25. PREFERRING PLEASURES SQUANDERS MUCH GOOD
Using the intellect enables man to consider consequences, and the weak of mind sees only the present situation and ignores future consequences.
The thief wants to take wealth and forget (the risk of) getting his hands cut. The idle wants the pleasure of comfort and forgets what it yields of missing knowledge and earnings. As he ages and is asked about some simple matters, he does not know; and if he needs something, he asks of others and humiliates himself. Therefore, his misfortune exceeds the pleasure of idleness he attained in addition to squandering the rewards of the Hereafter by ignoring the righteous deeds in this life.
The consumer of intoxicants finds pleasure at that moment and forgets the calamities he faces in this life and the Hereafter. As for fornication, the person wants to fulfill his desire, while forgetting what he reaps of the worldly scandal and risk of legal punishment. If the adulterous woman was married, she may attribute the pregnancy to her husband to hide it.
Everything else goes the same way, so pay attention to consequences.
Do not give precedence to a pleasure that squanders much good.
You must endure difficulty to attain great rewards.
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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