Aisha (Radi Allahu Anha) said: يَغْفُلُونَ عَنْ أَفْضَلِ الْعِبَادَةِ: التَّوَاضُعِ People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility. 1 Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh ↩
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱسۡتَعِينُواْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ وَٱلصَّلَوٰةِۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ ( سُوۡرَةُ البَقَرَة – ١٥٣)
اے ایمان والو صبر اور نماز سے مدد لیا کرو بےشک خدا صبر کرنے والوں کے ساتھ ہے
O you who believe! Seek help in patience and As-Salat (the prayer). Truly! Allah is with As-Sabirin (the patient ones).
If you are caught in confusion between two matters, and you don’t know what is right and what is wrong. At that point, disobey your desires; for indeed desires, only lead the soul to what is blameworthy and wrong.
— Imām ash-Shafi’ī رحمه الله
And mankind, with regard to their performance of prayer (salah) [or namaaz] are in five levels. First The level of the one who is negligent and wrongs his soul: He is the one who falls short in performing wudoo properly, performing the prayer upon its time and within its specified …
“Indeed whenever I waiver and become indecisive in my mind about an issue, or about something or a situation [which is problematic for me] then I ask forgiveness of Allaah the Most High, a thousand times or more, or less until He opens my chest for me and solves the problem which I was confused about. Even if at that time I was in a market place, or in a masjid or in a mountain pass or …
A man is the one who fears the death of his heart, not his body.
— Imam Ibn Qayyim رحمه الله
Source: Madarij Al-Salikeen 3/248
Question: What is the (proper) way to rectify and cleanse the heart from rancor and envy? And what are the most effective ways to reform the heart in this life? Answer by Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan: Rectification of the heart takes place in different ways.