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Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

Translation and Commentary of Imm Mawld's Maharat al-Qulb

by Hamza Yusuf

Contents

Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart...............................................................................1 Translation and Commentary of Imm Mawld's Maharat al-Qulb .................................................................1

by Hamza Yusuf .......................................................................................................................................................1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 4

E-Book Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................................4 Translator's Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................6 Translation & Commentary .........................................................................................................................................11 Introduction to Purification..........................................................................................................................................12 Miserliness ................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Wantonness .................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Hatred ..........................................................................................................................................................................22 Iniquity ........................................................................................................................................................................24 Love of the World........................................................................................................................................................27 Envy ............................................................................................................................................................................. 29 Blameworthy Modesty ................................................................................................................................................34 Fantasizing ................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Fear of Poverty ............................................................................................................................................................37 Ostentation ................................................................................................................................................................... 39 Relying on Other than God..........................................................................................................................................46 Displeasure with Divine Decree ..................................................................................................................................47 Seeking Reputation......................................................................................................................................................50 False Hope ...................................................................................................................................................................54 Negative Thoughts.......................................................................................................................................................60 Vanity ..........................................................................................................................................................................62 Fraud ............................................................................................................................................................................ 64 Anger ...........................................................................................................................................................................65 Heedlessness ................................................................................................................................................................ 72

Rancor .........................................................................................................................................................................76 Boasting & Arrogance .................................................................................................................................................77 Displeasure with Blame...............................................................................................................................................81 Antipathy Toward Death .............................................................................................................................................83 Obliviousness to Blessings ..........................................................................................................................................85 Derision .......................................................................................................................................................................88 Comprehensive Treatment for the Heart .....................................................................................................................90 Beneficial Actions for Purifying the Heart ..................................................................................................................95 The Root of All Diseases of the Heart .........................................................................................................................98

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

On the Day of Judgment no one is safe save the one who returns to God with a pure heart. (QURAN)

Surely in the breasts of humanity is a lump of flesh, if sound then the whole body is sound, and if corrupt then the whole body is corrupt. Is it not the heart? (Prophet Muhammad )

Blessed are the pure at heart, for they shall see God. (Jesus )

"Whoever has not thanked people, has not thanked God," said the Prophet Muhammad . This work is the result of the collaboration of many people. I am honored to have studied the meanings of this poem with my friend and pure-hearted teacher Abdallah ould Ahmadna. I also thank the eminent scholar and spiritual master, Shaykh Muhammad Hasan ould al-Khadim, for giving me license to teach and translate the poem and whose outstanding commentary on it was my constant companion during the classes and remains so today. Thank you, Feraidoon Mojadedi, for your continued love and support and for having the zeal to organize the classes and the small, blessed school that would become Zaytuna. More gratitude than can be expressed goes to Doctor Hisham al-Alusi, who humbly sat on the floor against the window to attend the original classes that would become this text. He saw from the start the importance of this work and, through his extraordinary efforts, helped realize more than I had hoped to with the Zaytuna Institute. I also thank my sister Nabila, who has worked tirelessly through her Alhambra Productions to spread this message. I'm grateful to Hisham Mahmoud for his careful editing of the translation of the poem, and to my friend and artist Abdullateef Whiteman for his beautiful design of the cover. Special thanks and appreciation to Ibrahim Abusharif, whose editing makes the book as much his as it is mine. Great thanks also to Osama Osman, who saw the importance of a book on this topic and took the work to its completion. Finally, my immense gratitude goes to the mother of my children, Liliana, whose pure heart is fortunate enough not to need the contents of this book.

E-Book Acknowledgements

This ebook was created manually after hundreds of hours of digitizing and proofreading. It is important to be mindful of the flaws and be cautious of any words or phrases that seem off. Some special characters are missing, which may alter the pronunciation of certain Arabic words. Characters such as , , , and did not properly translate into this PDF, although we are working on fixing these minor details in future revisions inshaAllah. As a result the transliteration key is not entirely helpful for some words that use these special characters. Secondly, the book contains an appendix, a Quranic index, and a subject index, all of which are not included in this PDF unfortunately. If you find any errors, please email admin@ and we will do our best to correct them immediately.

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