Bringing Life to the Heart | Ustadh Amjad Tarsin - ISNA Canada Podcast - September 30, 2024

YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1eqKoTWMA

In this episode, Ustadh Amjad Tarsin delves into the ways in which we can protect our hearts from worldly matters. He outlines the harms of putting worldly success as the metric of our lives and how that effects our relationship with Allah. Ustadh Amjad discusses how each of us should cultivate our souls to seek nearness to Allah, and His Messenger rather than busying ourselves with social media and people's opinions.

The Kingdom of the Heart : Habib Umar bin Hafiz , Amjad Tarsin (translator) - Al-Maqasid - Mecca Books

This book uniquely shows the direct correlation between outward actions and the heart, giving us insights into how various actions impact the state of our hearts. Ultimately, it gives us a way to internalize the wisdom and purpose of acts of devotion, resulting in the purification of the heart and nearness to Allah ﷻ"Within every human being is a Kingdom. The heart is the ruler of this Kingdom, and the rest of the body are its subjects. If the heart rules with justice and excellence, the body will perform good actions and the Kingdom will flourish.
If, however, the heart neglects its duties, the body will be in a state of disobedience to Allah s and the entire Kingdom will suffer the consequences. Allah ﷻ made this Kingdom so crucial that through it the eternal and everlasting dominion of the next life is either gained or lost."
The Kingdom of the Heart by Habib 'Umar Bin Hafiz gives the reader a deeper understanding of the importance of cultivating the spiritual kingdom of the heart. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation into how outward actions have spiritual consequences.
Some of the topics covered are:

•⁠ ⁠The Tongue & Its Effects
•⁠ ⁠Looking at Creation with Love & Mercy
•⁠ ⁠The Impact of Shaking Hands
•⁠ ⁠Attending to the Ending of Our Lives
•⁠ ⁠The Impact of Intention

This book uniquely shows the direct correlation between outward actions and the heart, giving us insights into how various actions impact the state of our hearts. Ultimately, it gives us a way to internalize the wisdom and purpose of acts of devotion, resulting in the purification of the heart and nearness to Allah ﷻ.

Mecca Books:https://www.meccabooks.com/

Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Biography :Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ustadh Amjad obtained his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan in English Literature and Islamic Studies. He then spent an intensive year studying at Dar al-Mustafa for Islamic Sciences in Tarim, Yemen. There he studied under such luminaries as Habib Umar bin Hafiz, Habib Ali Abu Bakr, Habib Muhammad al-‘Aydarus, Sayyid Salim Bin Hafiz, Sh. Munir Ba-Zhayr, and others. Following his studies in Tarim, he enrolled at Hartford Seminary’s Islamic Chaplaincy program where he completed his Master of Arts in June of 2012. He then served as Muslim Chaplain at the University of Toronto for seven years before joining the faculty at Al-Maqasid in June 2019.
He is the host of SoulFood FM, a podcast about practical ways of achieving spiritual refinement. Additionally, he has translated Sufism: Its Essence & the Traits of Its People, Sacred Knowledge: Aims & Objectives, and The Islamic Discourse: Its Current State & Future Development, all of which were authored by al-Habib ‘Umar Bin Hafiz. Source: Al-Maqasid https://www.almaqasid.org/seminary-instructors