Healing Hardened Heart

I often get questions around from my friends about how to improve one’s iman, 
how to become a better Muslim, 
and so forth laahhh kan.

 In case, I advise you to do a lot of istighfar for seeking forgiveness from Allah, 
Allah hasn’t forbidden you this enjoyment. 

And this Mercy that you used to live in by memorizing Quran, 
and the good that you were in, 

except because of sin.

So I advise you people to do a lot of istighfar, 
seeking forgiveness from Allah.

And Ibn Tahmiyyah used to say, 

"Issues would be difficult for me so I would do istighfar a thousand times, then Allah would allow me to understand the issue."

Because sins seize the heart until it becomes blotted out with sins to the point that he can’t distinguish between right and wrong or guidance and misguidance. 

So do lots of istighfar.

And Allah says, 

"Seek His forgiveness so that you may be shown Mercy."

So do lots of istighfar so that Allah may forgive you.

Actually, 
a seeker of knowledge should always be doing lots of istighfar.

 And lots of remembrance by dhikr of Allah, 

the Magnificent, the High.

Secondly sayang-sayang sekalian, to take the means that will help open your heart. 

Verily your withdrawal from reciting Quran, 
is for no other reason other than the closing of your heart. 

And the heart doesn’t become closer, except for various reasons, 

one of the biggest of these reasons is ignoring the hereafter and recalling this world.

And I advise you my sisters to take the means that will help open your heart. 

Do more dhikr for remembrance of Allah, 

recite more of the Quran, 

even if there’s effort, pain, and hardship. 

Perhaps you’ll find difficulty initially, but in the second time, you’ll find ease. 

Then Allah will open your heart more and more until it is fully opened.

My third advice to you is to look closely at the rights of others, for perhaps you disobeyed your mother or father or a close relative that you cut your ties with, 

so Allah placed a barrier between you and His Mercy.

Look carefully at what you’ve done, 

for perhaps there’s a sin you’ve committed against Allah or one of His servants. 

Fix what is wrong between you and Allah or between you and His servant so that Allah may fix your state.

As for my fourth advice to you, my sisters for the sake of Allah, 

I advise that you look for righteous close friends. 

Verily brotherhood for seeking knowledge witnesses endeavor and zeal, and strengthens the soul, and makes one determined to do good.

Thus a seeker of knowledge becomes lazy when she’s alone, 
and becomes bored when she’s by herself. 

But if she searched for an honest sister in Islam, and a righteous servant of Allah, whom she becomes her sister in Islam and is always with and reviews with, and encourages and reviews the knowledge, so by the permission of Allah, Allah will strengthen her weakness and fix what is broken in the sister.

So this is what I advise you with.
advise diri aku sendiri jugak lah kannn.

And I advise the seekers of knowledge with very important matters that will create a barrier between them and the hardening of the heart. 

A seeker of knowledge should allocate a portion of his time to visiting graves, 
a seeker of knowledge should allocate some time taking care of the sick, 
because visiting graves breaks one’s conceit and ego.

If a knowledgeable person isn’t humbled broken by khusyuk, 
then she’ll be struck with conceit and perhaps a week or two will go by, 
and becomes harsh and her tears dry up she can’t cry anymore because of the hardness of his heart, 
and we ask Allah for protection from that.

And the people most deserving of having khusyuk and doing dhikr and opening their chests, 
after the scholars, 
are the seekers of knowledge.

So I advise you my sisters to visit the graves and attach great important to it. 
And likewise, 
I advise you to visit the ill and pay attention to the state of those who are afflicted the ailing, 
and those in pain and with disorders. 
For verily that breaks the conceit that is in the heart of man.

Also I advise you to read about the lives of the righteous early Muslims, 
may Allah have mercy on them. 
For verily that opens up one’s heart. 
And more specifically, 
back to the basic as a muslim =)