THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Ath-thalaathah, 13th day of Rabeeul Awwal 1440, (Tuesday, 20th November, 2018). PURIFICATION OF OUR HEARTS continues from yesterday's reminder. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. This is a bit long but let's use just 3 minutes to boost our eemaan be-iznilLah. What happens when we ridicule, offend, mock someone? They’ll most probably think of revenge and think of a way to get back at us even more offensively. If we follow this vicious cycle, how then will our hearts find true peace? And wouldn’t the feelings of anger and revenge overwhelm our hearts and fill it with darkness and negativity? If you think about it, why is ALLAH (Al-Khaaliq, The Creator) telling us that? Why is HE giving us these instructions? How does this benefit HIM? The reality is, it doesn’t benefit HIM, it benefits us. ALLAH (Al-Bari’, The Rightful) wants us to maintain the light and peace of our hearts, because when you have that, you’ll have more clarity and wisdom to perceive and analyze life matters adequately. ALLAH doesn’t want anything to corrupt our sound judgement and our sound hearts because this is what helps us understand the most important realities about this life, and this is what helps us better connect with the CREATOR of this life. So the light of your heart and mind is critical and anything disturbing this is forbidden by ALLAH HIMSELF. We all have light in our hearts, and whether you realize it or not, a bad or a negative word could easily vanquish this light and change your state from joy, happiness and hopefulness into sadness, embarrassment and disappointment. All of these negative emotions corrupts and interrupts our light. And ALLAH doesn’t allow that! As ALLAH says; “HE is the Light of the heavens and the earth..” (Qur’an 24: 35). HE is The Light, and HE protects the light of HIS slaves. “ALLAH is the ally of those who believe. HE brings them out from darknesses into the light..” ( Qur’an 2: 257). There is a small but true story I witnessed that reflect that. There is a sister who is very kind-hearted and is always connected with ALLAH through her words and actions. One time, she was in a gathering with a group of sisters and she was speaking joyously, all of a sudden, another sister who is her manager- told her “you’re weird. You’re a really weird person.” You might think that this is not a big deal or that this was not even an offensive word. But it did hurt the sister. ALLAH is most knowing of the hearts HE created, and HE knows something so little could crush someone’s morale. The sister was embarrassed and her heart was a bit broken given how this was mentioned in front of everyone. She didn’t say a word or respond back. But of course her mood changed and she was heavy hearted for the rest of the day. She knew ALLAH witnessed this incident and that it wasn’t the kindest word to be said to her. A couple of days later, there was another gathering and the manager was there. She started telling a story to the crowd and then someone interrupted her saying, ” what is this story, you are very weird really to say that now.” For the sister who was insulted earlier, observing how ALLAH didn’t let her heart get broken in vain, and that HE defended her without her uttering a word, this was quite a comforting experience… “Indeed, ALLAH defends those who have believed…” (Qur’an 22: 38). It’s a reminder of this beautiful hadith: ” On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may ALLAH be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of ALLAH (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said: ALLAH (mighty and sublime be He) said: Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him…” [40 Hadith Qudsi]. Allahu Akbar. For any of my Daily Reminders, you can find them on my blog http://islamicdailyreminder.blogspot.com May ALLAH (Al-Hakam, The Judge, The Arbitrator) keep guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.