deeds after listening to sound advice and to those acts which remind him of the Hereafter or by reading or listening to the parables about sudden death.

3. Preferring the world to the Hereafter!

Another symptom of hard-heartedness is to prefer this temporary world over the everlasting Hereafter and to become restless in attaining success for this world, considering it to be everything. As a result of this, such a person becomes blind in the love of this world and loses himself in the dark valley of sins and is left with nothing but destruction of the world and the Hereafter.

4. Weakness of faith!

Another symptom of hard-heartedness is when Divine commands are not followed and sins are abundantly committed by being shameless and immodest in front of a person, even then his faith does not wake up to this fact and he does not refrain from that evil or he does not consider it to be bad in the heart if he cannot stop it, it should be understood that his heart has become hard.

Dear Islamic brothers! From these symptoms and signs it can easily be judged that hard-heartedness is a very dangerous disease. It is a disease that makes a person a slave of his Nafs and Satan, by making him disobedient to        Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. One of the ways to get rid of hard-heartedness is to ponder over the causes leading to hard-heartedness and then try to remove them. Let’s listen to some of them.

Love of the world

1.         Love of this world is another reason for hardness of the heart because when love of this world overpowers the heart of a person, the heart starts paying attention to it and then he does not take interest in the Zikr of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and worshipping and he tries to find peace of heart in sports, entertainment and the attractions of this world. He destroys his world in useless and sinful acts and then he is destined to disgrace even in the Hereafter.