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Hardness of The Heart
give you the ability to adopt their good traits, perform good deeds and refrain from sins. It also removes the hardness of the heart and softens it.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! Thinking about death constantly also creates a tender heart. A woman went to Sayyidah ꜤĀˈishah رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهَا complaining about her hard-heartedness. Sayyidah ꜤĀˈishah رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ عَنْهَا advised her, “Remember death constantly and your heart will become soft.” The woman did this for a few days and it softened her heart. So, she returned to Sayyidah ꜤĀˈishah رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهَا and thanked her.[1]
Dear Islamic brothers! We must never forget about our deaths and the Day of Judgement. So, abandon your love for this world, and spend the remainder of your lives in the worship of Allah Almighty and preparing for the Hereafter.
Visiting the cemetery from time to time also helps soften the heart. Visiting graves and pondering over how some of the deceased could not once bear to see a mark of dirt on their clothes in this world, but now they are buried deep within it. Some of them would not let insects or flies come anywhere near them when they were alive, now imagine what the insects have done to them in their graves.
Visiting graves and reflecting like this will soften your heart اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه. The beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said to his Companions رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهُم, “I prevented you from visiting graves, but now visit them because it
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- Intentions for the speech
- Virtue of sending ṣalāt upon the beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- A heart harder than rocks
- What is the hardness of the heart?
- Hadith
- Signs of a hard heart
- Laziness in worship
- Good advice not having an effect
- Preferring the world over the Hereafter
- Weak faith
- Love for the World
- Harms of hard-heartedness
- First harm
- Second harm
- Third harm
- Fourth harm
- How to Cure a hard heart
- Instil the Fear of Allah Almighty in your Heart
- Adopt good company
- Remember death
- Visit the cemetery
- Encouragement for Pious Deed 10
- Khuddām al-Masājid
- Sunnas and manners of applying kohl
- Announcement
- The 6 ṣalāt upon the Prophet and 2 duas recited in the sunnah-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami
- 1. The ṣalāt for the night preceding Friday
- 2. All sins forgiven
- 3. 70 doors of mercy
- 4. The reward of 600,000
- 5. Being close to the Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- 6. The ṣalāt of intercession
- 1. Good deeds for 1000 days
- 2. An easy way to spend every night in worship
- Remaining sunan and etiquettes of applying kohl
- Supplication for salvation from disgrace in this world and the Hereafter
- Halqa schedule for weekly gathering - overseas – 15th Agust 2024
- Method of collective Fikr-e-Madinah (72 Pious Deed)
- How to do collective accountability – 72 Pious Deeds
- The 56 daily Pious Deeds
- Record of Qufl-i-Madina
- Weekly 10 Pious Deeds
- Monthly 3 Pious Deeds
- Yearly 1 Pious Deed
- Lifelong 2 Pious Deeds
- The Ameer of Ahl al-Sunnah’s prayer
