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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