How to attain the rectification of the heart and its safety from impurities?
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Question:
A questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Salih, how does one attain the rectification of the heart and its safety from impurities?
Answer:
The rectification of the heart and its safety from impurities is achieved by rectifying one’s deeds, rectifying one’s creed—creed in Allah and faith in Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He—and rectifying one’s deeds, and by increasing the remembrance of Allah, as He, Exalted and Majestic is He, said:[Ar-Ra'd 13:28] [Ar-Ra'd 13:29] This is among the causes of the expansion of the chest and the goodness of the heart: increasing the remembrance of Allah. Just as heedlessness regarding the remembrance of Allah hardens the heart, so too does excessive joking, excessive talking, and excessive engagement in what is of no benefit; these also harden the heart. Yes.
A questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Salih, how does one attain the rectification of the heart and its safety from impurities?
Answer:
The rectification of the heart and its safety from impurities is achieved by rectifying one’s deeds, rectifying one’s creed—creed in Allah and faith in Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He—and rectifying one’s deeds, and by increasing the remembrance of Allah, as He, Exalted and Majestic is He, said:
Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured."
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَطْمَئِنُّ قُلُوبُهُم بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُThose who have believed and done righteous deeds - a good state is theirs and a good return.
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ طُوبَىٰ لَهُمْ وَحُسْنُ مَآبٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف السبيل إلى صلاح القلب وسلامته من الشوائب؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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