Maksiat Menggelapkan Hati, Melemahkan Badan, dan Menghalangi Ketaatan

Poin-Poin Utama

• • Title: Maksiat Menggelapkan Hati, Melemahkan Badan, dan Menghalangi Ketaatan.
• • Article references Ibnu Qayyim al-Jauziyyah's book Ad-Da' wa ad-Dawa.
• • Ad-Da' wa ad-Dawa explains that strong sin-darkness in the heart causes confusion and leads to bidah and misguidance.
• • Ad-Da' wa ad-Dawa compares sin-darkness in the heart to night darkness covering one's vision.
• • Ad-Da' wa ad-Dawa states that obedience is light, and growing darkness increases confusion.
• • Ad-Da' wa ad-Dawa likens a person trapped in sin-darkness to a blind person walking alone in night darkness.
• • Abdullah bin Abbas said goodness brings light to the face, radiance to the heart, expansion in sustenance, strength in the body, and love from people.
• • Abdullah bin Abbas said wrongdoing brings black color to the face, darkness in the heart, weakness in the body, lack in sustenance, and hatred from people.
• • Sin continuously weakens the heart until the end of life.
• • A believer's strength lies in the heart; stronger heart yields stronger body.
• • Evil people are corrupted and, despite strong bodies, are the weakest.
• • When strength is needed, the evil person's own strength betrays and deceives them.
• • Physical strength of the Persians and Romans deceived them and they relied on it.
• • Believers with heart-strength destroyed the Persians and Romans.
• • Sin's punishment includes being blocked from obeying Allah and cut off from other good deeds.