Healing the Dead Heart through Repentance
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that if the heart dies, there is no cure for it. So, is repentance a cure and a means of reviving this dead heart?
Answer:
The one who does not repent—whose heart has died—does not repent, O brothers. The one who repents is the one whose heart is in a state between life and death. But if it has died, it is finished.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that if the heart dies, there is no cure for it. So, is repentance a cure and a means of reviving this dead heart?
Answer:
The one who does not repent—whose heart has died—does not repent, O brothers. The one who repents is the one whose heart is in a state between life and death. But if it has died, it is finished.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الأول في انقسام القلوب إلى صحيح وسقيم وميت — islamhouse.com (52:03)
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