Ibrahim ibn Adham - may Allah have mercy on him - a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyan ath-Thawri, was asked about the saying of Allah - the Most High:
"We supplicate and we are not answered." So he said to them:
- You know Allah, Yet you do not obey Him,
- You recite the Qur'an, Yet do not act according to it,
- You know Shaitan, Yet you have agreed with him,
- You proclaim that you love Muhammad
Yet you abandon his Sunnah, - You proclaim your love for Paradise, Yet you do not act to gain it,
- You proclaim your fear the Fire, Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,
- You say "Indeed death is true", Yet you have not prepared for it,
- You point out the faults with others, Yet you do not look at your faults,
- You eat of that which Allah has provided for you, Yet you do not thank Him,
- You bury your dead, Yet you do not take a lesson from it."