The Effect of Sins on the Death of Hearts
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is a person who falls into forbidden acts and does not repent from them considered among those with dead hearts?
Answer:
Yes, sins kill the hearts. I have seen that sins kill the hearts and that their habitual practice begets humiliation. The Imam, may Allah have mercy on him, the Imam Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, may Allah have mercy on him, says: "I have seen that sins kill the hearts and that their habitual practice begets humiliation. And who has corrupted the religion except the kings, the evil priests, and their monks?" By "kings" are meant the misguided kings and the misguided scholars; they are the ones who corrupted the religion. And who has corrupted the religion except the kings, the evil priests, and their monks?
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is a person who falls into forbidden acts and does not repent from them considered among those with dead hearts?
Answer:
Yes, sins kill the hearts. I have seen that sins kill the hearts and that their habitual practice begets humiliation. The Imam, may Allah have mercy on him, the Imam Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, may Allah have mercy on him, says: "I have seen that sins kill the hearts and that their habitual practice begets humiliation. And who has corrupted the religion except the kings, the evil priests, and their monks?" By "kings" are meant the misguided kings and the misguided scholars; they are the ones who corrupted the religion. And who has corrupted the religion except the kings, the evil priests, and their monks?
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من قول المُصَنِّف : والمقصود : أن من علامات أمراض القلوب عدولها عن الأغذية النافعة — islamhouse.com (59:17)
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