The Cure For Hard Hearts

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaathuhu!

This is your brother, Gabriel Al Romaani.

Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) gives us an amazing parable in the Quran speaking about Bani Israil in Surah Baqarah. 

Bani israil were a people, a nation, that were given blessings by Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala). 

Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) is telling to remember, remember the n'ima that Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) has given them.

They've seen Musa (alyhissalaam), they've seen the miracles that came with Musa (alyhissalaam) and yet still, over and over again, they turn away and they deny the signs. 

Then, Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) says something amazing about their hearts. 

He says...

Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) says that, after all these signs, your hearts became harden like rocks, actually worse than rocks! And Allah says that indeed from rocks, there's spring's that gush forth and some rocks, they fall apart, they break, and there's water that comes out. And yet some other rocks, they break out of the gush, the fear of Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala).

And indeed, Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) knows and sees what you do.

He's not unknowing or unaware, in ghaflah, from what you do. 

So SubahaanAllah! 

Imagine, brothers and sisters, these people haves seen the sea split!

These people have seen Firaun being drowned. 

These people have seen all the miracles, yet they deny the signs.

These hearts are so sensitive that if we deny Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala), if we do not ponder over his ayaat, if we do not take lessons from his ayaat, our hearts can become hard, harder than the rocks.

I wanna share, finally, a story that one of my teachers shared with me.

He, himself, walked in the store one day, and he saw his teacher reading the Qur'an.

And this is about the heart. Pay attention. 

Just so we know, so we can analyze, so we can have a heart monitor.

He saw him crying. He's crying and he said, 'Ya sheikh, why are you crying?'

He said, 'look at this ayah, what does Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) say?'

Do they not ponder over the Qur'an, over the ayaats of Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) or do they have locks on their hearts?

And he said, 'I started looking for the keys to these locks. Because if Allah (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) have revealed locks, He should have revealed the keys. So I started looking, looking, looking. Where are the keys? Where are the keys? No way that Allah revealed locks and no keys! And I couldn't find it. Then, I read the Qur'an over and over, and finally today before I came in, I found the key! Actually, Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala) has revealed the keys before the locks.'

Afalaa ya tabbarunal Quran

The 'tadabbur.'

This is the key to unlock those hard hearts.

To unlock locks that are put on things that are safe, on things that are hard, safes, and so on. 

Things that you cannot enter in, things that are strong.

And this is the key, the Tadabbur. Pondering over the ayaats of Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala). Seeing the ayaats of Allahu (subhaanahu wa ta'ala), and not allowing our hearts to become like that of Bani Israil, like rocks. 

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaathuhu