raqā’iq: heart softeners

You people do things today that you regard as less significant than a strand of hair,

whereas we, during the time of the Prophet (sallAllahu’ alayhi wa sallam) used to consider them Destructive Sins!

• Lack of success

• Corrupt views

• Blindness from truth

• Corruption of the heart

• Failing to remember Allah

• Wasting of time

• Avoidance and hate by the creation

• Separation between the servant and his Lord

• Supplication not being answered

• Hardness of the heart

• Decaying of blessing in its provision and age

• Prevention from attaining knowledge

• Humiliation

• Insults from the enemies

• Constriction of the chest

• Affliction with evil friendship, those who corrupt the heart and make one waste the time

• Prolonging of sadness and grief

• Miserable life and

• Disappointment

All this (misery) results from sinning and neglecting to remember Allāh (neglecting salah, dhikr, du’a, prescribed adhkar, recitation of the Qur’an etc).

Just as crops are grown by being watered and are consumed by fire.

while the sinner (due to the hardness of his heart) sees his sins as a fly that lands on his nose, he just waves it away.

rather it’s from having a pure heart and perfection in your knowledge of Allaah (i.e., knowing Who Allah is)

We’ve only felt safe because of our ignorance (of the hereafter)

We’ve only felt safe because of the hardness of our hearts (against Allah’s remembrance)

For the pure heart is moved by the slightest causes of fear,

while the hard heart isn’t affected by the strongest of reminders!

A slave is not afflicted with any punishment worse than hardness of the heart.

And the hearts to not become hard except due to frequent sins (until one consider sins as insignificant),

And sins do not increase except due to many deficiencies (lack of remembrance of Allah and forgetting the hereafter)