amlaykum.
This is your brother is smile bulock
here for the daily reminder. Now today I
want to discuss about the heart. We
always spend our time caring about our
appearance, caring about our health,
which is good, but that's what we focus
on. We spend a lot of time trying to be
healthy, making sure we look our best.
But what about our hearts? This is where
everything comes from. This is where our
faith is from. The heart. This is where
our true belief comes from the heart.
And Allah mentions that not only is it
where uh our belief is, it's where we
can get pure and true satisfaction and
content from. Allah tells us in the
Quran referring to this remembrance,
this of Allah, this remembrance of Allah
and the effect it has on the heart when
he says,
Indeed with the remembrance of Allah do
the hearts feel content satisfied.
So this is showing us the benefits of
this. But how many of us we don't spend
our time on the we forget these kind of
basic in the morning the duas in the
morning and the evening the reading of
the Quran when we can the smallest duas
that we supposed to do in the things we
do on our daily basis we forget them all
of these come under and we know the best
is the Quran how many of us we don't
even spend five or 10 minutes reading
the Quran five or 10 minutes but we
spend hours and hours on Facebook or
watching TV or whatever it may be. And
Allah describes those people who
constantly remember him, constantly
think and ponder and remember Allah.
When he says in the Quran,
Allah says those who remember Allah when
they are standing when they are sitting
and when they're laying lying down and
they ponder and reflect upon the
creation of the heavens and the earth
and they say oh our Lord surely did not
create this for no purpose. Glory be to
you and save us from the punishment of
the fire. So this shows us the status of
those and should encourage us to be of
those who remember Allah. And going back
to the heartb
the great scholar and student of the
said that the heart is of three types.
Firstly, the living heart and this is
the heart that loves Allah and obeys
Allah and loves everything that Allah
commanded and stays away from all of
that which was forbidden. Stays away
from the shik, stays away from the
kufur. This is the first category and
the best obviously of all the hearts,
the living heart. Then he said the
second category is the dead heart and
this is the opposite of the living
heart. It goes and strives for evilness
and for shik and for kufur and it likes
all that which is evil and bad and is
forbidden and it dislikes all that is
uponhed and imman and goodness. And then
he went on to the third category and
this is a very category I really want us
to focus on because and I talk about
myself here. If we look at the third
category, maybe most of us will fall
into this and we ask that Allah makes us
be of those who has the living heart.
And he said the third category is the
heart that is the unhealthy heart. So
it's not fully living and it's not dead.
It's unhealthy. And he said what is it?
He said it is the heart that does love
Allah and does do good deeds and does
strive and does lean towards Allah but
at the same time it leans towards
aspects of kufur. It leads towards the
forbidden it leads towards evilness. So
sometimes it will be going this way to
the good and sometimes it will be going
to the bad. And if we look at the
reality most of us brothers and sisters
we may find ourselves if we judge
ourselves that we are falling into the
final category. So this should be a
wakeup call for myself and for all of us
to increase in the remembrance of Allah
to strive to be of those who have the
living heart. And also went on to say
and this is what I want to finish on
really. He went on to say how can we uh
polish our hearts? He said the heart is
like a piece of metal or silver. it
becomes rusty and the only way to remove
the rust which in our case will be the
sins the sins the rust upon our hearts
is by polishing it with the of Allah. So
this is really was just a short reminder
for all of us inshallah to increase in
the of Allah and strive to be of those
who remember Allah abundantly and Allah
says in the Quran that those who
remember Allah abundantly they will
receive much reward. And until I join
you next time on the daily reminder,
this is your brother.