Ten Sicknesses of the Heart...

[sylhet]

Ten Sicknesses of the Heart...

1. You believe in the existance of Allah (SWT) but you do not fulfil His Commands.

2. You say you love the Prophet Mohammed (SAW) but you do not follow his Sunnah.

3. You read the Holy Qur'an but you do not put it into practice.

4. You enjoy all the benefits from Allah (SWT) but you are not grateful to him.

5. You acknowledge Shaitan as your enemy but you do not go against him.

6. You want to enter Paradise but you do not work for it.

7. You do not want to be thrown into Hell-Fire but you do not try to run away from it.

8. You believe that every living-thing will face death but you do not prepare for it.

9. You gossip and find faults in others but you forget your own faults and habits.

10. You bury the Dead but you do not take a lesson from it.


sources:http://www.jannah.org/articles/shaytan.html

[sylhet]

Signs of weak imaan:
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1.Committing sins and not feeling any guilt.

2.Having a hard heart and no desire to read the Quran.

3.Feeling too lazy to do good deeds, e.g. being late for salat

4.Neglecting the Sunnah.


5.Having mood swings, for instance being upset about petty things and bothered and irritated most of the time.

6.Not feeling anything when hearing verses from the Quran,
for example when Allah warns us of punishments and His promise of glad tidings.

7.Finding difficulty in remembering Allah and making dhikr.

8.Not feeling bad when things are done against the Shariah.

9.Desiring status and wealth.

10.Being mean and miserly, i.e. not wanting to part with wealth.

11.Ordering others to do good deeds when not practising them ourselves.

12.Feeling pleased when things are not progressing for others.

13.Being concerned with whether something is haram or halal only; and not avoiding makroo (not recommended) things.

14.Making fun of people who do simple good deeds, like cleaning the mosque.

15.Not feeling concerned about the situation of Muslims.

16.Not feeling the responsibility to do something to promote Islam.

17.Being unable to deal with calamities, for instance crying and yelling in funerals.

18.Liking to argue just for the sake of arguing without any proof.

19.Becoming engrossed and very involved with dunya, worldly things, i.e. feeling bad only when losing something in terms of material wealth.

20.Becoming engrossed and obsessive about ourselves.

[sylhet]

Ten Things We Waste

(based on a lesson of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah)

1. --Our Knowledge-- Wasted by not taking action with it.

2. --Our Actions-- Wasted by committing them with out sincerity.

3. --Our Wealth-- Wasted by using on things that will not bring us ajr. We waste our money, our status, our authority, on things which have no benefit in this life or in akhirah.

4. --Our Hearts-- Wasted because they are empty from the love of Allah, and the feeling of longing to go to Him, and a feeling of peace and contentment. In it's place, our hearts are filled with something or someone else.

5. --Our Bodies-- Wasted because we don't use them in ibadah and service of Allah

6. --Our Love-- Our emotional love is misdirected, not towards Allah, but towards something/someone else.

7. --Our Time-- Wasted, not used properly, to compensate for that which has passed, by doing what is righteous to make up for past deeds

8. --Our Intellect-- Wasted on things that are not beneficial, that are detremental to society and the individual, not in contemplation or reflection.

9. --Our Service-- Wasted in service of someone who will not bring us closer to Allah, or benefit in dunyaa

10. --Our Dhikr-- Wasted, because it does not effect us or our hearts.

ref:http://www.jannah.org/articles/waste.html

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Taken from "The Fundamentals of Islamic Creed"
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(being an abridged translation of Sharh Aqeedat-ut-Tahawiyyah)

[2nd and final part]

How rightly said Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman b. Isma'eel, popularly known as Abu Shamah, in his book "The Novel and the Innovations" while speaking of the necessity to remain with the Jamaa'ah: "What it truly means is to hold fast unto the truth and follow it, even if those adhering to it be few, and its opponents plenty. For it is truth that the preceding Jamaa'ah held fast unto, at the time of the Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam). We pay no attention to the great numbers after them holding falsehood as true."

Hasan al-Basree has said: "The Sunnah is - by Him besides whom there is no god - between the two extremes of negation and indulgence. Therefore, hold fast unto it - may Allaah show you mercy. The followers of the Sunnah have been few in preceding generations too; and they will be few in the people that are left: those who did not opt for the indulgent in their indulgence nor with the innovators in their innovations, rather, stayed on the Sunnah until they met their Lord. Be like them."

Another sign of the heart's sickness is its disinclination towards the healthy food in preference of the unhealthy and its disinclination towards the useful cure in preference of the harmful medications. Thus we are led to four things: healthy food, medication that cures, unhealthy food and medication that kills. A healthy heart prefers the healthy and the curing over the unhealthy and the non-curing. The sick heart acts exactly in the opposite manner. And the most healthy of foods is faith while the most beneficial of the medicines is the Qur'aan. The two provide food as well as medicine. Whoever sought cure in other than the Qur'aan and the Sunnah, is the most ignorant of the ignorant and the most unguided of the unguided.
Allaah (swt) says:

"Say, 'It is, (i.e., the Qura'an) a guidance and a cure for the faithful'. As for those who do not believe, there is a deafness in their ears and a cover over their eyes. Such, (as if) they are being called from a distant place."
(Fussilat, 44)

Allaah also said:

"And We send down of the Qura'an that which is a cure and a mercy for the believers. As for the transgressors, it (the Qur'aan) does not cause an increase, but rather a loss."
(Al-Israa, 82)