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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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A sound heart does not imply naivety or heedlessness.

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A sound heart does not mean being ignorant of evil and its proponents.

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Nor does it mean being easily deceived by them.

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Rather, the possessor of a sound heart

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recognizes evil and avoids it.

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He knows the people of evil and is not deceived by them.

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Just as it was narrated from the Commander of the Faithful, ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him,

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that he said:

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"I am not a deceiver, nor does a deceiver deceive me."

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The "deceiver" (al-khabb) is the base and treacherous person.

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Thus, ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, was too intelligent to be deceived,

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and too pious to deceive others.

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The difference between a sound heart and naivety or heedlessness

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is that a sound heart is characterized by

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not desiring evil after having recognized it,

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remaining safe from it despite knowing and understanding it.

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As for naivety and heedlessness,

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they are forms of ignorance and lack of awareness.

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This is not praiseworthy; rather, it is a deficiency.

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True perfection is for the heart to be knowledgeable of evil while remaining free from the desire to commit it.