•●•► •►Signs of Heart Disease

There are numerous signs of a sickness of the heart. The first of
them, isfinding it difficult to live by the purpose of our creation,
which is to know Allaah The Almighty, love Him, yearnto meet Him, turn
to Him in repentance and to prefer doing all this to any other desire.
Indeed, whoever gives precedence to his or her whims, over the love
of, and obedience to, his or her Lord, then his or her heart is
certainly diseased.
Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {Have you seen the one who
takes as god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?}
[Quran 25: 43]. Some of the righteous predecessors said that this
verse refers to the person who is led by his or her base wants and
whims; hence, he or she lives like an animal, with no knowledge or
worship of Allaah The Almighty, in violation of His orders and
prohibitions. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {but those who
disbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as grazing livestock eat, andthe
Fire will be a residence for them.} [Quran 47:12]
Let us not forget that as we sow, so shall we reap.Therefore, if a
person notonly does not live life according to what pleases Allaah The
Almighty, but instead actively pursues a lifestyle of disobedience to
Him through His very blessings, he or she will neither find comfort
nor be relieved of pain, after death, in the Hereafter. Allaah The
Almighty, Says (what means): {He will gulp it but will hardly [beable
to] swallow it. And death will come to him from everywhere, but he is
not to die. And before him is a massive punishment.} [Quran 14:17]
Another sign of a diseased heart is that a person is not disturbed by
insubordination to Allaah The Almighty. A poet spoke of how a dead
person does not feel the pain of any wound; using that analogy,
conversely, a sound heart feels great pain when a sin is committed,
and, so, is quick to repent to Allaah The Almighty, as He Says (what
means):
· {Indeed, those who fear Allaah - when an impulse touches them from
Satan,they remember [Him] andat once they have insight.} [Quran 7:201]
· {And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves
[by transgression], remember Allaah and seek forgiveness for theirsins
- and who can forgive sins except Allaah? - and [who] do not persist
in what they have done while they know.} [Quran 3:135]
The meaning of "remember [Allaah] " in both verses, refers to the act
of bearing in mind Hismagnificence, His threats and His punishments,
andso, they seek His forgiveness. On the other hand, the one who has a
diseased heart will keep on committing sin upon sin.
In another place in the Quran, Allaah The Almighty Says (what means):
{No! Rather, the stain has covered their hearts of that which they
were earning.} Commenting on this verse, Al-Hasan said that this means
committing one sin after the other, to the extent that the heart
becomes blind. In contrast, a person with a sound heart will follow an
evil deed with a good one and make sure to repent after a wrongdoing.
A diseased heart, moreover, manifests itself when a person doesnot
feel any pain of being unaware of the truth, whereas, someone with an
upright mind could not tolerate that when coming across any confusing
matters, or having false beliefs. Verily, ignorance is a serious
calamity that pains anyone with a sound heart.
Some scholars would say: "Allaah was never disobeyed with anything
worse than ignorance." Also, Imaam Sahl was asked: "O father of
Muhammad! What is worse than ignorance?" He replied: "To be oblivious
of one's obliviousness." Indeed, such a state entirely hinders the
path to knowledge, for a person is unaware of his or her need for it.
It was once said that ignorance before one's death is death itself;
the bodies ofthe ignorant are like graves for the soul and they will
have no resurrection until the Dayof Resurrection.
Another sign of having a diseased heart is deviating from what is
useful to what is harmful.Many people, for instance, refrain from
listening to the Quran, about which Allaah The Almighty Said (what
means): {And We Send down of the Quran that which is healing and mercy
for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in
loss.} [Quran 17:82]. Instead, they listen to songs that instill
hypocrisy, and perhaps disbelief, in their hearts and stir their base
desires. Such people sin, by preferring what Allaahand His Prophet, ,
hate. And that, in itself, is a consequence of having a diseased heart
and onlyincreases it in sickness.
On the other hand, the more the heart is sound, the more it loves what
Allaah The Almighty and His Messenger, , do, as He Says (what means):
{but Allaah Has endeared to you the faith and Has Made it pleasing in
your hearts and Has Made hateful to you disbelief, defiance and
disobedience. Those are the [rightly] guided.} [Quran 49:7] The
Prophet, , said: "He would taste the sweetness of faith, who is
content with Allaah as [his] Lord, with Islam as [his] religion
andwith Muhammad as [his] Prophet." [Muslim] He, , also said: "No
manfrom among you will have [perfect] faith, until he loves me more
than his own self, children, family and all mankind." [Al-Bukhaari and
Muslim]
The last symptom of an illheart is that a person settles in this
worldly life,satisfied with it and is at peace in it, feeling no sense
of alienation, such that he or she no longer looks forward to the
Hereafter or works for it. Conversely, when a heart becomes sound, it
yearns for the Hereafter, to the extent that it perceives the sickness
of others, while they do not see its soundness. The state of a person
with such a heart,in life, bears the spirit of the Hadeeth in which
theProphet, , said: "Be in this life as if you were a stranger or a
traveler." [Al-Bukhaari]

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