14. BEWARE OF SINS FOR CONSEQUENCES ARE SEVERE
Beware! Beware again of sins (ma’asi) for the consequences are drastic (sai’)!
Aside from crippling one’s endeavours in this worldly life and suffering poverty and misery resulting from not possessing some worldly pleasures—with every sin a person commits, the further he falls down.
Woe to sinners!
If their punishment for the ugly and vile acts they committed is about to finish, their objection of what Allah decreed for them not to have from this worldly life will reignite their punishment! Woe to a person who is being punished but cannot realise so! Woe to a person who cannot remember the sin because of which he is punished just because the punishment was postponed for a long time.
Ibn Sirin said, ‘I dispraised a person due to his poverty {faqr), and because of that I became poor after forty years from that incident.’
Ibn Al-Jalla said, ‘I looked at a handsome person, and because of that I forgot the Qur’an I memorised after forty years from that incident.’
Woe to a person who is being punished but does not know that the biggest punishment is actually not feeling that he is being punished. Hasten to repent as it may avert the punishment.
Beware of sins, particularly the sins committed in private, because of which Allah will not heed to you. Rectify the relationship you have with Him in privacy and He will rectify your affairs in public.
O sinner! Do not be fooled with the fact He covers your shortcomings and sins, for He may expose you to the public. And do not be fooled with His forbearance for He may punish you at any moment.
Be concerned (galiq) and return to Allah with humility (tadar) for if anything can benefit you, it will be this. Let sorrow (huzn) be your food and tears be your drink, and dig out the heart of desires (qalb al-hawa) with the axe of remorse, as only then you may unearth some water that can wash off the dirt of your disobedience.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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