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as well as their definitions and the means whereby they are attained, together
with their fruits and signs, and tending whatever state has been weakened until it
becomes strong again and whatever has disappeared until it reappears, belongs
to the science of the Hereafter. On the other hand, the blameworthy, such as the
fear of poverty, discontent with one‟s lot, bitterness, such, rancour, envy, deceit,
ambition, the desire to be praised, the passion to live long in this life for the sake
of indulgence, pride, hypocrisy, anger, scorn, enmity, hatred, greed,
niggardliness, lust, extravagance, frivolity, insolence, exalting the rich and
despising the poor, haughtiness, vanity, vaunting, boasting, holding oneself
above truth, meddling in things not of one‟s concern, loquacity, obstinacy,
currying favor, adulation, conceit, being occupied with other people‟s
shortcomings, the vanishing of grief from the heart and the departure of fear of
Allah from it, extreme self pity whenever in affliction, lukewarm support for truth,
outwardly professing friendship and secretly fostering enmity, taking advantage
of the patience of Allah and long suffering and persisting in taking away (from
people) what Allah has given them, trusting only in obedience, trickery,
dishonesty and fraud, (vain) optimism, cruelty, rudeness, satisfaction in worldly
pleasures and dejection at their loss, delight in the company of people and
loneliness when they depart, harshness, levity, haste, lack of shame and lack of
with their fruits and signs, and tending whatever state has been weakened until it
becomes strong again and whatever has disappeared until it reappears, belongs
to the science of the Hereafter. On the other hand, the blameworthy, such as the
fear of poverty, discontent with one‟s lot, bitterness, such, rancour, envy, deceit,
ambition, the desire to be praised, the passion to live long in this life for the sake
of indulgence, pride, hypocrisy, anger, scorn, enmity, hatred, greed,
niggardliness, lust, extravagance, frivolity, insolence, exalting the rich and
despising the poor, haughtiness, vanity, vaunting, boasting, holding oneself
above truth, meddling in things not of one‟s concern, loquacity, obstinacy,
currying favor, adulation, conceit, being occupied with other people‟s
shortcomings, the vanishing of grief from the heart and the departure of fear of
Allah from it, extreme self pity whenever in affliction, lukewarm support for truth,
outwardly professing friendship and secretly fostering enmity, taking advantage
of the patience of Allah and long suffering and persisting in taking away (from
people) what Allah has given them, trusting only in obedience, trickery,
dishonesty and fraud, (vain) optimism, cruelty, rudeness, satisfaction in worldly
pleasures and dejection at their loss, delight in the company of people and
loneliness when they depart, harshness, levity, haste, lack of shame and lack of