">Sincerity<\/a> of the heart in the actions that are established by the limbs, by Allah, is extremely difficult and the entire creation froze when it heard the words of Allah: \u201dAnd they were only commanded to worship Allah, sincerely, with the <em>deen<\/em> (religion) solely for Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And also in His words: \u201dIsn&#8217;t the only <em>deen<\/em> for Allah, the sincere <em>deen<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Khulus<\/em> means purity. The Arabs say <em>laban khalis<\/em> which means \u201cpure milk\u201d, only when it is free of impurities. This is the milk that comes initially from the cow&#8217;s udder before it is contaminated with anything.<\/p>\n<p>Purity of the heart is contaminated by wrong actions and thus can be purified by <em>tawbah<\/em> and remorse. Therefore <em>ikhlas<\/em> is a great station in the <em>deen<\/em>, just as fornication is a precipitous fall into wrong action.<\/p>\n<p>The scholars of the heart have enumerated from both aspects of the heart wonders. I will indicate those things from them that will facilitate the path to purity and draw near the way of struggle with the commanding soul. Moreover, I will clarify those matters that will edify for you the way in which your intention is freed from any contingencies that cause action to be for other than Allah\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>The likeness of the one who acts for other than Allah&#8217;s sake, is like the one who bought a servant from his own wealth and said to him, \u201cThis is my abode and this is my work, so do everything for my sake.\u201d And yet despite that, the slave works for someone else. So tell me, who would be content with that condition?<\/p>\n<p>How then can we perform our actions and remove from them the self&#8217;s portion? If, for instance, you wore perfume, don&#8217;t say, \u201cThis is for me and my family.\u201d Rather, say, \u201cThis is for the angels of my Lord and in adherence to my Prophet\u2019s Sunnah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, food should not be merely for pleasure, but one should intend the strengthening of the body, in order to worship Allah well.<\/p>\n<p>The following hadith emphasizes the importance of intending, in our actions, the sole pleasure of Allah: \u201cThe first people to be judged on the Day of Standing are the following: a man who was martyred and he is brought into the Divine presence and shown his blessings and he admits to them and then he is asked, \u2018What did you do with all of these blessings?\u2019 He will reply, \u2018I fought for Your sake and was martyred.\u2019 Allah, the Exalted, will say, \u2018You lie! You fought to be called a courageous man. And it was said about you (and thus you have been recompensed.)\u2019 It is then ordered that he be taken to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/abcs-of-islam\/articles-of-faith\/islam-death-and-after-life\/\">the Fire<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then someone who studied the Qur\u2019an and taught it is brought into the Divine presence and shown his blessings and he acknowledges them and then is asked what he did with them. He responds, \u201cI studied knowledge and transmitted it, and I read the Qur\u2019an for Your sake.\u201d It is said to him, \u201cYou lie! Rather you desired to be called learned and it was said about you.\u201d And it is ordered that he be taken to the Fire, and he is dragged along his face and thrust into it. The same is said of the generous man.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Achieving Sincerity<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of the most beneficial things that will help you in achieving sincerity and the removal of blemishes from your intentions is truthfulness. You must realize that you will be asked about your knowledge in this life and the next.<\/p>\n<p>If you fail to recognize your inward reality&#8217;s impoverishment and disparity from its outward appearance, then you are despised and you have despised your own soul just as the <em>hadith<\/em> has indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The first step in moving towards sincerity of the heart is to protect your tongue from lying. Know that your tongue is what expresses your inward state. It expresses for you your knowledge and your practice. It has only one noble quality, and that is truthfulness.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>The article is excerpted from Zaytuna Institute\u2019s Program and Agenda for Changing our Condition \u201cRemembering the Days of Allah\u201d, which is a<\/em>dapted from Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn Al-`Arabi (the famous Maliki jurist, Qur\u2019an commentator and hadith expert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound belief is accomplished by removing any doubtful matters from the heart. This is easy by the success of Allah and His gift. 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