20. CAUTION AGAINST FALLING INTO SIN
I realised it is the innate nature of people that whenever they fall or slip (into sin), to look at the obstacle that made them fall or slip, for this nature is inherent within them to avoid being tripped over again, or to consider how he overlooked this obstacle though he was careful and cautious.
I concluded a gem from such an observance that is: he who slips often should either find the obstacle to avoid it in future or belittle his own ‘self for allowing such a fall despite being cautious! This is because most of those who worry about their falls only seem to be concerned with themselves, i.e. how they could have made such a fall (into a sin) despite the precautions they took!
Indeed, I wonder at such people! How could you be fooled with the deception of a sin that your intellect considers subtly, and the eye of your thoughts shows you its consequences? How could you favour a mortal (pleasure you receive from such a sin) over the immortal (pleasures you shall be rewarded with in Paradise?) What a loss indeed! How a person can prefer the joy of sleep [i.e. sin] over the attention of a transaction [good deed]!
Oh you! You have sold what you had (of lawful joy) for loads of regret that no back can carry; and had your head hung low after it was held high, bringing forth endless tears of sorrow for the ugly sin you committed. The ugliest scene in fact, would ever be when you are asked [on the Day of Judgment]: ‘What was it that made you sin? What for? Why?’
Truly, you are a person whose arrogance and pride flipped the hand of the scale and his share was weighted though the scale is broken!
(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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