Taking Care Of The Heart, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)
- The heart is the master of the body: the ḥadīth that if the piece of flesh is sound the whole body is sound, and if it is corrupt the whole body is corrupt
- Words of the Salaf, Ibn Qudāmah and Ibn al-Qayyim (raḥimahumallāh) on the heart as king and the limbs as its soldiers
- Two kinds of heart that lean to falsehood: one distracted from good by laziness and worldly desires, and one that actively opposes the truth with doubt, kufr and innovation
- How Iblīs knows that the way to the limbs is through the heart, and sends whispers and beautified desires
- The cure for a diseased heart: just as we rush to a doctor for a bodily illness, we must turn to reading and pondering the Qurʾān, learning and implementing the Sunnah
- The heart distracted by this world is returned to Tawḥīd and īmān; the heart attacked by doubt is re-exposed to guidance
- Only the sound heart (qalb salīm) benefits on the Day of Judgement
Recorded at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 22/3/19
