Transcript MUNAAJAT AL-SHAAKIIN

THE WHISPERED PRAYERS OF THE
COMPLAINERS
from Imam Zaynul Abedin a.s.
PART 2
DR.MOHAMMAD Ali SHOMALI
19TH JUNE 2012
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The heart is the most important part of our reality. It is only through the heart, one
would be able to perceive a person’s personality.
One of the things that we should know about our heart is that heart is very
changeable unlike Intellect which is fixed.
Imam Kadhim a.s. “ We have 2 hujjah, internal (‘Aql) and the external is Prophets.”
Heart is called QALB which means (to alter, change)….therefore the state of the
heart is always in motion.
The friends of God, pious people also go through these changes of the heart i.e.
high and low.
According to a poet, even Prophet Yaqub a.s. could feel the fragrance of his son
Yusuf from his shirt being brough by his brothers from Egypt, while he couldn’t feel
it when Yusuf was inside the well near their town or village. This shows that even
Awliyaa Allah go through these internal changes and therefore their sensitivity and
receptivity can vary.
In ordinary people, these changes can be sometimes very radical like going through
changes like for instance from Imaan to Kufr, or from Pride to humility, from
ignorance to knowledge.
As believers we need to reflect on this aspect..
Heart is the most sacred entity
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Problems with the heart – Sometime the heart becomes very hard
(Qasawatul-qalb) hard hearted. No light can easily enter into the
heart. It is a very worrying condition of the heart.
2nd problem - Effects of temptations can make our heart move from
one state to another. Through Satan, our own fantasies, illusions.
These temptations are very destructive.
Most of our problems start with these imaginations, temptations that
compel us to commit sins.
Worldly beauty is not as attractive as it looks like. For instance we go
into an imaginary world like falling in love and imagine one’s mate to
be perfect, etc… but after sometime one realises that it’s a fallacy.
Reality is that nobody is perfect or imperfect but we have flaws.
A mo’men looks for good qualities that overweigh bad qualities.
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The heart gets covered, sealed – The chance of NOOR, light getting into the
heart is unlikely as mentioned in the munajaat.
Something related to the heart are our EYES – If your heart is hard, sealed,
one of the impacts would be that you would not be able to cry, shed tears,
weep to Allah s.w.t. (showing indifference to Allah s.w.t.). This is a severe
condition.
Many people cry for worldly reasons. That is not enough. One needs to cry
over one’s self, fear of the day of judgement, fear of damage caused to one’s
self.
SIGNIFICANCE OF SHEDDING TEARS
We see in Dua Abu Hamza Thumali – O Allah please help me with crying over
myself…..
To overcome the Nafs-al-Ammarra,(the evil soul) one’s heart becomes pure
and clean.
Mystics quote, about two types of water
Water of eye – To wash your heart through shedding tears and to purify the
heart.
Water of spring – to clean your body, clothes.
It is also said that listening to Qu’ranic verses, one would be able to shed tears
even if they were not believers.
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If our prayer is not accepted then nothing would be accepted.
Hadith: “ Some of the signs of being in a bad state, is the dry eyes
and hard heart and greediness and avarice, and insisting on
committing sins.
This was practised in the pagan culture when men never cried, or
never cared, showed affection, mercy towards one’s own
children.
Management of our emotions is fundamental. But one needs to
see why would one cry. Sadness is a healthy condition, provided it
is for good reasons.
ONE NEEDS TO FIND OUT why is one happy or sad?
Are we sad because our 12th Imam a.s. has not reappeared? Are
we sad because of our state of our heart? The higher one goes,
there is more reason for sadness but needs to be balanced and
active way of putting this emotions must be learnt.
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Our Imams even showed sadness but were active and proactive for
the sake of Allah s.w.t.
Members of ahlulbayt a.s. showed their emotions in public as well.
The event of Ashura and the tragedy of Karbala is significant to
share the sadness in congregation and commemorate together. It is a
social enterprise.
KEEP A BALANCE
When one is alone in the middle of the night and sheds tears for Allah
s.w.t.
Going for ziyarat and showing our humility and emotions at the
presence of holy personalities.
One needs to find out why one cannot cry and this is one of the
concerns that the holy prophet showed. One of them being the hard
heartedness of the heart and multitudes of sins. Also dreams and
desires due to excessive love for this world. It is the root of all evils.
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So from the above hadith we will analyse that through the love
of this world would lead to committing sins and through
excessive sins one would become hard hearted and thus
would make one oblivious of the reality of this world and our
existence.
CONCLUSION
Therefore to diagnose the problem of the heart; from this
munajaat and other du’as and get familiar with all the prayers
and see how one can solve one’s internal ailments by tackling
the ailments and solve the problems of the heart. One cannot
attain all the answers to one particular dua or munajat.
Through cross-referencing all these treasures of gems from
the ma’sumeen a.s. we will be able to solve our anxieties and
spiritual ailments.