from JIMAS

And We reveal of the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy for the believers. [Surah al-Isra (17) Ayah 82]

There has come unto you an exhortation from your Lord, a healing for that, which is in your breasts, a guidance and mercy for the believers. [Surah Yunus (10) Ayah 57]

It is guidance and a healing for those who believe. [Surah Fussilat (41) Ayah 44]

But remind (them) of it (the Quran) lest a person be given up to destruction (tubsala) for that which he has earned [Surah al-An'am (6) Ayah 70]

The Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) used to supplicate, "Make the Quran the nurturer (rabee') of our hearts and the light of our chests." [Ahmad, Abu Ya'la, At-Tabarani]

Rabee' means the rain that falls and nourishes the plants.

Do they not earnestly seek to understand the Quran or have they locked up their hearts? [Surah Muhammad (47) Ayah 24]

Ibn al-Qayyim said, "The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins." [Haadi al Arwaah ilaa Bilaad al-Afraah]

Ibn Abbas said, "Indeed good actions are a light in the heart, a strengthening for the body, a glow on the face, a cause for extensive provisions and love in the hearts of the creation.

Indeed bad actions are a darkness in the heart, a blackness on the face, a weakness for the body, a cause for decrease in provisions and hatred in the hearts of the creation." [Ibn Qayyim in "al-Jawaab al-Kaafi"]

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak said, "I see that sins deaden the heart and doing so continuously will produce despicableness. Abandoning sins is the life of the heart and rebelling against it (the sins) is better for yourself. Has anything destroyed the Deen except kings, evil scholars and evil monks?" [Ibn Abi-l-'Izz in "Sharh ul 'Aqeedatut-Tahaaweeyah"]

Ibn Taymiyyah in his book "Kitaab ar-Radd 'alaal- Mantiqeeyeen" said, "A section of the people of Kalam and reason reject many things that (al Ghazzali) has said, and think that devotion and purification of the heart does not contribute to knowledge. They are certainly wrong. The truth is that piety and purification of the heart are some of the greatest means of acquiring knowledge. One has to abide by the Quran and the Sunnah, in knowledge and action. No one can know that transcendental reality directly by himself, independent of the agency of prophethood. No one can dispense with what the prophet has communicated concerning matters of reality. The word of the prophet is self-authenticating and the kashf or the opinion of anyone cannot rule on it."

The Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Righteousness is good character and sin is whatever is uneasy in your soul which you would dislike people to discover." [Muslim]

The Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "He whose good deeds please him and his bad deeds gives him grief, then he is a believer." [Ahmad,
At-Tirmidhi]

Wabisah ibn Ma'bad said that once he came to the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and before he could speak the prophet asked, "Have you come to ask about righteousness?"

When Wabisah replied in the affirmative he said, "Consult your heart. Righteousness is that about which your heart and soul is at ease, while sin is about that which your soul is uneasy and your heart hesitant, even though people have given you their legal verdicts about it time and time again." [Musnad Ahmad]