welcome back to the faith revival
so last time we were talking about this
fear from hypocrisy this vigilance as
being part of iman that a person is
vigilant with their faith
why is that because the very vessel
that holds iman is inherently
inconsistent
the heart is always inconsistent the
prophet
alaihi wasallam tells us that that's why
it's called
it's called the kalb which means it's
always turning because it's it's always
in the state of
it's always turning in different
directions
the heart is always in movement it
cannot be still all the time and so a
person has to try to settle it and he
said sallallahu alaihi wasallam that the
heart of the son of adam
is more inconsistent than boiling water
so you can imagine
the movement of the heart the more iman
a person has in the heart the more
they're able to settle it but the heart
is always moving and if you stop
settling it if you stop filling it with
iman to keep it still then it's
inevitable that it's going to turn and
you will not be able to control the
degree
to which it turns and how far it will go
or where it turns to so settling the
heart is extremely important now how
there are many lessons we take from this
the scholars mention that if you read
about the companions they took time to
internalize the faith
okay they understood the inconsistency
of the heart so they took time to
stabilize the faith subbin
who for example says we used to read 10
verses of the quran understand them
memorize them apply them and then we'd
move on to the next ten
think about then
the
the extremists that the prophet saws
mentioned
that recite plenty of quran but it does
not go beyond their throats you know
there's a saying that extremists are
blinded by the light they're not guided
by the light what happens if water keeps
on boiling it'll evaporate so there will
be no iman whatsoever so a person should
slowly slowly slowly stabilize the heart
rather than try to take in too much
because the iman iman does not come in
that fashion iman grows gradually you
don't suddenly jump in and take it all
in it grows gradually and a person has
to make their heart consistent so there
are two supplications from the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam that we'll
learn today inshaallah that are very
similar and
a person might think that they mean the
exact same thing but there's a subtle
lesson that we can take in the
difference the first one is the most
frequent supplication of the prophet
salallahu
that he would always say
oh turner of hearts
make my heart firm on your path
if the prophet
alaihi wasallam made that dura more
frequently than any other
then what then for us does the prophet
saw some fear hypocrisy does he does he
fear that his heart will be turned in
any other direction subhanallah what
about us then if that was the most
frequent dua of the prophet salallahu
it should also
be our most frequent supplication and we
should increase it well beyond what the
prophet saws used to say for our hearts
are not like his heart
now there is another dua that's very
similar and i want to talk a little bit
about the difference because they're
both authentically narrated another the
prophet saws i'm used to make was yamasa
also o turner of hearts but the word is
musareth as opposed to muqallib muqallib
is to turn musaf is to direct okay and
syrah is to direct
so o director of hearts direct my heart
to your good deeds
the first one which is the most frequent
is really to to maintain your heart upon
the path of allah longing for allah and
away from sins so away from turning to
that which is displeasing to him the
second supplication is that allah
directs your heart to good deeds
so one is that allah keeps your heart
away from turning towards that which is
displeasing to him the other is that
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala turns your
heart towards that which is pleasing to
him so to do us the more important one
of
keep our hearts firm and consistent and
upon that which is pleasing to him and
may allah fill our hearts with longing
for him so that we meet him in that
state allahumma ameen see you next time
inshaallah salaam alaikum salaam
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