✍🏼 Ibnul-Qayyim رحمه الله تعالى
Just as the heart may be described in terms of being alive or dead, it may also be regarded as belonging to one of three types; these are the healthy heart, the dead heart, and the sick heart.
On the Day of Resurrection, only those who come to Allaah with a healthy heart will be saved. Allaah سبحانه و تعالى says:
"The Day on which neither wealth nor sons will be of any use, except for whoever brings to Allaah a sound heart." [Al-Qur'aan 26:88-89]
In defining the healthy heart, the following has been said: "It is a heart cleansed from any passion that challenges what Allaah commands, or disputes what He forbids. It is free from any impulses which contradict His good. As a result, it is safeguarded against the worship of anything other than Him, and seeks the judgement of no other except that of His Messenger. Its services are exclusively reserved for Allaah, willingly and lovingly, with total reliance, relating all matters to Him, in fear, hope and sincere dedication. When it loves, its love is in the way of Allaah. If it detests, it detests in the light of what He detests. When it gives, it gives for Allaah. If it withholds, it withholds for Allaah. Nevertheless, all this will not suffice for its salvation until it is free from following, or taking as its guide, anyone other than His Messenger."
A servant with a healthy heart must dedicate it to its journey's end and not base his actions and speech on those of any other person except Allaah's Messenger. He must not give precedence to any other faith or words or deeds over those of Allaah and His Messenger, may Allaah bless him and grant him peace. Allaah says:
"Oh you who believe, do not put yourselves above Allaah and His Messenger, but fear Allaah, for Allaah is Hearing, Knowing." [Al-Qur'aan 49:1]
This is the opposite of the healthy heart. It does not know its Lord and does not worship Him as He commands, in the way which He likes, and with which He is pleased. It clings instead to its lusts and desires, even if these are likely to incur Allaah's displeasure and wrath. It worships things other than Allaah, and its loves and its hatreds, and its giving and its withholding, arise from its whims, which are of paramount importance to it and preferred above the pleasure of Allaah. Its whims are its imam. Its lust is its guide. Its ignorance is its leader. Its crude impulses are its impetus. It is immersed in its concern with worldly objectives. It is drunk with its own fancies and its love for hasty, fleeting pleasures. It is called to Allaah and the akhira from a distance but it does not respond to advice, and instead it follows any scheming, cunning shaytan. Life angers and pleases it, and passion makes it deaf and blind to anything except what is evil.
To associate and keep company with the owner of such a heart is to tempt illness: living with him is like taking poison, and befriending him means utter destruction.
This is a heart with life in it, as well as illness. The former sustains it at one moment, the latter at another, and it follows whichever one of the two manages to dominate it. It has love for Allaah, faith in Him, sincerity towards Him, and reliance upon Him, and these are what give it life. It also has a craving for lust and pleasure, and prefers them and strives to experience them. It is full of self-admiration, which can lead to its own destruction. It listens to two callers: one calling it to Allaah and His Prophet and the aakhirah; and the other calling it to the fleeting pleasures of this world. It responds to whichever one of the two happens to have most influence over it at the time.
The first heart is alive, submitted to Allaah, humble, sensitive and aware; the second is brittle and dead; the third wavers between either its safety or its ruin.
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