HOW TO GET A HEALTHY HEART? [5] There are five things that deliberately destroy the heart of a believer, and there are also five remedies that will give it health.

💖What I mean by a healthy heart is one that is simple and clean, and full of faith, not one that is free from various ailments.

✍️Ibn Al Qayyim said: "Five destroy the human heart: -

[1] First: Associating with sinful people.

1. Second: The eternal desire and dreaming of worldly things.

2. Third: Belief in anyone besides Allah.

3. Fourth: Always eating a lot and being gluttonous.

4. Fifth: Too much sleep."

✍️And Ibrahim Al Khawwas said: "The cure for a broken heart is five: -

1. First: The constant reading of the Qur'an, especially if it is to be understood.

2. Second: Reducing food, or not being full.

3. Third: The constant prayer in the middle of the night (Tahajjud).

4. Fourth: The constant supplication to Allah every dawn.

5. Fifth: Making friends with good people, people with strong faith."

✍️Ibn Al Qayyim also said: "The heart gets sick like the body and its cure is repentance, and it rusts like iron and what can remove its rust is remembrance (Dhikr), and it also suffers like other creatures and its adornment is the fear of Allah, and it is also hungry like the intestine and its food is trust and faith."

If you're in doubt about the character of a person, look at his friends.

❝Every man is attached to the one who resembles him. Every bird follows his own kind. Those of the same nature are inclined to each other. The good follow the good. The evil follow the evil.❞

— Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (RA)

❝Companionship with good people leads to beneficial knowledge, virtuous manners and righteous deeds, whilst companionship with bad people prevents one from all of this.❞

— Imaam as-Sa’dee (raḥimahullāh)
“Bahjatul-Abraar” p. 226.

❝There is nothing more beneficial to a Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions.❞

— Ahmad Ibn Harb رحمه الله
[Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.100]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.”

[Madārij as-Sālikīn | 1/26]

Don't be a Haasid!

قيل للحسن البصري: أيحسد المؤمن أخاه؟ قال: لا أبا لك، أنسيت إخوة يوسف؟ وكان يقال: إذا أردت أن تسلم من الحاسد فعمّ عليه أمورك.
It was said to Al-Hasan Al-Basri: "Does a believer envy his brother?" He replied, "May you have no father! Have you forgotten the brothers of Yusuf?" It was also said, "If you want to be safe from an envious person, conceal your affairs from him."

ويقال: إذا أراد الله أن يسلّط على عبده عدوّا لا يرحمه سلّط عليه حاسدا.
It is also said, "When Allāh wants to afflict His servant with an enemy who shows no mercy, He afflicts him with an envious person."

وقال الأحنف: لا صديق لملول ولا وفاء لكذوب، ولا راحة لحسود ولا مروءة لبخيل ولا سؤدد لسيّء الخلق. 
Al-Aḥnaf said, "There is no friend for a tedious person, no loyalty for a liar, no peace of mind for an envious person, no nobility for a miser, and no leadership for a person of bad character."

وقال بعضهم: الحسد أوّل ذنب عصي الله به في السماء، يعني حسد إبليس آدم، وأوّل ذنب عصي الله به في الأرض، يعني حسد ابن آدم أخاه حتى قتله.
Some have said: "Envy was the first sin by which Allah was disobeyed in heaven; referring to Iblees envying Adam, and the first sin by which Allah was disobeyed on earth; referring to the son of Adam envying his brother up until he killed him."

["Uyoon Al-Akhbar" of Ibn Qutaybah, (2/12-14)]

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said:

‎“Shall I not inform you about the Residents of Paradise?

‎They are every humble person considered weak [whom the people look down upon],

‎but if they took an oath, ‎by Allāh it would be fulfilled

Shall I not inform you about the Residents of Hellfire?

They are every brute, haughty, and arrogant person.”

[al-Bukhāri, 4918]

Sheikh aibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله said,

“How many a person really wanted to become righteous but remained in the company of those not righteous and then couldn’t do it.

If he were to have kept away from them, that would have been one of the ways to his being guided.”

[Fataawa Noor ‘Ala ad-Darb, vol. 12, pg. 18]

Death is the only sure thing in our life, yet we are not prepared for it!

It is critical that we do not depart this world except that we have done things where our book of good deeds will increase even after our departure.

How?

The Prophet (ﷺ) said:
"When a person dies, his deeds are cut off except for three: Continuing charity, knowledge that others benefited from, and a righteous child who supplicates for him."
(Muslim)

Ask yourself: will your book of good deeds stop when you die or will it keep going?

#Death #reminder
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Al-Fudayl bin Iyadh رحمه الله said:

“The believer speaks little & does many actions; whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot & does little action.”

[Akhbar Ash-Shuyukh Wa-Akhlaqihim of Al-Marwazi, p29].