The Way To Soften Your Heart is Through Your Stomach!
If your suffer from anxiety, hard-heartedness, lack of concentration in your prayers, and deficiency in your relationship with God, then take a closer look at what you are eating.
`Umar b. Ṣaleḥ aṭ-Ṭarsūsī came to Imām Aḥmad (raḥimahumullah) and asked him, how can one soften his heart? Imām Aḥmad thought for a while and then replied: "O son, by eating ḥalāl." `Umar b. aṭ-Ṭarsūsī then went to Bishr b. al-Ḥarith al-Ḥāfī (raḥimahullah) and asked the same question. Bishr responded: "Truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace."
Umar b. aṭ-Ṭarsūsī said to Bishr that he had asked the same question to Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal and he had replied, "Eating ḥalāl."
Bishr rejoiced and said: "He came with the root cause! He came with the root cause!" [Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad, pg 190]
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