Blessed Ahadees

Dear Islamic brothers! There is no doubt that hard-heartedness is a dangerous disease and a devastating disaster. This disease plays a significant role in making us suffer from sin diseases. Keeping its disasters in mind, Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah Bin Mubarak رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه used to say: For the true believer, the biggest punishment is that his heart will get hard. (Hilyat-ul-Awliya, vol. 3, pp. 44)

Hard-heartedness increases sins, it keeps a person away from the religion, erases the pleasure of worship, recitation of the Holy Quran and Zikr of    Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. It keeps a person away from the mercy of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and is the sign of misfortune. In short, it is a disease that becomes the cause of bringing out other apparent and spiritual diseases. It has been condemned in blessed Ahadees. Let’s listen to 2 more blessed Ahadees regarding this.

1.         ‘A hard-hearted person is very far from (the mercy) of Allah’.

(Sunan-ut-Tirmizi, vol. 4, pp. 184, Hadees 2419)

2.         ‘4 things are from misfortune, (1) the act of not flowing tears (2) the hardness of heart (3) to have high hopes (4) to suffer from the greed of this world.’ (Al-Jami’-us-Sagheer, pp. 62, Hadees 921)

Signs of hard-heartedness

Dear Islamic brothers! We have learnt that one of the reasons for being away from the mercy of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and being unfortunate forever is hard-heartedness as well. Nowadays, a large of number of people are found relating their tales of troubles (worries, difficulties, poverty and hindrances in business). Just ponder, is our hard-heartedness and the distance from the mercy of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ (due to this), the reasons for all these problems? Have our hearts become harder than a stone and we do not know about it? Surely, every illness has some symptoms which help to diagnose the disease. Likewise, there are some symptoms of hardheartedness as well. Let’s listen to some of these symptoms.