Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Insincerity is a cause of confusion when Fitan and Trials strike. The Insincere Heart may follow Desires, Doubts, the Shaytān, it seeks Position and may fall into Shirk! So do not let those who have been striken with this sickness divert you from gaining the pleasure of Allah!


Ibn al Qayyim beautifully illustrates the example of trees in the heart
So oh possessor of a heart! Grow your tree on a ground fed with the love of your creator & seeking his pleasure!

And know that bitter fruits await the disobedient seekers of the pleasure of the creation!



Imām Ibn Al Qayyim Al Jawziyah – Rahimahullah – stated in his book of benefits, ‘Al-Fawāid’:

•The year is a tree, the months are its branches, the days are its smaller limbs or branches, the hours are its leaves and the breaths (that you take) are its fruits.

Whoever’s breaths are spent in obedience (to Allah) then the fruits of his tree will be good. And whoever’s breaths are spent in disobedience (to Allah) then his fruits will be bitter.

The time of harvest (of your fruits or rewards) will be the day of return (the day of judgement). At the time of harvest the sweet fruit  will become clear or distinct from the bitter fruit.

Sincerity and Tawhīd (Monotheism) is a tree in the heart, its branches are actions, and its fruits are a good existence in the Dunya (the world) and an everlasting bliss in the hereafter.

The fruits of Jannah (paradise) are not limited to seasons and their supply is never cut off, likewise the fruits of Tawhīd and sincerity in the Dunya are the same (i.e. they are never cut off).

Shirk (polytheism), lies and Riyā’ (showing off ones actions of worship to the people) is a tree in the heart, the fruit of which is fear, anxiety, distress or grief, tightening of the chest and  darkening of the heart.

Its fruit in the hereafter are Zaqqūm (the fruits  of its stalks are like  the heads  of devils) and an everlasting punishment.

And Allah has mentioned these two trees (the two trees that exist in the hearts, the tree of Tawhīd and the tree of Shirk) in Surah Ibrahīm.1

(‘Al Fawaid’, page 240-241 ; Dār Ālim al-Fawāid, third edition, 1438H)

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1See Surah Ibrahīm: Ayah 23-27

Translated by Abu Affān, HakĪm bin Bilāl Davis
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8:01 PM . Mar 5, 2020