The last Ramadan which had just ended had brought me a very important lesson in the matters of the heart. Our heart is normally at the center of everything we do. If the heart is bad and not properly "trained" or controlled, it may easily go astray and do things which are contrary to our "fitrah" or basic instinct, which is to do good.
As we progresses in life, our surroundings will undoubtedly change and will continue to play an increasingly significant role in determining our final destination in life. Obviously our actions and reactions when dealing with a myriad of situations in this worldly life would eventually be determined by the action of our hearts in accordance with how well it has been brought up or trained.
Often times, we hear cases of people being hurt or unjustly treated by non other than their loved ones who would most likely possess hearts which are "tainted". These perpetrators would rather do unkind things than be kind to their loved ones. Although there are so many reasons why crimes are committed, one common reason would be due to the "matters of the hearts". In this instance, when one party is not satisfied with the action of another party, conflict would arise which could lead to unwanted behaviors taking place which in most cases involved the life and limbs of the victims and in some case their loved ones too.
These kind of "crime of the hearts", is very difficult to suppress as it doesn't manifest itself in the open. From the outside, everyone would be looking the same and we would often expect them to be just ordinary people doing ordinary things. But when their dark side emerge and took control of themselves, then all hell break loose. One bad thing would lead to another as bad aura would attract bad people likewise with good aura would attract good people and never the twain shall meet!
What the last Ramadan had taught me was how to be aware of this "sickness of the hearts" and slowly get rid of this so called the "tainted heart syndrome" and turn it into a beautiful and sincere heart which is full of love and compassion.
Of course in the beginning it wasn't also easy for me to accept this new direction.
Being Muslims would obviously put the corrective action much easier to follow and faster to put into action. The only solution that me has been practicing is to submit yourself entirely to Allah and deep inside, we should realize that we actually having nothing on this earth since everything belongs to Allah. Whatever we have is only temporarily "loaned" to us by Allah.
After knowing and accepting this fact, we should realize that, everything that is happening around us is with the blessing of Allah and things will not "hit" us if it is not destined to hit us in the first place.
Knowing all of the above, we should relax and feel the stress free situation so that our heart now could become more sincere and able to take up its "fitrah" or basic instinct of doing good and being kind to others thus producing in its wake a stress free environment for the people involved....
Everyone should realize this simple fact, those who wanted to enter Paradise must also behave and act like the people of Paradise before they can be accepted as part of the Paradise community. And the people of Paradise are made up of people with peaceful hearts. Their hearts have been cleansed from the "tainted heart syndrome" where they roam free inside the Paradise without any feeling of jealousy or hatred which we people of the world still can't live without them!.
