Diseases of The Hearts And Their Cures By Shaykul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah

Know, O beloved reader, that it is most important to spend one’s time and energy in treating the heart, and hastening to correct and purify it from sickness and all sins. This is due to the occupying a great and lofty position in Islam, for it is the place where the Lord looks and the storehouse for Tawheed, faith, and sincerity. Actions are distinguished, one from the other, with respect to their excellence in the Sight of Allah in accordance with the condition of the, not by their number or form, but rather due to the strength of the caller, his or her truthfulness, his or her sincerity and the extent to which he or she prefers Allah over himself or herself. The heart forms the foundation, it is the owner of the limbs, and the limbs are its soldiers, so when the owner becomes purified, its soldiers become purified, and when the owner becomes sullied, then its soldiers become sullied. Al-Hafidh ibn Hajr al-Asqalani said: ‘The heart has been singled out for this because it is the leade