Battle Between Heart and Mind

Hifzin114 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:17:07 +0000

This is the most painful battle on earth. It seems that no matter how hard I try to reason with my heart, to tell it to stop hurting and worrying over trivial matters…it continues to resonate with pain. I basically walk around with a random pain in my chest. My mind is perfectly fine and I can study, but then the pain in my chest is so bothersome that I lose focus easily. I must have some sort of spiritual disease. Yesterday I even took a tylenol tablet, but the cause of my pain is not a medical/bodily one, its an emotional one. I’ve had this pain once before.

My mom sent me this beautiful article on Dhikr by Shaykh Yasir Qadhi–I really liked it:

http://muslimmatters.org/2009/06/12/yasir-qadhi-khutbah-transcript-blessings-of-dhikr/

I liked the passage, “a sign of true life, a sign of spiritual life, a sign of real life is that you need the Giver of life.”

Shaykh Yasir said that dhikr will protect you from your own desires.

He also said that ‘hisnul haseen’ means protective fortress..who would have thought? If you know me, you will understand why I get a kick out of this phrase. :)

There was one part where he said it is better to perform dhikr that the Prophet (pbuh) himself did on a daily basis, rather than the dhikr of someone else (such as a Wird). I think it’s important to mention, that most Wirds (if not all), contain Dhikr that comes straight from the Quran and Sunnah. For example, the Wird of Imam Al Haddad contains Dhikr from the Quran and ahadeeth*. It was just compiled in a certain order that Imam Al Haddad wanted his students to learn and recite them in.

*ahadeeth-plural of hadith

Girl with a Pearl Drum » Shaykh Yasir Qadhi

Battle Between Heart and Mind