17. BEWARE OF OUTCOME OF SINS
An intelligent person needs to beware of the outcome of sin (maghabbat al-ma’asi) for its fire hides underneath the ashes.
The punishment (‘aquba) may be postponed but then it strikes out hard all of a sudden. A person should hasten to extinguish the fires of sins (dhunub) that he ignited and nothing can put fire out except the water of eyes (i.e. tears of remorse) so that the One whom you disobeyed may forgive before He rules the punishment.
(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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