Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (549) | A healthy heart does not mean dullness and heedlessness
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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.