Al-Hasan Al-Basri, semoga Allah merahmatinya, berkata: "Allah ~ menghinakan mereka (orang-orang berdosa) kerana mereka mengingkari-Nya. Jika Dia ~ telah memuliakan mereka, Dia ~ pasti telah memelihara mereka daripada melakukan dosa; dan mereka yang Allah ~ hinakan tidak akan mempunyai sesiapa pun yang memuliakan mereka; kerana Dia ~ berfirman: (Sesiapa yang Allah hinakan, tiada sesiapa pun yang dapat memuliakannya)." 3 Seseorang juga terus melakukan dosa sehingga dia menganggap dosa itu remeh, dan semakin sesuatu dosa itu menjadi remeh bagi seseorang, semakin besar dan berat dosa itu di sisi Allah. Ibn Mas'ud ~ berkata: "Seorang mukmin melihat dosanya seolah-olah ia berada di kaki gunung, yang dia takut mungkin menimpanya; manakala orang yang berdosa menganggap dosanya seperti lalat yang hinggap pada hidungnya, yang dia halau sehingga ia terbang pergi."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