Dear Islamic brother! Why does the heart become hard? What are the disadvantages of being hard-hearted? How can it be cured? اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, in today’s speech we will try and discuss Madani pearls regarding this. Firstly, let’s listen to a terrifying parable of a hard-hearted person. Try to listen with undivided attention.

One-day-old baby girl buried alive

A one-day-old baby girl was buried alive. In a rural area of Punjab (Pakistan), a merciless father buried a one-day-old daughter alive! The police arrested him. Details reveal that the accused person had become the father of the sixth daughter. Giving a statement, the cruel father said that his daughter was ugly with a distorted face. He had even asked the doctor to give her a poison injection but the doctor refused. So he buried his daughter alive.

(Daily Jang Online, 14 July 2012, amended)

Punishment for murdering unjustly

Dear Islamic brothers! Have you noticed how the hard-hearted and merciless father murdered his daughter! What was the mistake of the baby girl or her mother in this? It is the will of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ that for whomever He wants, He grants them a son or He grants them a daughter. Remember! Whether it is the murder of a daughter or a son or anyone else, in Islam murdering a person unjustly is Haraam and an act leading to Hell.

1.         If those who are in the sky and on the earth gather upon the murder of a Muslim, then Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ puts all of them into Hell with their faces down.

(Mu’jam-us-Sagheer, pp. 250)

What is hard-heartedness?

Many types of sins are committed, such as killing innocent people etc. and one of the reasons for this is hard-heartedness as well. What is hard-heartedness? Let’s listen!

It is stated on page 370 of the commentary ‘Siraat-ul-Jinaan’, volume 4 published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah: Hardness of the heart means that the