Spiritual Disease and Its Cure by Imam Shams-ud-Deen Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Qayyim AlJ awziyyah

It is a punishment for a sinner, indulging in sins, to eventually be forgotten by Allah ~' and left alone with the devil. This is a stage of destruction for which there is no hope of safety. For Allah~ has said: ( 0 you who believe! Fear Allah and keep your duty to Him. And let every person look to what he has sent forth for the morrow, and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Aware of what you do. And be not like those who forgot Allah, and He caused them to forget themselves. Those are the Fasiqun (rebellious and disobedient to Allah) 2 Allah ~ ordered us to fear Him (be mindful of Him in all our actions) and warned us not to imitate those who have become disobedient to Him. He ~ informed us that He puni shed those who had rejected righteousness, by letting them forget themselves - i.e. to forget the benefits which could save them from the Punishment in the Hereafter. Allah ~ made them forget the Right Path, which would lead them to the Eternal Life in Paradise where they could enjoy its perfect blessings. You may see the sinner selfishly wasting benefits for him/her self, as his heart is made heedless of remembrance Allah ~ ; he/she follows his/her own lusts, so his/her deeds have been lost, because he/she rejects the priceless Reward of Allah for the meagre affairs of this world! A sinner only has him/her self to blame, for he/she is unjust to him/her self, not to Allah ~ - Allah ~ is the Provider of all Blessings, and is not in need of anything from His Creatures.