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Quotes About Hard Hearts and Dead Hearts

“It is almost a rule that the heart does not mend except through pain, and does not recover and regain its tenderness except through suffering.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“A man said to al-Hasan al-Basri: "O Abu Sa`eed, I am complaining to you of the hardness of my heart."
He said: "Soften it with dhikr. The more forgetful the heart is, the hard it becomes, but if a person remembers Allah, that hardness softens as copper melts in the fire.
Nothing can soften the hardness of the heart like the remembrance of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. Dhikr is healing and medicine for the heart.
Forgetfulness is a disease, the cure for which is remembrance of Allah."

al-Hasan al-Basri

“The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

Dhul-Nun al-Misri

“If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. What we cannot remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Shams Tabrizi

“Ibn `Umar heard a man wishing for death and said: "Don't wish for death for you are already dead, but ask Allah for forgiveness."

Abdullah ibn `Umar

“If the heart is sick, the forbidden becomes attractive and obedience of Allah becomes something you look at with contempt.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“Sins are wounds, and maybe a wound that could lead to death, and a servant is not afflicted with a punishment greater than a hard hard, and the farthest hearts from Allah are hard hearts.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Don't curse the emptiness. Its there for a reason. It is a wake up call to seek and find Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Do you think your heart is dead or broken? Every winter the flowers and trees die. Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

Yasmin Mogahed

“If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

“There is no doubt that the heart becomes covered with rust, just as metal dishes—silver, and their like—become rusty. So the rust of the heart is polished with dhikr (remembrance of Allaah), for dhikr polishes the heart until it becomes like a shiny mirror. However, when dhikr is abandoned, the rust returns; and when it commences then the heart again begins to be cleansed. Thus the heart becoming rusty is due to two matters: sins and ahafah (neglecting remembrance of Allaah ). Likewise, it is cleansed and polished by two things : istighfaar (seeking Allaah’s forgiveness) and dhikr.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Your words are written, what you say you will be held accountable for, and O you, you are being recalled [by Allah], and you have sins and yet you don't repent, even though the sun of life has started setting. How hard is your heart among hearts!

Ibn al-Jawzi
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