✦⋆· said, "Negligence is deviation [from the straight path]."

● "Pitiable indeed is every negligent person that his whole life can be used as evidence against him and that his days lead him to wretchedness!"

● "So come to your senses, O listener, from your intoxication, wake up from your neglect, and reduce your hasty activity."

● "O people who are not neglected [by Allah] and yet who neglect that which will be taken to account from them - how is it that I see you moving away from Allah and longing for others?!"

● "Through constant remembrance of Allah is negligence dispelled."

● "Verily the one who knows the vicissitudes of time will not neglect preparation."

● "Verily any believer who is mindful of the obligatory prayers and prays them on time is not of the negligent ones."

● "He who prolongs his negligence hastens his own destruction."

● "One of the noblest deeds of a kind person is feigning ignorance of that which he knows already."

● "Beware of negligence and delusion about the respite [that you have been given], for indeed negligence ruins deeds."

● "Continued negligence blinds insight."

● "The one who is overcome by negligence, his heart is dead."

✦⋆· said, "Negligence is [manifest] in your abandonment of the mosque and in your obedience of the corrupt."

✦⋆· said, "If Shaytan is indeed an enemy, then why the negligence?!"

● "The proper way to maintain a state of coexistence and mutual intimacy with people is according to a set measure, two thirds of which are to know each other very well and a third of which is to feign ignorance of each other's faults."

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Do not neglect or disrespect old people such as your grandparents. There is a hadith that says, 'Having old people amongst you increases Allah's mercy and kindness & you will obtain more blessings.'