Cleansing of Heart ---- An Easy Approach

In our daily life.....lets take an example of mineral deposits in the bath room....if we use water high on mineral for a day or two on a neat and clean milky-white bath tub...we will see some stains, and with little efforts those stains could be removed.....

Now if we dont worry about those stains on the bath tub, and keep using the same high mineral water...we will see increase in number of stains...the more we use mineral water, the more stains we will see....until there will reach a point where the stains will be all over the bath tub, especially the are where the mineral-water falls directly on the tub.

If you notice, those stains are very difficult to clean...and ordinary detergent, soap, or even the ordinary bathroom bowl cleaner with high acid intensity will not help...for example i have seen even the Clorox, the best available brand does not help at all......in fact...there are specialized aciduous checmicals that you will have to use which are very strong in acid, and you cannot contact the liquid directly.

Now if we ponder a little bit...this is a great example for humanity....it gives us a lesson that is so clear and without any abstracts...

Think about our hearts, and (to those who are scientific) brains, and more so our spirit. First of all I admit I am a sinner, and I seek "refuge" of Allah for all my mistakes that I do knowingly and unknowingly...yet if someone asks me...you could remove the mineral deposits using acids....how could one remove the stains on his heart....which are deposited on the heart due to bad deeds......

The process of stain-agglomoration on one's heart is explained very well in Quran. We keep doing bad things, commit sins in every day life, ignore the oneness of God, Lie, Steal, back bite, betray friends, donot stand up for the truth, and donot stand against the cruel to help the victim, and in many cases we support the cruel just because we want to save our ass.....we donot care what kind of earnings we are getting...in short our daily Life is full of sins....

In this dark life..if some one asks kay how do u wash ur stains of heart.....or brain.....because a point comes where brain or heart stops identifying the bad things.....

Well very simple recipe....First Make a niyaa..(intention),.....find ur self some time alone...when u are all by yourself....then follow these steps:

1) Make Istighfar --Tauba --- on all your sins...cry and admit urself as guilty of all those bad things that you have done.....this is the very first step...where a human being finds some time for himself...and appears in the court of his creator, and admits that he has made mistakes...this is the starting point...and this admittance is very necessary.

2) Make Intention and pray for it that you want to abstain from bad things, and you seek Allahs help in that.

3) Now the compund you would need to wash the stains on your heart is composed of two things.... In your daily life....develop a habit of saying Kalima Tayyaba, and Isteghfar in your spare time....Accoeding to manay Ahadiths...Kalima Tayyaba and Isteghfar are the two things that can wash the stains on the heart and they have a cleansing effect.

Kalima Tayyaba is: Ash Haduan Laa Ilaaha IllAllaho Wa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammad ARR Rasool Allah

Isteghfar: Just say Istaghfirullah

Key Observation: Just like many lazy people donot find it necessary to clean the mineral deposits from their bath tub because a point come where they dont see those stains...simlalrly all of us becomes so busy in life..that we dont find time for ourselves...It is very important to find urself some spare time where you are all by yourself in front of your Lord...and where you could pray, admit that you are guilty of the bad life you have been spending, and where foremost you could ask forgiveness, beg, cry for the guidance to the straight path from the Lord.

I think it is necessary or we all will stay astrayed......

I seek forgiveness of Allah......