Apr
4
11:00pm
Sound Hearts with Hajj Hisham Mahmoud
By Mizan Avenue
Sound Hearts - Selections from Purification of the Heart By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.
4 week series with Hajj Hisham Mahmoud
“Hallowed be He in Whose hand is all dominion, Who has power over every thing, the One Who created death and life to try you—which of you shall be most beautiful in deeds. And He is the Almighty, the Forgiving!” (al-Mulk 67:1-2). The deeds that we author into our lives are the material manifestation of the spiritual health of our hearts. Beauty that exudes is an extension of the heart’s soundness, while injustice is every indication of imbalance in the heart. Our mother, Lady ʿĀʾishah, narrated from the Prophet ﷺ that the archangel Jibrīl once told him that Allah said, “The heavens and the earth cannot encompass Me, but the heart of My faithful servant encompasses Me!” In truth, the heart cannot be reminded that it is meant to be the dwelling of the One Who animates it, for its very life cycle is an unceasing invocation of His Name between contraction and expansion—Al-lāh, Al-lāh, Al-lāh. His nearness is to all hearts, but He only dwells in those hearts whose chambers are aesthetically ornate with the hues of faith. The Prophet ﷺ guaranteed Paradise to a man whose one salvific deed was the state of his heart: he would not sleep before removing every trace of enmity, rancor, or anger against anyone who crossed him that day! Lanturna has partnered with Mizan Avenue, that we may vacate our hearts of anything that would not welcome our Lord’s dwelling, and to color our deeds with the strokes of beauty, the very test of our deaths and our lives.
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