Favours of the Gracious God — Page 114
114 They know only their own vain desires, searching not for [deeper] meanings, nor pondering over them. They hear the truth, but reject it as if they had been invited towards death. And despite observing that the material world is extremely unfaithful and this era is about to stumble headlong, they still fall head over heels upon the world like lovers. Some of their actions are those which they do in the privacy of their own home; and then there are others that they do merely for display. Thus, woe to those who show off! They have fully seen the disorder caused by the disbelievers and they know full well that the Faith has become a target of those who are given to mischief, and that the truth has been trampled under the feet of the wrongdoers. Yet they lie asleep as if unaware of it and they pay no attention towards sympathising with the Faith. They hear every hurtful cry, yet they care nothing for these statements of the dissolute disbelievers. They do not rise-up like one with honour, instead they act as if they were weighed-down with a heavy burden like a pregnant woman. When they move towards virtue, they do so lazily. You will not find in them the characteristics of hard workers. But when they see any [opportunity of] sensual pleasure, you will find that they run towards it or