compiled from the works of
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Ibn Al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
THE TYPES OF HEART
Just as the heart may be described in terms of being alive or dead, it may also be regarded as belonging to one of three types; these are the healthy heart, the dead heart, and the sick heart.
"The day on which neither wealth nor sons will be of any use, except for whoever brings to Allah a sound heart. (26:88-89)"
"It is a heart cleansed from any passion that challenges what Allah commands, or disputes what He forbids. It is free from any impulses which contradict His good.
As a result, it is safeguarded against the worship of anything other than Him, and seeks the judgement of no other except that of His Messenger (sallalau alaiyhi wassallum).
Its services are exclusively reserved for Allah, willingly and lovingly, with total reliance, relating all matters to Him, in fear, hope and sincere dedication.
When it loves, its love is in the way of Allaah.
If it detests, it detests in the light of what He detests.
When it gives, it gives for Allaah.
If it withholds, it withholds for Allaah. Subhaan Allaah
Nevertheless, all this will not suffice for its salvation until it is free from following, or taking as its guide, anyone other than His Messenger (sallalau alaiyhi wassallum)."
Allah is Hearing, Knowing. (49:1)"
It does not know its Lord and does not worship Him as He commands, in the way which He likes, and with which He is pleased.
It clings instead to its lusts and desires, even if these are likely to incur Allah's displeasure and wrath.
It worships things/people other than Allah, and its loves and its hatreds, and its giving and its withholding, arise from its whims, which are of paramount importance to it and preferred above the pleasure of Allah.
Its lust is its guide.
Its ignorance is its leader.
Its crude impulses are its impetus.
It is immersed in its concern with worldly objectives.
It is drunk with its own fancies and its love for hasty, fleeting pleasures.
It is called to Allah and the akhira from a distance but it does not respond to advice, and instead it follows any scheming, cunning shayton.
Life angers and pleases it, and passion makes it deaf and blind (1) to anything except what is evil.
The former sustains it at one moment, the latter at another, and it follows whichever one of the two manages to dominate it.
It has love for Allah, faith in Him, sincerity towards Him, and reliance upon Him, and these are what give it life.
It also has a craving for lust and pleasure, and prefers them and strives to experience them.
It is full of self-admiration, which can lead to its own destruction.
It listens to two callers: one calling it to Allah and His Prophet (sallalau alaiyhi wassallum) and the akhira; and the other calling it to the fleeting pleasures of this world.
It responds to whichever one of the two happens to have most influence over it at the time.
The second is brittle and dead;
The third wavers between either its safety or its ruin.
(1) It has been related on the authority of Abu'd-Darda' that the Messenger of Allah, sallalau alaiyhi wassallum , said, "Your love for something that makes you blind and deaf."
Abu Daw'ud, al-Adab, 14/38; Ahmad, al-Musnad, 5/194. The hadith is classified as hasan.
Source: http://www.jannah.org/articles/
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