It is reported that Ibrahim bin Adham (R) once passed through the market of Basrah. People gathered around him and asked: O Abu Ishaq, Allah (God) the Exalted says in his Book. ‘Call on me, I will answer your prayers’, but we have been calling on Him for a long time and He does not answer our prayers.
Ibrahim replied, “O people of Baṣrah, your hearts have died in respect to ten things:
First, you know Allah but you do not give Him His rights;
second, you have read Allah’s Book but you do not act by it;
third, you claim to love Allah’s Messenger – Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – yet you abandon his Sunnah;
fourth, you claim to be enemies to Shaytan but you conform to his ways ;
fifth, you say you love Paradise yet you do not work for it;
sixth, you say you fear The Fire yet you put yourselves closer to it by sinning;
seventh, you say death is true but you do not prepare for it;
eighth, you busy yourselves with the faults of others and disregard your own;
ninth, you consume the favours of your Lord but are not grateful for them;
and tenth, you bury your dead but take no lesson from them.”
– Collected
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