Rock Heart
🕌 Khuṭbah Date: 19th December 2025
🎙️ Speaker: Qari Armaan
📍 Location: Milton Keynes East Muslim Community (MKEMC)
Action Points
*Alter the time and dates according to when you’re free in your calendar
Spend time with the Qur’an this week and not just around it. Even five minutes a day with one āyah and one reflection. Ask yourself: “What is Allah trying to tell me here?”
📅 [Add to Calendar]Reconnect with ṣalāh and rebuild your intention behind it. Even if your prayer feels empty, keep showing up out of fear of Allah, trusting that consistent sujūd can soften the heart.
📅 [Add to Calendar]- Guard what enters your heart. Be intentional about what you watch, listen to, and scroll through, and remove anything that numbs you to sin or distances you from Allah.
📅 [Add to Calendar] - Serve someone this week for the sake of Allah. Help quietly, give sincerely, or check in on someone without expecting recognition. Allow your heart to feel again through service.
- Make du‘ā’ specifically for a soft heart. Ask Allah to make your heart humble, alive, and responsive to His guidance, just as the Prophet ﷺ used to ask.
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Video Recording
Summarised Points
📌 Main Message:
Allah warns us that hearts do not become hard all at once. They harden gradually, through neglect, delayed repentance, and distance from remembrance. In Surah al-Baqarah, Allah teaches us that even stones respond to Him, while some human hearts become harder than rock. Yet no heart is beyond revival. With sincerity, humility, and turning back to Allah, even the hardest heart can soften and return to life.
🔑 Key Themes:
🪨 Hearts harden slowly, not through ignorance alone, but through repeated neglect and desensitisation.
💧 Knowledge alone is not enough: the mind may understand while the heart remains unmoved.
🌊 Allah compares hearts to three types of rocks, showing different levels of faith, responsiveness, and humility.
💔 Some hearts appear hard but contain hidden īmān, waiting for the moment they crack open.
🕋 Even acts done without sweetness still matter: consistent worship out of fear of Allah can eventually soften the heart.
⚠️ True danger lies in hearts that hear guidance but choose not to respond.
💡 Five Ways to Soften the Heart:
1. Return to the Qur’ān Intentionally
- The Qur’an was revealed to penetrate hearts. Distance from it hardens the heart, while even small, sincere engagement revives it.
2. Rebuild the Meaning of Ṣalāh
- Even if prayer feels empty, continue showing up. Repeated sujūd out of fear of Allah can crack the hardest heart.
3. Guard What Enters the Heart
- What we watch, hear, and scroll shapes our inner state. Constant exposure to sin and distraction numbs spiritual sensitivity.
4. Serve Others Sincerely
- The heart softens when it gives. Quiet acts of service teach the heart to feel again.
5. Ask Allah for a Soft Heart
If the Prophet ﷺ asked Allah to keep his heart firm, then we are even more in need of this du‘ā’.
🤲 Final Du‘ā:
May Allah soften our hearts after hardness, revive them after numbness, and never leave us to ourselves.
May He make our hearts responsive to His words, humble in worship, and alive with īmān.
And may He bring life back to our hearts no matter how dry they have become.
Āmīn.