Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ or have we only got satisfied when these conditions affected our hearts, that we are amongst those who have fear of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and continued to darken our book of deeds with different sins.

If the answers to these questions are in the negative, we should ponder if our hearts have become hard like a stone due to committing an abundance of sins and therefore we are still deprived of these conditions. If there is really something like this then it is a matter of serious concern that our hard-heartedness and the heedlessness that has resulted from it may throw us into the depths of Hell.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Keep good company

Dear Islamic brothers! Another way to create softness in the heart is to stay away from the company of bad people and to keep the company of pious people. Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan Na’eemi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said, ‘As iron after being soft becomes a tool, gold becomes jewellery, earth becomes a field or a garden, flour becomes bread etc., similarly a human after being soft becomes a saint, Sufi, ‘Aarif etc. Soft-heartedness is a great blessing of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. This soft-heartedness is attained through the company of saints and their pure words. (Mirat-ul-Manajeeh, vol. 2, pp. 7)