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They do not ask themselves what their purpose in life is.
Their belief in the next world is weak, and their life far
removed from religious morality. They have no goals, such
as winning Allah’s mercy and favor, doing good works to
please Him, or prevailing in a contest of merit with other
moral and conscientious believers. For this reason, they have
come to this point in life and have set a most degrading and
superficial ideal for themselves. They even leave their world-
ly ideals to one side and, in the spiritual void into which they
have fallen, they abandon all their will and desires, all their
work, efforts and productivity. Now they are engaged only
in prolonging their lives.
Not all of them, however, have severed their connections
with the world. One who goes back and forth to work every
day can be in a similar monotonous void and aim only at get-
ting through the day. Those far removed from the purposes
of creation, whether or not they work and whether young or
old, rich or poor, men or women, all have made this their
basic goal: just to live.
But when death comes to them, their awareness becomes
unclouded and they want to return to their earthly lives to do
good works. These people have spent their whole lives care-
free without thinking and perhaps, only the day before, they
were merely trying to kill time. Ignoring the purposes of cre-
ation, they spent their lives far from Allah’s service. Their
only goals were to eat, sleep and look after their daily affairs.
But this is the end that these people will meet in their eter-
nal lives:
So leave them in their glut of ignorance for a while. Do