Monitoring the heart and rectifying it.
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The Shaykh : The hearts are between two fingers of the fingers of the Most Merciful. All the hearts of the children of Adam are between two fingers of the fingers of the Most Merciful, and He turns them however He wills. If He wills, He causes the heart to deviate, and if He wills, He guides it.
How many people were deviating, and Allah guided them. And how many people were guided, and Allah caused them to deviate. But it is not possible for Allah to cause a person who is guided to deviate unless there is a trial in his heart.
Pay attention to this condition: it is not possible for Allah to cause the heart of a person to deviate unless there is a trial in his heart. As for if it is sound, it is not possible for Him to cause it to deviate. The evidence for this is the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:[As-Saf 61:5] The sound heart cannot be caused to deviate by Allah, because Allah the Exalted is too generous to cause this sound heart to deviate. For this reason, I say to you and to myself before you: Search your heart, search your heart. Is there doubt in it? Is there resentment in it? Is there hatred for some of the legislations of Allah? Is there envy in it? These matters may appear easy, but in reality they are like the worm in the date, destroying it and ruining it.
Purify your heart from shirk (associating partners with Allah), from riya' (showing off in worship), from doubt, from nifaq (hypocrisy), from grudge, from resentment, from hatred of anything that Allah has legislated. If you do not do this, then you are on the brink of a collapsing cliff, and I seek refuge in Allah. We ask Allah to purify all our hearts.
How many people were deviating, and Allah guided them. And how many people were guided, and Allah caused them to deviate. But it is not possible for Allah to cause a person who is guided to deviate unless there is a trial in his heart.
Pay attention to this condition: it is not possible for Allah to cause the heart of a person to deviate unless there is a trial in his heart. As for if it is sound, it is not possible for Him to cause it to deviate. The evidence for this is the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:
And when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate.
فلما زاغوا أزاغ الله قلوبهمPurify your heart from shirk (associating partners with Allah), from riya' (showing off in worship), from doubt, from nifaq (hypocrisy), from grudge, from resentment, from hatred of anything that Allah has legislated. If you do not do this, then you are on the brink of a collapsing cliff, and I seek refuge in Allah. We ask Allah to purify all our hearts.