4. CAUTION FROM THE OUTCOME OF SINS
Punishment (‘aqiibat) might come quickly, and mercy might delay it.
A wise man hurries to repentance (tawbah) after committing a sin (khati’a). Many of those who were fooled by the delay of punishment were not delayed!
The quickest of sins (maasi) to receive punishment are those not associated with a lot of lust (ladba). It would be a form of defiance, and if it contained a form of objection against the Creator (al-KJ)dliq) then the punishment is unavoidable, especially if committed by someone who knows Allah well. Such a person would rarely be ignored.
‘Abdu’l-Majid Ibn ‘AbduV Aziz said: ‘There was a man in Khurasan who was asked: ‘How many days did it take you to write the entire Qur’an?’ He answered by raising three of his fingers and said:
“and nothing of fatigue touched U s.” [Qaf (50):38],
so his three fingers froze and became unusable.
A linguist attempted to compile verses like those of the Qur’an. He climbed into a room in seclusion. Three days later they climbed up to find him dead and his hand frozen.
‘Abdu’l-Majld said: ‘1 know a man who used to have reladons with his wife during her menses. He began to have menses himself. When he repented, his menses stopped.’
Similar to this is for someone to make fun of others. It is worse if he is being made fun of for something he had no control over, like saying, ‘O blind person! O ugly person!’
Ibn Sirin said: ‘I once made fun of a person because of his poverty, so I became unable to pay off a debt.’
Punishment may be postponed to the end of one’s life. A lot of hardship might occur because of sins committed during youth!
So beware of the outcome of sins (dhunub). And hasten to erasing them by repentance (inabah). Sins have bad effects and if you do not hurry, they will harm you.
(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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