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Monday, April 10, 2017

Safeguarding your 'Aqeedah means you will be safe from following desires



Haafidh al-Allaamah Zayn ad-Deen Abdur-Rahmaan bin Ahmad Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said about the statement of Allaah, the Most High:

And Paradise will be brought near to the righteous, not far, [It will be said], "This is what you were promised - for every returner [to Allah ] and keeper [of His covenant] Who feared the Most Merciful unseen and came with a heart returning [in repentance]. Enter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity." They will have whatever they wish therein, and with Us is more.” [Qaaf 50: 31-35]

Having your heart safeguarded necessitates that it be free from corrupt ‘Aqeedah’s and free from false ideologies which are founded on the following of desires, desires for the Dunya and to gain its crux. It also necessitates that it be safeguarded from ignorance and manners that are vile. These are the traits of a clean heart, it is clean it purified and is submits to Allaah, the Lord of the ‘Alameen. This heart isn’t swept away from the love of desires for women, children, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, cattle and fertile land. His heart doesn’t busy itself with the love of wealth or children and it’s not distracted from acts of obedience of his Lord and his stance before Him. This is a heart that has bitten the fear of Allaah, a heart shivers with Dhikr of Allaah.  

Care should not be given to purification of the body or the clothes alone, rather it is necessary that there is purification of the heart and rectification of it. By rectifying the heart, the rest of his body will be rectified as the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] said, “That which is lawful is plain and that which is unlawful is plain and between the two of them are doubtful matters about which not many people know. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor, but he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah's sanctuary is His prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the heart.” [Bukhaaree (52) and Muslim (1599)]

Therefore this is what Allaah looks at, He looks at the heart of His slave and his actions as opposed to looking his body, his appearance as the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] said, “Verily, Allaah doesn’t look at your appearance or your possession, rather he looks at your heart and your deeds.”[Reported by Muslim 2654]

Thus the command is for the hearts to have complete reliance on Allaah, The Glorified and Exalted, as He Alone is the Who deserves our acquaintance. He Alone is the One Who Knows our hidden and apparent affairs, He Knows what proclaim and what we keep secret. Consequently, it is necessary for us to purify our hearts and to remove any trace of the black spots of sin that may be upon it.

Thumm Qaswa al-Quloob, Pg. 24

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