“The sincere people (al-Mukhlisun) are in the greatest danger.

“The sincere people (al-Mukhlisun) are in the greatest danger.” While a person is young, he may commit sins and then say, “When I get older I will repent for this sin.” This act of delaying and postponing one's asking for forgiveness is an act of trickery and deceit on the part of Shaitan and oneying one's own lower desires. There is another person who makes a promise to himself that when the Month of Ramadhan comes along, he will ask for forgiveness.

However, as previously mentioned, if a person wishes to be a guest and take part in a banquet, he must first purify himself and put on clean clothing and then go forth to be the guest of another person - not that he takes part in the banquet while wearing dirty, filthy clothes![^3] [^1]: Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 74, pg. 179 [^2]: The Noble Qur’an considers humility, modesty and refraining from any form of pride and arrogance as being one of the characteristics of a true believer (Mo’min).

This is so because pride and arrogance are the first steps on the ladder of disbelief (Kufr) and when a person exercises humility and modesty in the face of truth, he has actually traversed the first steps towards true faith («man).

Those who tread the path of pride and self-conceit and who do not submit and prostrate to Allah (SwT) nor do they busy themselves in His praise and glorification will eventually reach a stage in their life where they will not accept the truth which comes to them from the (righteous) servants of Allah (SwT). Thus, the biggest idol (of worship) turns out to be their own souls. (Tafsir-e-Namunah, vol. 17, pg.

146.[^3]: The great scholar, Shaykh Baha’i has narrated the following incident, “There was a man named Tawbah who was continuously busy in taking account of his soul and the acts which he used to perform. When he reached the age of sixty, he sat down to review his life and the acts that he had performed and realized that 21,500 days of his life had gone by. At this point, he said to himself, “Woe on me!

If each day of my life I committed even one sin, then in the minimum, I would have committed at least 21,000 sins! Do I wish to meet Allah while I have 21,000 sins on my record?” At this point, he let out a loud sigh and fell to the ground and passed away on the spot. (Tafsir-e-Namunah, vol. 24, pg. 465) Previous…

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