Mentioning the diseases of the hearts and their cause.
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The Shaykh : The diseases of the hearts, may Allah bless you, come down to two things or lead to two things:
diseases of desires and diseases of doubts.
Diseases of doubts, whose origin is ignorance.
And diseases of desires, whose origin is following one's own inclinations.
Be careful, my brother.
The origin of diseases of doubts is ignorance, for the ignorant person does what is false thinking it is true, and this is a disease.
The origin of diseases of desires is following one's own inclinations; the person knows the truth but does not want it, having an inclination that contradicts what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) brought.
So you ask Allah for safety or well-being from diseases of the bodies and from diseases of the hearts, which are diseases of doubts and diseases of desires.
And when we say diseases of desires, do not think that we are adding to the sexual diseases of desire – which is the desire for marriage – but we mean everything a person desires that contradicts the truth, for it is a desire – in the sense of: a wish: he wished to innovate in the religion of Allah, he wished to distort the texts of the Book and the Sunnah for his own inclination, he wished to steal, to drink intoxicants, to commit unlawful sexual intercourse, and the like.
diseases of desires and diseases of doubts.
Diseases of doubts, whose origin is ignorance.
And diseases of desires, whose origin is following one's own inclinations.
Be careful, my brother.
The origin of diseases of doubts is ignorance, for the ignorant person does what is false thinking it is true, and this is a disease.
The origin of diseases of desires is following one's own inclinations; the person knows the truth but does not want it, having an inclination that contradicts what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) brought.
So you ask Allah for safety or well-being from diseases of the bodies and from diseases of the hearts, which are diseases of doubts and diseases of desires.
And when we say diseases of desires, do not think that we are adding to the sexual diseases of desire – which is the desire for marriage – but we mean everything a person desires that contradicts the truth, for it is a desire – in the sense of: a wish: he wished to innovate in the religion of Allah, he wished to distort the texts of the Book and the Sunnah for his own inclination, he wished to steal, to drink intoxicants, to commit unlawful sexual intercourse, and the like.