Al-Hasan Al-Basri, rahimahullah, ya ce: "Allah ~ yakan wulakanta masu zunubi saboda sun saba masa. Da ya girmama su, da ya kiyaye su daga aikata zunubai; kuma wanda Allah ~ ya wulakanta, babu wanda zai girmama shi; domin Ya ce: (Duk wanda Allah ya wulakanta, babu wanda zai iya girmama shi)." Haka kuma mutum yakan ci gaba da aikata zunubi har sai ya daina ganin muhimmancinsa, kuma yadda zunubi ya zama ƙanƙanta a idon mutum, haka yake ƙara girma da tsanani a wajen Allah. Ibn Mas'ud ~ ya ce: "Mumini yana ganin zunubansa kamar tudun dutse da yake tsoron zai iya faɗuwa a kansa; amma mai zunubi yana ganin zunubansa kamar kudaje da suka sauka a kan hancinsa, sai ya kore su su tashi."4

Al-Hasan Al-Basri, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "Allah ~ disgraces them (sinners) as they disobeyed Him. If He ~ had honoured them, He ~ would have safeguarded them from committing sins; and those Allah ~ humiliates will have no one to honour them; for He ~ said: (Whomsoever Allah disgraces, none can honour him) 3 A person also continues to commit a sin until he attaches little importance to it, and the more a sin becomes insignificant to a person, the more it becomes serious and great in the Sight of Allah. Ibn Mas'ud ~ said: "A believer sees his sins as if they were the base of a mountain, which he fears might fall on him; whereas the sinner considers his sins like some flies landing on his nose, which he repels so they fly away."4