The remainder of the causes of the hardness of the heart? Is excessive eating and sleeping among them?
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The Shaykh : You find this even in the obligatory prayer; he does not remember Allah with his heart. He recites, bows, prostrates, glorifies, and supplicates, while the heart is heedless. This is...
Among the causes of the hardness of the heart is also excessive joking, playing, and being preoccupied with friends and family. For this reason, some of the Companions said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): And among the causes of the hardness of the heart is also: plunging into this world and preferring it over the Hereafter, and that a person’s only concern is accumulating wealth. It has many causes. Therefore, a person should hasten to seek treatment when he sees hardness in his heart, before it becomes like stone and he is unable to treat it.
The questioner : Food? Eating food?
The Shaykh : This may be one of the causes of the hardness of the heart, because a person’s only concern may be his stomach. However, sometimes a person may not be full and yet not find any hardness in his heart.
Among the causes of the hardness of the heart is also excessive joking, playing, and being preoccupied with friends and family. For this reason, some of the Companions said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
We said, “O Messenger of Allah, when we are with you, we become so humble that it is as if we are seeing Paradise and the Fire. But when we leave and mix with our families and children, we forget.” He said, “A time and a time.”
إننا يا رسول الله إذا كنا عندك يعني فإننا نخشع حتى كأننا نشاهد الجنة والنار وإذا ذهبنا فعافسنا الأهل والأولاد نسينا قال : ساعة وساعةThe questioner : Food? Eating food?
The Shaykh : This may be one of the causes of the hardness of the heart, because a person’s only concern may be his stomach. However, sometimes a person may not be full and yet not find any hardness in his heart.