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I'm not going to put anything above Allah in my mind and heart.
I'm going to put it in its proper place. I'm going to look to my heart
and do my best to give Allah the respect He is justly due." That
means we cannot bargain off things against pleasing Allah.
In the Holy Qur'an Allah says, "Do they not travel through the
land so that their hearts [and minds] may thus learn wisdom, and
their ears may learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are
blind, but their hearts which are in their breasts."52 Just as man has
eyes to give him external vision, his heart also has vision.
Knowledge of the reality of a thing comes not only from what we
see, but also from what we learn from the heart.
The eyes and ears of those who reject Allah's Message may be
intact, but their hearts are blind and deaf. If their faculties of un-
derstanding were active, they would see the signs of Allah's Mercy
and Allah's Wrath around them in nature, and in the cities and
I'm going to put it in its proper place. I'm going to look to my heart
and do my best to give Allah the respect He is justly due." That
means we cannot bargain off things against pleasing Allah.
In the Holy Qur'an Allah says, "Do they not travel through the
land so that their hearts [and minds] may thus learn wisdom, and
their ears may learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are
blind, but their hearts which are in their breasts."52 Just as man has
eyes to give him external vision, his heart also has vision.
Knowledge of the reality of a thing comes not only from what we
see, but also from what we learn from the heart.
The eyes and ears of those who reject Allah's Message may be
intact, but their hearts are blind and deaf. If their faculties of un-
derstanding were active, they would see the signs of Allah's Mercy
and Allah's Wrath around them in nature, and in the cities and