The life of the HeARt

:: The life of the heart ::

We try to understand the heart more

We try to approach the heart

The word qalb comes from taqalup which is flipping

Flipping and fluctuation

The heart is being called qalb because it keeps flipping

It changes from one state to the other

A human being goes through different ups and downs

Sometimes a person feels happy

Just a few seconds later

The same person feels sad

Sometimes you have hope

Sometimes you are willing to do something

A few seconds later

You don’t want to do it

This is the reality of human beings

And this is the reality of the heart

It keeps fluctuating.. keeps flipping

From one side to the other

From one opinion to another

And the prophet s.a.w pointed to this reality or to this fact

When he said :

That the heart is between two of the fingers of Allah. He flips them as he wishes.

So the heart is between two of fingers of Allah. And Allah flips the hearts as he wishes

Obviously, according to his knowledge

According to his wisdom

And according to his justice

This is the general context of this hadith

The heart has been designed by Allah

And Allah put a need in the heart to know Allah

To know the descriptions of Allah

To know the attributes of Allah

Everything Allah told us about Himself

In the Quran and prophet S.A.W told us about

Allah in the authentic sunnah

Is something that the heart needs

In order to find real tranquillity

Real happiness and real success

Now something else we have to point out 
that as human beings have life

The heart also has it’s own life

With it’s own characteristic

With it’s own traits

The heart has a special kind of life

The scholars have pointed out from their own understanding

That they have derived from the Quran and the authentic sunnah

That human beings have life, the heart has life

And the real life in this world

Is the life of the heart

This is why the people who have no knowledge about Allah

The people who have no faith in Allah

As he told us about himself in the Quran and the authentic sunnah

These people have no real life

Because there is the life of the heart

There is the life of the body

These are two types of life that we have..

The majority of human beings

They focus their attention on the life of the body

While neglecting the life of the heart

And this is why they leave their hearts to suffer until they die

While focusing and paying great attention to the life of the body

And the reality is there is a higher form of life

And a lower or a lesser form of life

The lower one is the life of the body

Why.. because the animals have this life of the body

And they live throughout their lives

Only with this lesser or this lower quality of life

But there is this spiritual type of life

There is the higher life which the life of the heart

Which animals have no clue about

And unfortunately

That a great deal of people amongst human beings 
have no clue about the life of the heart

And real happiness is not in the lower level of life

But it’s in the higher level of life

That is the life of the heart

That is why real happiness is only

Given to the people of imaan

The people of true faith

Know what real happiness means

Yes.. the people who are chasing the pleasures and the desires of this world

The carnal desires

These people have moments of joy but it’s not real happiness

Real happiness is contentment

A deep and a profound sense of contentment of being satisfied 
with what Allah has given you

This real and profound sense of contentment..

Is real happiness

And it can only be given to the people of imaan

The people of faith

The heart that are full with knowledge of Allah

And the heart that are content with what Allah has given them

But the people who are after their desires

They have moments of joy but it’s not real happiness

And as the heart has life every living thing

As long it is described as having life

It must duffer from something called diseases and illnesses

Human beings suffer from diseases

Why.. because they are a live

Animals suffer from diseases

Why.. because they are alive

Plant suffer from diseases

Why.. because they are living creature

So every living creature

As long as it has life it has to suffer from something called diseases

The heart they have the quality of life

They also have the quality of being prone to diseases

To illnesses

And this is something very important 
because many people hearts are so diseased

Have been suffering from illnesses 
until they reached that point where they are dead

The life has been taken away from them

And when the spiritual heart is diseased and problematic

Then one’s relationship with Allah as well is problematic

And realise that when it comes to the spiritual heart

It is far more important than the physical heart

Our prophet s.a.w said :

That know Allah does not look at your shapes nor at your bodies

But rather Allah looks at your deeds and at your hearts

What is important to Allah is not the physical shape

people spend hours worrying about the outer state

and few of people think about the internal state

and people judge us by external states

but Allah judges us by our internal state

people look at your outer shape and body

people look at how you are dressed

how you are physically fit

but Allah does not care about your outer bodies

Allah cares about your deeds and about your hearts
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