Thursday 15 November 2012

Polish+Ikhlas




The Prophet (saw) said: “The example of one who remembers Allāh and someone who does not, is like the example between the living and the dead.” al- Bukhari & Muslim.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust,
and
ThE polish for the heart is the remembrance of Allah.




"Ikhlas (sincerity) cannot be combined in the heart together with the love of being praised and the greed for what other people have, except in the way that water and fire are combined.So if your conscious tells you to seek ikhlaas, then turn to greed firstly, and slaughter it with the knife of despair (give up hope in worldly belongings), then turn to the love of being praised and abandon it like how those who adore the life of this world abandon the hereafter. If you are successful in slaughtering greed and in abandoning the love of being praised, then ikhlaas will be easy for you."

-Ibn Al Qayyim Rahimahullah in his Al Fawaid.

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