disadvantages. What kinds of harm does a person suffer if he becomes hard-hearted? Let’s listen to these:

First harmful effect

The harmful effect of hard-heartedness is that a person becomes bold in committing sins. He does not care for the terrors of the grave nor fear of the Day of Judgment, accountability of the Hereafter and the torments of Hell. Being careless of every type of advice, such a person becomes bold and outspoken. As a result, sometimes such a person commits the sin of blasphemy and loses his faith.

A renowned commentator, a great thinker of the Ummah, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan Na’eemi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: A person who speaks about good or bad without any hesitation, then understand that he is hard-hearted and devoid of modesty. Hard-heartedness is a tree whose roots are in the heart of a human and its branches are in Hell. The end of such an daring person is that he eventually becomes disrespectful to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and His Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and thus becomes a Kafir (disbeliever).

(Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 6, pp. 641)

مسلماں ہے عطاؔر تیری عطا سے

ہو ایمان پر خاتمہ یا اِلٰہی

Second harmful effect

The harm of hard-heartedness is that a person gets deprived of Allah’s worship, recitation of the Holy Quran and virtuous deeds. In fact, the purpose of our life is to worship Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and to be inclined towards good deeds. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has stated:

وَ مَا  خَلَقۡتُ   الۡجِنَّ   وَ  الۡاِ نۡسَ    اِلَّا   لِیَعۡبُدُ وۡنِ    ﴿۵۶﴾

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: And I created the jinns and men, only for them to worship Me. (Part 27, Surah Az-Zariyaat, verse 56)