“Oh mankind! There has come unto you
an exhortation from your Lord, a balm for that which is in the breasts, a
guidance and a mercy for believers.” (10: 58).
Alhamdulillah, Summa Alhamdulillah, My Rab (Lord,
Allah) has given me this opportunity in my Friday Sermon of today to explain
the remedies for diseases of the heart (7th Part: “The
Heart”).
Note that cure and remedies of the diseased hearts lie only in
obedience to the Quran and in pure and perfect Iman (faith);
you can analyse and try to understand that Allah the Exalted says in the verse
of Chapter Yunus which I have recited in the beginning of my sermon after Surah
Al-Fatiha.
The Quran is a cure for that ignorance of the heart. Ignorance is a
much more fatal disease to the heart in comparison to sicknesses of the body.
Diseases of the heart are bad character, evil beliefs, destructive and ignorant
customs, etc. The Quran is a salutary healer of all these diseases, for it
embraces, advices, admonishes, gives warnings, encouragement, etc. Thus, the cure and healer for the
disease of the heart is the Quran.
Hypocrisy inevitably is a disease of the
heart. Among the diseases of the heart is that we keep in the heart something
and express with our tongues something else. This is, in reality, the quality
of the Munafiqeen (hypocrites). They keep in their hearts
something and express with their tongues something else. Allah the Exalted says regarding
them: “They utter with their mouths a
thing which is not in their hearts.” (3: 168).
Allah the Exalted consoles Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) in the following words: “Oh Messenger! Let not them grieve
you those who vie one with another in the race to disbelief, of such as say
with their mouths: “We believe,” but their hearts believe not…” (5: 42).
On another occasion Allah says
regarding the Munafiqeen (hypocrites). They satisfy you with
their mouth which their hearts refuse and most of them are wrongdoers. Allah the Exalted also says: “The hypocrites fear lest a Surah
should be revealed concerning them, proclaiming what is in their hearts.” (9: 64).
“And of them is he who made a
covenant with Allah (saying): If He gives us of His bounty we will give alms
and become of the righteous.
So He hath made the consequence (to be) hypocrisy
in their hearts until the day when they shall meet Him, because they broke
their word to Allah that they promised Him, and because they lied.” (9: 75-77).
Six things come upon the heart: life, death, health, illness, sleep
and awakeness.
1. Guidance is the life of the
heart.
2. Deviation is the death of the
heart.
3. Cleanliness is the health of the
heart.
4. Reliance on Ghairullah (those
besides Allah) is the illness of the heart.
5. Remembrance of Allah (Zikrullah) is
awakeness of the heart.
6. Negligence of that remembrance is
the sleep of the heart.
Five things are the Medicine and
Balm of the heart:
1. Reciting the Quran with concentration;
2. Keeping the stomach empty;
3. Staying awake at night for Ibadah(worship of Allah);
4. Crying and
supplicating Allah at the time of Sehri and Iftaar; and
5. Making the pious your company.
I end my Friday Sermon here and
pray: “Oh Allah! Save our hearts from hypocrisy.”Ameen.