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The Sound Heart (2/2)

Imam Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali

Source: The Key To Paradise

Published On: 27/8/2015 A.D. - 12/11/1436 H. Visited: 4239 times

After the ostentatious, it is the followers and slaves of desires who shall enter the Fire: those who obeyed their desires and disobeyed their Master. As for the true servants of Allah, it will be said to them,

“O soul at rest and peace, return to your Lord, well-pleasing and well-pleased! Enter among My servants! Enter My Garden!” [Surah al-Fajr (89): 27-30]

The Fire of Hell pales into insignificance when faced with the light of faith of those who lived by Tawhid. In a hadith it is mentioned, "The Fire shall say to the believer, 'Pass by for your light has extinguished my blaze!"'[1]

Ahmad records on the authority of Jabir that the Prophet sallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said, "There is not a righteous person or a sinner except that he will enter it. For the believer it will be a source of coolness and peace just as it was for Ibrahim, to the point that the Fire will raise a clamour in objection to the coolness.” [2]

This is the legacy of Ibrahim ('alayhis-salam) to the lovers amongst his descendants.

The Fire of Hell fears the fire of love in the hearts of the lovers. Junayd said, The Fire said, "My Lord, if I do not obey You would You punish me with something worse than me?" He replied, "Yes, I would unleash against you My Greatest Fire." It said, "Is there a fire which is greater and more intense than mine?" He replied, "Yes, the fire of love of Me which I settle in the hearts of My believing friends.'"

The fiercest heat of Hell is its coolest portion!

Were it not for the tears of the lovers cooling

The heat of love, burned by heartsickness would they be!

Leave him with his tears to quench the heat

Of a yearning heart, leave him, leave him!

Ask his rebukers to excuse him for a time,

For in their rebuke at his desire have they killed him!

One of the Gnostics would say, 'Is it not strange that I be one of the living amongst you, yet in my heart there is a longing for my Lord like a blazing furnace that refuses to go out!'

I have not seen a fire like the fire of the lovers

The further it is from its kindler, the more it blazes.

[1] Tabarani, al-Kabir #668 on the authority of Ya’la ibn Munayyah.

It was declared da'if by Albani, Daifal-Jami’ 1 #2474.

[2] Ahmad #14520

Bayhaqi, Shu'ab #370 said that its isnad was hasan. Hakim #8744 said it was sahih and Dhahabi agreed. Haythami, vol. 7, pg. 55 said that the narrators of Ahmad were trustworthy and precise. However both Albani, Daifal-Targhib #2110 and Arna’ut, Tahqiq Musnad show that the isnad is da'if due to the presence of an unknown narrator.

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