MANGA CHARACTER - CREDIT: GOOGLE IMAGESNotes on Yasmin Mogahed’s Reclaim your Heart.
“Have you seen him who take his low desires for his god?” – Quran [25: 33-43]
Every human being has a void in their heart, and trying to fill it with other than the Creator leads to what we call: attachments. Attachments to the distractions we enslave ourselves to. Attachments, are the main reason for our emotional pain in this life. What we fill our self with will be that which causes us the most emotional pain; as we allow the thoughts and emotions to control us, we subsequently become condemned to its servitude. It will be what gives and takes away from our joy, wellness and self-worth, this is called false attachments and insecure dependencies.
Do we think about the way we think? We should. If we are not in control of our thoughts, then they will be. Our thoughts and emotions are good indicators for the departments filling up the space of our heart, and more so the content of our mind.
There is a healthy manner in which we love – what and who we do – we keep them in in our hands and not our heart center, that is not in our core. Our heart center is the Throne of its Owner, The Creator, Praises be to Him.
Once you practice detachment from all besides Allah you feel a sense of inner peace, sureness and a knowing, a feeling of calmness amidst the unstable wave of emotions. It means you feel an emotion but are centered in the truth, Allah is the ultimate Controller – of everything – so for that the believer’s heart is still, and at peace.
