Know that
every limb was created to perform a specific action, so a sign of its sickness
is when guilt is established due to performing [an evil] act. A sign of the
hand’s sickness is when it is guilty of striking unlawfully; a sign of eye’s
sickness is when it is guilty of staring unlawfully; a sign of the heart’s
sickness is when it is guilty of not doing what it was created for, such as
acquiring knowledge and wisdom; love of Allaah, worshipping Allaah alone and
preferring that over every other desire.
Therefore, if
a person was to possess knowledge of everything but he does not know Allaah
[Glorified be He], then it is as if he knew nothing. The sign of knowing Allaah
is to love Allaah, for whoever truly knows Allaah will love Allaah. And a sign
of having love for Allaah is that one does not give precedence to anything over Allaah. So, whoever prefers
something from the beloved things over Allaah, then heart is sick, just like
the stomach that prefers mud and not bread, due to losing the desire for bread.
[Source: ‘An
Excerpt from Mukhtasar Minhaaj Al-Qaasideen’. Page 164. Slightly paraphrased]
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