The Cure for the Hardness of the Heart?

Question : I used to be able to strengthen my faith in the Day of Resurrection, since faith in the Day of Resurrection is the cause of the success of our predecessors. I am suffering from weakness in this faith, in that when you read the verses indicating it, my feelings are only slightly stirred, and I do not cry as the people around me do.

Answer : Who is the man who says this? It appears that he believes in the Day of Resurrection and affirms it, but he has some hardness of heart. The hardness of hearts in our time is very common, and its cause is turning away from worshipping and complete humility before Allah (Mighty and Majestic). If a person were to worship Allah in the true sense and humble himself before Allah in the true sense, he would find softness and humility in his heart. If any of us were to turn to the Qur'an and reflect upon it, he would find softness and humility in his heart, for Allah says: .
Among the causes of the hardness of the heart is what has appeared of the adornment of this world in this age, and people's infatuation with it, and the multitude of its problems. Therefore, you find the young person who has not been exposed to the world, and the world has not been exposed to him, to have more humility and weeping than the older person. This is what we observe and what you are observing now in this mosque, the Sacred Mosque, during the night prayer. You find young men, eighteen years of age or so, weeping more when the verses containing warnings or encouragement are mentioned than those older than them, because their hearts are softer; they have not become attached to the world much, nor have they gone to look at the distant and near problems. Therefore, you find them more humble and softer and closer to those whose world has opened up to them and who have opened up to it, and whose hearts have become scattered here and there.
So my advice to this brother is to focus his heart and mind on what concerns his religion only, and to strive to recite the Qur'an with reflection and deliberation, and to strive also to review the hadiths that contain encouragement and warning, for they soften the hearts. Yes.